The wildest computer hacks you could ever imagine. 500 million dollars disappear into thin air. Two teenagers disrupt a rocket launch. Foreign spies rig an election. Hosted by author and cybersecurity expert Ran Levi, Malicious Life unravels complex, dramatic historical events, with interviews from people who were actually there. Lock your door, wipe your hard drive, and come listen to fascinating stories from the cyber underground.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 10 hours 47 minutes
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“King Kimble”: Kim DotCom?
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Hacking Multi-Factor Authentication [ML B-side]
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Hacking Language Models
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Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) [ML B-side]
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Leo Kuvayev– The Czar of Spammers
Railway systems are a mess of old systems built on top of older systems, running ancient operating systems and exposing their most sensitive inner workings to commuters via WIFI. Why are railway systems so difficult to defend,
“A CISO’s Nightmare”: Israel Baron on Railway Security [ML B-side]
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“Designed by criminals, for criminals”: Operation Trojan Shield
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Andrew Ginter: A 40-Year-Old Backdoor [ML B-Side]
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Silk Road: The Amazon of drugs, Part 2
Silk Road’s success did more than bring the site more sellers and buyers, it also brought it more attention from law enforcement agencies as well as malicious hackers and other shady characters. Some of these shady characters, it turns out,
Kurtis Minder: Ransomware Negotiations [ML B-Side]
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