Hacking Humans11 Mai 2023

Remedies for infectious computers.

Our guest, CW Walker, Director of Security Product Strategy at SpyCloud, joins to discuss post-infection remediation and ransomware defense. Joe compliments one of his least favorite big tech companies. Joe and Dave share quite a bit of follow-up; one from listener Clayton who writes in about “fast idiots” from a previous episode. The other is from listener Robert, who writes in about the wallet versus smart phone debate, and which is safer. Joe shares a few stories this week, all regarding ATM scams and lost or stolen credit cards including his own sons ATM nightmare. Dave's scary story is on the latest hot topic in the cyber industry: AI, and how families are being scammed by believable voice AI to sound like loved ones. Listener Michael shares this week's catch of the day on an IRS scam he came across in his email. Links to stories: Chase Bank didn't believe customers with accounts drained by ATM 'tap' feature scam Lost or Stolen Credit, ATM, and Debit Cards Family targeted by AI scam using loved one’s voice Have a Catch of the Day you'd like to share? Email it to us at hackinghumans@thecyberwire.com or hit us up on Twitter.

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SaaS (noun) [Word Notes]

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How to best fight fake news.

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13 Mai 202139min

decryption (noun) [Word Notes]

A process of converting encrypted data into something that a human or computer can understand.

11 Mai 20217min

Digital identities are at the core of recent breaches.

Our UK correspondent Carole Theriault returns to share her interview with Julie Smith from the Security Alliance and Kelvin Coleman from National Cyber Security Alliance about Identity Management Day,...

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brute-force attack (noun) [Word Notes]

A cryptographic hack that relies on guessing all possible letter combinations of a targeted password until the correct codeword is discovered.

4 Mai 20216min

Anyone can be a target of romance scams.

Guest Stacey Nash, Head of Fraud and Central Operations at USAA, joins Dave to discuss romance or sweetheart scams, Joe and Dave share some listener follow-up, Joe's got a story about emails sent to B...

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