#105 - Thomas Johnson - What Is An Ethical Hacker?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Thomas Johnson is an ethical hacker and social engineer.

Hacking is often thought of as a dark art. Dark basements and illegal activities. But there's an entire other world of hackers who are using their skills to subvert security systems both online and offline for good.

Expect to learn just how Tom hacks both people and computers to break into secure buildings, how safe your information is online, what tools Tom uses to bypass the systems that are meant to keep him out and his best advice for staying secure online.

Also get ready for him to hack into a university's CCTV system only using Google while we are recording.

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0:00.0	Oh, hello people of podcast land. Welcome back to Modern Wisdom. My guest today is Tom Johnson
0:06.0	and he is a social engineer and ethical hacker. Don't worry, I didn't know what that meant before
0:12.7	this podcast either. So today you're going to learn. Tom is going to tell us how he gets into buildings
0:19.1	that he shouldn't, how he gets access to information and computers that are prohibited and protected,
0:25.9	how he subverts both online and offline security and hacks into a university CCTV system
0:36.3	live on air. This entire discussion with him was pretty terrifying. He is a good guy but the fact
0:44.6	that he is able to do these things with computers and in the real world shows just how vulnerable we are.
0:52.2	We think that we have a lot of protections in place and that our information is at least partially
0:56.9	secure and Tom dispels a lot of those myths today. Lot of takeaways to do with both personal
1:03.4	and commercial security on and offline. So I really hope that you enjoy it. Thank you so much to
1:09.2	Tom for coming on. Please welcome one of the good guys in the world of hacking. Tom Johnson.
1:22.5	I am joined by Tom Johnson, ethical hacker and social engineer extraordinaire. Welcome to the show,
1:38.0	Tom, it's great to have you on. Hello, thank you very much for inviting me. It's going to be an
1:42.6	exciting one today. This world of ethical hacking and social engineering is something that I've seen
1:48.8	a little bit about online but I don't really know all that much but I guess we're going to delve
1:53.2	into it today, right? Absolutely, would you like to start at the beginning? How we're going to
1:58.4	involve it? Would you like me to tell you what it is for us? Let's find out how do you define
2:05.6	ethical hacking and social engineering and what you do and then let's find out about the genesis
2:11.3	story. Absolutely. So social engineer, according to a guy called Christopher Hadman here in America,
2:18.4	is the art of using human psychology or misusing human psychology to get a target to do something
2:26.9	or say something, they shouldn't do or say it and that is grassroots. So if you can talk someone
2:32.7	giving you the passwords or plugging in your space stick into the computer, then all of this
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