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- Dec 29, 20242h 4m
New Year special 2024
Hacker Talk 2024 New Year Special Featuring: Johnny Xmas, Zagros Bingol and Filip Kalebo. Topics: infosec's 9/11 - Target.com breach Leaking TSA master keys Starting to work in information security How the information security space has changed The hackers we lost along the way RIP Kevin Mitnick RIP hacker legend Robert “Ozzie” Osband (Richard Cheshire, The Cheshire Catalyst) 2600 Hackers on planet earth Crowd strike Trends we have seen in 2024 AI as a trend The future of AI Training models AI being used to fingerprint user activity AI in continuous integration pipelines Code Reviews Backdoor in tar Vulnerabilities in the linux kernel Risks of using opensource Exploit brokers OSS Fuzz Fuzzing Quantum computers Cray super computers Michelle Simmons creates a quantum computer at home National cryptology museum in Washington dc 40 years since Chaos Computer club, 2600 and Cult of the deadcow Chaos computer camp Bornhack toorcamp hope conference Defcon Cult of the deadcow Veilid Bluesky Decentralized technologies Hawk tuah Modern Scams Web3 and Web2 Privacy Downfall of telegram Telegram giving up on privacy SimpleX chat, signal and imessage Future External Links: https://linktr.ee/johnnyxmas https://burbsec.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor https://www.metafilter.com/203126/Tar-Trap-Caught https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack-Tic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Camp https://cultdeadcow.com/ https://2600.com/ https://toorcamp.org/experience/ https://infocondb.org/presenter/richard-cheshire-the-cheshire-catalyst https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1937010/ https://hope.net/memoriam.html https://veilid.com/ https://blog.rust.careers/post/veilid_dildog_rust_interview/ https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2025/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEF_CON https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvglp0xny3eo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/10/from-naptime-to-big-sleep.html https://google.github.io/oss-fuzz/research/llms/target_generation/ <a href="https://www.visitacity.com/
- Apr 14, 202359 min
Cat shaped hardware hacking with Alex Lynd
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 cost, high availability and effective hacking devices GPS implants ESP8266, 3 dollar wifi microcontroller Wardriving with esp8266 wifi nugget Making cat-shaped hardware Making a friendly and portable hardware design Learning about wifi hacking and microcontrollers USB nugget USB rubber ducky Keystroke injection attacks ATtiny85 Arduino Thought process behind creating the wifi nugget How Filip cracked his neighbors wifi Aircrack-ng Airgeddon Creating a DIY beginner hardware kit The creation of wifi nugget, the first 100 devices SpaceHuhn Maker Wifi Beacon spoofing pranks esp32 vs esp8266 wifi chip Crafting custom packets with the esp8266 chip Espressif Systems trying to stop people from using it's wifi chips for offensive purposes by locking down its software development kit. Spoofing attacks esp32 native USB mode EMulating USB connected devices for data exfiltration Auto trunked packets pmkid wifi attack Cracking wpa2 handshakes Guessing autogenerated wifi passwords Hashcat Password generator based on your local area code The best password-cracking word list Filip has ever used Funny pranks with the wifi nugget Nugget defender, see if anyone is attacking your network use Canary tokens to detect if someone is breaking into your system Bugged microsoft word and pdf documents Having an intrusion detection system in your pocket wifi honeypots Getting started designing custom printed circuit boards(PCB) Design with easyeda Creating a tv-be-gone Sourcing pcb boards Circuit board art What software to use to create boards Antenna design Omni directional antennas Yagi antennas Sourcing hardware Making it more user friendly Links: https://alexlynd.com/ https://mg.lol/blog/omg-cable/ https://github.com/HakCat-Tech/WiFi-Nugget https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi https://hak5.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266 https://retia.io/ https://twitter.com/AlexLynd https://usbnugget.com/ https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATmega328 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino_Nano https://www.pcboard.ca/mini-attiny85-usb https://www.arrow.com/en/research-and-events/articles/attiny85-arduino-tutorial <a href="https://github.com/derv82/wifite2 " target="_blank" rel="noopener norefe
- Dec 27, 20221h 12m
Darknet Operation Security with Sam Bent Part 1
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 story. In this episode we cover: Darknet Vendor, Darknet Marketplaces Darknet Forum Administrator First Introduction to Tor Silkroad, Early Bitcoin days Bitcoin Pizza for 20 000 Bitcoins Moderating darknet forums Money laundering charges Privacy Journey into selling on the darknet Residential Security Living in Vermont, United States of America Computer support Forming information security policies Backtraq 2(Released March 2007) Yagi antenna, randomizing your mac address before you use your neighbors wifi Removing DNA from packages. Speaking at Defcon Dealing with the Department of Homeland security Social Engineering Operation security Dread Darknet Forum Dealing with Hostile Environments on the darknet and in prison Profiling yourself Importance of Adoptability Managing multiple identities Pretty good privacy(PGP) Trust on the Darknet Resumes on the Darknet Best practices for Password Managers Storing password's in "The Slip", secure convenience security How to ship mail securely Interacting with the united states judicial system Franks hearing Becoming a paralegal in Prison Writing a 200-page passion of release motion Building trust in Online Communities Links: Doingfedtime Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DoingFedTime Bitcoin talk pizza thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BackTrack Sam's defcon talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGiUhjuB22Y https://www.16personalities.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace) https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/blog/warrant/what-does-it-mean-to-traverse-a-warrant-what-is-a-franks-motion/ https://forum.defcon.org/node/241998 https://www.darknetstats.com/seasoned-dark-web-vendor-2happytimes2-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison/
- Nov 24, 202238 min
Bug Bounty Bootcamp with Vickie lii
