What do you do when you find yourself the target of a massive hacking campaign, and you are getting thousands of phishing emails and someone following you in your car. You might turn to Citizen Lab who has the ability to research who is behind thi...
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Listen NowIn May 2017 the world fell victim to a major ransomware attack known as WannaCry. One of the victims was UK's national health service. Security researchers scrambled to try to figure out how to stop it and who was behind it.
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Listen NowJohn Strand is a penetration tester. He's paid to break into computer networks and buildings to test their security. In this episode we listen to stories he has from doing this type of work.
Listen NowFreakyclown is a physical penetration tester. His job is to break into buildings to test the security of the building. In this episode we hear stories of some of these missions he's been on.
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Listen NowIn this episode we hear from Gary and Justin. Two seasoned penetration testers who tell us a story about the time when they tried to break into a courthouse but it went all wrong.
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