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Easy Prey

Chris Parker, the founder of WhatIsMyIPAddress.com, interviews guests and tells real-life stories about topics to open your eyes to the danger and traps lurking in the real world, ranging from online scams and frauds to everyday situations where people are trying to take advantage of you—for their gain and your loss.

Our goal is to educate and equip you, so you learn how to spot the warning signs of trouble, take quick action, and lower the risk of becoming a victim.

Tech News News True Crime
Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
43 minutes
Episodes
288
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Student Loan Scams with Robert Farrington

Student Loan Scams with Robert Farrington

If you’ve got student loans, you feel the pressure of that financial obligation, but watch out. There are scammers looking to take advantage of your situation, offering student loan consolidation or …

00:36:49  |   Wed 20 Jan 2021
Women in Infosec with Eleanor Dallaway

Women in Infosec with Eleanor Dallaway

In this episode, we deviate a bit from our traditional topics to incorporate the growing diversity in the Infosec world. In the past, this has been a male dominated field, but the culture is changing…

00:40:38  |   Wed 13 Jan 2021
Avoiding Mentoring Disasters with Mark Timm

Avoiding Mentoring Disasters with Mark Timm

As we start the new year, we often contemplate resolutions and adopting new behaviors into our lives. Good mentoring relationships can have an amazingly powerful impact on both our personal and profe…

00:31:35  |   Wed 06 Jan 2021
Protecting Your Business with Dr. Mary C. Kelly

Protecting Your Business with Dr. Mary C. Kelly

Trust is important for our employees, our clients, and our potential customers and as entrepreneurs, we need to learn how to create it. As business professionals, we need to learn how to choose who t…

00:43:38  |   Wed 30 Dec 2020
Protect Yourself - Real Life Scenarios with James Casey

Protect Yourself - Real Life Scenarios with James Casey

Criminals don’t just randomly pick their targets. They look for easy prey. Find out what you might inadvertently be doing that makes a criminal choose you as their next victim.

Today’s guest is James…

00:36:30  |   Wed 23 Dec 2020
Fraud Detection with Traci Brown

Fraud Detection with Traci Brown

Our body can give clues to what we are thinking or feeling and review of what we’re saying is the truth or deception. How can we use that fact to detect when others are being deceptive?

Today’s guest…

00:42:33  |   Wed 16 Dec 2020
Scam Baiting with Jim Browning

Scam Baiting with Jim Browning

Most of us have received that call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft Tech Support saying that there is an issue with our computer that they want to help us resolve. This scam has evolved int…

00:38:19  |   Wed 09 Dec 2020
Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking with Ed Skoudis

Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking with Ed Skoudis

Is there such a thing as an ethical hacker? Do all hackers use their skills to attack infrastructures? If you’re interested in ethical hacking and penetration testing, this is the episode for you. 

T…

00:45:34  |   Wed 02 Dec 2020
Charity Scams with Michael Thatcher and Zachary Weinsteiger

Charity Scams with Michael Thatcher and Zachary Weinsteiger

With Giving Tuesday right around the corner, it is important to make sure that the money we give gets to the causes we are passionate about. In the midst of the season of giving, scammers are working…

00:46:33  |   Wed 25 Nov 2020
Psychological Security with Adam Anderson

Psychological Security with Adam Anderson

As cybercrime grows more sophisticated day by day, so do technical defenses. But great technology is no match for an employee clicking on a simple phishing email. Psychological security is designed t…

00:42:40  |   Wed 18 Nov 2020
The Life of a Cybercriminal with Brett Johnson

The Life of a Cybercriminal with Brett Johnson

What is it like to be a world-renowned cybercriminal and what motivates them? Today’s guest referred to as the original internet Godfather shares his experience running a cybercriminal empire, going …

00:47:04  |   Wed 11 Nov 2020
Embezzlement with Kelly Paxton

Embezzlement with Kelly Paxton

Embezzlement is on the rise, but only a  few incidents ever get reported to law enforcement. Why do people steal and how are they doing it? What can business owners do to help prevent these crimes an…

00:50:40  |   Wed 04 Nov 2020
Surveillance and Digital Rights with Danny O’Brien

Surveillance and Digital Rights with Danny O’Brien

With the cost of surveillance and mass information gathering becoming cheaper and easier, laws are struggling to keep pace. Who is fighting for transparency and working to protect your digital rights…

01:00:45  |   Wed 28 Oct 2020
Charity and Personal Finance Scams with Dori Zinn

Charity and Personal Finance Scams with Dori Zinn

The pandemic has taken an economic toll on millions of lives. People are struggling, people want to help, and others are looking to take advantage of both. Before panicking about your bills or giving…

00:31:04  |   Wed 21 Oct 2020
You Can Stop Stupid with Ira Winkler

You Can Stop Stupid with Ira Winkler

Information security is not just technical. There is a human aspect involved and fixing that is more than just identification and awareness. Our guest today is Ira Winkler. Ira is the president of Se…

00:45:26  |   Wed 14 Oct 2020
Disinformation and Misinformation with Morgan Wright

Disinformation and Misinformation with Morgan Wright

With the 2020 elections right around the corner, do you know who is trying to influence you and how they’re doing it? Listen on to learn about the ins and outs of disinformation, misinformation, inte…

00:36:40  |   Wed 07 Oct 2020
Dating Scams with Kezia Noble

Dating Scams with Kezia Noble

With more and more dating moving online, how do we separate real honest people from those who are misrepresenting themselves and the outright scammers? Our guest today is Kezia Noble. Kezia is a lead…

00:45:22  |   Wed 30 Sep 2020
Social Engineering with Jack Rhysider

Social Engineering with Jack Rhysider

Have you ever received calls either at work or at home where the caller wants you to verify some information about yourself or someone else in the company? This could just be someone updating their r…

00:39:57  |   Wed 23 Sep 2020
Reputation Management with Chris Silver Smith

Reputation Management with Chris Silver Smith

If your reputation or the reputation of your business gets trashed online, it can have a lasting impact. But there are things that you can do today to limit the impact of negative online statements a…

00:45:15  |   Wed 16 Sep 2020
Conspiracy Theories with Dr. Michael Shermer

Conspiracy Theories with Dr. Michael Shermer

Conspiracy theories are all crazy, right? Well, maybe not. There’s some history as to why so many people believe in them. What we really need is a conspiracy theory detection kit and that’s what we h…

00:40:30  |   Wed 09 Sep 2020
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