Hacking Humans

Jan 15 2025 621 ep. 26 mins 7.4k
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Deception, influence, and social engineering in the world of cyber crime.

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Crypto chameleons and star fraud.

Jan 15 2025 41 mins  
On Hacking Humans, Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of N2K's daily space podcast, T-Minus), are once again sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines to help our audience become aware of what is out there. This week we jump right into stories, Maria shares Apple’s new AI feature and ho

lateral movement (noun) [Word Notes]

Jan 14 2025 8 mins  
Phase of a typical cyber adversary group's attack sequence, after the initial compromise and usually after the group has established a command and control channel, where the group moves through the victims network by compromising as many systems as it can, by looking for the data, it has come to steal or to destroy.

Nice to meet you, I'm a scammer.

Jan 08 2025 52 mins  
On Hacking Humans, Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of N2K's daily space podcast, T-Minus), are once again sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines to help our audience become aware of what is out there. Our hosts discuss and ponder whether or not diamonds are the original cryptocurren

Malware metamorphosis: 2024 reflections and 2025 predictions. [Only Malware in the building]

Jan 07 2025 54 mins  
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 analyst and host of their podcast DISCARDED. Inspired by the residents of a building in New York’s exclusive upper west side, Selena is joined by N2K Networks Dave Bittner and Ri

common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) (noun) [Word Notes]

Jan 07 2025 7 mins  
A public list sponsored by the US government and designed to uniquely identify, without the need to manually cross- reference, all the known software vulnerabilities in the world.

The intersection of hackers, scammers, and false collaborations.

Jan 01 2025 42 mins  
On Hacking Humans, Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of N2K's daily space podcast, T-Minus), are once again sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines to help our audience become aware of what is out there. First off, our hosts share some follow up, Asher wrote in to discuss follow up on

dead-box forensics (noun) [Word Notes]

Dec 31 2024 6 mins  
A forensic technique where practitioners capture an entire image of a system and analyze the contents offline.

New tools, old problems.

Dec 25 2024 49 mins  
Please enjoy this encore episode of Hacking Humans. This week we are joined by Maria Varmazis, host of the N2K daily space show, T-Minus. She discusses how AI is being used as a possible solution to one of the oldest scams in the book in Japan. Dave and Joe share some listener follow up, one from listener Alan and one from Clinton, who both write in about a recent episode and they

cybersecurity maturity model certification (CMMC) (noun) [Word Notes]

Dec 23 2024 6 mins  
Please enjoy this encore episode of Word Notes. A supply chain cybersecurity accreditation standard designed for the protection of controlled unclassified information that the U.S. Department of Defense, or DoD, will require for all contract bids by October, 2025.

Gold bars and bold lies.

Dec 18 2024 45 mins  
On Hacking Humans, Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of N2K's daily space podcast, T-Minus), are once again sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines to help our audience become aware of what is out there. First we start off with some follow up, our hosts share some more information on V