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 Vulnerabilities Template injection IDOR Writers block Nostarch Book Publishing Bug bounty tools Python and Bash Make bug bounties more enjoyable Portswinger Lab Finding low hanging fruits legal harbor Caring about security researchers Links: https://twitter.com/vickieli7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_bounty_program https://vickieli.dev/ https://portswigger.net/web-security/all-labs https://portswigger.net/research/server-side-template-injection https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/insecure-direct-object-reference-idor-vulnerability/ https://nostarch.com/bug-bounty-bootcamp Grab a copy of Vickie's book: https://www.amazon.com/Bug-Bounty-Bootcamp-Reporting-Vulnerabilities-ebook/dp/B08YK368Y3
- Oct 24, 202253 min
CodeQL with Alvaro Munoz
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 related to finding remote code execution bugs through deserialization. Tune in as we get to hear the ins and out of CodeQL, how to get started, when Codeql was used to find a vulnerability in a public Covid-19 system, how to find vulnerabilities with Codeql and a lot more! Topics covered: Learning to thing outsite the box by playing Capture the flag CodeQL declarative languages Static code analysis Getting a broad view of the source code Writing queries with CodeQL to find vulnerabilities Modeling vulnerabilities with CodeQL The learning curve of CodeQL Quering github repositories for vulnerabilities Write codeql for a large amount of repositories with lgtm(use it goes before it goes EOL) Linters vs codeql CodeQL integrated with continuous integration pipelines Get started with Codeql Submit your codeql queries to Github Security Lab's Bug bounty Best practices for writing queries Thinking of the code as a database with codeql Finding vulnerabilities in Covid-19 systems Best pratices for CodeQL Reduce false possitives CodeQL with nvim(neovim) Improving vim by creating a more interactive development enviroment alternative, "neovim". LSP integration with neovim. CodeQL with Emacs Remote code execution bugs found with CodeQL. Bugs found in Radar Covid App Patterns leading to remote code execution Auditing javascript frameworks CodeQL vs other static analysis tools Capture the flag codeql challanges The future of CodeQL External links: https://lgtm.com/ https://github.com/pwntester https://neovim.io/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Server_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semgrep Covid 19 tracing app - https://securitylab.github.com/research/securing-the-fight-against-covid19-through-oss/ - https://threatpost.com/german-covid-19-contact-tracing-vulnerability-rce/161419/ Github Security Lab web site: https://securitylab.github.com/ Join Github Security Lab Slack Channel: https://join.slack.com/t/ghsecuritylab/shared_invite/zt-120w4vby8-_O9u9k2hPfgbju1tddBPcg https://twitter.com/pwntester Bounty program: https://securitylab.github.com/bounties/ https://codeql.github.com/ https://codeql.github.com/docs/codeql-overview/ http://www.pwntester.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_flow_analysis https://github.com/github/codeql-learninglab-actions https://github.com/anticomputer/emacs-codeql/ Special thanks too: We want to give a huge thanks to Github's Security Lab Team for making this episode a reality!
- Sep 26, 20221h 2m
SecBSD - The penetration testing distribution for the BSD community | BSDBandit on Hacker Talk
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 NetBSD on toasters and sega dreamcast Comparing the BSD's Porting ruby Beef to BSD Web applications as houses Webb application api's Security Penetration testing Management vs Security Researchers and developers The adventures of Hacking and learning The state of Hacking Tinkering with FreeBSD ManPages Unix Powertools book Vi Editor Having fun with Technology People code computers Time allocation and having a good schedule Rust programming Visual code studio Pentesting with Rust Mental health Taking brakes, allocating discord and Internet Relay Chat Libera.chat irc Irssi irc client Phreakers going into VoIP OpenBTS IceCast Future of IT-Security Moving everything to the browser Challenge of the episode: The BSDBandit challenges you to read one man page per day for one year Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva_Linux https://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/announce/ https://secbsd.org https://twitter.com/SecBSD https://rfcs.io/http https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub7 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&r=1 https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/guide.html https://twitter.com/CryptoBanshee_ https://beefproject.com/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-power-tools/0596003307/ https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-PowerTools-Jerry-Peek/dp/1565922603 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi https://twitter.com/bsdbandit https://crates.io/ https://www.rust-lang.org/ https://github.com/bsdbandit https://crates.io/crates/pledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostscript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irssi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600%3A_The_Hacker_Quarterly https://libera.chat/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBTS https://icecast.org/
- Sep 19, 202258 min
Podman with Daniel Walsh
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 containers Docker daemon Design behind podman Better security in podman Combining podman with kubernetics Docker Vs systemd Full integration with systemd Buildah, docker build with podman Background story of buildah Overhead in containers Get started with migrating infrastructure to podman Gitlab runners with podman Podman on non-linux systems Docker starting to charge for Windows and Mac Podman desktop gui Linux security Sec-comp Land lock security mitigation in the Linux kernel SE-linux Encrypted virtual machines Intel-sgx with KVM virtual machines Trusting proprietary CPU encrypted environments Encrypted workloads Security at the hardware level Links https://www.manning.com/books/podman-in-action Se-linux Podman Docker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmUwrP791sI Replacing docker with Podman Buildah Docker starts to charge for usage Read Dan's book: https://www.manning.com/books/podman-in-action Find more episodes of Hacker Talk at: https://anchor.fm/hacker-talk Subscribe to Hacker Talk's RSS feed: https://anchor.fm/s/7984c230/podcast/rss
- Sep 6, 202251 min
Social engineering | Scam calls with Mattias Borg
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/MattiasBorg82 https://blog.sec-labs.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsznWl0Wc4I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zTsfs4Q6IY For feedback and guest suggestions, email: podcast at firosolutions dot com
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