Hacking Humans

Nov 20 2024 603 ep. 26 mins 7.2k
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Deception, influence, and social engineering in the world of cyber crime.

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Granny’s got a new trick.

Nov 20 2024 35 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, Joe shares a note from listener Michael before getting into stories, an

personally identifiable information (PII) (noun) [Word Notes]

Nov 19 2024 7 mins  
A term of legal art that defines the types of data and circumstances that permits a third party to directly or indirectly identify an individual with collected data.

Final approach to scammer advent.

Nov 13 2024 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. This week, the team shares follow up about FEMA and Hurricane Helene relief. Dave'

secure access service edge (SASE) (noun) [Word Notes]

Nov 12 2024 8 mins  
Enjoy this encore episode. A security architecture that incorporates the cloud shared responsibility model, a vendor provided security stack, an SD-WAN abstraction layer, and network peering with one or more of the big content providers and their associated fiber networks.

Happy hour hacking.

Nov 06 2024 48 mins  
Maria Varmazis, host of N2K's daily space show T-Minus, joins Dave and Joe to share the story of the five types of social engineers Deanne Lewis encountered while tending bar, revealing how each barroom personality reflects a common cybersecurity threat. Our hosts share some follow-up from a friend of the show, JJ, who reports a rise in tech support scams targeting non-tech-savvy u

red teaming (noun) [Word Notes]

Nov 05 2024 6 mins  
Enjoy this encore episode. The practice of emulating known adversary behavior against an organization's actual defensive posture.

Whispers in the wires: A closer look at the new age of intrusion. [OMITB]

Nov 05 2024 40 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

The Malware Mash

Oct 31 2024 3 mins  
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 late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight for my malware threat score began to rise and suddenly to my surprise... It did the Mash It did the Malware Mash The Malware Mash It

How political donations can be deceiving.

Oct 30 2024 50 mins  
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 unsettling impact on vulnerable populations. CNN's investigation exposes how these texts, with their urgent and personal tone, have led seniors, including those with dementia, to make thousa

next generation firewall (noun) [Word Notes]

Oct 29 2024 7 mins  
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 incoming and outgoing network traffic with rules that tie applications to the authenticated user and provides most of the traditional security stack functions in one device or software