Hacking Humans
Deception, influence, and social engineering in the world of cyber crime.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 696
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Encore: remote access Trojan or RAT (noun)
From the intrusion kill chain model, a program that provides command and control services for an attack campaign. While the first ever deployed RAT is unknown, one early example is Back Orifice made …
00:04:42 |
Tue 12 Dec 2023
Small, medium, and large phishing trends of 2023.
Mike Price from ZeroFox sits down to discuss what 2023 phishing trends mean for the broader industry as we quickly approach 2024. Dave and Joe share a serious write in from listener Michelle who shar…
00:53:54 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
zero knowledge proof (noun)
A mathematical method by which one party (the prover) can prove to another party (the verifier) that something is true, without revealing any information apart from the fact that this specific statem…
00:06:40 |
Tue 05 Dec 2023
Encore: The age old battle between social engineering and banking.
Chip Gibbons, CISO at Thrive, sits down with Dave to talk about how to defend against social engineering attacks in banking. Dave starts us off this week with a story about Amazon opening up its sell…
00:53:34 |
Thu 30 Nov 2023
Encore: business email compromise or BEC (noun) [Word Notes]
A social engineering scam where fraudsters spoof an email message from a trusted company officer that directs a staff member to transfer funds to an account controlled by the criminal.
00:03:47 |
Tue 28 Nov 2023
Cops in the catfish game.
Thanks for joining us again for another episode of fun project brought to you by the team of Hacking Humans, the CyberWire's social engineering podcast. Hacking Humans co-host Dave Bittner is joined …
00:29:18 |
Thu 23 Nov 2023
HIPAA (noun) [Word Notes]
A U.S. law designed to improve the portability and accountability of health insurance coverage.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/hipaa
Audio reference link: Dr. Dana Brems, …
00:10:03 |
Tue 21 Nov 2023
Unmasking the deceptive.
John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research at Fortra, joins to discuss email impersonation attacks which found that nearly 99% of these threats can be classified as business email compromise. Dave a…
00:53:29 |
Thu 16 Nov 2023
Encore: man trap (noun) [Word Notes]
A physical security access control device consisting of an enclosed hallway with interlocking doors on each end where both doors can’t be open at the same time. A person presents credentials to the e…
00:04:42 |
Tue 14 Nov 2023
Leaving a trail of digital breadcrumbs.
This week we are joined by Harry Maugans from Privacy Bee who sits down to discuss how our digital breadcrumbs, old and new, are coming back to haunt us. Joe and Dave discuss some follow up from list…
01:01:34 |
Thu 09 Nov 2023
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) (noun) [Word Notes]
A qualitative public framework for rating the severity of security vulnerabilities in software.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/common-vulnerability-scoring-system
Audio re…
00:07:36 |
Tue 07 Nov 2023
Weaponizing your out-of-office replies.
James Dyer and Jack Chapman of Egress join to discuss "Cybercriminals don’t take holidays: How bad actors use this two-step phishing campaign to weaponize out-of-office replies." Dave and Joe share s…
00:52:16 |
Thu 02 Nov 2023
Encore: anagram (noun) [Word Notes]
A word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters. For example, cracking a columnar transposition cipher by hand involves looking for anagrams.
00:03:34 |
Tue 31 Oct 2023
Spooky, scary, skeletons at the movies. [Hacking humans goes to the movies]
Thanks for joining us again for a very special and scary episode brought to you by the team of Hacking Humans, the CyberWire's social engineering podcast. Hacking Humans co-host Dave Bittner is joine…
00:36:43 |
Sun 29 Oct 2023
Scams, scams, and more scams.
Mallory Sofastaii, a consumer investigative reporter from WMAR TV, is joining Dave and Joe to discuss some recent scams she's seen in her reporting. Dave and Joe share some listener follow up from Ke…
00:50:38 |
Thu 26 Oct 2023
Encore: zero-day (adjective) [Word Notes]
A class of software-security-weakness-issues where independent researchers discover a software flaw before the owners of the code discover it. Zero-day, or 0-day in hacker slang, refers to the moment…
00:03:57 |
Tue 24 Oct 2023
Scoring cybersecurity in the NFL.
Joe Oregon, Chief of Cybersecurity at CISA, sits down to discuss the tabletop exercise that CISA, the NFL, and local partners conducted in preparation for Super Bowl LVIII. Joe and Dave share some li…
00:55:12 |
Thu 19 Oct 2023
extended detection response (XDR) (noun) [Word Notes]
A unified security incident detection and response platform that connects to multiple tools in the security stack via APIs, collects telemetry from each, and attempts to correlate that telemetry into…
00:08:20 |
Tue 17 Oct 2023
Encore: Ways to make fraud less lucrative.
Brett Johnson, Chief Criminal Officer at Arkose Labs, sits down with Dave to discuss his history & ways to make fraud efforts less lucrative for bad actors. Dave and Joe share some listener follow up…
00:51:42 |
Thu 12 Oct 2023
Encore: social engineering (noun)
The art of convincing a person or persons to take an action that may or may not be in their best interests. Social engineering in some form or the other has been around since the beginning of time. T…
00:04:10 |
Tue 10 Oct 2023
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