Series synopsis
Hak.5 is an American news television series that premiered on August 5, 2005.
Premise
No premise has been added yet.
Episodes
This series spans 16 seasons with 357 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 5 | ||
| Season 1 | 10 | August 5, 2005 | May 5, 2006 |
| Season 2 | 10 | August 5, 2006 | May 5, 2007 |
| Season 3 | 11 | August 5, 2007 | August 4, 2008 |
| Season 4 | 27 | September 7, 2008 | February 18, 2009 |
| Season 5 | 26 | February 18, 2009 | July 29, 2009 |
| Season 6 | 26 | August 18, 2009 | February 9, 2010 |
| Season 7 | 26 | February 17, 2010 | August 19, 2010 |
| Season 8 | 26 | August 25, 2010 | February 16, 2011 |
| Season 9 | 26 | February 24, 2011 | August 18, 2011 |
| Season 10 | 67 | August 25, 2011 | February 14, 2012 |
| Season 11 | 26 | February 21, 2012 | August 14, 2012 |
| Season 12 | 25 | August 21, 2012 | February 6, 2013 |
| Season 14 | 2 | February 19, 2013 | February 26, 2013 |
| Season 21 | 1 | February 1, 2017 | |
| Season 80 | 43 | January 7, 2011 | January 11, 2013 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
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| 1 |
Episode 3.5 Darren and Harrison explore ways to keep your machine safe by running insecure code in virtual machines, then invoke a Blue Screen of Death on demand. |
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| 2 |
Episode 4.5 In this .5 release, Wess does some research and builds a steady-cam for $13.50. Hooray for no more motion sickness! |
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| 3 |
Episode 8.5 Just for fun. Hope you get it, if not go watch Pure Pwnage. |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Episode 1 In this pilot episode of Hak.5 we test to see if the speed at which you war drive affects your ability to pick up access points. We also show you how to control your lights from an Internet enabled cell phone, kill remote windows processes, modify the gamecube to enable DVD playback, and custom paint your PC case. Plus a Windows XP installation tip everyone should know. |
August 5, 2005 |
| 2 |
Episode 2 n this episode of Hak.5 we show you how to install a 12-volt accessory outlet in your case, add a webcam to the light script, keep your taskbar clean with a free utility, manage the Windows XP firewall from the command line, create a leet external hard drive case, and install a unix-like disk image over a network. Plus a special interview with an Internet Icon. |
September 5, 2005 |
| 3 |
Episode 3 In this episode of Hak.5 the crew explores ways to hack RSS into your morning routine with a custom alarm clock and newspaper. Harrison makes us all a little more paranoid about network security with an ARP Cache Poisoning overview, then takes it to the streets. Wess gives the case a break and takes on the IBM Model M beast-keyboard while Alli goes retro with a classic arcade game review. All this plus a flaming-case-mod and a flame-proof |
October 5, 2005 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Episode 1 In this episode Darren shows us how to unite Windows, Mac, and Linux desktops with Synergy. Wess builds an automatic LED lamp, while Limin Li joins us to show off the setup of the digital DJ. Plus Interviews with Harrison Holland of Sploitcast and Jason Davis of MD5Lookup at the sixth Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York. And as always details on this month’s LAN party, trivia, poll, and geeky sketches. |
August 5, 2006 |
| 2 |
Episode 2 In this episode Darren builds a Network Attached Storage server for our home network using a spare PC, a compact flash card, and some BSD. Paul brings us Doom on the iPod using Linux and some geeky voodoo. Wess crafts a unique LED liquor cabinet for about a hundred bucks. And Darren puts on his slightly darker than gray hat with a USB key that owns Windows machines in a matter of seconds (with a little prevention thrown in for good measure). Plus this month’s trivia, poll, & LAN party details from the lovely and talented Alli. |
September 5, 2006 |
| 3 |
Episode 3 In this episode Darren shows us a USB key, dubbed the USB Hacksaw, that instantly and silently installs on target Windows 2000 or higher computers with guest or higher privledges which will monitor USB ports for flash drives and automatically download their contents for silent archival and email. Paul brings us an Asterisk setup for our home using a hacked Linksys NSLU2 and some inexpensive SIP phones. TheSoftwareJedi from AnAppADay.com joins us to talk about his project and software. And Wess heads to Toronto and meets with Andrew Barrow to see a Nintendo Power Glove, Speak & Spell, MIDI mashup. Plus this month’s trivia, poll, & LAN party details from the lovely and talented Alli. |
October 6, 2006 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Episode 1 In this season premiere episode of Hak5 Wess brings us an underwater camera enclosure mod, Alli shows us how to make our own nifty Photoshop brushes, and Darren gets his hack on with some cracked USB Wi-Fi for packet-sniffing goodness. Plus this month’s Trivia, LAN Party, and the latest in the EvilServer saga. |
August 5, 2007 |
| 2 |
Episode 2 In this episode Wess mods the Linksys WRT54G wireless router and adds Power-over-Ethernet functionality. Darren checks out Anywhere.FM which pretty much lives up to its name. And our pal Mubix joins us via Skype for a paranoia inducing look at anonymous enumeration tools online. Plus this month’s Trivia, LAN Party, and of course, the saga continues. |
September 5, 2007 |
| 3 |
Episode 3 — 1984 Special In this episode Darren flies solo and heads over to Springfield Missouri to uncover a diamond in the rough. The 1984 Arcade is home to over 50 restored classics and an atmosphere so retro you’ll be tempted to break out the walkman and power-level through Defender. |
October 5, 2007 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
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| 1 |
Wi-Fi Pineapples In this season premiere episode of Hak5 Mubix joins us to talk about what’s new in Maltego, an open source forensics and intelligence gathering tool. Shannon rocks out with Audio surf, and Darren heads downtown to the coffee shop to own a wireless network with a pineapple. Grab some hax0rflakes ’cause the bricks are gone and we’re back! |
September 7, 2008 |
| 2 |
Spicy Reverse Engineering In this episode of Hak5 Matt shows us how to map our networks with Spiceworks, an open source infrastructure mapping tool. Chris Gerling breaks down reverse engineering, Shannon talks about OpenDNS, and Christine has a Windows utility for everyone running multiple monitors. |
September 10, 2008 |
| 3 |
Reverse Engineering, Graphical Firewall Configuration, Inside the pineapple: Jasager demo, and Remember the BBS? Reverse Engineering in practice. Configuring Cisco, IPTables and other firewalls with a sweet graphical utility. A little nostalgia with the Hak5 BBS and cracking open the Pineapple, a demo of Jasager. |
September 17, 2008 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
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| 1 |
Won’t you be my neighbor? Getting to know your neighbors — Darren takes a trip around your network with nmap, THE open source network security scanner. Want to obscure your OS fingerprint? Make a Windows Box show up as a printer? Shannon’s got just the thing. And Matt takes a first look at the Napera N24 smart network switch / security appliance. All that and more on this Hak5 Season 5 Premiere! |
February 18, 2009 |
| 2 |
Linux RC Rovers, PHP Compiled and Napera Darren’s got a soldering iron and knows how to use it. In this episode we kick off the HakHouse Rover project and web enable an inexpensive RC Tank using a Phidget USB Interface Kit. Then Jody Franklin joins us to talk about compiling PHP and using Netsh to renumber IP addresses in Windows. And Matt has a follow up to your questions about Napera. Plus our weekly trivia, LAN Party and a ton of fun. |
February 25, 2009 |
| 3 |
Build a free VoIP PBX in under 10 minutes – Start programming a USB Dev Board for less than $20 Building a free voice over IP phone system was never easier. Matt shows us how to setup a 3CX PBX in under 10 minutes. Ever wanted to program a development board? Darren’s gets started with a USB based kit for under 20 bucks. And Ron Gula, CEO and CTO of Tenable Network Security joins us to talk about Nessus, PVS and more. |
March 4, 2009 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
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| 1 |
New Digs Engineering a mid size office network from the ground up. Matt shares with us tips on switch stacking and more. Palm centro security? Shannon shows us how to bypass SIM lockout. And Darren’s getting his grub2 on without borking his ubuntu box. All that and more on this episode of Hak5. |
August 18, 2009 |
| 2 |
Grub2 and VM-fu Managing ESX(i) with a cross platform adobe air application. Matt reviews BlueBear’s Kodiak. Want to boot ISO files directly from USB? Darren explores the options with Grub Legacy and Grub2, plus tweaks for Persistent installations, nested menus, notes and more. |
August 25, 2009 |
| 3 |
Network Planning, Kindle Tricks and a Linux Network Install Tool This week Matt continues his series on IT Infrastructure planning. Shannon has a bundle of Kindle tricks, and Darren’s amped about a USB boot key that network insalls popular Linux distros. |
September 1, 2009 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
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| 1 |
Botnet Command & Control and Man-in-the-Middle detection Following our 2010 Shmoocon special we're joined in studio by security expert and programmer extraordinaire Robin Wood to talk about his proof of concept botnet command and control tool KreiosC2. We also discuss tools for detecting traditional Man-in-the-Middle attacks. And stay tuned for a special season seven announcement. |
February 17, 2010 |
| 2 |
DHCP Exhaustion and DNS Man-in-the-Middle Attacks With a mixture of in-studio and on location in Dublin this week we're talking to Robin Wood about DHCP Exhaustion and DNS Man-in-the-Middle attacks, talking Metasploit modules and a Pineapple Monkey half-breed. |
February 23, 2010 |
| 3 |
Free Application Sandbox Challenge and Top Back from Britain and bouncing off the walls Darren pits three ancient Internet Explorers against each other to see which free application sandbox can save you from yourself. Shannon joins us from Missouri for her take on the top "ultra" Windows software, and Paul... Well, Paul's tearing down the set. |
March 2, 2010 |
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| 1 |
Android App Inventor, Building a Boxee Box, Ubuntu 10.10 Hak5 kicks off another season with a plethora of projects. Darren gets his code on with Google's new App Inventor for Android - a spiffy new web based drag-and-drop WYSIWYG development environment. Jason joins us for a little homebrew Boxee machine building and app development, and Shannon's around for a little Ubuntu 10.10 lovin' |
August 25, 2010 |
| 2 |
Android App Inventor & Boxee Development Part 2, and SDExplorer Following up from last week Darren is diving deeper into the Android App Inventor while Jason has you building the Boxee equivalent to Hello World -- which is actually quite useful! Then Shannon has just the tool to make those 25 gigs of free Skydrive storage useful. |
August 30, 2010 |
| 3 |
Ampache, Boxee and Wireless Virtual Machines Darren checks out Ampache, a powerful open source streaming media solution perfect for your Linux home server. Jason answers your Boxee questions and Shannon joins the round table for a discussion on jailbreaking and USB wireless adapters for virtual machines. |
September 3, 2010 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
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| 1 |
Multiplexing screens, Nexpose at RSA, Packet Sniffers and File Automation Season 9 Premieres with the return of Shannon "Snubs" Morse and Paul "the camera guy" Tobias. We kick around the hacker headlines, get the low-down on Nexpose from Rapid7 at RSA, automate file mangement in windows, multiplex some screen sessions, capture packets from the command line and a lot more. |
February 24, 2011 |
| 2 |
Extracting files from packet captures, brute forcing stenography, packet sniffing goodness and more from RSA 2011 Season 9 continues with the results from last weekend's Crack the Code Challenge as well as a walkthrough on how participants were able to complete the challenge using packet analysis, file reconstruction, stenagrophy and brute force. Plus encrypted USB drives with centralized management and more from the RSA 2011 conference. |
March 2, 2011 |
| 3 |
Building a photo frame computer case, your iPhone jailbroken picks, Multi-monitor PC setups… Someone let Darren at the power tools again! Forget the case window, his latest creation includes a set of shadow box photo frames modded into a computer case perfect for showing off that sexy hardware. Shannon has rounded up your picks for webcam motion detection and iOS jailbroken apps. Plus answers to your questions regarding multi-monitor PC setups and much more! |
March 9, 2011 |
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| 1 |
DEFCON 19 Part 2 – Moxie on Authenticity and Hackers for Charity In this DEFCON 19 episode of Hak5, Darren speaks with on the future of authenticity and Johnny Long on the latest at Hackers For Charity. |
August 25, 2011 |
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Quadshot: Open Source Autopilot Programming, PinguyOS and Hacker Headlines Remix Piotr from the Quadshot project to talks with Darren about their unique autopilot hardware, the LISA. Shannon shares her thoughts on the easy-to-use Linux distro PinguyOS. And Dale Chase takes the mic for a little Hacker Headlines Remix. |
August 31, 2011 |
| 3 |
14 Channel WiFi Sniffing Case Mod and the Plop Bootloader In this epic episode of Hak5 we present our case mod as part of the Hak5 / Ben Heck Case Mod Challenge. Our hacked up wearable computer is capable of sniffing all 14 WiFi channels at once as well as providing Internets via a WiFi Pineapple mk3 dev board. Then Shannon has just the trick for booting VMs from USB drives with a sweet bootloader ISO. All that and more this time on Hak5! |
September 8, 2011 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
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| 1 |
Source Code, Ponies and Cyborgs! Is wearable computing a practical reality? Darren speaks with Greg Priest-Dorman, a fellow geek who's been building and wearing the tech for 12 years. Plus open source gaming that involves Ponies! |
February 21, 2012 |
| 2 |
Backtrack 5 Root Encryption and Ubuntu 12.04 - Precise Pangolin First Look! Ubuntu 12.04 is around the corner and we have a first look at its new Heads-Up display. Then Eighty of Dual Core joins us to setup Backtrack 5 with root encryption. Plus Ubuntu on Android? |
February 28, 2012 |
| 3 |
The Internet in a Box, a Yubikey You Could Swallow, and Phone Phreaking from RSA 2012 This time on the show, the internet in a box! Darren talks to Kyle Flaherty from Breaking Point about a million dollar rack, Stina Ehrensvärd of Yubico demos an NFC enabled Yubikey prototype and a one-time password key so small you could accidentally swallow it, and more! |
March 6, 2012 |
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| 1 |
RFID Injection and Laser Hands at Toorcamp 2012 Darren travels to the North Western most corner of the continental US for Toorcamp -- an epic Hacker Camp hosting the most some of the nations most creative hackers, makers, movers and shakers. |
August 21, 2012 |
| 2 |
Mapping with Balloons, Building a GSM Network with Shadytel and Hacker Pants This time on the show we continue coverage of Toorcamp 2012 - The American Hacker Camp. Darren speaks with Mathew L of Public Laboratory about Balloon mapping. Then Shadytel shares their experience building a certified experimental GSM network. Plus why do hacker's pants weigh 3 pounds? Ronin of HackFromACave explains. |
August 28, 2012 |
| 3 |
Introduction to Packet Radio and Arduino Controlled LED Strips This time on the show we continue coverage of Toorcamp 2012 - the American Hacker Camp. This time Darren speaks with Rob Eby about packet radio as an extension of the Internet. Plus what could be better than flexible individually addressable RGB LED strips? %1 controlled by Arduino! All that and more! |
September 5, 2012 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
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| 1 |
In Dublin Making Captive Portals, Terrible Privacy Practices, and Faster Wireless Today on the show, testing a new Wireless 802.11AC router, captive portals on a WiFi Pineapple, and what to do when your school has terrible privacy practices. |
February 19, 2013 |
| 2 |
At the FrancoSwiss Border Visiting CERN, Steam on Linux, and Old School Computers Today on the show, Darren is out still Hacking across Europe by visiting CERN and Steam games on Linux the easy way. All that and more! |
February 26, 2013 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
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| 22 |
Advanced Password Recovery with Hashcat Darren chats with EvilMog (Team Hashcat) about Hashcat, the world's fastest and most advanced password recovery tool. |
February 1, 2017 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
CES 2011 - Whoa! Holographic 3D Displays Darren checks out some wicked 3D holographic displays from Innovision |
January 7, 2011 |
| 2 | CES 2011 - Xi3's super TINY computer cluster | January 7, 2011 |
| 3 | CES 2011 - Cheap Pico Projectors from Optoma | January 7, 2011 |
Production
Release
| First aired | August 5, 2005 |
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| Last aired | February 1, 2017 |
| Status | Returning Series |