Hollywood has many ideas about how to hack computers. But, unfortunately, those are mostly not related to reality.
So how do you actually hack a computer? In this episode, we will look at some of the ways nefarious neverdowells have hacked computers in the past and see if we can learn a lesson or two from them.
This is quite a long podcast, so I have included section markers you can pause at if you want.
Links I mentioned in the show:
- Yahoo and their medireview https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/medireview
- Samy Kamkar https://samy.pl/myspace/
- Technical description of the worm https://samy.pl/myspace/tech.html
- The podcast episode about VPNs
- The podcast episode about cookies
- OpenSSL’s latest bug