Hacking Humans

Illusions & ill-intent.

Maria Varmazis, host of N2K's daily space show T-Minus, joins Dave and Joe to share the story of how the ease of registering an LLC in Colorado has led to a surge in fraudulent businesses. She discus…

00:39:15 | Thu 05 Sep 2024

RATs in the tunnel: Uncovering the cyber underworld. [OMITB]

Welcome in! You’ve entered, Only Malware in the Building. Join us each month to sip tea and solve mysteries about today’s most interesting threats. Your host is Selena Larson, Proofpoint intelligence…

00:37:05 | Tue 03 Sep 2024

SaaS (noun) [Word Notes]

Enjoy this special edition of Word Notes: A cloud-based software distribution method where app infrastructure, performance, and security are maintained by a service provider and accessible to users, …

00:06:04 | Tue 03 Sep 2024

Beware of the deceivers.

This week Joe and Dave share some listener follow up from Tim, who writes in to give some more information on a payment apps story in episode 302. Joe's story is on Suzy Enos, whose sister died, only…

00:44:56 | Thu 29 Aug 2024

brute-force attack (noun) [Word Notes]

Enjoy this special encore episode. A cryptographic hack that relies on guessing all possible letter combinations of a targeted password until the correct codeword is discovered.

00:06:32 | Tue 27 Aug 2024

How scammers weave deception into everyday life.

Maria Varmazis host of the N2K daily space show, T-Minus, joins Dave and Joe to share her story on how AI-generated scams have infiltrated the world of crochet and other crafts, selling fake patterns…

00:47:02 | Thu 22 Aug 2024

decryption (noun) [Word Notes]

Enjoy this special encore of Word Notes. A process of converting encrypted data into something that a human or computer can understand.

00:07:28 | Tue 20 Aug 2024

Navigating dark waters and deceptive currents.

Maria Varmazis host of the N2K daily space show, T-Minus, joins Dave and Joe to share her story from listener Chloe, who shared a post she found on a social media platformed called "Bluesky," where a…

00:40:36 | Thu 15 Aug 2024

denial-of-service attack (noun) [Word Notes]

Enjoy this encore episode: A cyber attack designed to impair or eliminate access to online services or data.

00:06:37 | Tue 13 Aug 2024

Phishing for votes.

Maria Varmazis host of the N2K daily space show, T-Minus, joins Dave to share her story on how recent research by security firm Veriti reveals a phishing campaign targeting Trump’s 2024 supporters, s…

00:32:11 | Thu 08 Aug 2024

AI: The new partner in cybercrime? [OMITB]

Welcome in! You’ve entered, Only Malware in the Building. Join us each month to sip tea and solve mysteries about today’s most interesting threats. Your host is Selena Larson, Proofpoint intelligence…

00:37:50 | Tue 06 Aug 2024

cold boot attack (noun) [Word Notes]

Please enjoy this special encore episode of Word Notes. A type of side channel attack in which an attacker with physical access to a computer performs a memory dump of a computer’s Random Access Memo…

00:06:59 | Tue 06 Aug 2024

This is 300!

This week we celebrate 300 episodes! Maria Varmazis host of the N2K daily space show, T-Minus, joins Dave and Joe and shares a PSA on the CrowdStrike outage. Her story focuses on the Olympics, as thi…

00:47:48 | Thu 01 Aug 2024

Encore: cloud computing (noun) [Word Notes]

On-demand pay-as-you-go Internet delivered compute, storage, infrastructure, and security services that are partially managed by the cloud provider and partially managed by the customer.

00:06:16 | Tue 30 Jul 2024

Healthcare hassles and hefty heists.

This week, Maria Varmazis host of the N2K daily space show, T-Minus, joins Dave and Joe, as they celebrate Maria joining the Hacking Humans podcast every week! Maria's story is from a listener this w…

00:49:21 | Thu 25 Jul 2024

Encore: APT (noun) [Word Notes]

An acronym for Advanced Persistent Threat to describe hacker groups or campaigns normally, but not always, associated with nation state cyber espionage and continuous low-level cyber conflict operati…

00:06:52 | Tue 23 Jul 2024

Welcome to a new age in digital deception.

This week, Maria Varmazis host of the N2K daily space show, T-Minus, joins Dave and Joe, as they celebrate Maria joining the Hacking Humans podcast every week! Maria's story is on supplement scams, a…

00:37:37 | Thu 18 Jul 2024

Encore: backdoor (noun) [Word Notes]

An undocumented or publicly unknown method to access a computer system undetected or to break a cypher used to encode messages.

00:05:54 | Tue 16 Jul 2024

The costly consequences of communication scams.

This week Dave shares a story on Business email compromise (BEC) scams, and how they are a major threat, costing $26 billion annually. The story shares how it's crucial for employees to verify suspic…

00:31:06 | Thu 11 Jul 2024

Encore: watering hole attack (noun) [Word Notes]

From the intrusion kill chain model, a technique where the hacker compromises sites commonly visited by members of a targeted community in order to deliver a malicious payload to the intended victim.

00:05:30 | Tue 09 Jul 2024

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