As hacking leaves the dark corners of the internet and makes its way into our daily lives, we set out to paint a picture of this curious (and occasionally criminal) world. Join us on Hacked, as Jordan Bloemen, communicator and storyteller, and Scott Francis Winder, technologist and computer security hobbyist, delve into a new story every episode.
65 Available Episodes (65 Total)Average duration: 00:37:22
Apr 16, 2023
Operation Cookie Monster, The Russian Hackathon VPN, and the Mac Bitcoin Whitepaper Mystery
00:48:50
A chat episode about the brilliantly named international operation to take down Genesis Market, an FBI warning against juice jacking, Amnezia the open source VPN that's become a surprise Russian export, and using GPT to generate software keys for Windows 95.
A chat + interview combo in which we talk with Adrian Bednarek, a man who has been hacking video games for profit for about as long as there has been any profit to be made hacking video games, and JB and Scott discuss Game Developers Conference 2023.
Note: My (JB) apologies for the surname mispronunciation.
Crypto Mines in Crawl Spaces, Youtube as Infinite Storage, and Voice Biometrics Aren't Doing So Hot Right Now.
01:07:12
A chat episode about the a teacher who allegedly built a crypto mine in a school crawl space, researchers using Stable Diffusion to read MRIs, the state of voice biometrics, a credential stuffing attack at Chick-Fil-A and whether their sauce is gross or just gross looking.
The story of how profitable it can be to serve ads to nobody, featuring Zach Edwards from HUMAN Security. We discuss Methbot, Vastflux, how organized criminals use ad fraud to launder wild sums of money, and how HUMAN took down some of some of the biggest ad fraud networks online today.
The FBI Shuts Down Hive, Sky Hacks, and the Phishing Never Ends.
01:04:16
A chat episode about the FBI takedown of the Hive ransomware as a service gang, a leak of the No Fly List, a mucked up file that grounded every plane in the US, the persistence of phishing, and the slow march of AI in courtrooms.
Also Zelda, for some reason, for the second time in as many months.
Pig Butchering, Ring Cam Swatters, and Raspberry Robin
00:51:43
A chat episode about all these things and more. Sorry, a "chatty chat" about exactly seven topics.
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Oh dang we have enough episode to do reruns. We promise we'll use this power responsibly. To ring in New Years, please enjoy this throwback Hacked about the y2k bug.
In which we look back on a hack-tacular year, and fail to live up the episode we had Chat GPT write for us by only really talking about two topics.
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