As we finish the first season of the security tools podcast, we invite you to check out our new twice-weekly livestream, Hacking with Friends! Every Tuesday and Friday, join us to try out new hacking tools live on the SecurityFWD YouTube channel. Hope to see you there! https://www.youtube.com/securityfwd
Not everyone with a job in cybersecurity is a professional hacker. Nick is a mechanical engineering student at UCLA who also presents on one of the largest infosec channels on YouTube and writes his own security tools. We discuss how students can get started in cybersecurity jobs without committing to a cybersecurity career, and the ways an infosec background has made getting job offers easier.
Canarytokins are like honeypots that can be applied to any file, and routinely catch hackers by alerting when sensitive files are touched. Learn how Thinkst detected unauthorized access to a server that was decommissioned and other wild stories with Adrian Sanabria.
Facial recognition is popping up everywhere, making defeating it a tempting target for hackers. I speak with Vic Harkness from F-Secure about where you can expect to find facial recognition now, how people are defeating it, and why some methods can work better than others.
DoNotPay is an automation service which makes it easy to interface with different legal services which are usually costly or require expensive expert advice. By automating legal services for everything from beating tickets to divorce, DoNotPay hacks the complex legal code of our society to provide access to the rights everyday people need to exercise. I speak with Joshua Browder, the founder of DoNotPay, about the DoNotPay service and their new fake tracking credit cards, designed to be given to phone scammers. If a phone scammer runs your fake card, DoNotPay provides an automated service to sue them for the maximum legal penalty.
Mathy Vanhoef is a researcher who focuses on the security of Wi-Fi and other important protocols, often discovering issues that impact all 9 billion plus devices using Wi-Fi. We discuss some of the serious security and privacy problems with the Wi-Fi standard, including ways Mathy has discovered to "break" Wi-Fi completely or gain an unfair advantage. We also go over WPA3, the new Wi-Fi standard set to replace WPA2, and the various ways it can already be attacked.
Seytonic is a YouTube creator who makes security content and Arduino-based hacking tools. We talk about what it's like to create content for hackers, his experience making hacker hardware, and why he chose to make low-cost hacking tools using Arduino IDE.
What can you learn from the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals coming from smartphones and other wireless devices? If you're hacker Alex Lynd, you can use it to detect when someone is following you. We talk about his creep detector project, which uses wardriving data to find when a wireless device is following him while skateboarding, and what it's like to design hacking tools in highschool.
Maltego is one of the most famous tools for conducting OSINT investigations, capable of pulling down and organizing massive amounts of OSINT data to show patterns during an investigation. We speak to the company behind Maltego about what it can do, who uses it, and what the future looks like for OSINT investigations.
Patrick Wardle is an ex-NSA hacker who creates free MacOS security tools, capable of detecting even advanced attacks by spotting the signs of malware in its early stages. With professionals like journalists, CEO's and other VIP's using MacOS systems, Patrick's Objective-See tools help targeted users stay in control of their security. We talk about how his tools stop ransomware, keyloggers, and even "Evil maid" attacks in which an attacker gains physical access to your computer.