Darknet Diaries

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

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Ep 20: mobman

Chances are, if you were downloading shady programs in the early 2000's, you were infected with malware he wrote called SubSeven. Hacking changed mobm...

Aug 15, 2018 43m

Ep 19: Operation Aurora

In 2009, around Christmas time, something terrible was lurking in the network at Google. Google is the most popular website on the Internet....

Aug 1, 2018 28m

Ep 18: Jackpot

A man addicted to gambling finds a bug in a video poker machine that lets him win excessive amounts of money.

Jul 1, 2018 21m

Ep 17: Finn

A 14-year-old kid who finds himself bored in class decides to hack someone's twitter account and ends up with more than he bargained for....

Jun 3, 2018 45m

Ep 16: Eijah

In 2007, a hacker named Eijah got fed up with the way DRM prevented him from being able to play the content he paid for. He decided to fight...

May 1, 2018 35m

Ep 15: Ill Tills

A major retailer was hacked. Their point of sales machines were riddled with malware. Listen to hear how digital forensics and incident respo...

Apr 1, 2018 33m

Ep 14: #OpJustina

In 2013 a hospital was accused of conducting a medical kidnapping against a young girl name Justina. This enraged many people across the coun...

Mar 1, 2018 25m

Ep 13: Carna Botnet

In 2012 the Carna Bot was built and unleashed on the world. But it didn't have any intentions on doing anything malicious. It was built just...

Feb 15, 2018 33m

Ep 12: Crypto Wars

In the 1990's the Internet started to take shape. But the US goverment had strict laws regulating what type of cryptography is allowed to be...

Feb 1, 2018 28m

Ep 11: Strictly Confidential

What happens when an innovative tech company, that's trying to develop the next big thing, detects a hacker in their network? We hear the sto...

Jan 15, 2018 19m

Ep 10: Misadventures of a Nation State Actor

In today's world of intelligence gathering, governments hack other governments. This episode takes you on a ride with a nation state actor to...

Jan 1, 2018 33m

Ep 9: The Rise and Fall of Mt. Gox

Mt. Gox was the largest bitcoin exchange in the world. It suddenly went offline. What happened?

Dec 15, 2017 28m

Ep 8: Manfred (Part 2)

Manfred found a way to turn his passion for video games and reverse engineering into a full time business. He exploited video games and sold...

Dec 1, 2017 28m

Ep 7: Manfred (Part 1)

Manfred has had the most epic story of all online video game stories. For the last 20 years, he's been hacking online games.

Dec 1, 2017 23m

Ep 6: The Beirut Bank Job

Jayson E. Street tells us a story about the time he broke into a bank in Beirut Lebanon.

Nov 15, 2017 29m

Ep 5: #ASUSGATE

Security researcher Kyle Lovett bought a new Asus router in 2013. He found it was riddled with security vulnerabilties. He set out on a missi...

Nov 1, 2017 25m

Ep 4: Panic! at the TalkTalk Board Room

Mobile provider TalkTalk suffered a major breach in 2015. The CEO tried her best to keep angry customers calm and carry on. The UK government...

Oct 15, 2017 38m

Ep 3: DigiNotar, You are the Weakest Link, Good Bye!

The 2011 DigiNotar breach changed the way browsers do security. In this episode, we learn what role a CA plays, how browsers work with CAs, a...

Oct 1, 2017 25m

Ep 2: The Peculiar Case of the VTech Hacker

VTech makes toy tablets, laptops, and watches for kids. In 2015, they were breached. The hacker downloaded gigs of children's data. Discover...

Sep 15, 2017 23m

Ep 1: The Phreaky World of PBX Hacking

Farhan Arshad and Noor Aziz Uddin were captured 2 years after being placed on the FBI's Cyber's Most Wanted list for PBX hacking. In this epi...

Sep 1, 2017 14m Summary available

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