NSA "Red Team" Hacker | Jeff Man | Ep. 269

Listening to this while working on my Sec+ cert

thats a lot of liqour

NSA = NO such agency!

We used PGP where I worked then we went to Bouncy Castle…. Love that name.. Good to know govt agencies don’t care about naming huh…

Love podcasts like this😊. Thanks boys.

ATM, there's nice skilled people in the exploitation field who know a lot in their expertise (network/ hardware and software/operating systems/etc.). Unfortunately, it's not the same in the penetration testing where for the defense there is a lot to cover, low paid positions, and seems much easier to launch any tools or exploits you just find on public repo and you don't have a clue what they are doing to pop the root shells 😢

A very interesting guy .. does he have twitter or a way to connect with him?

Does anyone know what headphones is he wearing ?

Minor gripe here but can you maybe not advertise while the speaker is talking? Not only could this be misinterpreted as if the speaker has an affiliation or endorsement with what you’re marketing, it’s also quite annoying for the viewer, who clicked this video to hear this man speak, not buy your patreon. It’s frankly disrespectful to the speaker who volunteered his time to speak only to be used as advertising for 3 consecutive hours.

The opening sequence make me think i was watching SNL

He hacked your network when he connected.
He’s still in your network.
Prove me wrong.

CdC!

ECHELON?
CAIMEO?

Is this the "occupy the web" dude? His speech patterns are super similar.

Really stelar interview, anyone who's been to defcon i always enjoy hearing their perspective and gaining insight into their world. Great conversation guys!

Password managers which don't store your vault online are good and should be used. Much better than repeating passwords even for insignificant accounts.

Shameless plugs 😂

the fascists are evolving into the 90s sysadmin archetype

A VIEWGRAPH PROJECTOR!!!

😮I continue to have my account abused by an Ndrangheta Mafia Italian woman piggybacking on my IP ADDRESS and even denying me access to my account, all reported to natwest bank since January 2023 as this scumbag even tampers with my mail - please investigate as she's a psychopath and the Malta Police are corrupt

Omg my grandpa wore suits and went on out of town trips he was an engineer. Maybe he was nsa😂

IS A FIREWALL FOR AN ANDROID PHONE A JOKE?
OR CAN THEY WORK???

Good discussion but I have to disagree somewhat with Jeff because there WAS a hacking community in early 2000's. Perhaps not as large and known to the general public as it maybe today but Bellcore had a unit (Security & Fraud Group) that actually worked with a few agencies at the time on telecom and cyber security and its members delivered briefings (TSARS, SecureComm) on Cyber and who also used to follow 2600 events in NYC (from early 90's)...in addition, members of the Bellcore group also helped capture LoD (Legion of Doom) members. And also one of the Bellcore members was mentioned in Cliff Stohls "cuckoo's egg" who had helped with the investigation.

Thanks Jeff aka OTW

I came up from the Army side of the house with ARCYBER's JFCC-NW, that then merged into USCYBERCOM, and ran offensive cyber ops in coordination with NSA's button pushers. Very tough to balance family life as the ops were running at all hours of the day and transitioned away from it. Never considered my experience to be anything special, other than to push buttons behind a keyboard and make things happen haha.

What’s the name of his podcast?

This was great interview

Go Red Team...

This guy likes to drone on and on and on without saying much. Even declines to answer the few questions asked hahaha

REALLY DUMB TO LIMIT GROUP CHAT FOR PAYMENT ONLY

I bet you the NSA is watching this 😅

Now they use Wickr

You guys should ask Deviant Ollam if he would come on, if you are interested in going down this Rabbit Hole. Hak5, would be a great resource too. Not everyone is necessarily going to want to come on. Kevin Mitnik would of been an uber guest (R.I.P.)

Fascinating but the man is in love with himself to the point it makes listening difficult.

Nothing is unbreackable for example you can create the whole AES take text sample a and create all AES possibilities with each SHA password and that is like saving in dictionary all the SHA the same goes for everything else.
Size isn't security.

That attack I guess you could call an early day version of social engineering

so any NSA people listening are you going to allow Monero that's going to be like real money or you're allowed some kind of social credit digital dollar system that's always being tracked by the world Elites power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely

He's right about the book The Cuckoo's Egg. It's absolutely fantastic. I think I've read it three times over the years.

What is the meaning of Red team. Does this mean there is also yellow and blue team as well?

No Body has a great story with DOJ

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SOCOM IS OVERRATED CRAP AND THEY SUCK

Secure Telephone Unit, LOL. Good thing they didn't call it a Secure Telephone Device. I could just see operations people calling field agents and asking if they had received their STD.🤣

Thanks ❤

I got interviewed by two NSA suits while I was in the military. I was the senior battle stations Missile Tech serving on the SSBN 630's gold crew. While doing some electeical diagnostics in a panel while out on partol I found that with just a few jumpers I could make it a very bad day for the navy. As in 110 lives lost and over a billion$ worth of scrap metal on the ocean floor.
So I notified my Weapon's officer, who verified my findings and then pulled me into a meet with my CO and XO. I was told to keep the info to myself, so I did.
The very first people across the gangplank after we got to port was two NSA suits to come meet with me.
For a guy in my position they knew about everything about me, including my school records, military evaluations and training and my memberships, and about the members of my family.
The meeting seemed surreal, but what it came down to was that if I had a grudge and were suicidal and wanted to end my boat and the guys I lived and worked with they would never have known until it was already done. So the fact that I was there talking to them should be proof enough that I wasn't a threat.
The next several days I met with three electical engineers from a Navy-contracted university to help re-design the lauch control systems. About 6 months later they nearly completely re-wired our boat's launcher control system.
Either the next patrol, or the patrol after that I found a way to bypass the Captain's permission to fire and the Weapons Officer's permission to fire the missiles. This was launch-only and they would basically be duds. But I was told to just stop it and keep that stuff to myself.
The Calhoun has since been scrapped out so none of this matters any more.

I was working with the nsa in iraq its good to finally see one there guys speaking up! The nsa did get boots on the ground in iraq and allowed us to catch so many hvt's. Interception!