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Deception, influence, and social engineering in the world of cyber crime.
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Andrew Morris, founder and CEO of GreyNoise Intelligence, joins Dave to discuss the explosive increase in opportunistic scan-and-exploit cyber attacks, and what security analysts can do to combat it. Joe and Dave share some follow up from listener Mark, whose son got scammed out of 150 million dollars in a game he plays. Dave's story is on ChromeLoader, which is a pervasive and persistent browser hijacker that modifies your settings and redirects you to more advertisement websites. Joe has two stories: one on a family of con artists found to be scamming gas station patrons that attacked an individual after being confronted, and the second is on fake Facebook ads and how shoppers are being scammed. Our catch of the day comes from listener Jon, who was contacted via email being requested to pay customs fees of $750 for packages in his name.

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Andrew Morris, founder and CEO of GreyNoise Intelligence, joins Dave to discuss the explosive increase in opportunistic scan-and-exploit cyber attacks, and what security analysts can do to combat it. Joe and Dave share some follow up from listener Mark, whose son got scammed out of 150 million dollars in a game he plays. Dave's story is on ChromeLoader, which is a pervasive and persistent browser hijacker that modifies your settings and redirects you to more advertisement websites. Joe has two stories: one on a family of con artists found to be scamming gas station patrons that attacked an individual after being confronted, and the second is on fake Facebook ads and how shoppers are being scammed. Our catch of the day comes from listener Jon, who was contacted via email being requested to pay customs fees of $750 for packages in his name.

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Published 2022-06-07

Diamond Model (noun) [Word Notes]

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A cyber threat intelligence analysis model that defines relationship pairs between four core components in the shape of a diamond of adversary playbook activity across the intrusion kill chain: the adversary, their capability, the infrastructure used or attacked, and the victim.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/diamond-model

Audio reference link: “Diamond Presentation v2 0: Diamond Model for Intrusion Analysis – Applied to Star Wars’ Battles,” Andy Pendergrast and Wade Baker, ThreatConnect, YouTube, 4 February 2020.

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A cyber threat intelligence analysis model that defines relationship pairs between four core components in the shape of a diamond of adversary playbook activity across the intrusion kill chain: the adversary, their capability, the infrastructure used or attacked, and the victim.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/diamond-model

Audio reference link: “Diamond Presentation v2 0: Diamond Model for Intrusion Analysis – Applied to Star Wars’ Battles,” Andy Pendergrast and Wade Baker, ThreatConnect, YouTube, 4 February 2020.

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Published 2022-06-02

Is ransomware getting too fast?

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Ryan Kovar, distinguished security strategist at Splunk and leader of SURGe, discusses the speed of ransomware, as well as the first-of-its-kind research the SURGe team is releasing on how quickly the top ransomware families can encrypt 100,000 files. Joe and Dave share some listener follow up from listener Josh. Joe's story follows the baby food shortage and warns about the dangers of sellers scamming people through online purchases of formula. Dave's story is on how IT members can identify the three most dangerous types of internal users and what businesses need to look out for. Our catch of the day comes from listener Josh, who shares about a friend of his who possibly got hacked and the check the scammers claimed was real.

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Ryan Kovar, distinguished security strategist at Splunk and leader of SURGe, discusses the speed of ransomware, as well as the first-of-its-kind research the SURGe team is releasing on how quickly the top ransomware families can encrypt 100,000 files. Joe and Dave share some listener follow up from listener Josh. Joe's story follows the baby food shortage and warns about the dangers of sellers scamming people through online purchases of formula. Dave's story is on how IT members can identify the three most dangerous types of internal users and what businesses need to look out for. Our catch of the day comes from listener Josh, who shares about a friend of his who possibly got hacked and the check the scammers claimed was real.

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Published 2022-05-31

MITRE ATT&CK (noun) [Word Notes]

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A knowledge base of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures established and maintained by the MITRE Corporation. 

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/mitre-attck

Audio reference link: “Attack Frameworks - SY0-601 CompTIA Security+ : 4.2,” Professor Messer, YouTube, 29 April 2021.

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A knowledge base of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures established and maintained by the MITRE Corporation. 

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/mitre-attck

Audio reference link: “Attack Frameworks - SY0-601 CompTIA Security+ : 4.2,” Professor Messer, YouTube, 29 April 2021.

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Published 2022-05-26

Combating social engineering.

