This Episode looks at this weeks hacker news and discusses how to stay anonymous on the internet.

 

 CrackerCast Episode 09 - Anonymous [23:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Downloads 351

This Episode looks at this weeks hacker news and discusses what Backtrack is and its new release, Backtrack 4.

 

 CrackerCast Episode 08 - BackTrack 4 [26:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Downloads 351

Today I was Googling the word “hacker” and came across a link to Google on first page. After clicking on the link I was really surprised to find the Google front page with every word in leet speak. Don’t believe me? Check it out:

There’s no better way to stay motivated and to keep learning new things then by attending conferences. At these hacker conferences, you will meet tons of likeminded people that are probably much smarter than you that you can leach off. Believe it or not, there is always someone smarter then you. That someone is me. No, not really, but you get the point. There’s always something you can learn from someone else and if you think that you are the hottest shit around, someone needs to spank that mindset out of you, or you will never reach your potential.

Today I finished reading the book title: The Watchman – The Twisted Life And Crimes Of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen. It was such a great book I finished it in just two days, and that’s pretty good for me since I don’t like to read for long periods of time.

Last week, I listed a whole bunch of informative podcasts. Today, I’ll be listing a few of the best ongoing security / hacker video podcasts along with a couple of dead ones that are still worth checking out.

We have finally released the first issue of the MrCracker.com Newsletter. If you haven’t already subscribed to it, you can do so on the right hand side of this page. As of right now, the table of contents of the newsletter is the following:

As a hacker, you are constantly learning new things and staying up to date in the scene. But sometimes you can’t due to your daily responsibilities like driving places, mowing the lawn, shoveling, cleaning around the house and sitting on the toilet. Well now you still CAN with podcasts. Pump ‘em into your iPod, Zune or phone, plug in your earphones and you have a constant stream of knowledge being pumped into your head while you do your daily chores/responsibilities. Multitasking ftw! Below I have put together a list of the best security/hacking podcasts out there today. (IMO)

Though published in 1992, and released as a freeware, electronic book (eBook) in 1994, The Hacker Crackdown, by Bruce Sterling, offers a unique and colorful portrait of the nature of “cyberspace” in the early 1990s, and the nature of “computer crime” at that time. The events that Sterling discusses occur on the cusp of the mass popularity of the Internet, which arguably achieved critical mass in late 1994. It also encapsulates a moment in the information age revolution when “cyberspace” morphed from the realm of telephone modems and BBS’ into the Internet and the World Wide Web.

Where can you hack military organizations and massive businesses, empty their bank accounts and infect their systems without ever worrying about getting caught? If you didn’t guess the virtual world of games, then you need to be smacked because it says it in the title! I went out and got some of the many hacker games and wrote up reviews fo’yu fo’ fwee.