Hacking Humans25 Mai 2023

Bringing in the human side of scamming.

Nick Percoco from Kraken sits down to discuss the human factor of crypto scams, including going over common red flags and what to do when a third party is exerting pressure that taps into a human emotions. Listener Sean writes in with some follow up to discuss the increase in AI scams and if people would be more likely to talk about falling for these scams as AI becomes better and better. An anonymous listener also reached out with some follow up regarding there experience with corporate ID theft. Joe's story follows the report on "dark patterns," and what they are. Dave's story is on people who got hired as customer service reps, but instead helped lure in lonely and lovestruck through a network of dating and hookup sites. Our catch of the day comes from listener Gareth who shares his catch of a phishing scheme from the "NSA." Links to stories: Guide to Dark Patterns – Terms and examples from the CCPA and the CPA Bringing Dark Patterns to Light This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale 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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fuzzing (noun) [Word Notes]

An automatic software bug and vulnerability discovery technique that input's invalid, unexpected and/or random data or fuzz into a program and then monitors the program's reaction to it.

5 Jan 20215min

Encore: Don't go looking for morality here. [Hacking Humans]

Dave has a story of an investment scam featuring celebrities, Joe warns of scams surrounding the Coronavirus, the Catch of the Day features Joe's son-in-law's adventure with thousands of bot infiltrat...

31 Des 202038min

deep packet inspection (DPI) (noun) [Word Notes]

A network monitoring and filtering technique that examines both the header information and the payload of every packet traversing a network access point.

29 Des 20205min

Encore: Separating fools from money. [Hacking Humans]

Dave shares a story of airport penetration testing with high degree of yuck-factor. Joe explores research on protecting passwords from social engineering. The catch-of-the-day comes courtesy of Graham...

24 Des 202030min

rootkit (noun) [Word Notes]

A clandestine set of applications designed to give hackers access and control over a target device.

22 Des 20206min

tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) (noun) [Word Notes]

A set of behaviors that precisely describes a cyber adversary attack campaign.

22 Des 20206min

Phishing lures that may be in your inbox soon, and how to deal "left of bang."

Joe talks about phishing lures with holiday packages, current events, and things he expects to see in your inbox soon, Dave's shares a blog post on how to troll a Nigerian prince, The Catch of the Day...

17 Des 202037min

identity theft (noun) [Word Notes]

In this case Identity is the set of credentials, usually electronic that vouch for who you are and theft is to steal. The theft of a person's identity for purposes of fraud.

15 Des 20204min