Darknet Diaries

Explore true stories of the dark side of the Internet with host Jack Rhysider as he takes you on a journey through the chilling world of hacking, data breaches, and cyber crime.

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94: Mariposa

Episode Date: June 8, 2021

Chris Davis has been stopping IT security threats for decades. He’s currently running the company Hyas that he started. In this episode he te...

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93: Kik

Episode Date: May 25, 2021

Kik is a wildly popular chat app. Their website says that 1 in 3 American teenagers use Kik. But something dark is brewing on Kik.

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92: The Pirate Bay

Episode Date: May 11, 2021

The Pirate Bay is a website, a search engine, which has an index of torrent files. A lot of copyrighted material is listed on the site, but t...

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91: webjedi

Episode Date: April 27, 2021

What happens when an unauthorized intruder gets into the network of a major bank? Amélie Koran aka webjedi was there for one of these intrusi...

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90: Jenny

Episode Date: April 13, 2021

Meet Jenny Radcliffe, the People Hacker. She’s a social engineer and physical penetration tester. Which means she gets paid to break into bui...

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88: Victor

Episode Date: March 30, 2021

Victor looks for vulnerabilities on the web and reports them responsibly. This is the story about discloser number 5780.Listen to episodes 86...

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85: Cam the Carder

Episode Date: February 16, 2021

This is the story of Cam Harrison, aka “kilobit” and his rise and fall as a prominent carder.SponsorsSupport for this show comes from IT Pro...

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84: Jet-setters

Episode Date: February 2, 2021

How bad is it if you post your boarding pass on Instagram? Our guest, “Alex” decides to figure this out for themself and has quite a story ab...

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83: NSA Cryptologists

Episode Date: January 19, 2021

In this episode we interview two NSA Cryptologists, Marcus J. Carey and Jeff Man. We hear their story of how they got into the NSA and what t...

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82: Master of Pwn

Episode Date: January 5, 2021

The Zero Day Initiative runs a hacker contest called Pwn2Own. The contest calls the best hackers in the world to demonstrate they can hack in...

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81: The Vendor

Episode Date: December 22, 2020

This is the story of a darknet marketplace vendor we’ll name V. V tells his story of how he first became a buyer, then transitioned into sell...

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80: The Whistleblower

Episode Date: December 8, 2020

In this episode we hear a story from a social engineer who’s job it is to get people to do things they don’t want to do. Why? For profit.Spon...

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79: Dark Basin

Episode Date: November 24, 2020

What do you do when you find yourself the target of a massive hacking campaign, and you are getting thousands of phishing emails and someone...

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78: Nerdcore

Episode Date: November 10, 2020

Nerdcore music is music for nerds. In this episode we hear from some of the musicians who make Nerdcore music.This episode features guests yt...

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77: Olympic Destroyer

Episode Date: October 27, 2020

In February 2018, during the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang South Korea, a cyber attack struck, wiping out a lot of the Olympic’s digital inf...

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76: Knaves Out

Episode Date: October 13, 2020

This is the story about how someone hacked into JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest financial institutions in the world. It’s obvious why som...

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75: Compromised Comms

Episode Date: September 29, 2020

From 2009 to 2013 the communication channels the CIA uses to contact assets in foreign countries was compromised. This had terrifying consequ...