The hardware hacker, creator of the wifi-nugget, cybersecurity content creator, hak5 host and our guest of honor in this episode of Hacker Talk is Alex Lynd! In this episode, we cover: Alex background, working with hak5, content creation O.MG pentesting cable Signal intelligence Wifi hacking Hardware hacking Modifying the hardware of calculators, playing games on calculators Hacking the texas instrument ti 84 calculator Alex's first computer being the raspberry pi Starting with Linux Embedded security Hardware developer perspective Making hardware devices Making low-cost hacking devices low c ..read more

Sam Bent, previously by his online handle as the Darknet Vendor "2happytimes2" is our Hacker of the episode! In this episode of Hacker Talk we get to hear, how Sam put toghter an Opsec plan that ended up protecting him against a 20 count indetment and 200 years in prison. Thanks to a bruteforce attack in the true hacker spirit he managed to get out of prison.  What is it like to apply strong operation security practices in your everyday life?  How does one survive and adapt to hostile environments? Join us in this thrill seeking episode of Hacker Talk, where we get to hear Sam's ..read more

In this episode of Hacker Talk: One of the most powerful newer static analysis tool is CodeQL.   By converting your code base into a Codeql database, you can now write   queries in a read-only way, in order to find security vulnerabilities    and problems in you Code-base. We wanted to know more about this declarative language called "CodeQL". Straight from Github's Security Lab, we are joined by Alvaro Munoz!   Alvaro, is a Security Researcher, Leads a team of researchers that leverage Codeql to find and model vulnerabilities at Github, with a background in research ..read more

In this episode of Hacker Talk, we are joined by the Hacker and SecBSD contributor: The BSDBandit! Tune is as we deep into secbsd, the penetration distribution for the BSD community. In this episode we cover: Video games Kali linux meets bsd Started to hack in college mandraka linux FreeBSD 4.8 and beyond    BSD vs Linux    Reading the RFC's IRIX Learn from developer mailing lists   OpenBSD's mailing  The start of SECBSD - BSD based Penetration testing distribution         SecBSD, release cyckle Documentation in the BSD world &n ..read more

Hacker Talk is back! Stronger than ever with a new episode, in this episode we are all about Podman! Joining us today is Dan Walsh. One of the main people behind Podman! Dan is very knowledgeable in the (oci)container security world. We are super happy to have him on Hacker Talk and hear about Podman. Topics: Podman Podman in action book Dan's journey into Unix and Linux Following Paul cormia to redhat, CEO of redhead Redhat, working on pre-vpn Working on se-linux Container technology Security for openshift Being integrated with docker Oci images and runtimes Fork and exec Security in contai ..read more

In this episode of Hacker Talk, we are joined by the social engineer, windows security ninja, hacker and security researcher Mattias Borg. Tune is as we get to hear about scam calls and social engineering! In this episode we cover: Social Engineering Micro-expressions How long can you get with scam calls? Windows Security Best practices Dealing with scam callers Getting more information from scam call center What happens when people fall for scam callers. Educating others  Links: The Art of Human Hacking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_J._Hadnagy https://twitter.com/MattiasBo ..read more

In this episode of Hacker Talk, we are joined by the amazing Hacker, G0t mi1k! G0t mi1k is part of the offensive security team and he also runs the database of vulnerable virtual machines, called Vulnhub. Topics: Background Getting into infosec Becoming a moderator First remote shell Backtrack Offensive security Start and background story of Vulnhub.com Encouraging people to run virtual machines Hoarding data, hosting virtual machine images The start of Exploit-db, milw0rm Curating exploits Running virtual machines with Proxmox home lab and vmwareVMware Best practices for protecting internet ..read more

Today we are joined by: Mike Spicer, the builder of the Wifi Cactus, someone you can see walking around various security conference    with a backpack filled with wireless monitoring goodies :) Mike wanted to see what was really happening on one of the most dangerous wifi networks in the world, this and a lot more in this episode of Hacker Talk.  In this episode we cover: Questioning the dangerous assumption How dangerous is Defcon's network really? Dialup internet, warez, Hacking, Tinkering, and programming The movie Hackers from 1995 Wardriving, driving around to find intern ..read more

In this episode of Hacker Talk, we are joined by Lucas Lundgren, is an impressive penetration tester, security researcher, and our Hacker of honor today. Lucas is known for going out on the internet and finding interesting internet-facing protocols, he has found several internet-facing critical infrastructures, prison door systems, medical x-ray file storage servers(Pacs), earthquake systems, and a lot more!  In this episode we cover the following topics:  Journey into hacking, radio, commodore64, Amiga 500, cracking games Time bomb viruses for Amiga 500 games Finding vulnerabiliti ..read more

Hackers on Plant Earth - Hope with Mitch Altman and Greg Newby Hackers on Planet Earth(HOPE), is a biannual volunteer-driven hacker conference that got started in 1994. On the hacking and phone phreaking's magazine 2600 10th anniversary. In this episode of Hacker Talk, we are joined by two hackers that are behind the curtain at the HOPE conference.   Greg Newby and Mitch Altman are both two impressive Hackers, helping the   HOPE conference be the amazing hacking conference it is today.    In this episode we cover:   How Hope has evolved during the years   Gr ..read more