Hacking the Gibson

Oct 22 2023 11
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Who are these mysterious hackers that the world is afraid of? Have you ever wondered who they are and what they’ve done? Whether you're new to the world of cyber security, a seasoned engineer, or just someone that’s picked up enough to follow along, we’ve got a podcast for you.Hacking the Gibson is a podcast about the history of cyber security on the Internet. We’ve pulled together stories of the Information Superhighwaymen that have shaped the Internet. Some are heroes and heroines, some are villains, and some went on to change the world.Thrown in for some context, we’ll also go in to some cold war spy stories that show that history keeps repeating; as well as some nuts and bolts of how we got to the Internet we have today.Presented by Hackalope and Ymir

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Pre-Season Episode 1 - My Favorite Virus

Jan 09 2022 25 mins  
This is an episode about the havoc wrought by the virus W32/SQL.Slammer, sometimes referred to as the Sapphire worm. The worm was a weaponization of the vulnerability presented to the public more than 6 months before the worm started taking down networks far and wide. Why wasn’t the patch deployed? Why did it cause so much havoc? Why haven’t we seen anything quite like it since

Pre-Season Episode 2 - Operation Gunman

Jan 09 2022 24 mins  
Hacking in the age of typewriters? It happened. This episode is a cold war spy story, a classic clash of the titans, the United States of America vs United Soviet Socailist Republics. This was one of the earliest public successes of the National Security Agency.In Operation Gunman we have an event ‘80 that has many things that we recognize today - keyloggers, exfiltration channel

Pre-Season Episode 3 - A Tale of two Protocols

Jan 16 2022 34 mins  
It was the best of protocols, it was the worst of protocols. What would the Internet be without HTTPS? SSL and TLS started as a solution to using credit cards online, but it has become a requirement for almost every modern Internet application. In this episode we go over some of the fundamentals of HTTPS and how we got here.The journey covers Netscape, Heartbleed, and a lot of grou

Pre-Season Episode 4 - Stuxnet

Jan 16 2022 33 mins  
It’s still one of the most complex pieces of malware ever discovered. Stuxnet made headlines for years – a 1 megabyte monstrosity that was deployed as a digital weapon into the Middle East morass. The virus used four undisclosed zero-day Windows vulnerabilities to target a specific nation’s nuclear program using air-gap networks. Who made it? What was it for? What did it do?O

Season 1 Episode 1 - Operation Ghost Click

Jan 23 2022 28 mins  
Something strange in your Internet neighborhood? Who you gonna call? Not the Internet Police, that’s for sure. They don’t exist. But law enforcement sometimes tries to save the internet. It can require cooperation between multiple nations and years of efforts to put a stop to bad actors on the internet.This is the story of one of those efforts, and it’s a success story – bu

Season 1 Episode 2 - Sony Exposed

Jan 30 2022 35 mins  
If you're a gamer and owned a PlayStation back in 2011 you may remember that little hiccup where the network exploded and didn't come back up for some time.We'll look into exactly what happened or what is thought to have happened during this attack and who the culprits may have been and what led up to this.

Season 1 Episode 3 - MimiKatz

Feb 06 2022 32 mins  
French hackers? What have they ever done? As it turns out, one of the most influential and dangerous hacking tools to appear in the last 10 years came from a French hacker. MimiKatz and the research it spawned has turned Active Directory security on its head. But how does it work? What can it be used for? And most importantly: How do we stop it?This episode talks about passing the

Season 1 Episode 4 - Capital Assets

Feb 13 2022 39 mins  
2021 started off with a bang to try to unseat 2020 as the craziest year in recent history!In this episode we deviate a bit from our normal format to cover the riots in DC and the cyber security implications that may arise from this. Recorded just after the insurrection attempt on January 6th, 2021, we talk about an angle that wasn’t getting much attention at the time – the impl

Season 1 Episode 5 - The Italian Job

Feb 20 2022 36 mins  
Everyone knows the CIA can track you by your cellphone....except, apparently, the CIA. This is the story of a CIA operation gone wrong – gone very wrong, in a way that created a quagmire of international embarrassment, all due to poor cellphone operational security.Then NBC producer Matthew Cole tracked this story for years and uncovered the magnitude of the failures. Agents were

Season 1 Episode 6 - For the Lulz

Feb 27 2022 48 mins  
You’ve heard of them, even if their name is supposed to make them unidentifiable. Yes, it’s an episode about Anonymous, the 4chan spawned… Group? Movement? Performance Art? We don’t know if anyone really knows, but we’re going to talk about what we do know. Remember:Anonymous is not your personal army.None of us is a cruel as all of us.We do it for the lulz.