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Episode 38: Tigran Terpandjian - The Experience Catch-22 Dec 21, 2020

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We have Tigran Terpandjian, also known as Th3CyF0x talking to us about how he also faced the common Catch-22 of needing experience to get a job, but how do you get the experience without a job. He talks about the strategies that he used and gives tips on things others than try too. You can also ask Tigran about his love of foxes and ramen!

Episode 37: Billy and Vache - Flair Bartending and SE Dec 14, 2020

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This is an interview episode with Billy (@fuzzy_logic) Boatright and Vache (@flying.v) Manoukian. These guys are social engineers and flair bartenders. During this interview, Billy and Vache talk about how quickly the build rapport and some of the tips and tricks they have for winning people over quickly.

Episode 36: Inês Narciso - Teamwork Makes Dreamwork Dec 07, 2020

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Our friend, Inês Narciso talks about how to best use multi-disciplinary teams to be most efficient during OSINT and social engineering investigations. She talks about bringing together specialists to create teams that will better get the needed information.

You can find Ines on Twitter at @IWN_LX and she also presented at the Layer 8 Conference in 2020 on OSINT’s Role Tackling Disinformation In Portuguese Elections

Episode 35: Joshua Richards - Buying/Selling Body Parts on the Dark Web Nov 30, 2020

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Joshua Richards, is also known as AccessOSINT on twitter and can be found as an administrator on the Searchlight Discord server. Josh was doing a little searching on the dark web one day and found someone looking to sell human body organs. In this episode, he tells us how he used OSINT to discover the identity of the person, and hand that information off to law enforcement officials.

You can read Josh's blog at https://accessosint.com/

Episode 34: Shelby Dacko - ScaryLilHuman in the Trash Chute Nov 23, 2020

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For this episode, Shelby Dacko, also known as @ScaryLilHuman tells us how she got started as a social engineer, and also about one engagement where the team was running into roadblocks. That is, until they discovered one path into the server room was through a very narrow trash chute that only a small person could fit through. Shelby fit the bill.

Catch Shelby teaching a course on vishing at the Human Hacking Conference from March 11th to 13th.

Episode 33: MangoPDF - The "Don't Get Arrested Challenge" Nov 16, 2020

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MangoPDF, also known as Alex Hope is from Australia. One day, a friend asked him what information can he get from a simple boarding pass. With this, the "Don't Get Arrested" challenge began. What information can one person get from a boarding pass, what kind of legal trouble might it lead to and who might even call your phone. All things Alex found out!

You can follow along with Alex's story on his blog at The Mango.PDF.Zone!

Episode 32: Marina Ciavatta - Tropical Spy: Stories And Tricks From Social Engineering Jun 29, 2020

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Here is Marina's presentation from the Layer 8 Conference. She did not want the video released but allowed for the audio.

Episode 31: Joe Gray - His Origins and a Phish Jun 29, 2020

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For this episode, we welcome Joe Gray, a senior OSINT specialist at QOMPLX, a frequent public speaker at conferences and trainer of OSINT and social engineering. Joe joins us to tell us how he got into the field and how he got to where he is today. He also tells a second story about a particular phishing engagement where a senior manager built him up as someone who was unstoppable. But was he? Let him tell you how that went.

Episode 30: Brent White and Tim Roberts Jun 22, 2020

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For this episode, we veer off course again. This time, to talk with Brent White and Tim Roberts from NTT Security and their own site wehackpeople.com. One day, Brent asked on twitter what types of things people would want to know about social engineering and he got some great questions. I asked and he and Tim agreed to answer those questions on this podcast. Let’s hear their answers now.

Episode 29: Social Engineers from Rapid7 Jun 15, 2020

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For this episode, we talk with three expert social engineers from Rapid7. Leon Johnson, Aaron Herndon and Jonathan Stines will tell us about some of the best security they’ve seen, some of the worst, some of the tools they carry on an engagement and how they sleep at night, knowing it is their job to trick people.

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