Mastodawn

A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools

https://andreafortuna.org/2026/05/13/amarcord/

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Back in my day we hacked with style: a sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s tools

A nostalgic and slightly sardonic look at the tools, IRC channels, and cultural chaos that defined the late 1990s and early 2000s hacker scene.

Andrea Fortuna

Chaincoder 4d ago

The ESP32 Has Quietly Become One of the Most Interesting Hacker Devices Alive

Expensive hardware often becomes ornamental. People baby it. They curate it. They build identities around owning it. Cheap hardware gets modified until it resembles evidence recovered from a flooded basement.

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/the-esp32-has-quietly-become-one-of-the-most-interesting-hacker-devices-alive/

dan_nanni May 9

Pentesters often use browser extensions because they keep testing close to the web app—making it easier to inspect cookies, tweak traffic, and catch client-side issues without constantly switching tools

Here are useful browser extensions for pentesting 😎👇

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Chaincoder May 8

The Flipper Zero Black Book: Useful, Strange, and Slightly Concerning Payloads

People online either massively overestimate the device or completely misunderstand it. One side treats it like a cyberpunk skeleton key capable of collapsing civilization from the parking lot of a Best Buy. The other side dismisses it as a glorified toy for Redditors who wear tactical backpacks to Starbucks.

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/the-flipper-zero-black-book-useful-strange-and-slightly-concerning-payloads/

pablolarah Apr 27

🔵🟡 Government Hacking Tools Are Now in Criminals' Hands (with @lorenzofb.bsky.social @lorenzofb )
by Joseph Cox @josephcox
at 404 Media
@404media.co @404mediaco
#HackingTools #Hacked #Leaked #podcast #cybersecurity

https://www.404media.co/government-hacking-tools-are-now-in-criminals-hands-with-lorenzo-franceschi-bicchierai/

Chaincoder Apr 16

Building a $40 Stingray Detector That Fits in an Altoids Tin

You don’t see IMSI catchers. You don’t hear them. They sit between your phone and the network like a polite lie, impersonating a tower just well enough that your device shrugs and connects anyway. No warning. No vibration. Nothing in the UI suggests that your phone has just been convinced to trust something it never verified.

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/building-a-40-stingray-detector-that-fits-in-an-altoids-tin/

Alonso Caballero / ReYDeS Apr 14

🎖️ El Curso de Hacking Ético está permanente disponible en el aula virtual para acceso inmediato. 📲 WhatsApp: https://wa.me/51949304030 🌐 https://www.reydes.com/e/Curso_de_Hacking_Etico #hackers #ethicalhacker #hacking #cybersecurity #cyber #kalilinux #hackingtools

Negative PID SL Apr 8

Inside the tools of Anonymous

https://negativepid.blog/inside-the-tools-of-anonymous/

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Inside the tools of Anonymous - Negative PID

In the mythology of Anonymous, operations often looked spontaneous — a flash-mob of code striking from nowhere, vanishing just as quickly. But behind that

Negative PID

XcoutSec Apr 6

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