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Season 3 Episode 10 — Disaster Finale

Darren — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:05:36 +0000

In this episode Darren tours what’s left of the Hakhouse and shares a emergency shutdown tip. That’s pretty much it. Life hit hard and we’re working at getting back on track. Send us some good mojo. (more…)

Disaster at the HakHouse

Darren — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:36:27 +0000

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? (more…)

Hak5 production. A story of trial, error and learning at the speed of failure.

Darren — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:09:35 +0000

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 (more…)

Cocktails with Hak5, live this Saturday night

Darren — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:57:37 +0000

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!

Season 3 Episode 9

Darren — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:12:46 +0000

In this episode Matt uses PowerGUI to command the new Windows PowerShell, Chris Gerling demonstrates Helix, an open source forensics toolkit and Darren builds a simple web mashup using Yahoo Pipes. Plus haksnacks including router passwords, uninterrupted file copying, password strength auditing, and Firefox keyword shortcuts.

Oh yeah and some bloopers. A lot of bloopers. Actually, pretty much most of the episode is one ongoing blooper. We’re kicking it oldschool Hak5 style. Call it senioritis if you will :).
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Why hack when you could save monkeys?

Darren — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:33:03 +0000

Save the monkey, save the world.

Season 3 Episode 8 — Shmoocon Special

Darren — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:28:45 +0000

In this episode we head to Washington DC for Shmoocon, the only security conference with foam projectiles. We converse with Renderman about hacking and con-going. Scott Moulton provides insight on recovery and forensics with solid state disks. Mati Aharoni aka Muts tells us all about Backtrack and offensive-security. Dan Griffin debuts some new security tools for Vista. David Hulton aka H1kari talks about his research intercepting and cracking GSM traffic. And Chris Compton & Co bring us the latest from Hack or Halo

Plus this month’s trivia and a contest sure to get your lolz on. (more…)

Farewell Stage6

Darren — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:47:27 +0000

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 (more…)

Hak5Live 011 — Shmoocon

Darren — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:07:36 +0000

After nearly 40 hours of published content we finally boarded the failbus. In the rush to setup the show was recorded without audio. So in the spirit of Hak5 live the editor got drunk and subtitled nearly 4 minutes of the episode in lolspeak. If you’re not a fan of ICHC you probably won’t find this funny. Otherwise grab a cocktail and enjoy this 24 MB masterpiece. (more…)

Post Shmoocon thoughts

Darren — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:06:24 +0000

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 (more…)

Hak5Live 009 — Semiformal Train Wreck

Darren — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:01:01 +0000

I was going to post some spiel warning you that this episode is another infamous Hak5Live train wreck but then I realized, thats what Hak5Live IS. And once I got over that I realized that for what it is the show is really enjoyable. So aside from a couple of hiccups and uncensored f-bombs I give you Hak5Live009 in its raw and uncut glory.

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