Layer 8 Podcast

Mar 31 2025 128 ep. 38 mins 220
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Welcome to the Layer 8 Podcast season 5! 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 127: "I Am Your Permission" - Leon Johnson

Mar 31 2025 44 mins  
Sho Luv, aka Leon Johnson is a ninja, a hacker, a penetration tester and a computer security expert. Leon has performed all types of testing engagements and has mentored many other aspiring pentesters. On this episode, Leon talks about what it takes to be a tester along with some of his own stories of social engineering engagements and his thoughts on being a Black man while doing

Episode 126: Brett Redman - History of West Coast Gangs

Mar 17 2025 41 mins  
How does a man living in England trace the history of Compton, California and the evolution of gangs across the country? And then evolve to tracking financial crimes? By using his OSINT skills! In this episode, Brett Redman the Head of Intelligence at Blackdot Solutions takes us through where he started with tracking this information and also some discussion of OSINT differences be

Episode 125: Olie Brown of Console Cowboys

Mar 03 2025 49 mins  
Olie Brown is a self-described hacker and the creator of the penetration testing company CC Labs. In this episode, Olie tells us of some social engineering exploits he has pulled off with some very simple techniques. He also stresses the social in social engineering with his tips on how people can get started and how to get better at social engineering. He also talks about why he i

Episode 124: Soxoj - OSINT on ICQ, His Substack, Tools and More!

Feb 17 2025 40 mins  
Dmitry Danilov, aka Soxoj is an OSINT investigator and CPO for Social Links. In this episode, we talk about his Substack where he shares his methodology and his incredibly helpful "4P Method" of doing investigations. We also talked about some of the tools he works with and created, which you can find in his github: https://github.com/soxoj https://soxoj.com/ https://t.me

Episode 123: Jeff Tomkiewicz and His Pretexts!

Feb 03 2025 42 mins  
Jeff Tomkiewicz, aka The Gh0stface Killer is a social engineer who is employed but a health services company. He will also be teaching a pretexting workshop at the Layer 8 Conference! You can find out more about that here: https://layer8conference.com/training-at-layer-8-conference-2025/ In this episode, we learn how Jeff moved from the military to becoming a social engineer where

Episode 122: My OSINT Training with Griffin Glynn and Micah Hoffman

Jan 20 2025 47 mins  
My OSINT Training is a company created by Griffin (@hatless1der) Glynn and Micah (@webbreacher) Hoffman. Their goal was to create affordable high quality OSINT training, and they'll be offering that at the Layer 8 Conference in June! You can sign up today for their class! In this episode, we also spoke about the National Child Protection Task Force (NCPTF) and how Micah and Gr

Episode 121: Dutch OSINT Guy

Jan 06 2025 46 mins  
Get your ticket to the Layer 8 Conference on June 14, in Boston! In this episode, we're joined by Nico Dekens, aka Dutch_OSINTGuy where he talks about lessons in OSINT including the value of operational security, ethics and classes he teaches. He also tells us about his 5W1H method of performing an investigation. We also discussed some blog posts he wrote for ShadowDragon, includin

Episode 120: Layer 8 Conference Announcement!

Dec 02 2024 17 mins  
The Layer 8 Conference is back! On Saturday, June 14, the Layer 8 Conference will be in Boston, MA! Tickets are available now at layer8con.eventbrite.com The Call for Presentations will open on January 1. We would love to work with sponsors who are looking to support the conference and meet with all of our amazing attendees! All the information is available at https://layer8conf

Episode 119: Aidan Raney of Farnsworth Intelligence

Nov 25 2024 39 mins  
Aidan Raney is the founder of Farnsworth Intelligence, an OSINT company that focuses on due diligence investigations, among others. Aidan freely shares content and tools, has been a volunteer with Trace Labs, teaches OSINT and OpSec. He presented at both BSidesSF and ShmooCon about "Catching Some Phisherman" where he exposed a large phishing organization. Aidan has experience wit

Episode 118: Brian Harris - Covert Access Team

Nov 11 2024 45 mins  
Brian Harris from the Covert Access Team is a social engineer, a physical pentester and a member of the black team. If you've heard of blue team, purple team and red team but not black team, you can hear what that is about in this episode! Brian explains why all businesses should have their physical access tested, regardless of whether they believe the tester would be successful.