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Welcome to the Adventures of Alice & Bob Podcast, where we talk shop with pen testers, hackers, and the unsung heroes of the cybersecurity world about the human element of being on the front lines of cyber attacks.
Produced by Merchants Media.
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Ep.85 - Subterfuge and Social Engineering // Matthew Toussain
Adventures of Alice & Bob
48 minutes
2 months ago
Ep.85 - Subterfuge and Social Engineering // Matthew Toussain
Join host James Maude for a candid conversation with Matthew Toussaint - founder of Open Security and mastermind behind the legendary Subterfuge framework that once forced Starbucks to overhaul its Wi-Fi security. From his unexpected path as an aspiring Air Force lawyer to becoming a renowned cybersecurity educator, Matthew shares a lifetime of stories: a physical pen test that went spectacularly wrong at a franchise location, a medical clinic investigation that exposed an insider threat with international stakes, and how old-school phone-based social engineering works in the age of identity threats. They dive into why AI is about to make help desk social engineering terrifyingly scalable, how a nervous 21-year-old’s DefCon talk reshaped network security, and why, despite decades of warnings, the industry is still failing at the basics while attackers rapidly scale with artificial intelligence.
Adventures of Alice & Bob
Welcome to the Adventures of Alice & Bob Podcast, where we talk shop with pen testers, hackers, and the unsung heroes of the cybersecurity world about the human element of being on the front lines of cyber attacks.
Produced by Merchants Media.
For booking inquires, email booking@merchantsmedia.com
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