Hacking Humans

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Encore: Don't go looking for morality here. [Hacking Humans] Dec 31, 2020

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Dave has a story of an investment scam featuring celebrities, Joe warns of scams surrounding the Coronavirus, the Catch of the Day features Joe's son-in-law's adventure with thousands of bot infiltrations, and later in the show, Dave's extended interview with magicians and entertainers Penn and Teller at RSAC 2020 in San Francisco.

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Revealed: fake 'traders' allegedly prey on victims in global investment scam

Coronavirus: Scammers follow the headlines

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deep packet inspection (DPI) (noun) [Word Notes] Dec 29, 2020

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A network monitoring and filtering technique that examines both the header information and the payload of every packet traversing a network access point.

Encore: Separating fools from money. [Hacking Humans] Dec 24, 2020

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Dave shares a story of airport penetration testing with high degree of yuck-factor. Joe explores research on protecting passwords from social engineering. The catch-of-the-day comes courtesy of Graham Cluley's email spam box. Dave interviews Wired's Security Staff Writer Lily Hay Newman on her article tracking Nigerian email scammers.

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rootkit (noun) [Word Notes] Dec 22, 2020

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A clandestine set of applications designed to give hackers access and control over a target device.

tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) (noun) [Word Notes] Dec 22, 2020

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A set of behaviors that precisely describes a cyber adversary attack campaign.

Phishing lures that may be in your inbox soon, and how to deal "left of bang." Dec 17, 2020

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Joe talks about phishing lures with holiday packages, current events, and things he expects to see in your inbox soon, Dave's shares a blog post on how to troll a Nigerian prince, The Catch of the Day comes from a listener named Christian who received an email from an ill churchgoer that tests US knowledge of geography, and later in the show, Carole Theriault returns with a conversation with Rebecca McKeown, an independent Chartered Psychologist, with experience researching and evaluating learning and development across the Ministry of Defence. She is studying the psychology of cyber response.

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How to Troll a Nigerian Prince

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identity theft (noun) [Word Notes] Dec 15, 2020

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In this case Identity is the set of credentials, usually electronic that vouch for who you are and theft is to steal. The theft of a person's identity for purposes of fraud.

The landscape has shifted for holiday shopping to online. Dec 10, 2020

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Joe provides some listener feedback on allowing site notifications, Dave shares good news in his story about taking down money mules, Joe's got not as good news about a phishing campaign targeting the COVID-19 vaccine cold chain, The Catch of the Day comes from a listener named Virginia who received a phishing email impersonating a bank, and later in the show, Dave's conversation with Neal Dennis from Cyware on the cybersecurity concerns and pitfalls customers need to look out for and why ecommerce has become a goldmine for hackers.

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Virtual Private Network (VPN) (noun) [Word Notes} Dec 08, 2020

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A software, hardware or hybrid encryption layer between two devices on the network that makes the traffic between the sites opaque to the other devices on the same network.

cyber threat intelligence (CTI) (noun) [Word Notes] Dec 08, 2020

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Information used by leadership to make decisions regarding the cybersecurity posture of their organization.