Weaponizing your out-of-office replies.
James Dyer and Jack Chapman of Egress join to discuss "Cybercriminals don’t take holidays: How bad actors use this two-step phishing campaign to weaponize out-of-office replies." Dave and Joe share so...
2 Nov 202352min
Encore: anagram (noun) [Word Notes]
A word, phrase, or sentence formed from another by rearranging its letters. For example, cracking a columnar transposition cipher by hand involves looking for anagrams.
31 Okt 20233min
Spooky, scary, skeletons at the movies. [Hacking humans goes to the movies]
Thanks for joining us again for a very special and scary episode brought to you by the team of Hacking Humans, the CyberWire's social engineering podcast. Hacking Humans co-host Dave Bittner is joined...
29 Okt 202336min
Scams, scams, and more scams.
Mallory Sofastaii, a consumer investigative reporter from WMAR TV, is joining Dave and Joe to discuss some recent scams she's seen in her reporting. Dave and Joe share some listener follow up from Ken...
26 Okt 202350min
Encore: zero-day (adjective) [Word Notes]
A class of software-security-weakness-issues where independent researchers discover a software flaw before the owners of the code discover it. Zero-day, or 0-day in hacker slang, refers to the moment ...
24 Okt 20233min
Scoring cybersecurity in the NFL.
Joe Oregon, Chief of Cybersecurity at CISA, sits down to discuss the tabletop exercise that CISA, the NFL, and local partners conducted in preparation for Super Bowl LVIII. Joe and Dave share some lis...
19 Okt 202355min
extended detection response (XDR) (noun) [Word Notes]
A unified security incident detection and response platform that connects to multiple tools in the security stack via APIs, collects telemetry from each, and attempts to correlate that telemetry into ...
17 Okt 20238min
Encore: Ways to make fraud less lucrative.
Brett Johnson, Chief Criminal Officer at Arkose Labs, sits down with Dave to discuss his history & ways to make fraud efforts less lucrative for bad actors. Dave and Joe share some listener follow up ...
12 Okt 202351min
