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Episode 97: Charles Shirer - BSDBandit Talks OSINT! Sep 19, 2022

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Charles Shirer, aka @BSDBandit is the part of the internet that exudes positivity and happiness. He frequently posts happy and affirming messages for people to enjoy. He's also a self-taught OSINT expert. In this episode, he'll explain how he learned OSINT, projects he took on and give suggestions and advice for others who might look to follow in his path.

Episode 96: Dr. Abbie Maroño - The Science of Social Engineering Sep 12, 2022

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Dr. Abbie Maroño is the Director of Education at Social Engineer, LLC. She earned her PhD in Behaviour Analysis from Lancaster University in the UK. In this episode, we talk about human lie detection and that everything we learned on Lie to Me might be a lie! How can we discern good scientific information from bad, so we can learn the skills of social engineering and Dr. Maroño also talks about her own new podcast where she goes into the detail of the science and research behind many social engineering topics!

Episode 95: Intel Inquirer - Using Dating Apps and Exercise Apps from an OSINT Perspective Sep 05, 2022

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Venessa Ninovic is @Intel_Inquirer on Twitter and frequently posts her findings and research at https://intel-inquirer.medium.com/ She has been on the OSINT Curious podcast and presented at the 2022 SANS OSINT Summit. In this episode, she tells us how much OSINT one can find just in dating apps. She explains how some military members failed so badly at OpSec that they were forced to delete their social media applications and she digs into the exercise app Strava. Strava can reveal quite a bit about the person exercising, even as much as where they live!

Episode 94: Alan Neilan - The Phishing Kit Hunter Aug 29, 2022

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Alan Neilan is a security analyst who searches for phishing kits in his spare time, using x0rz's Phishing Catcher. Alan often tweets out his work at @aneilan and he also posts his findings under the title "Crap I Found on the Internet" on his blog at aneilan.github.io. In this episode, Alan talks about how he uses certificate transparency certstreams to feed the analysis tool and tells some of his experiences with reporting the kits he's found.

Episode 93: The Gumshoo - Tales of a PI in OSINT Aug 22, 2022

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John TerBush, known as TheGumshoo on Twitter joins us to talk about his previous life as a private investigator and how he merged into the information security world. He, like so many others, was doing OSINT before we called it OSINT and he describes some of the locations and techniques. John is also a founding member of OSINT Curious and a course developer/instructor for the SANS SEC 487 and SEC 587 OSINT courses. He is also a threat researcher for Recorded Future. John has some great advice for getting started in the OSINT world and some fun stories of life on the job.

Episode 92: Dalin McClellan - SE'd Into a Highly Secure Building...How?!? Aug 15, 2022

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On this episode, we speak with Dalin McClellan, a penetration tester and social engineer for NetSPI. The idea for this episode came from a blog post that Dalin wrote here: Not Your Average Bug Bounty: How an Email, a Shirt and a Sticker Compromised a High Security Datacenter. Dalin explains the preparation necessary for an on site physical penetration test when the location is highly secured with barbed wire fencing, human guards 24x7, retinal scanners and mantraps. Sometimes very simple solutions can be used to bypass highly technical controls. Just ask.

Episode 91: Sylvain Hajri - What Can You Do With An Email Address? Aug 08, 2022

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Sylvain Hajri, aka Navlys_ on Twitter created Epieos.com a freemium site that lets you perform passive OSINT with just an email address. Sylvain wears an incredible number of hats as the creator of not just Epieos but also MyOSINTJob, OSINTFr, the SpyingChallenge and is also an organizer of LeHack in France and also the OSINTVillage.

In this episode, Sylvain has great advice on how to use passive OSINT, on how he created his company and whether people should focus on tools and learn python to get better at OSINT, plus even more!

Episode 90: The Next Generation of Phishing Attack Vectors Aug 01, 2022

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When we think of phishing attacks, we immediately think of email. In this episode, Chris Cleveland, the Founder and CEO of Pixm Security walks us through a massive phishing attack that his company discovered. In this attack, millions of Facebook credentials were stolen using multiple layers of trusted environments. Have you ever gotten contacted by a friend in Facebook messenger with a link to check out a funny video? After this episode, you might be a little more careful with those.

If you want to read the blog post that we discuss: https://pixmsecurity.com/blog/blog/phishing-tactics-how-a-threat-actor-stole-1m-credentials-in-4-months/

Episode 89: The Fake PhD Investigator Jul 25, 2022

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People claim degrees and credentials that they haven't earned. This could be for a number of reasons, whether professional or personal. In this episode, we speak with the Fake PhD Investigator, a person who uses OSINT to determine whether the doctorate degree that someone claims, has actually been conferred on them. This episode goes through the methodology, some stories and some of the reasons that someone might claim to have earned a doctorate degree when they actually have not.

You can find the Fake PhD Investigator on twitter at FakePhD_reveal.

Episode 88: Jason Downey - The Legend of...Triforce? Jul 18, 2022

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Jason Downey is a penetration testing security consultant with Red Siege and is known as HackAndBackpack on Twitter. In this episode, we talked with Jason about phishing, vishing and on-site physical social engineering engagements. He talked about some of the tools he uses, some of his successes and some campaigns that might not have gone exactly to plan. Plus, find out how the Legend of Zelda's Triforce can help people understand a path into this industry.

More information about Jason can be found on his web site, https://hackandbackpack.com

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