Claims

Qualified triples from the transcripts. Origin, speaker, and evidence stay attached. These are not independently verified facts.

Nathan Michael USES World of Warcraft

Nathan says he sold World of Warcraft gold.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details

“Then we sold WoW gold.”

Nathan Michael · offsets 12689–12711

Nathan Michael USES credit card dumps

Jack says Nathan entered chat rooms where credit-card dumps were sold or traded and obtained full card details.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 164 Details

“This led him to chat rooms where people were selling or trading credit card dumps.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 13488–13570

Nathan Michael USES skimmer

Nathan says he purchased and deployed skimmers, including at gas pumps and ATMs.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details

“I had gas pump ones and everything.”

Nathan Michael · offsets 20776–20811

“we had ones on ATM machines, too”

Nathan Michael · offsets 21140–21172

Nathan Michael USES cjb.net

Nathan says he used cjb.net to publish snippets from internal emails and confidential information.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details

“I put it on the cjb.net website, just a little HTML thing with some snippets from the e-mails”

Nathan Michael · offsets 72738–72831

Nathan Michael USES Walmart

Nathan says he and associates used Walmart registers to test stolen card numbers and obtain gift cards.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details

“We’d just sit there and run that bitch and get whatever we get off of them.”

Nathan Michael · offsets 16069–16144

Nathan Michael USES counterfeit payment card production

Nathan printed counterfeit cards, programmed their magnetic stripes, and added photographs to make them appear legitimate.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details

“I’d print the cards and then program the mag strip”

Nathan Michael · offsets 32885–32935

Nathan Michael USES swiping

Nathan explains that he trained people to act as swipers and planned their shopping routes.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details

“I’m teaching you to be a swiper.”

Nathan Michael · offsets 39544–39576

Nathan Michael USES shopper network

Nathan recruited shoppers to use counterfeit cards in stores and return purchased merchandise.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 164 Details

“have them go out and shop with stolen credit cards and then bring back any of the stuff you buy with it”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 33802–33905

Nathan Michael USES Liberty Reserve

Nathan says he used Liberty Reserve as web money and lacked it when deciding to use freshly skimmed cards.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Nathan Michael EP 164 Details

“back then it was Liberty Reserve. We had no Liberty Reserve to buy any — our web money.”

Nathan Michael · offsets 29750–29837

SQL injection AFFECTS SQL server

The episode describes an SQL injection attack against the SQL server itself.

Explicit Confidence 96% · Tanya Janca EP 165 Details

“‘cause they attacked the SQL server itself”

Tanya Janca · offsets 43742–43784

Tanya Janca ASSOCIATED_WITH Canadian government

Tanya held a security leadership position at an organization within the Canadian government.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 165 Details

“a security leadership position at an organization which was within the Canadian government”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 12210–12300

Tanya Janca ASSOCIATED_WITH Application security

Tanya's professional focus is application security, or appsec.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 165 Details

“that’s called appsec, application security. She’s laser-focused on how applications become insecure and how to make them secure.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 4817–4945

Tanya Janca ASSOCIATED_WITH Defcon

Tanya attended Defcon and took a blind SQL injection workshop there.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tanya Janca EP 165 Details

“So, then I went to Defcon and I did a workshop called Blind SQL Injection.”

Tanya Janca · offsets 20989–21063

ZAP ASSOCIATED_WITH OWASP

Tanya says ZAP used to be part of OWASP.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tanya Janca EP 165 Details

“ZAP is a dynamic scanning tool that used to be part of OWASP”

Tanya Janca · offsets 41178–41238

Jack Rhysider AUTHORED Darknet Diaries

Jack says that he created the Darknet Diaries show.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tanya Janca EP 165 Details

“This show is created by me, the spaghetti coder, Jack Rhysider.”

Tanya Janca · offsets 47281–47344

Server-side request forgery DISCOVERED_BY Tanya Janca

Tanya says she found server-side request forgery while testing an application.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Tanya Janca EP 165 Details

“I found server-side request forgery.”

Tanya Janca · offsets 8501–8537

Blind SQL injection LEADS_TO Data exfiltration

The episode explains that blind SQL injection enabled the attacker to infer and exfiltrate the database contents.

Derived Confidence 94% · Tanya Janca EP 165 Details

“So, they did exfiltrate our data, and that is what happened”

Tanya Janca · offsets 22884–22943

“you can know for sure that it’s true”

Tanya Janca · offsets 22659–22695

Tanya Janca USES incident response

Tanya led incident responders and managed serious security incidents.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tanya Janca EP 165 Details

“So, I was the lead of the incident responders.”

Tanya Janca · offsets 23607–23653

“I’m the head of incident response.”

Tanya Janca · offsets 25633–25667

Tanya Janca USES Wireshark

Tanya directed her team to use Wireshark to investigate the supposed malware incident.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tanya Janca EP 165 Details

“someone flip on Wireshark.”

Tanya Janca · offsets 28579–28605

Tanya Janca USES SQL injection

Tanya used SQL injection to bypass a login screen during a CTF.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tanya Janca EP 165 Details

“I’m sure there’s gonna be some sort of SQL injection opportunity.”

Tanya Janca · offsets 38474–38539

“we got in.”

Tanya Janca · offsets 38651–38661

Tanya Janca USES Burp Suite

Tanya learned and used Burp Suite as part of her penetration-testing work.

Explicit Confidence 96% · Tanya Janca EP 165 Details

“go learn Burp Suite this weekend”

Tanya Janca · offsets 6593–6625

“I just found server-side request forgery.”

Tanya Janca · offsets 10100–10145

Tanya Janca USES penetration testing

Tanya was recruited to help perform penetration tests.

Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 165 Details

“You can help me do some penetration test.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 6456–6497

Tanya Janca USES Server-side request forgery

While penetration testing, Tanya entered code that resulted in server-side request forgery and unintended file operations.

Derived Confidence 84% · Tanya Janca EP 165 Details

“Inadvertently, I started copying and deleting files on the web server.”

Tanya Janca · offsets 8816–8886

“I found server-side request forgery.”

Tanya Janca · offsets 8501–8537

Tanya Janca USES Capture the Flag

Tanya participated in CTFs and organized two women's CTF teams.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tanya Janca EP 165 Details

“I did do a few CTFs.”

Tanya Janca · offsets 37453–37473

“we had to form two teams”

Tanya Janca · offsets 38040–38064

Blind SQL injection VARIANT_OF SQL injection

The episode presents blind SQL injection as a form of SQL injection that returns yes/no-style results rather than directly returning data.

Derived Confidence 96% · Tanya Janca EP 165 Details

“what you’re doing when you do blind SQL injection is you are asking questions”

Tanya Janca · offsets 21334–21411

“the only option you get back is yes or no”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 21784–21825