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
Flying under the radar.
Dave's story is about a forgotten scam, Joe talks about the recent Twitter hack, The Catch of the Day is a pretty standard phishing email for you to be on the lookout for, and later in the show, Dave'...
13 Aug 202029min
NMAP (noun) [Word Notes]
A network mapping tool that pings IP addresses looking for a response and can discover host names, open communications ports, operating system names and versions. Written and maintained by Gordon Lyon...
11 Aug 20203min
