In this episode of Hacker Talk, we are joined by the amazing Hacker, G0t mi1k! G0t mi1k is part of the offensive security team and he also runs the database of vulnerable virtual machines, called Vulnhub.

Topics:

Background

Getting into infosec

Becoming a moderator

First remote shell

Backtrack

Offensive security

Start and background story of Vulnhub.com

Encouraging people to run virtual machines

Hoarding data, hosting virtual machine images

The start of Exploit-db, milw0rm

Curating exploits

Running virtual machines with Proxmox home lab and vmwareVMware

Best practices for protecting internet facing virtual machines

Locking down machines

The rise and fall of port knocking

Single Packet Authorization

Learning security by doing

Understanding the entire circle of it security.

Exploits in Fail2ban

Writing a book as a dyslexic

The importance of changing the pace of Life. Taking time away from the Keyboard.

Working from home

External links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxmox_Virtual_Environment   

https://www.exploit-db.com/

Single Packet Authorization

https://www.vulnhub.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail2ban

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking

https://blog.g0tmi1k.com/

https://twitter.com/g0tmi1k

https://research.securitum.com/fail2ban-remote-code-execution/