Ep 19: Operation Aurora

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In 2009, around Christmas time, something terrible was lurking in the network at Google. Google is the most popular website on the Internet. It’s so popular many people just think Google is the Internet. Google hires many of the most talented minds and has been online since the 90s. Hacking into Google is no easy task. There’s a team of security engineers who test and check all the configurations on the site before they go live. And Google has teams of security analysts and technicians watching the network 24/7 for attacks, intrusions, and suspicious activity. Security plays a very vital role at Google, and everything has to have the best protections. But this attack slipped past all that. Hackers had found their way into the network. They compromised numerous systems, burrowed their way into Google’s servers, and were trying to get to data they shouldn’t be allowed to have. Google detected this activity. And realized pretty quickly they were dealing with an attack more sophisticated than anything they’ve ever seen. Podcast recommendation: Twenty Thousand Hertz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In 2009, around Christmas time, something terrible is lurking in the network at Google.
0:09.2	Google is the most popular website on the internet.
0:11.7	It's so popular that many people just think Google is the internet.
0:15.8	Google hires many of the most talented minds and has been online since the 90s.
0:20.2	Hacking into Google is practically impossible.
0:22.4	There's a team of security engineers who test and check all the configurations of the
0:26.4	site before they go live.
0:28.4	And Google has teams of security analysts and technicians watching the network 24-7 for
0:33.2	attacks, intrusions, and suspicious activity.
0:38.4	Security plays a vital role at Google, and everything has to have the best protections.
0:43.1	But this attack slipped past all that.
0:46.0	Hackers had found a way into the network that compromised numerous systems and borrowed
0:50.3	their way deep into Google servers, and were trying to get data that they shouldn't
0:54.2	be allowed to have.
0:56.1	Google detected this activity, and realized pretty quickly they were dealing with an
1:00.1	attack more sophisticated than anything they've ever seen.
1:07.8	These are true stories from the dark side of the internet.
1:13.8	I'm Jack Recyder.
1:17.2	This is Darknet Diaries.
1:35.3	Support for the show comes from CrowdSec, an open source collaborative and security
1:39.3	suite.
1:40.3	When someone gets attacked from a specific IP address, wouldn't it be nice if your network
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