SecTools Podcast

Every episode, 59 conversations.

Audio interviews with the people who write, maintain and evangelise free and open-source security tools.

59 episodes

E59
Alexander Wilczek

BreachClaw

Alex is a cybersecurity professional with a decade of experience in penetration testing. For the past three years, he has embraced life as a full-time digital nomad, …

31:36
E58
Attila Kálmán

Kali NetHunter

Attila Kálmán (@yesimxev) is a security and mobile phone enthusiast, one of our NetHunter developers who is continuously improving the project for many years. His interest in …

26:05
E56
Donato Capitella

Spikee, AI and beyond

Donato is a Software Engineer and Principal Security Consultant at WithSecure, with over 12 years of experience in offensive security, security assurance, and software …

38:08
E55
Andre Tenreiro

Opensquat

Andre Tenreiro is a security professional with over a decade of leadership in various sectors, including IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and IP networks. He …

24:19
E54
Ezz Tahoun

MITRE Attack Flow Detector

Ezz Tahoun, a distinguished cyber-security data scientist, who won AI & innovation awards at Yale, Princeton and Northwestern. He also got innovation awards from Canada’s …

43:15
E53
Praveen Kanniah

Mantis

Praveen is a security enthusiast with 14+ years of experience in application security who loves to break complexity bias. His works include developing frameworks and tools for …

29:43
E52
Duncan Ogilvie

X64dbg

Duncan Ogilvie has started reverse engineering somewhere around 2009. He is the creator of x64dbg, an open-source x64/x32 debugger for windows, and 100+ other projects. Duncan …

27:51
E51
Dimitrios Valsamaras

Medusa and Mobile Security

A cybersecurity professional with expertise in mobile, web, and network penetration testing. Dimitrios holds a degree in Computer Science, majoring in Cryptography and …

30:52
E49
Gelei Deng

PentestGPT

Gelei is a cybersecurity researcher with wide interests in system security and penetration testing. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science from Nanyang …

34:44
E45
Erlend Oftedal

Retire.js

Erlend has worked as a developer and security consultant for over 14 years, trying to build and break many different types of systems. He spends some of his free time on …

30:26
E44
Jeff Foley

OWASP Amass project

Jeff Foley has 20 years of experience focused on applied research & development, security assessment, and attack surface management. He is the Founder and Project Leader …

43:25
E43
Anand Tiwari

ArcherySec

Anand Tiwari is an information security professional with a strong technical background working as a Technical Product Manager (PM), focusing on the more technical aspects of …

33:19
E42
Nicolas Surribas

Wapiti Project

Nicolas is a French security researcher, a proud dad of two children. He started Wapiti in 2006 when he was learning Python programming language. Nicolas is currently working …

22:54
E41
ONEKEY Team

Unblob Project

unblob is an accurate, fast, and easy-to-use extraction suite. It parses unknown binary blobs for more than 30 different archive, compression, and file-system formats, …

29:42
E39
Philippe Humeau

CrowdSec

Graduated in 1999 from Epita (France) as IT security engineer, Philippe endorsed many roles before creating its latest company CrowdSec. From Pentester to community builder …

27:47
E37
Ai Hao (j3ssie)

Osmedeus, Jaeles and Metabigor

Ai Ho (mostly known as j3ssie) is a self-taught security engineer with a computer science background who loves automation. He got Interested in responsible disclosure/bug …

22:34
E36
Ruslan Habalov

Vulncode-db

Ruslan Habalov has a computer science background with a focus on code analysis and is interested in scalable solutions to challenging security problems. His security research …

25:08
E32
Chris Em

Multiple projects

Chris Em (also known as Cookie Engineer) has almost 2 decades of experience in IT and security industry. He specializes in multiple domains including web intelligence, network …

28:39
E31
Marc Ochsenmeier

Pestudio

Marc Ochsenmeier is the author of pestudio on https://winitor.com. Pestudio is a unique tool that allows you to perform an Malware Initial Assessment without even infecting a …

36:20
E29
Martin Donath

Material for MkDocs

Martin Donath is the creator of Material for MkDocs, a static site from a set of Markdown files to host the documentation.

37:33
E27
Vipin Pavithran

Scapy project, also r2m2

Guillaume Valadon is the Security Agent Team Lead at Datadog, and holds a PhD in IPv6 networking. He likes looking at data and crafting packets. In his spare time, he …

24:59
E24
Anastasios Stasinopoulos

Commix Project

Anastasios Stasinopoulos is a Senior Penetration Tester at Obrela Labs - Obrela Security Industries and has a professional experience over 6 years in the field of Information …

23:55
E21
Emily Wenger

The Fawkes project

Emily Wenger is a PhD student at the University of Chicago studying machine learning security and privacy. She’s particularly interested in understanding and preventing the …

27:24
E19
Kai Jern Lau

Qiling Framework (qiling.io)

Kai Jern (xwings), is Lab Director of The ShepherdLab, of JD Security. His research topic mainly on embedded device, hardware security, blockchain security, reverse …

27:39
E18
HD Moore

Metasploit Project and more

HD Moore is the founder and CEO of Critical Research, makers of Rumble, a network discovery and asset inventory platform. HD is best known for creating the Metasploit …

22:32
E17
Dr. Brian Carrier

Autopsy and Sleuth Kit

Dr. Brian Carrier leads the digital forensics team at Basis Technology, which builds software for incident response, digital forensics, and custom mission needs. He is the …

27:12
E16
Miroslav Stampar

SQL injection tool, SQLMap

IT Security Advisor - Expert at Croatian Government’s CERT, part of the Information Systems Security Bureau (ZSIS). Born in 1982., writing and breaking computer code for as …

34:53
E14
Giovanni Rattaro

Tsurugi Linux

Giovanni Rattaro is a senior cyber security expert and manager based in Paris, old Italian Backtrack Linux ambassador/staff and ex DEFT Linux developer, now is the Tsurugi …

41:34
E10
Yiannis Ioannides

His work in WarBerryPi Project

Yiannis Ioannides works as the Director at one of the big 4 consulting firm with over 10 years of technical experience providing physical security assessments, penetration …

35:41
E08
Mike Hodges

His project - hideNsneak

Mike Hodges is a Senior Security Engineer at Red Ventures leading Red Team Operations and Incident Response. He comes from a background of application development and …

16:03
E05
OJ Reeves

Metasploit framework and Meterpreter

OJ Reeves is an Australian security professional who specializes in attack simulation. When not breaking networks and software, he is actively contributing to the Metasploit …

38:44
E04
Ryan Dewhurst

DVWA, WPScan and more

Ryan Dewhurst has been testing web applications professionally for security issues since 2009. He has a BSc (hons) Ethical Hacking for Computer Security that he completed with …

30:46