Qualified triples from the transcripts. Origin, speaker, and evidence stay attached. These are not independently verified facts.
Ira Winkler USES social engineering
Ira conducted a contract engagement using social engineering against an investment bank.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 21 Details
“the contract was to use social engineering against an investment bank”
Ira Winkler USES cryptanalysis
Ira worked on cryptanalysis and programmed supercomputers to perform it.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“My first technical computer job was programming super computers to do cryptanalysis”
Ira Winkler USES Google Maps
Ira used Google Maps and other tools to research the location and layout of the target facility.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 21 Details
“He used Google Maps and other tools to learn more”
Ira Winkler USES VPN
Ira obtained a computer preconfigured for the investment bank's VPN as part of the engagement.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“I even got the investment bank to send me a computer preconfigured for their VPN”
Ira Winkler USES .rhost entry
Ira says the team added a new .rhost entry to establish a trusted relationship with critical servers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“we just added a new .rhost entry”
Tony USES human elicitation
Tony was trained to conduct interviews and elicit information.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“he would know how to conduct interviews, he would know how to elicit information”
Tony USES social engineering
Tony is described as using telephone social engineering to elicit information.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“we primarily used him for the telephone social engineering”
Ira Winkler USES penetration testing
Ira's career is described as social engineering and penetration testing, including testing unauthorized access to places and information.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 21 Details
“That’s how Ira’s career got started as a social engineer and penetration tester”
Ira Winkler USES human elicitation
Ira says he used basic human elicitation techniques to obtain information from people over the phone.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“I just used essentially basic human elicitation techniques to lie to people over the phone”
Ira Winkler USES espionage simulation
Ira says he specializes in assembling teams to conduct espionage simulations against organizations.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“I like to call them more espionage simulations”
Stu USES physical intrusion
Stu assists Ira with physical intrusions and identifies physical weaknesses in buildings.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 21 Details
“He helps Ira whenever there’s a need for physical intrusions”
Stan USES social engineering
Stan used trust-building and conversations to get people to divulge government secrets.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 21 Details
“over time Stan would build trust with that person and get them to divulge government secrets”
Ira Winkler USES physical intrusion
Ira used a team to enter secure buildings and conduct physical intrusions as part of penetration-testing missions.
Derived Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 21 Details
“using his crew to get into some of the most secure buildings”
Rob Fuller ASSOCIATED_WITH Silicon Valley
Rob Fuller says he is a senior technical advisor for the HBO show Silicon Valley.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Mubix EP 22 Details
“I’m a senior technical advisor for the HBO show Silicon Valley”
Rob Fuller ASSOCIATED_WITH Metasploit Minute
Rob Fuller says he hosts the Hak5 show Metasploit Minute.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Mubix EP 22 Details
“the host of the Hak5 show Metasploit Minute”
Snow ASSOCIATED_WITH Black Badge
Snow says she won Defcon 22 and won the Black Badge.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Snow EP 22 Details
“I won Defcon 22. I won the Black Badge.”
Crypto-jacking ASSOCIATED_WITH Bitcoin
Robert says the crypto-jacking activity was probably mining Bitcoin, while qualifying that he only remembered this tentatively.
Uncertain Confidence 88% · Robert M. Lee EP 22 Details
“I think this one was actually Bitcoin if I remember correctly”
Dragos ASSOCIATED_WITH Industrial control systems
Dragos is described as a company founded to defend industrial control systems against industrial attacks.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 22 Details
“He then took an interest in industrial control systems and started his own company called Dragos”
Snow says Defcon was the event that led her into her cybersecurity career and that she competed there repeatedly.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Snow EP 22 Details
“everything that brought me to do my career is because of Defcon”
Jack Rhysider AUTHORED Darknet Diaries
Jack says the show is made by him.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 22 Details
“this show is made by me, Jack Rhysider”
Dragos DEVELOPED_BY Robert M. Lee
Robert M. Lee identifies himself as the CEO and founder of Dragos.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Robert M. Lee EP 22 Details
“I am the CEO and founder of Dragos”
Mubix EXPLOITS Command injection
Mubix says the team got into the command injection after obtaining access.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Mubix EP 22 Details
“We get into the command injection”
Mubix says he works at Uber as a senior security engineer.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Mubix EP 22 Details
“I work at Uber as a senior security engineer”
Rob Fuller SAME_AS Mubix
Rob Fuller says he also goes by Mubix.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 22 Details
“a guy named Rob Fuller who also goes by Mubix”
Mubix USES Command and control
Mubix says the team established callbacks to command and control infrastructure.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Mubix EP 22 Details
“get the call backs going to command and control stuff”