Month: March 2014

Let’s Social Engineer Max a Better Microphone – Episode 017

EP017 Let’s Social Engineer Max a Better Microphone This was going to be epic. This is the first episode that Max and I have recorded face to face in real meatspace since the beginning of this whole endeavor. We were excited. Some may say a little TOO excited because we didn’t actually listen to what … Read more

Credit Card Compromise – Episode 016

EP016 Credit Card Compromise What started as an experimental episode (see also: Cop out) about “discussing news” ended up as a pretty interesting discussion about the state of the US banking, retail point of sales, & security failings. We had a couple of articles that all dealt with the credit card compromises brought about by … Read more

And BOOM goes the dynamic input – Episode 015

EP015 And BOOM goes the dynamic input! We are drawing ever closer to the 20th episode spectacular! I don’t know if there will in-fact be a spectacle but at this point anything goes. This episode we explain buffer overflow on the heap and stack, format string and off by one vulnerabilities, and what to do … Read more

Let’s talk about stacks baby! – Episode 014

EP014 Let’s talk about stacks baby! We talked about web vulnerabilities and the markup languages, and interpretation of scripts, but those aren’t real programs running on your computer. This time we’re going to get a little more advanced and talk about programming and execution within the computer drawing back to the first few episodes. It’s … Read more