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What can you do if a loved one was kidnapped and the government couldn’t help?  The Halo Corp is  a group of ex-Military commando’s that specialize in rescuing and recovering of people in very dangerous circumstances.  We invited Brad Barker, the CEO of The Halo Corp onto the podcast to discuss how they use Social Engineering.  Release Date December 12 2011

Contents 1 Download 2 Subscribe 3 Feeds 4 Sponsors 5 Plugs and What’s New 6 Podcast Notes 7 Get Involved

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Force Multipliers in Modern Social Engineering – Episode 029

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Sponsors

Make sure to check out Social-Engineer.Com. The Social Engineering for Penetration Testers course is officially launched and will be in Seattle in March 2012 and Bristol UK in April 2012- NOW taking registrations – Black Hat has given us free passes to any BH briefing in 2012-13 for the first 10 people who sign up for each class.

This episode is sponsored by Spy Associates.

Thank you to the EFF which continually supports and helps us.

The Social-Engineer CTF Report for Defcon 19 is now live and can be downloaded.

Plugs and What’s New

We are putting a call out there for any who want to submit an idea or your story for the Social-Engineer.Org Newsletter. Check out the Newsletter page for more info, or check out the archives at that page. Email us at contribute@social-engineer.org with your submission or idea.

If you loved the new intro music then you MUST run over to the Dual Core website and check out the awesome geekcore rap they have there.

A lot of people are asking who makes our graphics and web design… Get a hold of Tom at Tick Tock Computers… just don’t ask to steal my design suckas.

We have a brand new poll going up on the site this week make sure to keep checking the social engineering poll.

Keep in mind we are still trying to support our good friend Brad Smith and asking people to help them with their medical bills.. We will continue to update you on Brad’s condition and we appreciate all your help with donations.

Podcast Notes

Brad Barker, CEO of The Halo Corp, joined us this month to discuss how they go about saving people from hostage circumstances and how they use Social Engineering in doing so.

Here are some of the questions we asked Brad….

• Do you recover things (objects, physical items) or just people?
• Do they go after ALL recoveries or have they ever turned down a job due to it being too difficult?
• What’s your recovery rate/history/record?
• Do you have agents/employees/contractors stationed around the world on-call?
• Do you have undercover agents that operate like spies?
• How extensive is the HALO training?
• What are your methods of recovery?
• What are some cool high-tech toys you guys use?
• Is it with local/federal law enforcement blessing?
• Is it normally organized crime that has their hands in the kidnapping?

 

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