About this episode

The episode tells the story of a hacker known as 'USDoD' and his journey through data breaches culminating in a significant hack of National Public Data.

This is the story of the hacker known as "USDoD". When he was young he had a vengeance on the US, and this lead him down a road of continual data breaches, until he hacked into National Public Data, which is when his spree went one step too far. Sponsors Support for this show comes from ThreatLocker® . ThreatLocker® is a Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform that strengthens your infrastructure from the ground up. With ThreatLocker® Allowlisting and Ringfencing™, you gain a more secure approach to blocking exploits of known and unknown vulnerabilities. ThreatLocker® provides Zero Trust control at the kernel level that enables you to allow everything you need and block everything else, including ransomware! Learn more at www.threatlocker.com . This show is sponsored by Maze . Maze uses AI agents to triage and remediate cloud vulnerabilities by figuring out what’s actually exploitable, not just what’s theoretically risky. They remove the noise, prioritize vulns that matter, and manage remediation, so your team stops wasting time on meaningless vulns. Visit MazeHQ.com/darknet for more information. This show is sponsored by Sentry.IO . Sentry wants to help you monitor your…

People in this episode

Host: Jack Rhysider

Topics covered

• hacking
• data breaches
• cybersecurity
• public data
• vulnerability management

Keywords

• hacker
• data breaches
• USDoD
• National Public Data
• cybersecurity
• ThreatLocker
• Maze
• Sentry.IO

Sponsors

ThreatLocker, Maze, Sentry.IO

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: USDoD

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