Layer 8 Podcast

Oct 28 2024 118 ep. 37 mins 206

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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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Episode 117: Nathaniel Fried - OSINT with Only An Email

Oct 28 2024 47 mins

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 o

Episode 116: Matt Linton - A Better Phish Test

Oct 14 2024 35 mins

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

Episode 115: Jennifer Isacoff - Breaking Into SE

Sep 30 2024 59 mins

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!

Episode 114 - Phil Eil, The Investigative Journalist

Sep 16 2024 41 mins

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 d

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

Sep 02 2024 39 mins

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

Episode 112: Red Teaming with Alethe Denis, Part 1

Aug 19 2024 46 mins

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 t

Episode 111: OsmosisCon's Cynthia and Bret

Aug 05 2024 50 mins

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 sha

Episode 110: Andreas Heideck and Social Engineering Simplicity

Jul 22 2024 46 mins

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 succ

Episode 109: Justin Seitz and Kennedy Chappell

Jul 07 2024 49 mins

This episode is a great discussion with Justin Seitz (@jms_dot_py) and Kennedy Chappell (@kcath23) of Permanent Record Research. They also write the free Substack newsletter https://www.bullshithunting.com/ along with its fun weekend edition, For the Weekend Warriors, Weirdos & Whackjobs, where you can get even more fun insight into the work they do and the lives they lead. In

Episode 108: Bluma Janowitz Talks How She Used Social Engineering in Other Industries

Jun 24 2024 51 mins

Note: This episode contains language that would be considered not safe for work (NSFW) and around some children. Bluma Janowitz, aka @x25Princess is a social engineering instructor and one of the original phone phreaking hackers. She has also worked as a phone sex operator and as a dominatrix. Her work in these areas, as well as her own personal survival, has taught her the social