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Ann Johnson, Security Executive at Microsoft and host of the afternoon cyber tea podcast, joins Dave to discuss social engineering and ways to help prevent it, as well as the different types of social engineering she's seen from her experience, Dave and Joe share some listener follow up about macros in Office documents, Joe has two stories this week, one is on how Seth Green lost over 300K in NFTs, and the other is on a new scam with Chatbots on phishing emails, Dave's story is on how a California man was arrested for siphoning money, our catch of the day comes from listener Sadik who shares a suspicious looking email telling him, that his Norton service is about to expire.

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Ann Johnson, Security Executive at Microsoft and host of the afternoon cyber tea podcast, joins Dave to discuss social engineering and ways to help prevent it, as well as the different types of social engineering she's seen from her experience, Dave and Joe share some listener follow up about macros in Office documents, Joe has two stories this week, one is on how Seth Green lost over 300K in NFTs, and the other is on a new scam with Chatbots on phishing emails, Dave's story is on how a California man was arrested for siphoning money, our catch of the day comes from listener Sadik who shares a suspicious looking email telling him, that his Norton service is about to expire.

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Published 2022-05-24

DevOps (noun) [Word Notes]

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The set of people, process, technology, and cultural norms that integrates software development and IT operations into a system-of-systems.

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Audio reference link: "10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr," by John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, Velocity 09, 25 July 2009.

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The set of people, process, technology, and cultural norms that integrates software development and IT operations into a system-of-systems.

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Audio reference link: "10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr," by John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, Velocity 09, 25 July 2009.

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Published 2022-05-19

Voice authentication taking hold.

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Mark Horne, Chief Marketing Officer at Pindrop, joins Dave to discuss voice authentication, Dave and Joe have some follow up about business phishing (BECs) from listeners Nick and Michael, Joe's story has a romance scam where criminals pretend to be celebrities, and Dave's story is about the increase in phishing downloads due to cyber criminals using SEO to leverage their lures, and we've got 2 catches of the day for you from listener Peter on free Dyson vacuums and one from Joe with a plea from Vladimir Putin asking for money.

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Mark Horne, Chief Marketing Officer at Pindrop, joins Dave to discuss voice authentication, Dave and Joe have some follow up about business phishing (BECs) from listeners Nick and Michael, Joe's story has a romance scam where criminals pretend to be celebrities, and Dave's story is about the increase in phishing downloads due to cyber criminals using SEO to leverage their lures, and we've got 2 catches of the day for you from listener Peter on free Dyson vacuums and one from Joe with a plea from Vladimir Putin asking for money.

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Published 2022-05-17

MITRE ATT&CK (noun) [Word Notes]

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A knowledge base of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures established and maintained by the MITRE Corporation. 

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/mitre-attck

Audio reference link: “Attack Frameworks - SY0-601 CompTIA Security+ : 4.2,” Professor Messer, YouTube, 29 April 2021.

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A knowledge base of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures established and maintained by the MITRE Corporation. 

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/mitre-attck

Audio reference link: “Attack Frameworks - SY0-601 CompTIA Security+ : 4.2,” Professor Messer, YouTube, 29 April 2021.

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Published 2022-05-12

Business phishing: Who's biting the bait?

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Matthew Connor, Founder of Conscious Security, discusses a study he conducted while working with F-Secure, the study targeted 82,402 individuals with one of four phishing emails, he goes into the findings of the study and certain insight this study has brought, Joe's story is on the popular app Zelle and how users are loosing thousands of dollars due to scams, and Dave's story is on three big tech giants announcing plans to expand support for a common passwordless sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance, our catch of the day comes from listener Areus on text messages exchanged between two strangers and where the conversation leads.

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Matthew Connor, Founder of Conscious Security, discusses a study he conducted while working with F-Secure, the study targeted 82,402 individuals with one of four phishing emails, he goes into the findings of the study and certain insight this study has brought, Joe's story is on the popular app Zelle and how users are loosing thousands of dollars due to scams, and Dave's story is on three big tech giants announcing plans to expand support for a common passwordless sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance, our catch of the day comes from listener Areus on text messages exchanged between two strangers and where the conversation leads.

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A software development model that relies on a series of sequential steps that flow into each other, like a series of waterfalls. 

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/waterfall-software-development

Audio reference link: “Creating Video Games - Agile Software Development,” by Sara Verrilli, MIT OpenCourseWare, YouTube, 10 December 2015

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A software development model that relies on a series of sequential steps that flow into each other, like a series of waterfalls. 

