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Darknet Diaries
By Jack Rhysider
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.
Latest episode
LOW - Now Available
4 min
- Cadence
- Irregular
- Typical length
- 1 hr 7 min
- Latest release
- Sep 22
- Language
- EN-US
- Activity
- Current — released within 30 days
Podcast Classification
Topics
Incident Response
Preparing for, investigating, containing, and recovering from security incidents.
Threat Intelligence
Threat actors, campaigns, malware, indicators, adversary behavior, and intelligence analysis.
Offensive Security
Penetration testing, exploitation, red teaming, adversarial techniques, and vulnerability research.
Formats
Narrative Storytelling
Structured stories using chronology, scenes, characters, and production.
Investigative Journalism
Original reporting, evidence development, and documentary findings.
Audience level
Introductory
Accessible to an informed general listener without professional technology experience.
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LOW - Now Available
After 8 years, LOW is finally here. A story about the weight of being and the wreckage of waking up. Five episodes. Five descents. LOW is an audio journey into the unlit corners of human experience. Choices we made in the dark, the silences we carry, and what remains when we stop running from ourselves.
179: The Courthouse - Revisited
In this episode we follow up with Gabby and Justin from Episode 59 - two seasoned penetration testers who tell us a story about the time when they tried to break into a courthouse but it went all wrong, and what happened in the aftermath.
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After 8 years, LOW is finally here. A story about the weight of being and the wreckage of waking up. Five episodes. Five descents. LOW is an audio journey into the unlit corners of human experience. Choices we made in the dark, the silences we carry, and what remains when we stop running from ourselves.
178: Ubiquiti
Nickolas Sharp worked for Ubiquiti, a company that makes networking equipment. He noticed that there were some security problems at work. He tried to point them out, but didn't feel like he was being listened to enough. What do you do when the company you work for isn't securing their software up to your standards?
177: National Public Data
This is the story of the hacker known as "USDoD". When he was young he had a vengeance on the US, and this lead him down a road of continual data breaches, until he hacked into National Public Data, which is when his spree went one step too far.
176: NSL
One day Nick got a visit from the FBI demanding he give them data on one of his customers. They asked for it in the form of a National Security Letter or NSL. Something wasn’t right about this letter. It seemed to violate the constitution. So he set out to change the law.
175: Bayrob
It started with a fake car listing on eBay. What looked like a simple online scam quietly grew, over more than a decade, into one of the most sophisticated cybercrime operations the FBI had ever traced. Custom malware. Opsec off the charts. Fleets of infected computers mining cryptocurrency for someone else.
174: Pacific Rim
For six years, Sophos fought a secret cyber war against a state-backed hacking group targeting its firewalls. This forced Sophos to drastically change tactics to properly secure their firewalls. Was it ethical? Was it effective?
173: Tarjeteros
In the streets of the Dominican Republic, a new economy thrives in the shadows. It’s built not on tourism or sugar, but on stolen data. They call them tarjeteros. And they are making a lot of money from stolen credit cards.
172: SuperBox
What if there was a device which gave you endless movies and TV shows without ads? Ok great sign me up! In this episode we interview “D3ada55”, who found such a device, but as she gazed into it, she discovered it gazing back at her.