Hak5

Hosted by Darren Kitchen and Shannon Morse. New episodes Tuesdays.

Put together by a band of IT ninjas, security professionals and hardcore gamers, Hak5 isn't your typical tech show. We take on hacking in the old-school sense, covering everything from network security, open source and forensics, to DIY modding and the homebrew scene. Then we wrap it all up with a... Read More

Shmoocon 2010

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 – running time 43:54

We head out to DC for Shmoocon, our favorite hacker conference on the east coast, to talk to some of the brightest minds in security. We talk to Tom Eston about social media security, TheX1le about his new tool airdrop-ng, Jason Scott about preserving our digital heritage, Chris Paget about man-in-the-middle attacks against GSM networks, and much more.

Airdrop-ng

Self taught packet junkie TheX1le shares with us his new tool for wireless de-authentication and deassociation. Airdrop-ng facilitates client control with versatile rule based control.

00:50 | Play

Cloning, Spoofing, Man-in-the-middle sniffing, and decrypting GSM

Chris Paget of h4rdw4re shares with us the in's and out's of GSM hacking. Armed with a USRP and his open-source software, Paget pretends to be your GSM tower, and a lot more.

Chris released at Shmoocon the OpenBootTS Live CD. Based on Debian, this mininal distribution acts as a GSM base station when connected to a USRP. OpenBootTS provides a cellular interface and Asterisk to terminate VoIP calls.

09:58 | Play

Jason Scott - Defender of Digital Heritage

Textfiles.com very own Jason Scott joins us to talk about preserving our digital heritage with Archive Team and why it's important to keep Geocities, Netscape Now buttons, and *gasp* Hamster Dance.

27:58 | Play

Social Media Security

Tom Eston shares with us the delicious dangers of social networks while in the hands of web-application exploiting hackers. No worries, he's got you covered at socialmediasecurity.com

33:09 | Play

Connect with Hak5

  • 20 days ago

    Hackers!! Our new episode of Hak5 will be posting soon! It's jam packed with epic interviews this week, so stay tuned!

  • 20 days ago

    @michael_a_nass Are you enjoying the awesomeness that is Hack Across America?

  • 20 days ago

    @jardinesoftware Thanks for the bump! The Throwing Star LAN Tap Pro is one of my favorite tools (though, I prefer soldering mine! :) -@snubs

  • about a month ago

    Employers want social media passwords, US gets a #CPO, and #TheOnion! All that and more this time on #ThreatWire! http://t.co/SrZpicvnt6

  • about a month ago

    #Installing #Solar panels, #Google #Chrome #extensions, and more on @Hak5! http://t.co/QppYLgZpi5

  • about a month ago

    Legalizing #Internet eavesdropping, #LivingSocial is #hacked, and more on this weeks #ThreatWire! http://t.co/xyIxzy8kes

About the Show

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Show Title:
Hak5
Description:
Hak5 isn't your typical tech show. It's hacking in the old-school sense, covering everything from network security, open source and forensics to DIY modding and the homebrew scene. Damn the warranties, it's time to Trust your Technolust.
Categories:
How-To & DIY, Technology & Gadgets
Launch Date:
Sep 7, 2008
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