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/waterfall-software-development

Audio reference link: “Creating Video Games - Agile Software Development,” by Sara Verrilli, MIT OpenCourseWare, YouTube, 10 December 2015

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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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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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A software development philosophy that emphasizes incremental delivery, team collaboration, continual planning, and continual learning 

Audio reference link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/agile-software-development

"Velocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys Pe" John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, 2009 Velocity Conference,

YouTube, 25 June 2009. 

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A software development philosophy that emphasizes incremental delivery, team collaboration, continual planning, and continual learning 

Audio reference link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/agile-software-development

"Velocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys Pe" John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, 2009 Velocity Conference,

YouTube, 25 June 2009. 

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Published 2022-04-28

The dark side of business email attacks.

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John Wilson, Senior Fellow Threat Research at Agari by HelpSystems, discusses business email compromise attacks, Joe shares three stories on different types of scams, the first being a mystery shopper scam, where the scammer tries to get you to buy gift cards at a grocery store, the second one is on, scammers posing as DTE Energy representatives, seeking bill payments, and the final one is about someone showing up to a victims door and demanding money to collect “Money owed” for a family member, Dave's story is on criminals who are using apple pay to scam their way into going on spending sprees, our catch of the day comes from listener Jon, who shares how two men claimed to be owed money after Jon's death, when in fact, John was very alive.

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John Wilson, Senior Fellow Threat Research at Agari by HelpSystems, discusses business email compromise attacks, Joe shares three stories on different types of scams, the first being a mystery shopper scam, where the scammer tries to get you to buy gift cards at a grocery store, the second one is on, scammers posing as DTE Energy representatives, seeking bill payments, and the final one is about someone showing up to a victims door and demanding money to collect “Money owed” for a family member, Dave's story is on criminals who are using apple pay to scam their way into going on spending sprees, our catch of the day comes from listener Jon, who shares how two men claimed to be owed money after Jon's death, when in fact, John was very alive.

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Published 2022-04-26

Pegasus (noun) [Word Notes]

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The flagship product of the controversial Israeli spyware vendor, the NSO Group, use for remotely hacking mobile devices, most notably iPhones, via zero-click exploits.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/pegasus

Audio reference link:

“Cybersecurity beyond the Headlines: A Conversation with Journalist Nicole Perlroth,” Kristen Eichensehr, and Nicole Perlroth, University of Virginia School of Law,

YouTube, 14 February 2022

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The flagship product of the controversial Israeli spyware vendor, the NSO Group, use for remotely hacking mobile devices, most notably iPhones, via zero-click exploits.

CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/pegasus

Audio reference link:

“Cybersecurity beyond the Headlines: A Conversation with Journalist Nicole Perlroth,” Kristen Eichensehr, and Nicole Perlroth, University of Virginia School of Law,

YouTube, 14 February 2022

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Thanks for joining us for the latest episode of our fun project brought to you by the team of Hacking Humans, the CyberWire's social engineering podcast. Co-hosts Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan are joined by Rick Howard in this series where they view clips from their favorite movies with examples of the social engineering scams and schemes you hear about on Hacking Humans. In this episode, Dave and Joe are joined on this episode by Perry Carpenter, host of 8th Layer Insights podcast and chief evangelist at KnowBe4. Dave,Joe and Perry watch and discuss Dave's and Perry's clips on this episode. They watch each of the selected scenes, describe the on-screen action for you, and then the team deconstructs what they saw. Grab your bowl of popcorn and join us for some Hollywood scams and frauds. A heads-up for our listeners: there is a bit of spicy language in today’s clips, so use your discretion if you are tuning in with your kids. 

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Thanks for joining us for the latest episode of our fun project brought to you by the team of Hacking Humans, the CyberWire's social engineering podcast. Co-hosts Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan are joined by Rick Howard in this series where they view clips from their favorite movies with examples of the social engineering scams and schemes you hear about on Hacking Humans. In this episode, Dave and Joe are joined on this episode by Perry Carpenter, host of 8th Layer Insights podcast and chief evangelist at KnowBe4. Dave,Joe and Perry watch and discuss Dave's and Perry's clips on this episode. They watch each of the selected scenes, describe the on-screen action for you, and then the team deconstructs what they saw. Grab your bowl of popcorn and join us for some Hollywood scams and frauds. A heads-up for our listeners: there is a bit of spicy language in today’s clips, so use your discretion if you are tuning in with your kids. 

