1:20:1659K views · 1w ago · 1:20:16
Imagine driving down the road and your phone loses signal. Not just a lost signal, but it starts displaying SOS. Meaning no service configured at all. You can't make any calls, no data, no service. What goes through your head?
59:18106K views · 3w ago · 59:18
The word Conti struck fear in IT departments across the world. It's a type of ransomware that you hope to never come across. Like most ransomware gangs, the Conti group fell apart. But what's special about this story is how it fell apart. Because it fell apart in a very public, messy, scandalous way. Featuring investigative journalist Geoff White and cyber threat researcher Alex Holden.
1:35:03105K views · 1mo ago · 1:35:03
In this episode we follow up with Gabby and Justin from Episode 59 - 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, and what happened in the aftermath.
36:1383K views · 2mo ago · 36:13
Nickolas Sharp worked for Ubiquiti, a company that makes networking equipment. He noticed that there were some security problems at work. He tried to point them out, but didn't feel like he was being listened to enough. What do you do when the company you work for isn't securing their software up to your standards? Well, he thought he needed to teach them a lesson, but in the end, he learned an even bigger lesson.
47:5076K views · 3mo ago · 47:50
This is the story of the hacker known as "USDoD". When he was young he started a vengeance on the US, and this lead him down a road of continual data breaches, until he hacked into National Public Data, which is when he spree went one step too far.
1:06:4268K views · 3mo ago · 1:06:42
One day Nick got a visit from the FBI demanding he give them data on one of his customers. They asked for it in the form of a National Security Letter or NSL. Something wasn’t right about this letter. It seemed to violate the constitution. So he set out to change the law.
1:36:36141K views · 5mo ago · 1:36:36
It started with a fake car listing on eBay. What looked like a simple online scam quietly grew, over more than a decade, into one of the most sophisticated cybercrime operations the FBI had ever traced. Custom malware. Opsec off the charts. Fleets of infected computers mining cryptocurrency for someone else. Millions of dollars siphoned from victims who had no idea.
1:30:5591K views · 5mo ago · 1:30:55
For six years, Sophos fought a secret cyber war against a state-backed hacking group targeting its firewalls. This forced Sophos to drastically change tactics to defend their customers and firewalls. Was it ethical? Was it effective? They disrupted nine zero-day attacks, exposed who was hacking them, and forced the hackers to change tactics. But at what cost?
38:0285K views · 6mo ago · 38:02
Alberto came to the U.S. for a better future. So when someone offered him the chance to make more money in one night than he'd see in a lifetime, he took it. But this hustle was part of an elaborate bank fraud scheme. As he collected cash from every ATM in New York City, the Secret Service collected info on one of the biggest bank heists ever.
1:27:52109K views · 6mo ago · 1:27:52
When threat researcher D3ada55 noticed her dad's TV streaming box was sending alarming amounts of traffic to China, she locked it in a room with a few Raspberry Pis and studied it. What she found shook her to the core. The pirated TV device was not only sniffing everything on her home network, but attempting to impersonate those devices as well.
1:09:2965K views · 8mo ago · 1:09:29
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45:0254K views · 8mo ago · 45:02
The hacker magazine "Phrack" debuted in 1985 across various BBS systems. Its purpose was to bring phone phreakers and computer hackers together into one knowledge sharing community. Over the next 40 years, the magazine became incredibly influential, changed ownership multiple times, disappeared, started a hacker war, and re-emerged many times.
1:06:3780K views · 9mo ago · 1:06:37
Legion of Doom, step aside. There's a new elite hacker group in town, and they're calling themselves Masters of Deception (MoD). With tactics that are grittier and more sophisticated than those of the LoD, MoD has targeted high-profile entities and left an indelible mark on the internet.
1:17:30100K views · 9mo ago · 1:17:30
In the 1970s and '80s, the Internet was home to rebels, phreakers, and knowledge seekers - that is until phone companies and governments brought the hammer down on kids sharing BBS text files. But one organized group of hackers, The Legion of Doom, emerged from the chaos of the early Internet. And their adventures made history.
