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Twenty-one years old, sitting at an e-machines computer in Oregon. AOL chatrooms visable through the scanlines of a 17" beige CRT monitor. The social engineering protocol initializes without a name, without formal...

Twenty-one years old, sitting at an e-machines computer in Oregon. AOL chatrooms visable through the scanlines of a 17" beige CRT monitor. The social engineering protocol initializes without a name, without formal...

In the back office of his father’s telecommunications business, something in five-year-old Ryan Williams initialized. Programming in BASIC on a Commodore 64, he typed endless lines of code from a magazine, waiting three...

One batch file flatlined an entire school district’s network. That was 1994, in a town so small you could drive fifteen minutes and see nothing but the curvature of the earth. By sixteen he was building one of Wyoming’s...

A kid builds a website for Game Boy Advance tips. Then another one. Then a racing game with a contact form he didn't think twice about. Until, someone hit it with a SQL injection. That moment cracked open a door he...

An Uber ride. A stranger in the backseat. A conversation that changes everything. What if the person who redirects your entire life is someone you've walked past a thousand times and never noticed? This is the story of...

The future of cybersecurity is not coming. It is already here. AI is writing code faster than humans. Deepfakes can impersonate your boss. Quantum computers threaten the encryption that protects everything we trust. And...

In this conversation, Chris Glanden interviews Matt Brown, a cybersecurity professional with extensive experience in both offensive and defensive security. Matt shares his journey into the cybersecurity field...

In this episode, Corey LeBleu , a veteran penetration tester, shares a raw and intense story from his early days in offensive security. Corey walks through a social engineering engagement that took a sharp turn, from...

In the electric chaos of DEF CON—where dial tones, solder smoke, and hacker legends collide—one figure stands out: John Aff, aka PANDA . A veteran in the hacker community, he moves effortlessly between challenge design...

Enter the mind of Amar Sonik - a DevOps engineer, community builder, and lifelong technologist whose journey spans from the help desk to the heart of cybersecurity. Known for shaping BSides Singapore and now lending his...

Summary: Live from the BarCode YachtCast 2025 , host Chris Glanden sits down with Krista Arndt , Associate CISO at St. Luke’s University Health Network and author of “Permission to Be Real.” In this raw and authentic...

This week, Barcode hits the floor at HOU.SEC.CON2025 , one of the most anticipated cybersecurity gatherings in Texas, to capture real conversations with the people driving the industry forward. The energy was high, the...

“Flow State” isn’t just a nod to the psychological zone of peak focus — it reflects Yuriy Sibere’s entire approach to life and work. From tinkering with a ZX Spectrum in Ukraine to managing cross-functional security...

"Revelation" is about exposing what’s hidden: Vulnerabilities, Truths, and the role of hackers in revealing them.In this conversation, Casey John Ellis, founder of Bugcrowd, shares his journey from a curious child...