Links to this episode's clips if you'd like to watch along:

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Published 2022-04-21

On the front lines of fraud protection.

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Pete Barker, director of Fraud and Identity at SpyCloud offers critical insights on the alarming evolution of fraud and how consumers and enterprises can protect themselves, Joe and Dave share some listener follow up from listener Micah on a catch of the day from last week, Joe's story is on a woman who was scammed out of $15,000 and shares her experience on how the hackers were able to gather so much info and money from her, Dave's story is on an android malware scheme that allows cybercriminals to intercept customer calls to their banks, our catch of the day comes from listener John, who shares a scam from people claiming to be Amazon, saying that the users secret phrase has been incapacitated.

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Pete Barker, director of Fraud and Identity at SpyCloud offers critical insights on the alarming evolution of fraud and how consumers and enterprises can protect themselves, Joe and Dave share some listener follow up from listener Micah on a catch of the day from last week, Joe's story is on a woman who was scammed out of $15,000 and shares her experience on how the hackers were able to gather so much info and money from her, Dave's story is on an android malware scheme that allows cybercriminals to intercept customer calls to their banks, our catch of the day comes from listener John, who shares a scam from people claiming to be Amazon, saying that the users secret phrase has been incapacitated.

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An open source email authentication protocol designed to prevent emails, spoofing in phishing, business email compromise or BEC, and other email-based attacks. 

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An open source email authentication protocol designed to prevent emails, spoofing in phishing, business email compromise or BEC, and other email-based attacks. 

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Published 2022-04-14

Magic, illusion, and scams, oh my.

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Brian Brushwood a former magician, joins Perry Carpenter, host of 8th Layer Insights, to talk about his new podcast, The Worlds Greatest Con, and how magic led him to discussing cons and scams on a podcast, Dave shares a personal story on login frustration, Joe's story is on a Cash App breach being confirmed after an employee was able to access a US customers data, and Dave's story is on inauthentic LinkedIn profiles and how fake accounts are requesting to connect when in fact the accounts are fake, our catch of the day comes from listener Richard who shares a scam he got sent through the mail to exploit his political views.

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Brian Brushwood a former magician, joins Perry Carpenter, host of 8th Layer Insights, to talk about his new podcast, The Worlds Greatest Con, and how magic led him to discussing cons and scams on a podcast, Dave shares a personal story on login frustration, Joe's story is on a Cash App breach being confirmed after an employee was able to access a US customers data, and Dave's story is on inauthentic LinkedIn profiles and how fake accounts are requesting to connect when in fact the accounts are fake, our catch of the day comes from listener Richard who shares a scam he got sent through the mail to exploit his political views.

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Published 2022-04-12

Shields Up (noun) [Word Notes]

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A condition announced by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to draw attention to a temporary period of high alert, associated with expectation of a connected wave of cyberattacks prompted by either a widespread vulnerability or an unusually active and capable threat actor.

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A condition announced by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to draw attention to a temporary period of high alert, associated with expectation of a connected wave of cyberattacks prompted by either a widespread vulnerability or an unusually active and capable threat actor.

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Published 2022-04-07

Online threats turned real world danger.

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Laura Hoffner from Concentric, joins Dave to discuss online dangers and how they can very easily turn into real world dangers, Laura explains about the popular social media platform TikTok and how users are being stalked and shares one story in particular, Joe and Dave share some listener follow up, Joe's story is centered around cryptocurrency scams and how they are on the rise, and Dave's story is on the malware BABYSHARK and the internal process of investigation as well as lessons learned, our catch of the day comes to us from listener Andre, who shares a scam from a Commanding officer of the U.S Central Command and how they need Andre to keep his money safe.

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Laura Hoffner from Concentric, joins Dave to discuss online dangers and how they can very easily turn into real world dangers, Laura explains about the popular social media platform TikTok and how users are being stalked and shares one story in particular, Joe and Dave share some listener follow up, Joe's story is centered around cryptocurrency scams and how they are on the rise, and Dave's story is on the malware BABYSHARK and the internal process of investigation as well as lessons learned, our catch of the day comes to us from listener Andre, who shares a scam from a Commanding officer of the U.S Central Command and how they need Andre to keep his money safe.

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A prescriptive open source software security maturity model designed to guide strategies tailored to an organization’s specific risks.

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A prescriptive open source software security maturity model designed to guide strategies tailored to an organization’s specific risks.

