A Small Town Hack Became a Secret Service Forensics Investigation🎙Ep. 96 The Police Station Incident

That is the most insane network admin, admin service and complete lack of common sense security procedures. It just fell to that one guy who knew a little. Then the IT company was just being lazy and borderline negligent in not fixing the remote login admin.

Bro its 1am. Love hate thing going here. Need to be asleep 3 hrs ago. But new episode..... can call in sick.

I love it when I can't find anything on YouTube and one of these gets posted.

Sounds like a typical government network here in Australia- just awful and a huge waste of tax payers dollars

my favourite example of cosmic rays affecting tech is when super mario 64 speedrunners found a video of a guy teleporting towards the end of the level by pure accident and they spent a lot of time and effort trying to figure out what had happened but with no luck and in the end they chalked it up to background radiation changing one of the bits that controlled the character's position in the map

Almost choked on my coffee when she said RDP was externally accessible. Also lucky that this was a threat actor and not a hacking team. They could've done a lot more damage.

Don't know anything about computers but I'm loving this podcast. Found you a few weeks ago and been hooked since

Has the Secret Service gotten around to figuring out who left the coke at the White House? That seems like an easy one. It being one of the most "Secure" properties on Earth and all.

9:00 Holy shit. If I lost 10 months worth of customer data for an organisation as important as a police station I would be fired on the spot. That is absolutely astounding to me how incompetent the IT crew at the station must've been to not notice their backups weren't verifiable for almost an entire year.....

I can't wait until we have our own interview together. I have been listening to your content for so long now and I'm getting very excited about turning on the lights to this dark net of ours. They don't know where they messed up but this will be set as an example. Thank you for all the work you've done and I commend you

I don’t know much about computers. But I love this podcast so much!

Anyone else physically facepalm around 43:00... smh

I started working for a nonprofit, I was hired to do basic IT work. Since I'm the only one there working in IT I run the department. Somehow became their HIPAA security officer and have to work with the IT company they outsourced their IT to. It's been a ton of work. I still haven't found all of the machines they use. Most of them are outdated. I have no idea how long the servers have been up and running. Most of their stuff is outdated. Security is horrible. It's been a nightmare trying to get everything updated while also dealing with previous incidents with ransomware. Their previous IT employees had no idea what they were doing. I mean the old IT manager left his password in the desk. His laptop had kali linux installed on it for some reason. I have no idea what he was even doing. From his documents I gathered that he had no IT certifications.

I love this SETUP! STORY TIME: Cosmic rays flipping bits is a well-known, if poorly understood phenomenon. Well known by a pretty small portion of the population, poorly understood by a comparatively much larger segment of the population, in the sense that they've even heard of it at all. Atop all of us, exist an exceedingly rarified group of highly educated people with double, triple, and cross-degreed graduate level and multi decade field trained understanding of math, physics, and statistics. People who eat bowls of stats for breakfast. The precognosticators. These folks understand the effects of cosmic rays. They don't have to contemplate the rays' mysterious origins to understand that cosmic rays exist, that they cause damage, that they can even change the results of elections that use strictly voting software without paper ballots. A comic ray can flip a single bit, a single bit can change a vote, and a vote can change an election. It's trivial to map the existence of cosmic rays because of their effects and the damage they do. In fact, Victor Hess proved their existence using BALLOONS in 1912, for which he earned a Nobel Prize in 1936. Big cool balloons, not party balloons, but still, flippin' BALLOONS, 111 YEARS AGO, proved the existence of the cosmic pew-pew, pew-pew, pew-pew-pew! Proving the existence of these scary little scooters is different from directly measuring them, which we've been able to do since the first near-earth decaying-orbit satellites of the 1950s. We are unable to see lots of things with our un-assisted eyes, but we can better understand the beautiful entropies and complexities of this amazing universe with astonishingly straightforward tools. The fragility of a bit in computing is such that had we not yet detected cosmic rays prior to the Router, a Router's failure is sufficiently good at detecting their existence. Quite likely, it would not have been long before someone at a router manufacturer would have collected a Nobel Prize!

This was a very fascinating story!! One of my favorites so far and would love to hear more from her!! She's a Badasss

Jack, if you havn't seen Veritasiums video "the universe is hostile to computers" its a must watch!

It's 3 pm somewhere. Thanks, Jack!

I love telling people about bit flips. I love space and tech, so it's fun to talk about how things that happen so far away can mess with our equipment on Earth

OOO , JACK !! you forgot to ask what version of windows !! !! !! Bet is was SVR 2001 or similar LOL ... was it NT ? omg

Cosmic rays can crash a computer by changing a 1 to a 0 but I can’t blame my bad mood on the current astrological sign. Darn 😅