Hacking Humans

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, Jo...

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 w...

The absence of telemetry that could help network defenders detect and respond to hostile attempts to compromise a system. 

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...

Ineffectual confirmation of a user's identity or authentication in session management.

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, Jo...

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, Da...

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

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 "Fa...

The state of a web application when it's vulnerable to attack due to an insecure configuration. 

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 sca...

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

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 messag...

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

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...

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

Thanks for joining us for Episode 5 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 Ric...

A security philosophy that assumes adversaries have already penetrated the digital environment and tries to reduce the potential impact by limiting access by people, devices, and software to only the resources essential to perform their function and nothing more. 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the CyberWire and our friends! Enjoy our rendition of the 12 Days of Malware created by Dave Bittner and performed by Dave and friends: Rachel Tobac, Jayson Street, Ron Eddings & Chris Cochran, Ray [Redacted], Dinah Davis, Camille Stewart, Rick Howard, Michelle Dennedy, Jack Rhysider, Johannes Ullrich, and Charity Wright. Ba dum bum bum. Sing along if you ar...

Thanks for joining us for Episode 4 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 Ric...

Guest Amaya Hadnagy, Media Support for the Social-Engineer, LLC, joins Dave to share information about charity scams, Dave shares a personal story about some safety triggers he recently put into place to help protect his elderly parents financial accounts from scams, Joe's story comes from a listener Alice about someone scamming female Indian news anchors about jobs in Harvard University's journal...

Thanks for joining us for 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 watchin...

Code that fails to protect sensitive information. 

Guest Adam Levin, security expert and podcast host of "What the Hack with Adam Levin," joins Dave to share advice and discuss some experiences shared on his podcast, Dave and Joe have some listener follow up from David with clarification on 2FA, Joe's story is about a job scam for positions at a video game company, Dave's got a story about how tools like Google and smartphones affect our memories...

The prevention of the first part of an intrusion kill chain model exploitation technique, where the hacker steals valid logging credentials from a targeted victim.