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
The Malware Mash
Happy Halloween from the team at N2K Networks!
We hope you share in our Halloween tradition of listening to the Malware Mash. You can check out our video here.
Lyrics
I was coding in the lab la…
00:03:51 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
How political donations can be deceiving.
Maria Varmazis, host of N2K's daily space show T-Minus, joins Dave and Joe to share the story of a relentless wave of political donation texts that go well beyond simple annoyance, revealing an unset…
00:50:24 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
next generation firewall (noun) [Word Notes]
Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes.
A layer seven security orchestration platform deployed at the boundary between internal workloads slash data storage and untrusted sources that blocks …
00:07:27 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
Spiritual healers or master con artists?
Maria Varmazis, host of N2K's daily space show T-Minus, joins Dave and Joe to share the story of how ESET Research revealed that Telekopye, a scam toolkit used by cybercriminals, has expanded its ope…
00:35:35 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
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fast flux (noun) [Word Notes]
Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes.
A network designed to obfuscate the location of a cyber adversary's command and control server by manipulating the domain name system, or DNS, in a way that ro…
00:07:13 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
Cybercriminals thrive in vulnerable moments.
Maria Varmazis, host of N2K's daily space show T-Minus, joins Dave and Joe to share the story of how cybercriminals are exploiting the chaos following Hurricane Helene in Florida by launching scams a…
00:44:50 |
Thu 17 Oct 2024
Election Propaganda: Part 3: Efforts to reduce the impact of future elections. [CSO Perspectives]
Thinking past the US 2024 Presidential Election, In part three of the series, Rick Howard, N2K CyberWire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, discusses reducing the impact of propaganda in the future e…
00:46:28 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
encryption (noun) [Word Notes]
Enjoy this Word Notes encore.
The process of converting plain text into an unrecognizable form or secret code to hide its true meaning.
00:06:47 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
The e-commerce scam you didn’t see coming!
Maria Varmazis, host of N2K's daily space show T-Minus, joins Dave and Joe to share the story of a South Carolina couple, and how they were devastated to discover their vacant land in Concord, Massac…
00:46:28 |
Thu 10 Oct 2024
Election Propaganda: Part 2: Modern propaganda efforts. [CSO Perspectives]
In preparation for the US 2024 Presidential Election, Rick Howard, N2K CyberWire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, discusses recent international propaganda efforts in the form of nation state inter…
00:49:46 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
keylogger (noun) [Word Notes]
Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes.
Software or hardware that records the computer keys pressed by a user.
00:05:30 |
Tue 08 Oct 2024
Election Propaganda Part 1: How does election propaganda work? [CSO Perspectives]
Rick Howard, N2K CyberWire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, discusses personal defensive measures that an average citizen, regardless of political philosophy, can take in order to not succumb to pr…
00:32:52 |
Thu 03 Oct 2024
The Dark Arts of cyber. [Only Malware in the Building]
Welcome, witches, wizards, and cybersecurity sleuths! You’ve entered, Only Malware in the Building. Join us each month to brew potions of knowledge and crack the curses of today’s most intriguing cyb…
00:31:46 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
non-fungible tokens (NFT) (noun) [Word Notes]
Enjoy this encore of Word Notes.
Digital assets that are cryptographically protected on a blockchain and contain unique identification codes and metadata that makes them one of a kind.
00:05:34 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
The devil IS in the details.
It's all in the details, folks. Pay attention to those and you can avoid unnecessary stress. Dave Bittner, Maria Varmazis, and Joe Carrigan swap stories on email password-stealing attacks, Google ads…
00:47:05 |
Thu 26 Sep 2024
multi-factor authentication (noun) [Word Notes]
Enjoy this special encore episode.
The use of two or more verification methods to gain access to an account.
00:06:01 |
Tue 24 Sep 2024
Scammers beware, the world is watching!
This week, Dave and Joe share some listener follow-up from Clayton about credit card fraud and the potential issues with automatic update services that some cards provide. Dave's story is on sextorti…
00:30:43 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
machine learning (noun) [Word Notes]
Enjoy this special encore episode.
A programming technique where the developer doesn't specify each step of the algorithm in code, but instead teaches the algorithm to learn from the experience.
00:06:16 |
Tue 17 Sep 2024
Baked goods and bad actors.
Maria Varmazis, host of N2K's daily space show T-Minus, joins Dave and Joe to share the story on the "Hello pervert" sextortion scam, where scammers now use threats of Pegasus spyware and photos of v…
00:42:47 |
Thu 12 Sep 2024
intelligence (noun) [Word Notes]
Enjoy this special encore episode.
The process of turning raw information into intelligence products that leaders use to make decisions with.
00:05:56 |
Tue 10 Sep 2024
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