New Year special 2024

Hacker Talk

Hacker Talk 2024 New Year Special

Featuring:

Johnny Xmas, Zagros Bingol and Filip Kalebo.

Topics:

infosec's 9/11 - Target.com breach

Leaking TSA master keys

Starting to work in information security

How the information security space has changed

The hackers we lost along the way

RIP Kevin Mitnick

RIP hacker legend Robert “Ozzie” Osband (Richard Cheshire, The Cheshire Catalyst)

2600

Hackers on planet earth

Crowd strike

Trends we have seen in 2024

AI as a trend

The future of AI

Training models

AI being used to fingerprint user activity

AI in continuous integration pipelines

Code Reviews

Backdoor in tar

Vulnerabilities in the linux kernel

Risks of using opensource

Exploit brokers

OSS Fuzz

Fuzzing

Quantum computers

Cray super computers

Michelle Simmons creates a quantum computer at home

National cryptology museum in Washington dc

40 years since Chaos Computer club, 2600 and Cult of the deadcow

Chaos computer camp

Bornhack

toorcamp

hope conference

Defcon

Cult of the deadcow

Veilid

Bluesky

Decentralized technologies

Hawk tuah

Modern Scams

Web3 and Web2

Privacy

Downfall of telegram

Telegram giving up on privacy

SimpleX chat, signal and imessage

Future

External Links:

https://linktr.ee/johnnyxmas

https://burbsec.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

https://www.metafilter.com/203126/Tar-Trap-Caught

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack-Tic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Camp

https://cultdeadcow.com/

https://2600.com/

https://toorcamp.org/experience/

https://infocondb.org/presenter/richard-cheshire-the-cheshire-catalyst

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1937010/

https://hope.net/memoriam.html

https://veilid.com/

https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2025/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEF_CON

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvglp0xny3eo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/10/from-naptime-to-big-sleep.html

https://google.github.io/oss-fuzz/research/llms/target_generation/

https://www.visitacity.com/en/washington-dc/attractions/the-national-cryptologic-museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRj4ipIEmg0

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/celebrities/hawk-tuah-girl-haliey-welch-vanishes-after-crypto-scam-accusations-has-not-been-seen-online-for-weeks/ar-AA1waGkW

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102637

https://simplex.chat/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike