Finding targets of opportunity.
Guest Peter Warmka, founder of the Counterintelligence Institute, joins Dave to talk about how insider targets are chosen and assessed, Joe shares a weird phone call he received, Dave's story from a T...
8 Huhti 202140min
APT (noun) [Word Notes]
An acronym for Advanced Persistent Threat to describe hacker groups or campaigns normally, but not always, associated with nation state cyber espionage and continuous low-level cyber conflict operatio...
6 Huhti 20216min
The pandemic is slowing, time to travel?
Guest Fleming Shi of Barracuda joins Dave to talk about about travel-related phishing attacks now that vaccines are more readily available, Dave and Joe share listener advice about preventative email ...
1 Huhti 202134min
backdoor (noun) [Word Notes]
An undocumented or publicly unknown method to access a computer system undetected or to break a cypher used to encode messages.
30 Maalis 20215min
Technology is not designed for older users.
Guest Ming Yang of Orchard joins Dave to talk about ways to help your parents with technology (aka providing tech support for our parents). Dave shares the FBI's advisory warning of an expected increa...
25 Maalis 202137min
watering hole attack (noun) {Word Notes]
From the intrusion kill chain model, a technique where the hacker compromises sites commonly visited by members of a targeted community in order to deliver a malicious payload to the intended victim.
23 Maalis 20215min
Ideally, look for someone open to deception.
Guest professional magician Brandon Williams talks with Joe about the art of deception. we have some follow-up on a watering hole attack we discussed a few episodes back, Joe's story is about the Atto...
18 Maalis 202139min
network telescope (noun) [Word Notes]
Network observation systems designed to monitor globally unreachable but unused Internet address space or the Deep Web in order to study a wide range of interesting Internet phenomena.
16 Maalis 20215min
