Thug Shells is a freestyle rapper who hacks the english language, making it do whatever she wants. Did you know a group of rappers is called a cypher? It's a super fun conversation where we learn a lot about Thuggy as well as how rapping works, and all the uncanny connections to the world of hacking.
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Thuggy's Cyphercon abstract
Hacker History sits down with Wade Wells. Wade sits on the board of BSides San Diego and has an amazing journey that got him there. Wade recounts how he started out at In-N-Out Burgers and made his way into security. Every step of the way he leveled up and now is an amazing community member who gives back consistently. We hit on topics of MSPs, public speaking, meetups, building teams, and a lot of fun security stories. It's a lot of fun.
Hacker History sits down with Dana Morrison and hears his story into tech. Dana starts out with a Commodore 64 and writes a war dialer as one of the first projects. He starts out with a BBS and eventually hacks into his school's BBS system. Dana goes to college as a theology major and ends up running IT for a school. Nothing brings out the hacker mindset like keeping a school's computers running. We hear about Dana using OSINT to figure out a drop shipping scam only to find out the FBI wasn't interested in the details. We finish up with a lot of great advice for anyone in tech, both old and new. It's a great conversation with a lot of fun stories!
Hacker History sits down with Jindrich Krasek. We hear about how Jindrich's journey started out as a medical researcher. He had to hack a machine he was using to make it work in new ways, and that experience hooked him as a hacker. He starts out with social engineering to get his foot in the door. He eventually find himself doing IT at medical companies that was his foot in the door. The movie Hackers was an inspiration, and eventually Jindrich found himself in the SOC. This then led to Jindrich calling himself a "security data scientist" before using data was as popular as it is today.
Hacker History sits down with HD Moore. We hear about his story when he was young and making hardware work that probably shouldn't have worked. His shenanigans in the days of IRC and warez, and how that led its way into the Metasploit project. The impact of Metasploit cannot be understated. The world in the early 2000's was nothing like it is today. It's a great conversation that covers a ton of ground.
Hacker History sits down with Paul Asadoorian and learn about his journey. Paul starts out with an Apple II, BASIC, and Pascal as a youth, then finds himself picking up UNIX and Linux, working at a university on amazing projects, and find himself in the world of security. We hear about Paul's days at Tenable, becoming a legendary podcaster, and eventually landing at Eclypsium. It's a fun story and Paul is a fantastic storyteller.
Hacker History sits down with Jarrod Coulter to talk about how he got into red teaming. Jarrod's story starts out in IT and eventually find us discussing how he started a red team from the ground up and some of the lessons learned along the way. Jarrod also runs the GRASSr00tz security conference and we learn how it got started.
Hacker History sits down with Mike Goetzman to learn about his history. Mike is the person behind the CypherCon, the Wisconsin Hacker Conference. We learn about how Mike caused some trouble in school, got to help out as the "punishment", goes to school, meets his wife on ICQ. Mike traveled to Cuba to help spread information which may not have had the intended impact. We finish up with Mike using Bitcoin proceeds to start CypherCon.
Hacker History sits down with D1g1t4l_T3mpl4r to discuss his hacker story. We learn about how D1g1t4l_T3mpl4r got into hacking, what it was like for a Midwestern hacker in the late 80s and early 90s. We discuss phreaking, hacking, hardware, phones, culture, a message for the newest hackers among us, and more.