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Alex Quilici, Robocall Scam Expert of YouMail, discusses how unwanted robocalls are becoming more targeted and the psychology behind some of the worst calls, Joe and Dave share some listener follow up, Joe's story comes from listener Derek who shares how his aunt avoided a scam which wasn't very obvious at first, and Dave's story is about how the FBI released its annual Internet Crime Complaint Center Internet Crime Report for 2021, our catch of the day comes from listener John who shares how he got a new interesting Instagram follower.

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Alex Quilici, Robocall Scam Expert of YouMail, discusses how unwanted robocalls are becoming more targeted and the psychology behind some of the worst calls, Joe and Dave share some listener follow up, Joe's story comes from listener Derek who shares how his aunt avoided a scam which wasn't very obvious at first, and Dave's story is about how the FBI released its annual Internet Crime Complaint Center Internet Crime Report for 2021, our catch of the day comes from listener John who shares how he got a new interesting Instagram follower.

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Published 2022-03-29

Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) [Word Notes]

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An open standard for hardware authentication tokens that use the universal serial bus, or USB, near-field communications, or NFCs, or Bluetooth to communicate one factor in a two-factor authentication exchange.

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An open standard for hardware authentication tokens that use the universal serial bus, or USB, near-field communications, or NFCs, or Bluetooth to communicate one factor in a two-factor authentication exchange.

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Thanks for joining us for the latest episode of our fun project brought to you by the team of Hacking Humans, the CyberWire's social engineering podcast. Co-hosts Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan are joined by Rick Howard in this series where they view clips from their favorite movies with examples of the social engineering scams and schemes you hear about on Hacking Humans. In this episode, Dave, Joe and Rick are watching Joe's and Rick's scene picks. They watch each of the selected scenes, describe the on-screen action for you, and then the team deconstructs what they saw. Grab a bowl of popcorn and join us for some Hollywood scams and frauds.

Links to this episode's clips if you'd like to watch along:

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Thanks for joining us for the latest episode of our fun project brought to you by the team of Hacking Humans, the CyberWire's social engineering podcast. Co-hosts Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan are joined by Rick Howard in this series where they view clips from their favorite movies with examples of the social engineering scams and schemes you hear about on Hacking Humans. In this episode, Dave, Joe and Rick are watching Joe's and Rick's scene picks. They watch each of the selected scenes, describe the on-screen action for you, and then the team deconstructs what they saw. Grab a bowl of popcorn and join us for some Hollywood scams and frauds.

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Published 2022-03-24

What's behind Buy Now, Pay Later scams?

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Jim Ducharme, COO of Outseer joins Dave to discuss buy now pay later scams, Joe and Dave share some listener follow up, Joe has an interesting story about an Unchained Capital partner and how they were hit with a social engineering attack, and Dave's story is on the FIDO alliance, our catch of the day comes from listener Matt, who shares how he won 20.5 million and why he wasn't falling for it.

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Jim Ducharme, COO of Outseer joins Dave to discuss buy now pay later scams, Joe and Dave share some listener follow up, Joe has an interesting story about an Unchained Capital partner and how they were hit with a social engineering attack, and Dave's story is on the FIDO alliance, our catch of the day comes from listener Matt, who shares how he won 20.5 million and why he wasn't falling for it.

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Published 2022-03-22

adversary group naming (noun) [Word Notes]

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A cyber threat intelligence best practice of assigning arbitrary labels to collections of hacker activity across the intrusion kill chain.

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A cyber threat intelligence best practice of assigning arbitrary labels to collections of hacker activity across the intrusion kill chain.

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UK Correspondent Carole Theriault returns talking with guest David Ruiz from Malwarebytes about parents spying on their kids, Joe and Dave share some listener follow up, Joe's shares a story about the top 5 strangest social engineering tactics, Dave's got a story from one of our listeners, Ricky, about best gift card sales practices at retail chains, and our Catch of the Day comes from listener Michael with a well-crafted email full of red flags when you read into it.

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UK Correspondent Carole Theriault returns talking with guest David Ruiz from Malwarebytes about parents spying on their kids, Joe and Dave share some listener follow up, Joe's shares a story about the top 5 strangest social engineering tactics, Dave's got a story from one of our listeners, Ricky, about best gift card sales practices at retail chains, and our Catch of the Day comes from listener Michael with a well-crafted email full of red flags when you read into it.

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Published 2022-03-15

BSIMM (noun) [Word Notes]

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A descriptive model that provides a baseline of observed software security initiatives and activities from a collection of volunteer software development shops. 

