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
ATM skimming (noun) [Word Notes]
The process of stealing ATM customer credentials by means of physically and covertly installing one or more devices onto a public ATM machine.
00:04:57 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
In the disinformation and misinformation crosshairs.
Carole Theriault returns with a discussion on disinformation with guest, BBC host, podcaster and author Tim Harford, Dave's got a story about Covid vaccine phishing campaigns, Joe's story talks about…
00:37:26 |
Thu 11 Feb 2021
APT side hustle (noun) [Word Notes]
A nation-state hacking group’s practice of funding its town activities through cybercrime or cyber mercenary work.
00:05:29 |
Tue 09 Feb 2021
Understanding human behavior is a key to security.
Guest Nico Popp of Forcepoint joins Dave to discuss why understanding human behavior is a major key to security, Dave & Joe discuss some listener follow-up about a Craigslist posting, Joe's story is …
00:39:31 |
Thu 04 Feb 2021
endpoint (noun) [Word Notes}
A device connected to a network that accepts communications from other endpoints like laptops, mobile devices, IoT equipment, routers, switches, and any tool on the security stack.
00:06:05 |
Tue 02 Feb 2021
Covid has shifted the way we deal with money and increased fraud.
Guest Eric Solis of MOVO Cash talks with Dave about the increase of fraud attacks on consumers and businesses by not having a body of regulations for digital payments, Dave's story is about his recen…
00:41:12 |
Thu 28 Jan 2021
unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) (noun) [Word Notes]
An extension of the traditional Basic Input/Output System or BIOS that, during the boot process, facilitates the communication between the computer’s firmware and the computer’s operating system.
00:05:56 |
Tue 26 Jan 2021
Targeted phishing campaigns and lottery scams abound.
Guest Arjun Sambamoorthy of Armorblox talks with Dave about five targeted phishing campaigns that weaponize various Google services during their attack flow, Joe's story is about the MegaMillions jac…
00:34:13 |
Thu 21 Jan 2021
Daemon (noun) [Word Notes]
An operating system program running in the background designed to perform a specific task when certain conditions or events occur.
00:04:49 |
Tue 19 Jan 2021
As B2C interactions shift online, call centers become new fraud vector.
Guest Umesh Sachdev of Uniphore talks with Dave about how call centers are becoming the new fraud vector, Dave's story involves an email that has a Trump scandal .jar file attached that's really a RA…
00:39:28 |
Thu 14 Jan 2021
greyware (noun) [Word Notes]
Also known as spyware and adware, it is a software category where developers design the application neither to cause explicit harm nor to accomplish some conventional legitimate purpose, but when run…
00:05:18 |
Tue 12 Jan 2021
Combating growing online financial fraud.
Dave switches gears and shares a story from the National Law Review with a social engineering spin to it about a theft exclusion in a title company's errors and omissions policy, Joe shares a story f…
00:36:20 |
Thu 07 Jan 2021
fuzzing (noun) [Word Notes]
An automatic software bug and vulnerability discovery technique that input's invalid, unexpected and/or random data or fuzz into a program and then monitors the program's reaction to it.
00:05:15 |
Tue 05 Jan 2021
Unix (noun) [Word Notes]
A family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original Unix system built by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie in the 1960s.
00:05:15 |
Tue 05 Jan 2021
Encore: Don't go looking for morality here. [Hacking Humans]
Dave has a story of an investment scam featuring celebrities, Joe warns of scams surrounding the Coronavirus, the Catch of the Day features Joe's son-in-law's adventure with thousands of bot infiltra…
00:38:51 |
Thu 31 Dec 2020
deep packet inspection (DPI) (noun) [Word Notes]
A network monitoring and filtering technique that examines both the header information and the payload of every packet traversing a network access point.
00:05:34 |
Tue 29 Dec 2020
Encore: Separating fools from money. [Hacking Humans]
Dave shares a story of airport penetration testing with high degree of yuck-factor. Joe explores research on protecting passwords from social engineering. The catch-of-the-day comes courtesy of Graha…
00:30:02 |
Thu 24 Dec 2020
rootkit (noun) [Word Notes]
A clandestine set of applications designed to give hackers access and control over a target device.
00:06:57 |
Tue 22 Dec 2020
tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) (noun) [Word Notes]
A set of behaviors that precisely describes a cyber adversary attack campaign.
00:06:43 |
Tue 22 Dec 2020
Phishing lures that may be in your inbox soon, and how to deal "left of bang."
Joe talks about phishing lures with holiday packages, current events, and things he expects to see in your inbox soon, Dave's shares a blog post on how to troll a Nigerian prince, The Catch of the Da…
00:37:04 |
Thu 17 Dec 2020
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