I’m making a note here, epic fail. Yesterday I came home from work to find the HakHouse a wet soggy mess. A pipe burst above the kitchen that flooded the entire downstairs and parts of the upstairs. Everything is wet. Everything is soggy. The place wreaks of fail.
The cause? Read more
Failing isn’t exactly something I look forward to. In fact I tend to avoid it if possible. However I have come to embrace learning from failure rather than fearing it. With innovation comes risk and with risk comes falling on your face. And after three years of podcasting I nearly consider myself a face-planting expert.
As the third season of Hak5 comes to an end and we begin pre-production on the fourth I turn my attention to once again attempting to streamline the production. With every new season comes new challenges and it becomes ever more apparent that the show revolves around the (seemingly rotating) cast and their lives, not the other way around.
This makes it ever more important to Read more

This Saturday night we’ll be hosting an informal live event we’re calling “Cocktails with Hak5″. We will be taking calls via skype so if you have a webcam and want to join us that would be awesome. Join us at Hak5.org all night starting at 10.
Cheers!
Stage6, a high quality streaming video platform and social network, died on February 28, 2008. It was in beta and lived in San Diego, CA.
The cause was funding, employee Tom, aka Spinner said.
Born in 2006 by parent DivX, Inc. Stage6 spent most of its life differentiating itself from similar video sharing sites like YouTube. Stage6 accepted DivX or Xvid files up to 1080p, equivalent to BluRay.
In July 2007 DivX announced Read more
Shmoocon rocked! The con was well organized, entertaining and often brainborkingly insightful. We were fortunate enough to interview some amazing hackers for the show this year too. It was also great to meet so many cool Hak5 fans! Hell yeah! Of course with any con comes crazyness so here are a few of my observations.
The Shmoocon staff really nailed Read more
Hak5 will be broadcasting live from the Podcasters Meetup at Shmoocon this Friday, February 15th at 9:00 PM EST.
We’ll be kicking off with event with shmoo commentary, a rotating panel of special guests and some awesome give aways including SSL certs courtesy of GoDaddy, some FON routers for your hacking enjoyment, Hak5 swag and more. One lucky attendee of the Podcasters Meetup will even be heading home with an ASUS eee PC!
Tune in to Hak5.org Friday night for the live stream or if you’re in the DC area come down and meetup with SploitCast, Pauldotcom, Hak.5, Secthis and many more of your favorite shows and hosts. Read more
Hang in there, we’re giving Hak5.org a much needed makeover. Things might get a little wonky for a bit!
If you run into anything broken please report it to Darren or comment here. Thanks!