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A descriptive model that provides a baseline of observed software security initiatives and activities from a collection of volunteer software development shops. 

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Guest Justin Reilly, the CEO of Impero, stops by to talk with Dave Bittner about the mental health of kids in the digital age, Dave's got a story about large-scale phishing campaigns targeting the Indian Electric Vehicle consumers and businesses, Joe's story is from Vade sharing the top 20 most impersonated brands in phishing, and our Catch of the Day comes from Bob, a friend and former coworker of Joe's who received a smishing attempt via text from a "friend" and how he expertly turned the tables on the scammer.

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Guest Justin Reilly, the CEO of Impero, stops by to talk with Dave Bittner about the mental health of kids in the digital age, Dave's got a story about large-scale phishing campaigns targeting the Indian Electric Vehicle consumers and businesses, Joe's story is from Vade sharing the top 20 most impersonated brands in phishing, and our Catch of the Day comes from Bob, a friend and former coworker of Joe's who received a smishing attempt via text from a "friend" and how he expertly turned the tables on the scammer.

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Software libraries, frameworks, packages, and other components, and their dependencies (third-party code that each component uses) that have inherent security weaknesses, either through newly discovered vulnerabilities or because newer versions have superseded the deployed version. 

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Software libraries, frameworks, packages, and other components, and their dependencies (third-party code that each component uses) that have inherent security weaknesses, either through newly discovered vulnerabilities or because newer versions have superseded the deployed version. 

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Guest Jeff Nathan, the Director of Threat research at Norton Labs, joins Dave to discuss their most recent Consumer Cyber Safety Pulse Report, Joe and Dave share some follow up from listeners Daniel and Neville who helped the guys with a phrase from a recent Catch of the Day, Joe shares a story about getting around MFA using remote access software, Dave's story is about a jobfishing scam from a fake design firm, and our Catch of the Day is from listener Randy about an unsubscribe email he received.

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Guest Jeff Nathan, the Director of Threat research at Norton Labs, joins Dave to discuss their most recent Consumer Cyber Safety Pulse Report, Joe and Dave share some follow up from listeners Daniel and Neville who helped the guys with a phrase from a recent Catch of the Day, Joe shares a story about getting around MFA using remote access software, Dave's story is about a jobfishing scam from a fake design firm, and our Catch of the Day is from listener Randy about an unsubscribe email he received.

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Guest Joshua Neil, the Chief Data Scientist for SecurOnix, joins Dave to talk about evasive techniques and identifying nation-state kill chains, Joe shares an update on his identity theft experience, the guys share some follow up from listener Benji who shares experiences of scammers changing the name on gmail accounts at the synagogue where he works saying they are the rabbi and emailing congregants asking for gift cards, Dave's story is about Apple's AirTags and how they led to the discovery of a German intelligence agency, Joe's got a story about the City of Baltimore falling victim to a phishing scam, and our Catch of the Day is from listener G about a compressed file attachment he received, but did not open.

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Guest Joshua Neil, the Chief Data Scientist for SecurOnix, joins Dave to talk about evasive techniques and identifying nation-state kill chains, Joe shares an update on his identity theft experience, the guys share some follow up from listener Benji who shares experiences of scammers changing the name on gmail accounts at the synagogue where he works saying they are the rabbi and emailing congregants asking for gift cards, Dave's story is about Apple's AirTags and how they led to the discovery of a German intelligence agency, Joe's got a story about the City of Baltimore falling victim to a phishing scam, and our Catch of the Day is from listener G about a compressed file attachment he received, but did not open.

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An attack technique that leverages an unprotected web server as a proxy for attackers to send commands through to other computers. 

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Thanks for joining us for the latest episode of our fun project brought to you by the team of Hacking Humans, the CyberWire's social engineering podcast. Co-hosts Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan are joined by Rick Howard in this series where they view clips from their favorite movies with examples of the social engineering scams and schemes you hear about on Hacking Humans. In this episode, Dave, Joe and Rick are watching Joe's and Dave's scene picks. They watch each of the selected scenes, describe the on-screen action for you, and then the team deconstructs what they saw. Grab a bowl of popcorn and join us for some Hollywood scams and frauds.

