Darknet Diaries

Episodes

EP 60: dawgyg

This is a story about the hacker named dawgyg and how he made over $100,000 in a single day, from hacking.

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EP 59: The Courthouse

In this episode we hear from Gary and Justin. Two seasoned penetration testers who tell us a story about the time when they tried to break into a courthouse but it went all wrong.

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EP 58: OxyMonster

OxyMonster sold drugs on the dark web marketplace Dream Market. Something happened though, and it all came crashing down.

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EP 57: MS08-067

Hear what goes on internally when Microsoft discovers a major vulnerability within Windows.

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EP 56: Jordan

This is the story of Jordan Harbinger. A bit of a misfit teenager, who was always on the edge of trouble. In this story we hear what happened that lead to a visit from the FBI.

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EP 55: NoirNet

A holiday special episode. A private pen tester takes on a job that involves him with another eccentric pen tester, a mischievious smile, and his quest to gain access to the network.

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EP 54: NotPetya

This is the story of NotPetya. Which seems to be the first time we've seen what a cyber war looks like. In the summer of 2017 Ukraine suffered a serious and catastrophic cyber attack on their whole country. Hear how it went down, what got hit, and...

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EP 53: Shadow Brokers

The NSA has some pretty advanced, super secret, hacking tools. What if these secret hacking tools were to end up in the wrong person's hands? Well, that happened.

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EP 52: Magecart

Credit card skimming is growing in popularity. Gas pumps all over are seeing skimmers attached to them. It's growing in popularity because it's really effective. Hackers have noticed how effective it is and have began skimming credit cards from we...

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EP 51: The Indo-Pak Conflict

Kashmir is a region right in between India, Pakistan, and China. For the last 70 years Pakistan and India have fought over this region of the world, both wanting to take control of it. Tensions sometimes heat up which can result in people being ki...

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EP 50: Operation Glowing Symphony

Operation Inherent Resolve was started in 2016 which aimed to combat ISIS. It was a combined joint task force lead by the US military. Operation Inherent Resolve sent troops, ships, and air strikes to Iraq and Syria to fire weapons upon ISIS milit...

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EP 49: Elliot

In this episode we meet Elliot Alderson from Twitter. Who is this strange masked person? What adventures have they gotten themselves into?

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EP 47: Project Raven

This is the story about an ex-NSA agent who went to work for a secret hacking group in the UAE.

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EP 44: Zain

Ransomware is ugly. It infects your machine and locks all the the data and to unlock you have to pay a fee. In this episode we dive into some of the people behind it.

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EP 43: PPP

This is the story about how I acquired a black badge from DEFCON. We also hear the story about who PPP is, and their CTF journey at DEFCON.

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EP 42: Mini-Stories: Vol 2

Three stories in one episode. Listen in on one of Dave Kennedy's penetration tests he conducted where he got caught trying to gain entry into a datacenter. Listen to a network security engineer talk about the unexpected visitor found in his networ...

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EP 41: Just Visiting

Join JekHyde and Carl on a physical penetration test, a social engineering engagagement, a red team assessment. Their mission is to get into a building they shouldn't be allowed, then plant a rogue computer they can use to hack into the network fr...

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EP 40: No Parking

Take a ride with a red teamer. A physical penetration tester as he tries to make his away into unauthorized areas, steal sensitive documents, hack into the computers, and escape with company property.

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EP 39: 3 Alarm Lamp Scooter

A talk at Defcon challenged people to find a way to destroy a hard drive. A young man was inspired by this challenge and was determined to find a way to destroy a hard drive. But this is not a typical young man, with a typical plan.

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EP 38: Dark Caracal

A journalist wrote articles critical of the Kazakhstan government. The government did not like this and attempted to silence her. But they may have done more than just silence her. Perhaps they tried to spy on her too. The EFF investigated this ca...

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EP 37: LVS

The Venetian casino in Las Vegas Nevada was the largest hotel in the world until 2015. The parent company is Las Vegas Sands (LVS) which owns 10 properties around the world. And the CEO and found of LVS is Sheldon Adelson. One day the CEO said som...

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EP 36: Jeremy from Marketing

A company hires a penetration tester to pose as a new hire, Jeremy from Marketing, to see how much he can hack into in his first week on the job. It doesn't go as planned.

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EP 35: Carbanak

ATM hacking. Hollywood has been fantasizing about this since the 1980's. But is this a thing now? A security researcher named Barnaby Jack investigated ATMs and found them to be vulnerable. Once he published his data the ATM hacking scene rose in ...

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EP 34: For Your Eyes Only

Nude selfies. This episode is all about nude selfies. What happens if you take one and give it to a vengeful boyfriend. What happens when a hacker knows you have them and wants to steal them from your phone. Something does happen, and it's not good.

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EP 33: RockYou

In 2009 a hacker broke into a website with millions of users and downloaded the entire user database. What that hacker did with the data has changed the way we view account security even today.

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EP 32: The Carder

A carding kingpin was tracked by the Secret Service. Listen to how the Secret Service built a case against him and what they did about it.

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EP 31: Hacker Giraffe

In late November 2018, a hacker found over 50,000 printers were exposed to the Internet in ways they shouldn't have been. He wanted to raise awareness of this problem, and got himself into a whole heap of trouble.

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