sn0ww  is a social engineering professional. At DEF CON 22 she won a black badge for the Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF). sn0ww was also on the winning team for SAINTCON'S Vault Physical Security challenge, which won the team a black badge. Over the last five years she has presented and taught trainings at multiple InfoSec conferences. sn0ww has performed a variety of Social Engineering assessments for clients ranging from start-ups, Fortune 100 companies, to government agencies as well as assisted consultancies build out their Social Engineering services.

Topics include:

00:00 Introduction

00:53 Professional Liar sn0ww

01:40 Origin Story: DEFCON

04:05 Social Engineering Capture the Flag

04:40 Chris Hadnagy @HumanHacker gives books and advice

07:20 Choosing Pretexts

08:50 Social Media and OSINT

10:55 Contest to Career!

12:10 Twitter incident discussion

13:00 Types of Insider threats

17:45 Human Beings are the weak link

18:30 Women and Social Engineering

20:50 Typical Engagement Description

26:46 COVID19 and Red Teaming

29:00 Red Team Community

30:25 Discussing BSides

35:00 Mental Health and COVID19

36:20 Advice to a younger sn0ww

36:58 "Darknet Diaries" episode 22

38:20 "Get out of Jail Free" card and social engineering

39:50 sn0ww gets caught

44:50 Personal advice for listeners