Secure After Dark
People often imagine hackers lurking in back alleys, skulking through darkness. Even though the reality is cybersecurity, and even hacking, is more corporate, there’s still an on-the-streets vibe to much of what cyber professionals do. If that’s where your interest lies, The Secure After Dark podcast is for you. Join host Tanner Shinn to learn from Alias and outside guests about the often-hidden side of cybersecurity.
Episodes
In this episode of Secure After Dark, Tanner sits down with Ringmast4r (Patrick Quirk) to dive into aggressive OSINT, large-scale government data extraction, and the future of digital transparency. From war driving and custom-built signal intelligence rigs to extracting more than 188GB of publicly exposed Venezuelan government data, Ringmast4r walks through the mindset, tools, and automation behind his research.
We also explore ODIN...
In this After Dark episode, Solaris and Tanner take us behind the scenes of real-world penetration tests ... with wild stories of social engineering and physical ops that range from wedding crashers to Italian perfume factories’ networks. 🕵️♂️💻
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Valiant didn’t go to Las Vegas expecting to find belonging. He went to DEF CON (the world’s most infamous hacker conference) armed with stickers, a mic, and a healthy dose of paranoia. What he found was something else entirely.
This isn’t your typical conference recap. It’s a raw, unfiltered, and occasionally absurd field report from the front lines of hacker culture. From TSA misadventures and social engineering sleight-of-hand to ...
This year, our favorite bar closed and ransomware attacks have been forecast to double... is there a connection? Probably not, but listen to the new Secure AFter Dark anyway as we chat about all of this and more!
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Tanner Shinn sits down with Alex and Thomas, developers behind Netexec, to talk all things pentesting. From rewriting tools to redefining workflows, this episode dives into how Netexec is reshaping offensive security for modern red teams. 💻⚡️
Whether you're deep in the weeds of network testing or just curious about where open-source tooling is headed, you won’t want to miss this one.
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Join Donovan Farrow for an exclusive interview with the one and only Joe Exotic, the infamous "Tiger King"! 🐅
In this episode, Joe opens up about his life behind bars, his thoughts on his trial, and what the future holds for him. You won't want to miss his candid takes on the controversies, his passion for big cats, and his plans for redemption.
Get ready for a wild ride with Joe Exotic!
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Tanner and Joe continue their conversation about how IRs appear from inside an organization.
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Tanner is joined by Joe Bowersox to chat about an IR from an insider perspective - what organizations should know, how they should prepare, and how to interact with an IR team for best results. This is Part 1 of a 2 part episode.
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Tanner Shinn is joined by cybersecurity content creator and consultant InfoSec Pat to talk about his journey to becoming a recognized and respected provider of information in the cybersecurity and IT community.
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Simon Bennetts helped pioneer the popular web app scanner Zap. He joins Tanner Shinn to talk about the tool's development and expansion and all other things cybersecurity.
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Join Tanner Shinn and Keelan Knox as they discuss how high-stress cyber situations can lead to "interesting" interactions.
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Digital forensics is a niche field. It takes a very special sort of person. The few. The proud. The traumatized.
On this episode of Secure After Dark, host Tanner Shinn is joined by Alias CEO and founder Donovan Farrow. He'll share stories from his expert career in the field, from how Alias was founded to protect the innocent to how deep the strange, bizarre, and profane can go when dealing with what can be the dark underbell...
The IOT (Internet of Things) presents a range of vulnerabilities, from the ability of the devices themselves to be hacked to the potential to use hacked devices for further, more critical exploits (remember the company hacked through an internet-enabled fish tank thermometer?).
The dangers are wide ranging. So are the potentially exploitable devices.
On this episode of Secure After Dark, host Tanner Shinn talks with Andrew Lemon ...
AI is all the rage in the news. From how cyberthreats will be on the rise to how cyberdefense can leverage the technology for better security. But what, really, can AI do? What's hype? And what are legitimate concerns and opportunities?
On this episode of Secure After Dark, Tanner Shinn engages in a conversation with an AI practitioner to get to the bottom of what is and what isn't possible.
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Digital Forensics is its own world. And the population can be…interesting. First calls and ongoing cases can run from the mundane to the truly mad.
On this episode of Secure After Dark, Tanner Shinn is joined by Andrew Peters, Alias Forensics expert, to discuss the peculiarities of the role and how to navigate conversations with the hurt and the unhinged.
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Security experts and hackers alike know, and probably have, all the tools of the trade. But having the tools and efficiently carrying them and having them handy for use is another issue.
On this episode of the Secure After Dark podcast, host Tanner Shinn talks with gear craftsman Daniel, known online as Mr. AOKU, designer of aoku ware. They'll talk about how he got into hacking and creating gear for covert entry and ease of us...
Tanner Shinn and Skypirate continue their discussion of physical entry techniques and tricks.
Interested in learning more about the work Skypirate does? Visit his website: https://www.cloakedentryco.com/
This is part 2 of a 2 part episode.
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Looking to "break into" cybersecurity? Maybe it involves literally learning how to break in!
Physical penetration is one of the most interesting, obscure, and rewarding parts of checking organizational (and sometimes personal) security. The most secure network isn't safe if it's not protected physically.
Host Tanner Shinn is joined today by Skypirate (aka Marcus Singletary), a longtime army expert in cov...
Cybersecurity is mostly a sedentary job. You sit. You defend. You research. You remediate. It's a lot of time staring at a screen.
It's easy to develop that cyberslouch and slide into that cyberbod. 💪🏽
On this edition of the Secure After Dark podcast, host Tanner Shinn (did you know he once owned a gym?) and guest Phillip Wylie (did you know he's a former wrestler?) chat about why physical fitness...
Your physical security is key to your cybersecurity. The most secure network can be breached if an attacker can walk into your server room. And that's what Alias tries to do in a Physical Penetration test.
On this episode, host Tanner Shinn is joined by Alias Security Engineer Robert Leasure to discuss the tips and tricks of the trade and share stories of favorite and most successful tactics and engagements.
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