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Tom Hocker is the Director at Trace Labs. Trace Labs is a non-profit organization who crowdsources OSINT skills from the public to find information and clues on people in missing persons cases. As mentioned in this episode, you can get more information about Trace Labs, get in contact with Tom and jump into a Search Party all by joining their Discord channel here: https://discord.

Chris Pritchard is a UK-based social engineer with Lares Consulting. He has accessed some of the most secure facilities, sometimes seemingly too easily. In this episode, Chris (aka @Ghostie_) talks about what was his process to access seemingly secure facilities like airports and casinos. He also gives his thoughts on dealing with the adrenaline rush of getting in and also has advi

Rae, aka @Wondersmith_Rae is back! After chatting about maritime OSINT in episode 75, Rae came back to discuss her book "Deep Dive - Exploring the Real World Value of Open Source Intelligence" and to talk about what skills or mindset is important in the OSINT world. We also talked about how to practice your OSINT skills in a realistic way by using Kase Scenarios, a learni

Dylan is named the Magician yet he doesn't do card tricks, doesn't pull a rabbit from a hat and doesn't cut his assistant in half. Dylan is a social engineer who earned that moniker during an engagement. In this episode, Dylan will explain the job where he was tagged "The Magician." We'll also talk about the planning that went into his engagement and other

Ritu Gill is back! A return guest who first appeared on episode 20, Ritu (also known as OSINT Techniques) is back to talk about Operational Security, about how to create and curate sock puppets, how to keep the integrity of an investigation and to tell us about Forensic OSINT, a Chrome extension that can easily help with investigations! This episode is brought to you by Compass Cy

Our host, Patrick Laverty, has gotten to talk with experts in OSINT and social engineering and heard their stories. But Patrick has never told one of his own. That's what we get here as he explains how he got access to sensitive areas of a bank during a social engineering job. This episode is brought to you by Compass Cyber Guard. To find out more about Cyber Guard's socia

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. 

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 a

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 t

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 t