Tales of cybersecurity. The wildest hacks you can ever imagine, told by people who were actually there. Hosted by cybersecurity expert and book author, Ran Levi, this is not your average talk-show. These are fascinating, unknown tales, slowly unraveled, deeply researched. Think Hardcore History meets Hackable- and come dig into a history you never knew existed.
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Operation Flyhook, Part 1
Alexey Ivanov was exactly the kind of person to benefit from the early-2000’s dot-com boom: He was bright, talented, and knew his stuff. His only problem was the fact that he was born in Chelyabinsk, a sleepy Russian town in the middle of nowhere…when he sent his resume to American companies, nobody was willing to bet on him.
Alexey came up with a ‘brilliant’ idea: hacking American corporations, and then blackmailing them – forcing them to hire his services as a ‘security consultant.’