The story is what gets people in.
Joe shares a story on the ability to make a scam work through storytelling skills, Dave's story is about a guy duping a convenience store clerk into taking over her shift and later robbing the place, ...
10 Sep 202034min
penetration test (noun) [Word Notes]
The process of evaluating the security of a system or network by simulating an attack on it. Sometimes called "ethical hacking" or white hat hacking. The phrase started to appear in U.S. military circ...
8 Sep 20204min
It's evolving rapidly and getting more furious by the minute.
Dave & Joe have a tip as some follow-up on cloning social media accounts, Dave's story is about turning the tables on hackers in the UK, Joe talks about Kaspersky's Spam and phishing report, The Catch...
3 Sep 202037min
social engineering (noun) [Word Notes]
The art of convincing a person or persons to take an action that may or may not be in their best interests. Social engineering in some form or the other has been around since the beginning of time. Th...
1 Sep 20204min
Take a deep breath.
Joe's story is about the effectiveness of social media account cloning, Dave talks about toll fraud, The Catch of the Day is a Bitcoin scam with some scam baiting on the side, and later in the show, D...
27 Aug 202036min
man trap (noun) [Word Notes]
A physical security access control device consisting of an enclosed hallway with interlocking doors on each end where both doors can’t be open at the same time. A person presents credentials to the en...
25 Aug 20204min
Many times it is less sophisticated than we think.
Dave's story is about robocalls to a telephony honeypot, Joe talks about postcards impersonating HIPAA communications (you have one? please let Joe know), The Catch of the Day is an email that our edi...
20 Aug 202040min
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 ...
18 Aug 20203min