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Thanks for joining us for the latest episode of our fun project brought to you by the team of Hacking Humans, the CyberWire's social engineering podcast. Co-hosts Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan are joined by Rick Howard in this series where they view clips from their favorite movies with examples of the social engineering scams and schemes you hear about on Hacking Humans. In this episode, Dave, Joe and Rick are watching Joe's and Dave's scene picks. They watch each of the selected scenes, describe the on-screen action for you, and then the team deconstructs what they saw. Grab a bowl of popcorn and join us for some Hollywood scams and frauds.

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Published 2022-02-17

Vulnerabilities will be found.

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Guest Deral Heiland from Rapid7 talks with our UK Correspondent Carole Theriault about the state of IOT, Joe shares a personal story about bank checks and a debit card received at his home that were in his name but not from his bank, Dave's got a story from an email he received from the PR department at TikTok about romance scams, and our Catch of the Day is from listener John about a friend who was harassed on Facebook to click a link and how John addressed it.

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Guest Deral Heiland from Rapid7 talks with our UK Correspondent Carole Theriault about the state of IOT, Joe shares a personal story about bank checks and a debit card received at his home that were in his name but not from his bank, Dave's got a story from an email he received from the PR department at TikTok about romance scams, and our Catch of the Day is from listener John about a friend who was harassed on Facebook to click a link and how John addressed it.

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Guest Nick Shevelyov, Chief Security Officer for Silicon Valley Bank. joins Dave sharing some personal history around security, and discussing his book "Cyber War… and Peace," Dave and Joe have some follow up from an anonymous listener about mobile device management issue at their work, Dave has a story where a woman was scammed out of thousands while someone contacted her to "help" with a problem with their bank, Joe's got a few stories about Facebook and ad scams, and our Catch of the Day is from listener Jonathan with a Geek Squad subscription scam.

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Guest Nick Shevelyov, Chief Security Officer for Silicon Valley Bank. joins Dave sharing some personal history around security, and discussing his book "Cyber War… and Peace," Dave and Joe have some follow up from an anonymous listener about mobile device management issue at their work, Dave has a story where a woman was scammed out of thousands while someone contacted her to "help" with a problem with their bank, Joe's got a few stories about Facebook and ad scams, and our Catch of the Day is from listener Jonathan with a Geek Squad subscription scam.

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Thanks for joining us for the latest episode of our fun project brought to you by the team of Hacking Humans, the CyberWire's social engineering podcast. Co-hosts Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan are joined by Rick Howard in this series where they view clips from their favorite movies with examples of the social engineering scams and schemes you hear about on Hacking Humans. In this episode, Dave, Joe and Rick are watching Dave's and Rick's scene picks. They watch each of the selected scenes, describe the on-screen action for you, and then the team deconstructs what they saw. Grab a bowl of popcorn and join us for some Hollywood scams and frauds.

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Thanks for joining us for the latest episode of our fun project brought to you by the team of Hacking Humans, the CyberWire's social engineering podcast. Co-hosts Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan are joined by Rick Howard in this series where they view clips from their favorite movies with examples of the social engineering scams and schemes you hear about on Hacking Humans. In this episode, Dave, Joe and Rick are watching Dave's and Rick's scene picks. They watch each of the selected scenes, describe the on-screen action for you, and then the team deconstructs what they saw. Grab a bowl of popcorn and join us for some Hollywood scams and frauds.

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Published 2022-02-03

The ransomware game has evolved.

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Guest Allan Liska from Recorded Future joins Dave to discuss the evolution of ransomware and his new book "Ransomware: Understand. Prevent. Recover," Joe shares a question from listener Joan about an email her father received from "MasterCard Fraud Department" asking photo/video and the last 4 of his Social Security Number, Joe has a story about scams to watch out for during tax time in the US, Dave's story is about ransomware operators trying to recruit company insiders, and our Catch of the Day is from listener Michael who had some acquaintances fall for a scam.

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Guest Allan Liska from Recorded Future joins Dave to discuss the evolution of ransomware and his new book "Ransomware: Understand. Prevent. Recover," Joe shares a question from listener Joan about an email her father received from "MasterCard Fraud Department" asking photo/video and the last 4 of his Social Security Number, Joe has a story about scams to watch out for during tax time in the US, Dave's story is about ransomware operators trying to recruit company insiders, and our Catch of the Day is from listener Michael who had some acquaintances fall for a scam.

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Software users are allowed access to data or functionality contrary to the defined zero trust policy by bypassing or manipulating the installed security controls. 

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Software users are allowed access to data or functionality contrary to the defined zero trust policy by bypassing or manipulating the installed security controls. 

