In this episode of the Hack the Planet Podcast: We talk with Zach of Zachtronics, creator of some of the best video games of all time, about his philosophy of ..read more

In this episode of the Hack the Planet Podcast: Noid is the former head of DEF CON security, founder of the LayerOne conference and the Black Lodge Research hackerspace, gunsmith ..read more

In this episode of the Hack the Planet Podcast: We are joined by a master of C code audit, Ilja van Sprundel, Director of PenTest at IOActive and prolific public speaker. We ask him how he learned to be such a bad ass, including some epic stories from the past, and go over some of his recent areas of interest including IOMMU, bootloader, and kernel vulnerabilities. Ilja’s Links: An Offensive Approach to Teaching Information Security (Summer School): http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/AIB/2005/2005-02.pdf Netric (archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20050214135602/http://net ..read more

In this episode of the Hack the Planet Podcast: We do an actual ingress episode, not like the game. We discuss all manner of physical entry techniques, from doors to cars to tamper evident containers, with Eric Michaud, co-founder of TOOOL US and CEO of RiftRecon. Can you beat the drug test? Find out in this episode! We also discuss the evolution of the US hackerspace movement from its European roots and ponder the post-COVID future of hackerspaces. Eric’s Links: RiftRecon: https://www.riftrecon.com/ Gone in 60 Seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6VVuSkTAgg Lemon Caper: https://www.youtu ..read more

In this episode of the Hack the Planet Podcast: We talk red-teaming and CCDC with egyp7, volunteer for the National CCDC Red Team. We go over war stories from CCDC Nationals, the early days of Metasploit and browser autopwn, as well as what’s been working well on professional red team engagements in the cloud era, advice on building wordlists, fun shell one-liners, and favorite offensive tools and exploits. THIS IS NOT EGYPT THE COUNTRY, STOP SCANNING ME, TURKEY egyp7’s links: WebLogic CVE-2019-2725: https://blog.cybercastle.io/weblogic-remote-code-execution-exploiting-cve-2019-2725/ ExplainSh ..read more

In this episode of the Hack the Planet Podcast: We talk with Lei, long-time Defcon goon and founder of Disconnect Camp, about how to recover from infosec burnout, the origin story of Disconnect Camp, some war stories from his tenure as a Defcon goon, and how to keep your cool in a pandemic when you’ve already been dealing with burnout for years. Lei’s links: Disconnect Camp: https://disconnect.camp/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/disconnectcamp Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frustration%E2%80%93aggression_hypothesis Be a guest on the show! We want your hacker ra ..read more

In this episode of the Hack the Planet Podcast: We meet with Vi Grey who answers all the questions we’ve had about the Nintendo Entertainment System since we were kids but were too afraid to ask. A prolific developer of homebrew NES ROMs, Vi Grey helps us understand the present and future of innovation on the NES platform. We also discuss his work with polyglot files featured in PoC||GTFO. This episode itself is in fact a polyglot, check the mp3 metadata of the file on the RSS feed for more information. Vi Grey’s links: I Dream of Game Genies (HOPE 2018 talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0 ..read more

In this episode of the Hack the Planet Podcast: We meet with Vi Grey who answers all the questions we’ve had about the Nintendo Entertainment System since we were kids but were too afraid to ask. A prolific developer of homebrew NES ROMs, Vi Grey helps us understand the present and future of innovation on the NES platform. We also discuss his work with polyglot files featured in PoC||GTFO. This episode itself is in fact a polyglot, check the mp3 metadata of the file on the RSS feed for more information. Vi Grey’s links: I Dream of Game Genies (HOPE 2018 talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0 ..read more

In this episode of the Hack the Planet Podcast: We have a chat with Pongolyn, a community organizer and strategist for the Pacific Northwest Englightend, one of the largest teams in the augemented reality game Ingress. We discuss the key elements needed to develop swarm intelligence and how they were applied to continent-spanning efforts. Pongo has spent years deconstructing her experience into a valuable set of strategies for anyone organzing large numbers of volunteers, and expertly up-levelling them into easily digestible lessons on swarm-based strategies, gamification, and game theory for ..read more

In this episode of the Hack the Planet Podcast: We have a chat with Pongolyn, a community organizer and strategist for the Pacific Northwest Englightend, one of the largest teams in the augemented reality game Ingress. We discuss the key elements needed to develop swarm intelligence and how they were applied to continent-spanning efforts. Pongo has spent years deconstructing her experience into a valuable set of strategies for anyone organzing large numbers of volunteers, and expertly up-levelling them into easily digestible lessons on swarm-based strategies, gamification, and game theory for ..read more