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Welcome to the Layer 8 Podcast season 5! This season we’ll have conversations with social engineers and OSINT investigators who will tell their stories. We hope you enjoy them.
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Episode 148: Dr. Abbie Maroño
Dr. Abbie Maroño (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drabbiemarono/) is a behavioral scientist and the Director of Education for Social Engineer, LLC. She frequently consults on body language, non-verbals and public speaking, all using data backed
Episode 147: John Bejakovic
John Bejakovic is a business copywriter who writes a daily newsletter at https://bejakovic.com/, an online journal and wrote a book about influence techniques that he has learned. He acknowledges the work of Robert Cialdini and then builds
Episode 146: Social Engineering Capture the Flag at Layer 8
The Layer 8 Conference will have a full scope social engineering capture the flag (CTF) competition this year. This is an event that has been created by John Costa and Jordan Saleh. In this episode, we hear from John and Jordan about their
Episode 145: Brett Redman of OSINT Industries
Brett Redman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettredman/), the Chief Operating Officer of OSINT Industries (https://www.osint.industries/) returns to the Layer 8 Podcast. He talks a bit about platform and training opportunities available thro
Episode 144: Gunther Royen and Scott McLean
For this episode, our host attended a covert entry class with Covert Access Team (https://www.covertaccessteam.com/) in Copenhagen, and spoke with Gunther Royen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/guntherroyen/) and Scott McLean (https://www.linke
Episode 143: OSINT Keynote, Training and Mistakes!
On this episode, we're excited to announce that the OSINT keynote speaker for the Layer 8 Conference will be Micah Hoffman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/micahhoffman/)! See more about Micah here: https://layer8conference.com/keynote-speakers
Episode 142: Learning Covert Entry with Brian Harris
Brian Harris (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-harris-a3838199/) is the creator of Covert Access Team (https://www.covertaccessteam.com/), a company that performs physical security testing. That can include testing whether your detection a
Episode 141: Carter Zupancich - Vishing with AI
Carter Zupancich (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carterzupancich/) is a Solutions Architecture Manager at Doppel (https://www.doppel.com/). In this episode, Carter tells us how far AI has come in assisting with phone phishing, or vishing. AI h
Episode 140: Jennifer Shannon & Kevin Tackett - Secure Ideas
Jennifer Shannon (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-shannon-7885baa1/) is a Senior Security Consultant for Secure Ideas. Kevin Tackett (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevintackett/) is formerly known as Kevin Johnson, the CEO and founder of
Episode 139: Mathieu Gaucheler of Maltego
Mathieu Gaucheler (https://medium.com/@shibaosint) is the Subject Matter Expert at Maltego (https://www.maltego.com/) where he works with clients on custom OSINT solutions and also runs their public CTFs (https://www.maltego.com/community-c
Episode 138: Layer 8 Keynote Speaker Christina Lekati
The Layer 8 Conference is excited to announce the first of its keynote speakers for 2026, Christina Lekati (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-lekati-social-engineering/)! Christina is a social engineering specialist who works with Cyber
Episode 137: Rosa Rowles - Social Engineer
Rosa Rowles (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosa-rowles/) has spent more than six years as a social engineer, mainly performing vishing calls. She reports that she has made more than 20,000 calls in her career. In this episode, she talks about
Episode 136: Sagi Brody of Sockpuppet
Sagi Brody (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sagi-brody/) is the CEO and creator of Sockpuppet.io (https://sockpuppet.io), a company that makes sockpuppets available for investigations. If you've ever tried to create your own sock accounts, you
Episode 135: Mrs. OSINT
It's pretty easy to guess what she does simply by her name. Mrs. OSINT (https://www.linkedin.com/company/mrsosint) has an incredible web site dedicated to sharing her learning journey and helping others do the same. She has a "Start Here (h
Episode 134: Anatomy of a Con Artist - Johnathan Walton
Johnathan Walton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnathan-walton-a3b835b/) got conned out of $100,000 by a very experienced con-woman. When most people get conned or scammed, they're embarrassed and never tell anyone about the experience. Joh
