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 RSSVERIFY

Adventures of Alice & Bob is a technology podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 106 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Adventures of Alice & Bob, a technology show with 106 episodes published.

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  Ep. 106 – The Client Stole My Laptop // Ulrich Swart

  Jul 31, 202658 min

  In this episode, James Maude sits down with Ulrich Swart, cofounder and CEO of Subverted, a South African offensive security company built to make pentesting and ethical hacker training more accessible. Ulrich traces his path from tearing apart laptops as a curious kid to being handed a Raspberry Pi and a WiFi card outside a security firm's door and told to prove himself within a week. He shares the chaos of a bank engagement where their laptops vanished mid pentest, and the time he felt like a secret agent hacking in from a stairwell only to spot the security camera watching him the whole time. Find out what motivates Ulrich and his co-founder Jason and why giving back to the community is a key part of what they do.

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  Ep. 105 - The Sim Swap that Changed Everything // Mark Kreitzman

  Jul 10, 202654 min

  In this episode, James talks to Mark Kreitzman, Chief Cyber Evangelist at Afani and host of the Afani Features podcast, whose thirty year career took him from typing BASIC games into an Apple II to building the email and web security platforms later acquired by Microsoft and Cisco. He shares the story of an email administrator whose t shirt read gave a glimpse into how much power sat behind old email filtering systems long before spam filters moved to the cloud. Mark then walks through the night in 2018 when his phone went dead in the middle of the Arizona desert, the start of a sim swap attack that drained his Bitcoin and hijacked his accounts in just sixty one minutes. He describes socially engineering a carrier employee into revealing who was behind it, and how that ordeal pushed him to co found Afani, a mobile carrier built around preventing sim swapping attacks.

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  Ep. 104 - Code Red 25th Anniversary // Marc Maiffret & Dennis Fisher

  Jun 29, 202650 minS0

  <p>In this episode, James talks to Co-host Marc Maiffret, and Dennis Fisher of Decipher, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Code Red worm, one of the most consequential moments in cybersecurity history. Marc takes us back to the Friday night he and his friend and co-worker Ryan Permeh were playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater when two customer emails changed everything, leading them to discover a self-propagating worm spreading at 2,000 servers per minute and ultimately landing Marc on a call with the White House situation room and in front of Congress.</p> <p>Together the three of them dig...

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  Ep. 104 - Code Red 25th Anniversary // Marc Maiffret & Dennis Fisher

  Jun 29, 202650 min

  In this episode, James talks to Co-host Marc Maiffret, and Dennis Fisher of Decipher, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Code Red worm, one of the most consequential moments in cybersecurity history. Marc takes us back to the Friday night he and his friend and co-worker Ryan Permeh were playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater when two customer emails changed everything, leading them to discover a self-propagating worm spreading at 2,000 servers per minute and ultimately landing Marc on a call with the White House situation room and in front of Congress. Together the three of them dig into what Code Red revealed about the state of security in 2001, from the near total absence of patch management to vendors handling vulnerability disclosures through their marketing departments, and why Marc told Congress at the time that the worm was one of the best things that could have happened to the industry. The conversation draws a striking parallel to today, as AI is compressing the vulnerability exploitation window in ways that mirror the chaos of the early internet era, and Marc warns that the industry is drifting back toward insecure by default, the exact mistake that made Code Red possible in the first place.

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  Ep. 103 – Red teaming with Cats, Cheese, and Drones // Brent White & Tim Roberts

  Jun 12, 202656 minS0

  <p>In this episode, James sits down with Brent White and Tim Roberts, senior principal security consultants and covert entry specialists at Dark Wolf Solutions. They trace a remarkable journey together from teenage hijinks exploring phone phreaking, bump keys and IRC channels in the early 90s to running full-spectrum physical red team operations against some of the most secure government facilities in the world.</p> <p>Along the way they share the lessons and common mistakes for anyone entering the field, drawn from years of hard-won experience, alongside some unforgettable stories. That includes a creative attempt to infiltrate a facility...

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