Podcast Episodes

The McDonald’s Hiring Robot Hack

We start with the AI hiring chatbot used by McDonald’s, and the vulnerability hiding beneath the conversation. What looked like some janky job application exchanges led two security researchers, I…

Published on 5 months ago

BONUS: July Chatty Chat

Just for fun: an actual no script, no plan, hot mic blather-athon. If you crave a nice structured story with lots of research, give the ep we dropped a few days ago about the Texas Lottery Courier Ap…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

The Texas Lottery Courier App Scandal

A London syndicate used a phone app to buy nearly every combination in the Texas Lottery—and walked away with a $95 million jackpot. In this episode, we dig into how that happened, what it reveals ab…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Danabot: The Malware Operation That infected Itself

In this episode: the inside story of Danabot, the malware-as-a-service platform that thrived in the shadows for nearly a decade—until a critical mistake exposed its creators. Just last week, U.S. pr…

Published on 6 months ago

Throwback: The Malware Historian

Today malware is all nation state actors and organized crime, but in the beginning it was more about making a statement. Dan is a malware historian. He finds old hardware and viruses, runs them, and …

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Hotline Hacked Vol. 13

Schools out for summer. Another collection of computer confessions and strange tales of technology.

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Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

The Lorebook Cult

Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of exploitation, self-harm, and abuse. Listener discretion is advised.

A network called 764 has turned abuse into currency. It spread through Disc…

Published on 7 months ago

The 4chan Hack

We discuss a schism years in the making — the infamous imageboard 4chan gets hacked by its own offshoot, Soyjak.party, in a breach that exposed moderator identities, source code, and shattered the my…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Hotline Hacked Vol. 12

A tech worker stumbles upon mass fraud and brings receipts, a flag football prank goes very right, a teenager uses Net Send and gets in trouble — but not as much as the person they're in trouble with…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

WebcamGate

In 2009, a Pennsylvania high school accused sophomore Blake Robbins of dealing drugs—based on a photo secretly taken through his school-issued laptop. The image, captured without his knowledge in his…

Published on 8 months ago