Personal Journey

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Started out my working life as a signwriter and that was a nice challenge for a while but then my mind started to wonder, started to ponder on what I really wanted to be doing, what I am interested in, like what is my passion. I always need something new to listen to and in 2020/2021, twas the age of Ransomware, there was seemingly always another breach making headlines. This peaked my interest and I sort after any kind of podcast that could tell me more about these cyber incidents. We've all seen hackers in the movies, but I wanted to understand the real thing. The real, stripped back, drawn-out, long-form, boring binaries that made up cyber incidents. I wanted to know the who, the what, the where, the when, the why and most importantly the how. With this in mind, it was only a matter of time before I found two Podcasts by the name of Hacked and Darknet Diaries. It really was listening to these that took my fleeting fascination and turned it into a burning passion.

My favourite Darknet diaries episodes:

Ep 29: Stuxnet - Arguably the most sophisticated malware ever used on the biggest stage, International Cyber Warfare. The didn't use one 0day, they didn't use two, they used four 0day bugs. Thats like winning the lottery 4 times... in a row! Madness.

Ep 35: Carbanak - Russian hacking group infiltrate a bank and the financial software that transfers billions daily. To then steal $1,000,000,000 for themselves.

64: The Athens Shadow Games - Vodafone Greece embroiled in an illegal wiretapping scandal while they host the Olympics in 2004. Then a year later the Network Planning manager at Vodafone who discovered the wiretap was found dead a year later. First thought to be suicide but later confirmed to have been murdered. The case remains "Unsolved".