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Published 2022-01-27

Useful ransomware protection for you.

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Guest Roger Grimes, Data Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4, joins Dave to discuss his new book "Ransomware Protection Playbook," Dave has a story about a Meta (Facebook) group with a cryptocurrency scam that promises "a new way to wealth," Joe's story has tales of account takeover attacks of high-profile gamers, and our Catch of the Day is from listener Jesse about a text they received from "Facebook" about a $600,000 windfall.

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Guest Roger Grimes, Data Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4, joins Dave to discuss his new book "Ransomware Protection Playbook," Dave has a story about a Meta (Facebook) group with a cryptocurrency scam that promises "a new way to wealth," Joe's story has tales of account takeover attacks of high-profile gamers, and our Catch of the Day is from listener Jesse about a text they received from "Facebook" about a $600,000 windfall.

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Guest Jane Lee, Trust and Safety Architect at Sift, joins Dave to talk about the Digital Trust and Safety Index, Joe and Dave share some follow up from a listener, Ben, with a suggestion as an alternative to prevent clicking on those bonus phishing scams, Joe's story is about fake ticket scams for the Kansas City Chiefs NFL playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Dave's got a story about scams on Apple's App Store, and our Catch of the Day is from an anonymous listener about an email they received from their "IT department" requesting credentials (including password) when getting a new laptop. (Note: This is our first COTD that is not a scam, rather a bad policy.)

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Guest Jane Lee, Trust and Safety Architect at Sift, joins Dave to talk about the Digital Trust and Safety Index, Joe and Dave share some follow up from a listener, Ben, with a suggestion as an alternative to prevent clicking on those bonus phishing scams, Joe's story is about fake ticket scams for the Kansas City Chiefs NFL playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Dave's got a story about scams on Apple's App Store, and our Catch of the Day is from an anonymous listener about an email they received from their "IT department" requesting credentials (including password) when getting a new laptop. (Note: This is our first COTD that is not a scam, rather a bad policy.)

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Published 2022-01-18

OWASP insecure design (noun)

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A broad OWASP Top 10 software development category representing missing, ineffective, or unforeseen security measures.

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A broad OWASP Top 10 software development category representing missing, ineffective, or unforeseen security measures.

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Guest Tom Tovar, CEO and Co-Creator of AppDome, joins Dave and Joe to discuss the results of a recent consumer survey, Dave's story is based on a tweet where the user's child's middle school had some unintended consequences of a phishing scam training, Joe has two stories: one on QR code scammers on parking kiosks, and one about a book publishing phishing scam, and our Catch of the Day is a message that purports to come from the USPS sent in by listener William about a missed package delivery.

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Guest Tom Tovar, CEO and Co-Creator of AppDome, joins Dave and Joe to discuss the results of a recent consumer survey, Dave's story is based on a tweet where the user's child's middle school had some unintended consequences of a phishing scam training, Joe has two stories: one on QR code scammers on parking kiosks, and one about a book publishing phishing scam, and our Catch of the Day is a message that purports to come from the USPS sent in by listener William about a missed package delivery.

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Published 2022-01-11

Log4j vulnerability (noun) [Word Notes]

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An open source Java-based software tool available from the Apache Software Foundation designed to log security and performance information. 

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Published 2022-01-06

Changing the game on ransomware.

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Guest Adam Flatley, Director of Threat Intelligence at Redacted, talks with Dave about "the only way to truly disrupt the ransomware problem is to target the actors themselves," Joe shares some statistics that will help you stay up-to-date on recent cybersecurity trends, Dave's story is about criminal indictments in a case of a Maryland company buying lead paint victims’ settlements for a fraction of their value, and our Catch of the Day comes from listener Brady about a slick mail campaign they received from "Amazon."

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Guest Adam Flatley, Director of Threat Intelligence at Redacted, talks with Dave about "the only way to truly disrupt the ransomware problem is to target the actors themselves," Joe shares some statistics that will help you stay up-to-date on recent cybersecurity trends, Dave's story is about criminal indictments in a case of a Maryland company buying lead paint victims’ settlements for a fraction of their value, and our Catch of the Day comes from listener Brady about a slick mail campaign they received from "Amazon."

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Published 2022-01-04

OWASP injection (noun) [Word Notes]

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A broad class of attack vectors, where an attacker supplies input to an applications command interpreter that results in unanticipated functionality. 

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A broad class of attack vectors, where an attacker supplies input to an applications command interpreter that results in unanticipated functionality. 

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