Claims

Qualified triples from the transcripts. Origin, speaker, and evidence stay attached. These are not independently verified facts.

Masscan AFFECTS network switch

Jack speculates that the excessive Masscan traffic could overwhelm a network switch and cause a denial-of-service effect; the specific affected device is not confirmed.

Uncertain Confidence 78% · Jack Rhysider EP 149 Details

“it could easily overwhelm that next hop”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 44497–44536

Masscan AFFECTS router

Jack speculates that excessive Masscan traffic could overwhelm a router and prevent other traffic from passing; the specific affected device is not confirmed.

Uncertain Confidence 72% · Jack Rhysider EP 149 Details

“if it was a switch or a router”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 44816–44846

Morale Voice ASSOCIATED_WITH Canadian Forces

Morale Voice is described as an internet service for the Canadian Forces, supporting soldiers' calls to their families.

Explicit Confidence 98% · EvilMog EP 149 Details

“the Morale Voice, the internet services, for the Canadian Forces”

EvilMog · offsets 7586–7650

Morale Voice ASSOCIATED_WITH Network Innovations

Network Innovations is described as running the Morale Voice internet services.

Explicit Confidence 98% · EvilMog EP 149 Details

“Network Innovations, and basically what they do is they run the Morale Voice, the internet services”

EvilMog · offsets 7526–7625

EvilMog MEMBER_OF Canadian Forces

The episode says EvilMog joined the military and later worked in support of the Canadian Forces.

Explicit Confidence 91% · Jack Rhysider EP 149 Details

“From there, he joined the military”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 6862–6896

Joe Sarkisian MEMBER_OF Wolf & Company P.C.

Joe says he works for Wolf & Company P.C.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Joe Sarkisian EP 149 Details

“I work for Wolf & Company P.C. out of Boston”

Joe Sarkisian · offsets 24475–24519

EvilMog USES PBX system

EvilMog says the deployed communications setup included a small PBX system.

Explicit Confidence 97% · EvilMog EP 149 Details

“a little, tiny PBX system”

EvilMog · offsets 10257–10282

EvilMog USES BGAN terminal

EvilMog says he deployed a BGAN terminal when bringing a forward operating base online.

Explicit Confidence 98% · EvilMog EP 149 Details

“here’s a tiny, little BGAN terminal”

EvilMog · offsets 9986–10021

Joe Sarkisian USES Hashcat

Joe says his team uses Hashcat to crack captured password hashes.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Joe Sarkisian EP 149 Details

“we use something called Hashcat”

Joe Sarkisian · offsets 28341–28372

EvilMog USES online piracy

EvilMog says he engaged in online piracy when he was young.

Explicit Confidence 99% · EvilMog EP 149 Details

“was doing a fair bit of online piracy”

EvilMog · offsets 4044–4081

credit card number generator USES regular expression

The generator produced numbers that could pass a cheap regular-expression check, although the checksum was often incorrect.

Explicit Confidence 96% · EvilMog EP 149 Details

“It was enough that it could pass a cheap RegEx”

EvilMog · offsets 6527–6573

EvilMog USES com-lockout procedure

EvilMog says he executed the com-lockout procedure after confirmed casualties to prevent premature disclosure.

Explicit Confidence 99% · EvilMog EP 149 Details

“I got the phone call, I hit the buttons”

EvilMog · offsets 16259–16298

“It was known as a com-lockout procedure”

EvilMog · offsets 16143–16182

Hashcat USES brute force

Hashcat is used to try large numbers of candidate passwords against a captured hash, including brute-force combinations.

Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 149 Details

“A common method for cracking passwords is brute force”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 28101–28154

EvilMog USES Tandberg video teleconference unit

EvilMog used Tandberg video teleconference equipment to connect a soldier in Afghanistan with his wife in Toronto.

Explicit Confidence 99% · EvilMog EP 149 Details

“they were running on Tandberg, we were running on Tandberg”

EvilMog · offsets 20379–20437

Joe Sarkisian USES password spraying

Joe describes password-spraying a domain controller using a discovered list of users and common passwords.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Joe Sarkisian EP 149 Details

“start password-spraying against that domain controller”

Joe Sarkisian · offsets 32250–32304

EvilMog USES phreaking

EvilMog says he engaged in phreaking when he was young.

Explicit Confidence 99% · EvilMog EP 149 Details

“online piracy, phreaking, a little bit of other various things”

EvilMog · offsets 4068–4130

Joe Sarkisian USES Raspberry Pi

Joe's firm sent a Raspberry Pi to the client as a remote access device for the assumed-breach penetration test.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Joe Sarkisian EP 149 Details

“a little Raspberry Pi that we send them”

Joe Sarkisian · offsets 24937–24976

Joe Sarkisian USES Nmap

Joe says Nmap is used to scan a network and identify live hosts and open ports.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 149 Details

“A good place to start is Nmap”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 31355–31384

Joe Sarkisian USES Responder

Joe says penetration testers commonly start a network test by running Responder to obtain credentials or hashes.

Explicit Confidence 99% · EvilMog EP 149 Details

“you fire up Responder the second they get on a network”

EvilMog · offsets 20390–20455

EvilMog USES IRC

EvilMog says IRC was his handle's context and that he used the handle there.

Explicit Confidence 98% · EvilMog EP 149 Details

“that was my IRC handle from thence forth”

EvilMog · offsets 3839–3879

Responder USES password hash

Responder captures a username and password hash when it impersonates a requested shared drive.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 149 Details

“it snatches that username and that password hash”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 27451–27499

EvilMog USES SATCOM dish

EvilMog says he set up SATCOM dishes as part of restoring communications.

Explicit Confidence 98% · EvilMog EP 149 Details

“set up the SATCOM dish”

EvilMog · offsets 10173–10195

EvilMog USES credit card number generator

EvilMog says he published bogus credit card number generators on local BBS systems.

Explicit Confidence 99% · EvilMog EP 149 Details

“I was publishing bogus credit card number generators”

EvilMog · offsets 5227–5279

Joe Sarkisian USES Masscan

Joe's junior tester used Masscan for a port scan during a bank penetration test.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Joe Sarkisian EP 149 Details

“I always use Masscan”

Joe Sarkisian · offsets 42476–42496

Joe Sarkisian USES Amazon EC2

Joe's team uses Amazon EC2 instances to obtain cloud computing power for password cracking.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Joe Sarkisian EP 149 Details

“we can spin up Amazon EC2 instances”

Joe Sarkisian · offsets 28876–28911