Episode 133: Dennis Keefe
Want to get into the OSINT field and are unsure where to start? Then this is the episode for you. Dennis Keefe (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkeefe/) started out in law enforcement, became a web developer and then changed into the OSINT fiel
Episode 132 - Chris Cowling of RedTeamers.eu
Have you thought much about physical security and whether someone could breach a building's guards, alarms and cameras? On this episode, we talk with Chris Cowling (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriscowling/), the founder of RedTeamers.eu (h
Episode 131: Kirby Plessas and the PEN
Kirby Plessas (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirbyp/) is an OSINT pioneer, US military veteran, business owner, board member, is OSC certified (https://osmosisinstitute.org/osc/)and podcast host. Kirby was an Arabic linguist in the military w
Episode 130: Positive Reinforcement and Gamification in Security Awareness with CyberHoot
Craig Taylor (https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigmtaylor/) is the founder and CEO of CyberHoot (https://cyberhoot.com/) a security awareness company that focuses on positive reinforcement and gamification. Craig studied psychology and used th
Episode 129: Tim Farmer - Deanonymizing the Dark Web
Tim Farmer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-farmer-osc-2ab537162/) is the OSINT Training Lead for Dark Blue at CACI (https://www.caci.com/darkblue). He performs investigations along with teaching OSINT classes with a focus on the deep and d
Episode 128: Dorota - The Woman In Red
Dorota Kozlowska (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorota-kozlowska/) is a social engineer and penetration tester for Black Hills Information Security (https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/). She has her own podcast which can be found on Twitch (ht
Episode 127: "I Am Your Permission" - Leon Johnson
Sho Luv, aka Leon Johnson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonjohnson/) is a ninja, a hacker, a penetration tester and a computer security expert. Leon has performed all types of testing engagements and has mentored many other aspiring pentest
Episode 126: Brett Redman - History of West Coast Gangs
How does a man living in England trace the history of Compton, California and the evolution of gangs across the country? And then evolve to tracking financial crimes? By using his OSINT skills! In this episode, Brett Redman (https://www.lin
Episode 125: Olie Brown of Console Cowboys
Olie Brown (https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliebrown/) is a self-described hacker and the creator of the penetration testing company CC Labs (https://www.consolecowboys.com/). In this episode, Olie tells us of some social engineering exploits
Episode 124: Soxoj - OSINT on ICQ, His Substack, Tools and More!
Dmitry Danilov (https://www.linkedin.com/in/danilov-d/), aka Soxoj (https://bsky.app/profile/soxoj.bsky.social) is an OSINT investigator and CPO for Social Links (https://sociallinks.io/). In this episode, we talk about his Substack (https:
Episode 123: Jeff Tomkiewicz and His Pretexts!
Jeff Tomkiewicz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-tomkiewicz/), aka The Gh0stface Killer (https://bsky.app/profile/gfk.bsky.social) is a social engineer who is employed but a health services company. He will also be teaching a pretexting wo
Episode 122: My OSINT Training with Griffin Glynn and Micah Hoffman
My OSINT Training (https://www.myosint.training/) is a company created by Griffin (@hatless1der (https://bsky.app/profile/hatless1der.com)) Glynn and Micah (@webbreacher (https://bsky.app/profile/webbreacher.com)) Hoffman. Their goal was to
Episode 121: Dutch OSINT Guy
Get your ticket to the Layer 8 Conference on June 14, in Boston! In this episode, we're joined by Nico Dekens (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dutch-osintguy/), aka Dutch_OSINTGuy (https://bsky.app/profile/dutchosintguy.bsky.social) where he ta
Episode 119: Aidan Raney of Farnsworth Intelligence
Aidan Raney (https://www.linkedin.com/in/devaidan/) is the founder of Farnsworth Intelligence (https://www.farnsworthintelligence.com/), an OSINT company that focuses on due diligence investigations, among others. Aidan freely shares conten
Episode 118: Brian Harris - Covert Access Team
Brian Harris (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-harris-a3838199/) from the Covert Access Team (https://www.covertaccessteam.com/) is a social engineer, a physical pentester and a member of the black team (https://covertaccessteam.substack.c
