Malicious Life

Roughly 600,000 laptops are lost every year in US airports alone: some reports say a laptop is stolen every minute. How hard is it to hack into a stolen laptop? "Hackable?", McAfee's Cyber Security podcast, investigates. Check out their website: https://hackablepodcast.com/ . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

In this out-of-band episode, we're bringing you the full interview with Lodrina Cherne, a Digital Forensics Expert, on S pyware : what is it, how it works, who sells it, and how you can avoid it yourself. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Nikita Kuzmin could have been a whiz programmer or a CEO of a successful startup. But as a teen in Moscow, he fell in with the wrong crowd, and his entrepreneurial skills found a different path: Gozi, the oddest and most brilliant malware operation ever conceived to that point in time. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Today's Cyber Stalkers have free access to almost government-grade spyware software with which they can terrorize their victims. Who's enabling the commercial spyware market? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Ran and Eliad Kimhy, one of the show's top producers, discuss the recent Listener's Survey results: what do like and dislike about the show, ideas you gave us for future improvements - and what do our listeners think about Ran's accent?... Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Google, it turned out, was only one of 35 major US corporations hit in Aurora. Was is an espionage campaign, or could it be that it all began with one top ranking Chinese official who googled his own name - and wasn't happy with the search results?... Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

In January 2010, Google revealed in its blog that it was hacked. This attack, since known as Operation Aurora, is attributed to China. In this series of episodes, we'll expose the complicated and often turbulent relationship between the world's largest internet company, and the world's most populated nation. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Should governments responde to cyber attack with deadly force? Senior researcher Mikko Hypponen and Prof. Itzik Ben Israel (Ret. General, IDF R&D) discuss this sensative question. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Ad Blockers, such as AdBlock Plus, provide an important service to users who find web ads annoying, creepy and sometimes even dangerous. In recent years, how ever, the business models adopted by some blockers present us with a moral dilemma. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Can a malware be *too* successful? This is the story of Conficker, one of the most advanced worms in history - and how its success led to its ultimate failure. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

A rare, inside look, at how Cybereason's researchers were able to uncover one of the largest Cyber Espionage campaigns ever discovered, against multiple Telecommunications companies around the world. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

The YIPL phreaking magazine was the spiritual predecessor to the better-known '2600' zine, and it was founded by a ideological party determined to bring down the largest monopoly in US history: Bell Telephone. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

After the Challenger Disaster of 1986, NASA had a hard time convincing the public that the Galileo spacecraft, fueled by radioactive Plutonium, is safe to launch. The WANK worm, it turns out, was a message aim at NASA - from the two most powerful hackers in the world. The post The U.S vs. Gary McKinnon appeared first on Malicious Life . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

After the Challenger Disaster of 1986, NASA had a hard time convincing the public that the Galileo spacecraft, fueled by radioactive Plutonium, is safe to launch. The WANK worm, it turns out, was a message aim at NASA - from the two most powerful hackers in the world. The post The WANK Worm, Part 2 appeared first on Malicious Life . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

On October 16th, 1989, NASA's scientists went into work preparing to launch a spacecraft that very day. But when they sat down to their computers, they were met with an unexpected greeting: “Your system has been officially WANKed. You talk of times of peace for all, and then prepare for war.” The post The WANK Worm, Part 1 appeared first on Malicious Life . Advertising Inquiries: https://redci...

After its momentous breach, Equifax's CEO Richard Smith said: “Equifax will not be defined by this incident, but rather by how we respond.” Well, he was spot on, but not in a good way. The post The Equifax Data Breach Pt. II: The Bits Hit The Fan appeared first on Malicious Life . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

In their 120 year history, Equifax never sold anything, or provided any service to ordinary folks - except collect DATA. In 2017, that huge data repository, a 1000 times larger then the Library of Congress, got hacked. The post The Equifax Data Breach Pt. I: A Big Data Bubble appeared first on Malicious Life . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Twenty years ago, a 15-years old Norwegian kid was put on trial for breaking the DVD Copy Prevention system. His case spawned a whole new "artistic" movement... The post DeCSS: Hackers Vs Hollywood appeared first on Malicious Life . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Guglielmo Marconi--the beloved, hated, disputed inventor of radio--gets trolled by a mustached magician in the world’s first ever, wireless, grey hat hack. The post Marconi & The Maskelyne Affair appeared first on Malicious Life . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

In its prime, Mt. Gox was essentially the place where Bitcoin happened. But for two years, Mt. Gox was imploding from the inside - while soaring to unprecedented success on the outside.  The post The Fall Of Mt. Gox – Part 2 appeared first on Malicious Life . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

CYBER is a new podcast from Motherboard, a very well known and respected technology blog and online magazine. The episode you’ll hear shortly is about the shady market of data aggregators and brokers who sell smartphone location data to bounty hunters, bail bondsmen, landlords, used car salesmen, and anyone who can afford it. We learn how bounty hunters go right up to the edge of what the law allo...

In its prime, Mt. Gox was essentially the place where Bitcoin happened. But for two years, Mt. Gox was imploding from the inside - while soaring to unprecedented success on the outside.  The post The Fall Of Mt. Gox – Part 1 appeared first on Malicious Life . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week we're doing an episode swap with the excellent podcast Darknet Diaries. A former NSA agent who has gone off to be a security consultant, tells a story about an assignment that he'll never forget... The post Black Duck Eggs: Darknet Diaries appeared first on Malicious Life . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Today on Malicious Life, tens of thousands of people get robbed.  Then a community gets together to ask: should we take our money back, or let the hacker walk with it? The post Dave Kennedy: The Psychological Principles of Social Engineering appeared first on Malicious Life . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Today on Malicious Life, tens of thousands of people get robbed.  Then a community gets together to ask: should we take our money back, or let the hacker walk with it? The post The Ethereum DAO Hack appeared first on Malicious Life . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands