Spaz tells us about his early days dabbling in carding, socially engineering various ISPs, and working with affiliate networks.Guest: SpazHost: Steve StonebrakerAudio Editor: Sam FoxCoverArt: Created by Broast (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://broast.org⁠⁠⁠⁠

NailZ - AOL IRC Trojan, LuciferX

27 days ago 54m 36s

NailZ tells us about Codeine's plan to take over AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve. Planting trojan's on AOL employee machines and using them to proxy FDO and ATOM to manipulate Merlin and cause chaos on AOL. Also we talk about why he created Lucife

Nise - AOL InstaKiss Phishing, PW Cracking, Scrollers

Apr 28th, 2024 53m 16s

Nise tells us about cracking, scrollers, phishing, account takeovers, and ruining some people's lives. Later he tells us about how AOL led to him finding his passion for marketing and a book he has been writing.Guest: Nise (⁠https://appliedcur

Sim114 - AOL UK, Love for FDO Forms

Oct 26th, 2023 1h 3m

Sam tells us about his experience using AOL UK while coming of age in England. His fascination with visual art began here and he fell in love with FDO (Form Definition Operator) generated content. We then nerd out on how exactly cartoon episode

Broast - Botnet Cracker, Exploits, Digital Gangster

Jul 30th, 2023 49m 5s

Broast tells us about writing password stealers, password crackers, deploying botnets, finding exploits, and hacking Digital Gangster and other forums.Guest: BroastHost: Steve StonebrakerCoverArt: Created by Broast (⁠⁠⁠https://broast.org⁠⁠⁠

Pen - Password Stealer Detector, Pen Tools

Jul 29th, 2023 24m 5s

Pen tells us about Pen Tools, a password stealer detector he wrote, user interfaces, the warez scene and more. We jump around a bit in this episode (between AOL and not AOL). Also, unfortunately the interview was cut short.Guest: PenHost: St

Single - NV2, Carding, Swatting

Apr 12th, 2023 44m 53s

Single talks about how the AOL hacking group NV2 formed, carding, and when the group swatted their way to the top.Guest: SingleHost: Steve StonebrakerCoverArt: Created by Broast (⁠https://broast.org⁠), original idea by LampGold.--SingleFo

AOL History from the people that lived it (part3) - Erci Stern

Oct 5th, 2022 1h 13m

Erci Stern (from parts one and two) tells us her origin story. We review in depth how she battled users that were uploading Warez on a customer's Anonymous FTP site and also hear a funny story about Slingo. She takes us through her entire car

AOL History from the people that lived it (part2) - Craig, Jan, Bryan, Erci

Oct 3rd, 2022 1h 8m

Staff from 1987-2007 (with over 35 years combined experience) talk about their experience while working at AOL. You will hear about the Eworld, Tandylink, Commodore 64, Telnet, RAINMAN, Jay Levitt, Hackers, Q-Guides, scalability issues, and mo

AOL History from the people that lived it (part1) - Craig, Jan, Bryan, Erci

Aug 1st, 2022 1h 15m

Staff from 1987-2007 (with over 35 years combined experience) talk about their experience while working at AOL. You will hear about the Quantum Link hacker, Jenny C, the "Fives" hack, outages, how multiple departments were formed, the Habitat

Surf Kahuna (part 2) - More on AOL virus guy, Steve and Ryan nerd out on ransomware and Advanced Persistent Threats

Jul 28th, 2022 1h 14m

Surf Kahuna (Ryan Chapman) finishes his origin story and what he learned from it. Then Steve and Ryan talk espionage, multiple Advanced Persistent Threats, retro gaming, password spraying, ransomware, and what has helped Ryan be successful in

Surf Kahuna (part 1) - Origin story of a Digital Forensic Incident Responder (DFIR)

Jul 25th, 2022 58m 6s

Surf Kahuna (Ryan Chapman) shares his origin story about a series of events that occurred on AOL that rocked his world and led him down the path of digital forensics.Guest: Surf Kahuna/Mac Diablo (Ryan Chapman)Host: Steve StonebrakerCoverAr

hiwind - Developer for life, author of hiwind.bas

Jul 22nd, 2022 1h 12m

hiwind starting programming at a very early age, became addicted to it, and somehow found a way to keep programming and being on AOL without ever having a computer of his own until his first job. His passion is palpable! Be sure to check out

keeb - Name collectors, keeb.bas, spamming, chat coms, docker origin story

Jul 20th, 2022 1h 5m

Chat with @keeb about his keeb.bas file, his first phishing website, creating chat coms in any text field, high school programming, and his career in business development. This lead to working at Docker, Rancher Labs, at KentikGuest: keebHos

z0ne - Chatroom Laggers, Arrested, Spamming, Nerdcore, opsec44

Jun 26th, 2022 50m 25s

z0ne is our first return guest! Topics: Room laggers (cloners), room takeovers, Getting arrested. Spamming for signups, Spin-off accounts, chat room monitoring MP3 players, cracking, AIM warning, Nerdcore, child exploitation material takedowns

PoSsE4uS (part2) - The Dark Knight

Jun 25th, 2022 23m 21s

We cover the future of ReAOL, using different versions of the AOL client, how you can help the project, thank you list (to people that helped with the project), and depression.Guest: PoSsE4uSHost: Steve StonebrakerShow Notes: https://aolunde

tagz and shellz - Getting swatted, planting trojans, and the death of AOL

Jun 20th, 2022 1h 23m

Chat with tagz and shellz about being a noob, getting Sub7’d, the death of AOL, rap battles, deltrees, a credit card trojan, exploits, swatting, and silence the blind hackerGuests: tagz and shellz Host: Steve Stonebraker--AOL Underground Po

PoSsE4uS (part1) - ReAOL Begins

Jun 18th, 2022 32m 19s

PoSsE4uS reveals his origin story and the genesis of the ReAOL projectGuest: PoSsE4uSHost: Steve StonebrakerShow Notes: https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/posse4us/Shout out: @pad for notifying the masses about the ReAOL projectUse

cam0 (part3) - Twitter Account Takeovers

Jun 10th, 2022 38m 14s

cam0 explains how he took over Burger King and Jeep's twitter accountsShow Notes: https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/cam0/Guest: cam0Host: Steve StonebrakerAudio and Sound: Podcast edited and mastered by Charlie Clark, https://www.fi

cam0 (part2) - Paris Hilton hack, Prison, Police Dept hack

Jun 10th, 2022 57m 8s

cam0 talks about how he hacked Paris Hilton's T-Mobile Sidekick, prison, and hacking the police departmentShow Notes: https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/cam0/Guest: cam0Host: Steve StonebrakerAudio and Sound: Podcast edited and maste

cam0 (part1) - Merlin, Ewoks, and botnets

Jun 9th, 2022 53m 37s

cam0 talks about how he had socially engineered AOL employees, hacked Merlin, deployed trojans, ran botnets, and gained access to the Ewoks private key Show Notes: https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/cam0/Guest: cam0Host: Steve Stoneb

Emerge - Cracking Conference Calls, a Startup, Web3, NFTs

May 27th, 2022 1h 6m

Emerge tells us about when he cracked AOL conference calls and pranked called some folks. Later he talks about his startup, web3, and the crazy land of NFTs.Show Notes: https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/emerge/Guest: EmergeHost: St

YTCracker -Spamming, Trojans, and Pwning AOL

May 23rd, 2022 1h 9m

YTCracker takes AOL hacking to a whole new level. Phishing employees, pwning the Customer Records Information System (CRIS), multi-threaded spamming via FDO, packet manipulation, and creating chatbots to lure lamers to his pay per click sites.

Tau

May 10th, 2022 52m 28s

Tau, co-creator of the original aol-files.com takes us down memory lane. We hear about his first programs, why he started aol-files.com, how it got shutdown/renamed, and what he is up to now. We also spend quite a bit of time discussing Form