49:1744K views · 10mo ago · 49:17
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1:01:1077K views · 11mo ago · 1:01:10
Maxie Reynolds has held many jobs: underwater roboticist, Hollywood stunt performer, quantum computing engineer. But her favorite line of work — the one that REALLY gets her blood pumping — is penetration testing, especially the IRL kind.
47:4462K views · 12mo ago · 47:44
Tanya Janca's worldview changed suddenly when she realized how easy it was for hackers to crack her applications. From that point on, she vowed to be both a developer AND a hacker, and to spread the gospel of application security to other programmers.
1:28:0562K views · 1y ago · 1:28:05
He started small, swiping cards, buying gift cards, and cashing out. It spiraled into a full‐blown criminal enterprise. Dozens of co‐conspirators, stacks of stolen plastic, and a lifestyle built on chaos. Meet Nathan Michael, leader of Oak Cliff Swipers.
1:22:59112K views · 1y ago · 1:22:59
In 2019, Ola Bini, a Swedish programmer and privacy advocate, was arrested in Ecuador with no evidence and no motive. But what's really going on goes far deeper than he could imagine. Visit for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes.
1:33:5894K views · 1y ago · 1:33:58
Before he even graduated high school, Hieu Minh Ngo had stolen 100,000 credit cards. But that was just the beginning of his hacking career. When he stumbled into the terrifying (and perfectly legal) world of data brokers, he built a pipeline for identity theft on a massive scale.
1:11:5992K views · 1y ago · 1:11:59
What if a USB cable could take complete control of your PC or phone? Hackers use them. Governments are using them. And it's all thanks to one security pro known only as "MG." Visit for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes.
1:38:0089K views · 1y ago · 1:38:00
Greg Linares (AKA Laughing Mantis) shares his hunts for Zero Day exploits, the triple(?) agent working at Microsoft, how he became the youngest hacker ever arrested in Arizona, and that time a client hired him to steal human DNA.
51:07107K views · 1y ago · 51:07
Some hackers steal your credit card. Others might snoop through your Web history. But what if your deepest, darkest secrets — the ones you only tell your therapist — were suddenly on the Internet, for anyone to read? When one of Finland's largest psychotherapy companies was breached, the stakes were so high that police worked around the clock hunting for "Ransom Man," the extortionist behind the cruelest hack in history.
1:06:34119K views · 1y ago · 1:06:34
MalwareTech was an anonymous young security researcher, until he stumbled upon the command and control server for WannaCry, a Windows exploit developed by the NSA and weaponized by North Korea (probably). When he registered the domain, he inadvertently hit the kill switch for this terrifying ransomware - and exposed his identity to the entire world in the process.
1:18:00112K views · 1y ago · 1:18:00
Grifter grew up in a tough neighborhood. All he knew was fighting and stealing. But when he discovered a hacker BBS, he turned his life of street crime into one of cyber crime. But it wasn't until he went to Defcon in Las Vegas that he truly leveled up.
1:02:4492K views · 1y ago · 1:02:44
Chris Monteiro was no stranger to dark web marketplaces: drugs, weapons, crypto - you name it. But when he found a "Hitman for Hire" site selling murder, he knew it was a scam. He called them out publicly, interviewed its creator, and even hacked the site to read customers' messages.
1:08:1080K views · 1y ago · 1:08:10
Joe Grand - better known by his alias Kingpin - has been hacking everything he could touch since the '80s. Phone phreaking, intercepting pager messages, DOS, Windows, and more. He's been arrested, testified before the U.S. Congress, and even hosted his own cable TV show. So how does he hold onto his Punk Rock spirit - even in his 40s - when so many of us lose it to age, responsibility, and giving up on changing the world?
1:06:0577K views · 1y ago · 1:06:05
Conor Freeman () stole money online. Lot’s of it. In this episode we talk with him, and hear how he did it, why he did, and what he spent it on. Visit for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes.
1:04:2973K views · 1y ago · 1:04:29
Have you ever got your bike stolen? In this episode we dive into the world of stolen bikes. Who does it and where do the bikes go? We talk with Bryan from Bike Index who investigates this. Visit for a list of sources, full transcripts, and to listen to all episodes.
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