Episodes
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...
Published 04/14/23
Published 04/14/23
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...
Published 12/27/22
Our Hacker of the episode is "Vickie lii"! Vickie tells us about Bug Bounties, her new book and information security.  Tune in now! In this episode we cover: Background, getting into security Getting into Bug Bounty  First Bug bounty  Hackerone, Bug crowd Reporting Security Bugs Coordinating bug bounties   Life as a bug bounty hunter Interaction with engineers Bug bounty bootcamp Book Security as a hobby Writing Books How to hack web applications   Vickie's favourite types of...
Published 11/24/22
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...
Published 10/24/22
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...
Published 09/26/22
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...
Published 09/19/22
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...
Published 09/06/22
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,...
Published 08/23/22
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,...
Published 08/08/22
Welcome back to Hacker Talk! This is part two of our conversation with Steven Phillips  Steven is a really interesting developer, hacker and thinker. I   personally enjoy reading his blog  tryingtobeawesome.com where he covers various parts of  programming, philosophy and software. Topics: "Machine Learning" being good or bad    Security with machine learning Turning a stop light to a truck   Algorithms What type of Artificial intelligence do we need for software...
Published 07/11/22
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,...
Published 07/05/22
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...
Published 06/20/22
Steve Phillips, is an interesting developer, privacy advocate, hacker and thinker. Tune into this episode of Hacker Talk as we are joined by Steve Phillips in this Programmable Philosophy special. In this episode we cover:   Steve's journey into technology   Being able to build and utilize tools Cypherpunk Privacy, Encryption Philosophy with programming Proving philosophical theories with programming Python, Django Paul gram Putting the technologist first in companies Combining...
Published 06/14/22
This episode is the first time the authors of the book: Black Hat Python. In today's episode of Hacker Talk Justin Seitz and Tim Arnold joins us on the show and we get to hear Tim and Justin stories about Python, Hacking and a lot more! In this episode we cover: Journey into hacking and technology Finding like-minded people, dopamine kicks Infosec community CackalackyCon Issa  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Systems_Security_Association Tinkering  Python Creating...
Published 05/31/22
Buckle in for a great episode of Hacker Talk! Pavol Luptak, CEO of Nethemba joins us, and walks us through the vulnerabilities that were found in Slovakia's covid-19  PCR and anti-gen authority. Tune into the most technical and detailed covid-19 hacking episode, right here on Hacker Talk. In this episode we cover: Pavol's journey into it-security old-school Unix privilege escalation attacks Traditional C and Assembly, shellcodes Becoming a penetration tester Rfid Finding...
Published 05/16/22
David Jacoby, is a Swedish Hacker, Professional Penetration tester, Security Researcher, featured in the Swedish it-security show called "Hackad" and our guest of honor today! In this episode of Hacker Talk, we are joined by the Swedish hacker David Jacoby! Have you ever watched a video on your phone in your spare time? what if the site had a malicious javascript that will scan your internal    network for smart devices and then trigger a remote code execution?  Join us as we deep...
Published 05/02/22
Ben Kurtz - Golang Malware part 2  Topics covered: Golang Hells gate, direct system calls on windows How system calls are normally done in windows, Windows Kernel Evading anti malware detection on Windows with Banana Phone How to get started writing c2's in golang.   Sliver, Opensource golang command and control.  Red team mindset    Evolution of programmers, bad patterns    CVE's, common vulnerability enumeration number   Auditing source code    Javascript frameworks   Cross...
Published 04/19/22
Ben Kurtz, is an interesting hacker that has been involved in the infosec space for over 20 years.  He has done a large chunk of research into writing malware and post-exploitation tools in the Golang programming language.  Tune into this episode of Hacker Talk as we are joined by Ben Kurtz and deep dive into Golang Malware. In this episode of Hacker Talk, we cover the following topics: Getting into programming, apple 2, hacking, bulletin board systems,  pirating apple 2 software unix...
Published 03/16/22
Dan Demeter, well-known security researcher in the Romanian information-security space.  In 2014, Dan joined Kaspersky as a malware Security researcher, since then he has worked with various advanced anti-malware solutions and   is currently working with Threat Intelligence in Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team. In this episode of Hacker talk, we deep dive into malware, threat intelligence, advanced persistent threats, security and defensive security with Dan.  Topics...
Published 03/03/22