Dark Diary

Acarding kingpin was tracked by the Secret Service

In late November 2018, a hacker found over 50,000 printers were exposed to the Internet in ways they shouldn't have been. He wanted to raise awareness of this problem

This is a story about the hacker named “dawgyg” and how he made over $100,000 in a single day, from hacking.

GuestThanks to Jordan Harbinger for sharing his story with us. You can find hist podcast by searching for The Jordan Harbinger Show wherever you listen to podcasts.SponsorsThis episode was sponsored by Thinkst Canary.

The story of NotPetya, seems to be the first time, we see what a cyber war looks like. In the summer of 2017 Ukraine suffered a serious and catastrophic cyber attack on their whole country.

Their canaries attract malicious actors in your network and then send you an alert if someone tries to access them.

Listen to a network security engineer talk about the unexpected visitor found in his network and what he did about it.

A physical penetration tester as he tries to make his away into unauthorized areas, steal sensitive documents, hack into the computers, and escape with company property.

A talk at Defcon challenged people to find a way to destroy a hard drive. A young man was inspired by this challenge and was determined to find a way to destroy a hard drive.

A journalist wrote articles critical of the Kazakhstan government. The government did not like this and attempted to silence her. But perhaps they went more than just that.