Hey, it's Jack, host of the show.

Now a lot of you write to me and tell me your favorite episodes of the ones with social

engineers or penetration testers.

Yeah, sure, being on the red team is fun to break into things, but my heart is with

the blue team, the defenders of the network, because that's what I did for 10 years professionally.

I was configuring firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and reviewing logs to find

threats in the network.

I felt like it was my job to stop or restrict bad things from happening in my client's

networks.

It was a game of cat and mouse.

I had to learn what the bad guys knew, so I could stop them.

And I'll tell you, it was exciting.

At times it felt like the battle at Helm's Deep, with a never ending onslaught of attackers,

and I had to embody legalists to defend them off one at a time.

Now this story is about a defender, and how she uncovered a serious breach in the network

of a major bank.

These are true stories from the dark side of the internet.

I'm Jack Recyder.

This is Dark Net Diaries.

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