Hacking Humans

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script kiddies (noun) [Word Notes] Aug 24, 2021

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Cybercriminals who lack the expertise to write their own programs use existing scripts, code, or tools authored by other more skilled hackers.

Effective cybersecurity training has to be meaningful to employees. Aug 19, 2021

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Guest Jann Yogman, entertainment industry veteran and writer of Mimecast Awareness Training, joins Dave to share his thoughts on the ransomware epidemic and the cybersecurity awareness training problem, Joe's got a story about scams targeting families eligible for the IRS' child tax credit, Dave's story is about scams and fraud experienced by US military veterans, personnel, and their families, our Catch of the Day comes from listener Sawyer Dicky on Reddit who insists he's not the right guy.

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sandbox (noun) [Word Notes] Aug 17, 2021

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An isolated and controlled set of resources that mimics real world environments and used to safely execute suspicious code without infecting or causing damage to the host machine, operating system, or network.

The attackers keep coming every single day. Aug 12, 2021

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Guest Andrew Rubin, CEO and co-founder of Illumio, joins Dave to discuss Zero Trust, Dave and Joe share some follow-up from several listeners including one with a variation on prison pen pals we discussed some time ago and some advice on Dave's Google Authenticator issue he mentioned last week, Dave's story is about non-delivery scams, Joe's got a story on Imperial Kitten doing some catphishing, and our Catch of the Day comes from listener Timothy about with a sextortion campaign.

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security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) (noun) [Word Notes] Aug 10, 2021

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A stack of security software solutions and tools that allow organizations to orchestrate disparate internal and external tools which feed pre-built automation playbooks that respond to events or alert analysts if an event meets a certain threshold.

Acceleration of our digital lives and impacts on cybercrime. Aug 05, 2021

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Guest Darren Shou, Chief Technology Officer of NortonLifeLock, shares insight on some of the scams he and his colleagues have been tracking, Joe and Dave share some follow up from listener Robert about free learning resources, Joe's story comes from listener Sedric who is new to real estate Investing and was looking for a hard money loan, rather than a story, Dave continues the conversation on passwords and multi-factor authentication with comments from listener Coinsigliere, and our Catch of the Day, well "catches" of the day since we have two, include one from Pryce on a smishing scam and the second from Ronald with a subscription email scam..

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personally identifiable information (PII) (noun) [Word Notes] Aug 03, 2021

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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.

What are our devices doing to our compassion? Jul 29, 2021

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Guest Dr. Charles Chaffin, author of the book "Numb: How the Information Age Dulls Our Senses and How We Can Get them Back," joins Dave this week, we have some listener follow up from John with a tip on ATM security, Dave's got a two-fer this week including a useful site called www.shouldiclick.org and a Twitter report on multi-factor authentication thanks Rachel Tobac for calling our attention to it, Joe's story is from Microsoft on trends in tech support scams, and our Catch of the Day is from a listener on Twitter called @DoNoEvilMan about a payout from the Federal Reserve via the FBI.

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secure access service edge (SASE) (noun) [Word Notes] Jul 27, 2021

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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.

It's ok to be trusting, just be careful. Jul 22, 2021

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Guest Gil Friedrich from Avanan joins Dave to talk about how bad actors are infiltrating organizations using collaboration apps, we have two pieces of listener follow up from Michael and Tobias, Joe has a story about fake information, Dave's story is about message spam on LinkedIn, and our Catch of the Day is from a listener named Lucio with a questionable Reddit communication.

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