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Welcome to the Layer 8 Podcast season 4! This season we’ll have conversations with social engineers and OSINT investigators who will tell their stories. We hope you enjoy them.

  1. OCT 28

    Episode 117: Nathaniel Fried - OSINT with Only An Email

    Nathaniel Fried is the CEO of OSINT Industries. He's also one of the founding members and current chair of UK OSINT, a non-profit public meetup group. In this episode, we talk about ways to perform OSINT with only a single selector, such as an email address, a phone number or a username. We also discussed how he discovered that Donetsk was using western-based IT tools, in spite of sanctions. Nathaniel walked through this investigation with his OSINT methods. He explained his thoughts on how to get started in the OSINT world, recommendations on areas to focus on and also told us a brief story of how he did not get extradited to the Philippines.

    47 min

  2. OCT 14

    Episode 116: Matt Linton - A Better Phish Test

    Matt Linton (@0xMatt)is a Googler and former NASA employee and red teamer. He has some opinions on the way we do phishing testing today with comparisons to how fire safety evolved. Even better, he offers solid solutions on how we can do better phishing testing so that people better understand the expectations of them and to still keep the enterprise protected. In this episode, we discuss a blog post that he wrote for Google. You can read the blog post here: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/05/on-fire-drills-and-phishing-tests.html

    36 min

  3. SEP 30

    Episode 115: Jennifer Isacoff - Breaking Into SE

    Jennifer is a hacker, a social engineer, a locksmith and a private investigator. In this episode, we talk about how she got into each of those fields and about her path to being a part of her company's red team. She has some great social engineering stories including where she's climbing through a ceiling!

    1 hr

  4. SEP 16

    Episode 114 - Phil Eil, The Investigative Journalist

    Phil Eil is an investigative journalist who has written for publications such as Vice, Huffington Post, the Boston Globe and the Providence Phoenix. But there was always one story he wanted to write. In his new book, Prescription for Pain, Phil documents the story of Dr. Paul Volkman, a midwestern physician who was convicted of distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death, plus additional charges. Phil tells us about the story but also describes the various less-common investigative (OSINT) tools that he used to tell the story.

    41 min

  5. SEP 2

    Episode 113: "I'm Not a Threat, But You're Adorable" - Alethe, Part 2

    This is the second part of a two-part podcast episode with Alethe Denis. If you missed the first part, you'll want to go back and listen to that first as this episode picks up, mid-story where Alethe has just caught the eye of a security guard during a social engineering engagement. Can she evade the guard or will the job come to an end? Alethe is a senior security consultant with Bishop Fox, has given presentations to multiple conferences, including a keynote on redteaming. Alethe was also the featured guest on one of the most popular episodes of Darknet Diaries.

    39 min

  6. AUG 19

    Episode 112: Red Teaming with Alethe Denis, Part 1

    Alethe Denis is the first ever three-time guest to the Layer 8 Podcast. When Alethe comes on, we can swap stories for hours. And we did! This is part 1 of a two-part episode, as Alethe had so many great stories to share. For this episode, she talks her way into buildings, tells us how she prepares her OSINT and when she knows it's time to go into the building. Check back in two weeks for part 2!

    46 min

  7. AUG 5

    Episode 111: OsmosisCon's Cynthia and Bret

    For this episode, we're joined by Cynthia Navarro and Bret Anderson from OsmosisCon. They are the two people that head up the annual OSINT conference in Las Vegas. The conference will be October 20-22 and can be attended in person or remotely. Cynthia and Bret tell us about the origins of Osmosis, the certification they offer and we also talk about some methods, ethics and share some fun investigation stories.

    50 min

  8. JUL 22

    Episode 110: Andreas Heideck and Social Engineering Simplicity

    Andreas Heideck, the CEO of the Germany-based Impossible Security, joined the show to tell some incredible social engineering stories. The part that is different about his stories is the simplicity of his pretexts and thought process. As we tend to overthink these engagements, Andreas shows us how to stay in the moment, choose pretexts that make sense, are very simple and very successful.

    47 min
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Welcome to the Layer 8 Podcast season 4! This season we’ll have conversations with social engineers and OSINT investigators who will tell their stories. We hope you enjoy them.

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  • Creator
    Layer 8 Conference
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    118
  • Rating
    Explicit
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