Hacking Humans

lateral movement (noun) [Word Notes]

Phase of a typical cyber adversary group's attack sequence, after the initial compromise and usually after the group has established a command and control channel, where the group moves through the vi...

28 Sep 20218min

They won't ask for sensitive information over the phone.

Guest Alex Hinchliffe, Threat Intelligence Analyst from Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks joins Dave to talk about some of his team's ransomware research, Joe's story is about a new jury duty scam that is...

23 Sep 202139min

common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) (noun) [Word Notes]

A public list sponsored by the US government and designed to uniquely identify, without the need to manually cross- reference, all the known software vulnerabilities in the world.

21 Sep 20217min

Sometimes, deepfake victims don't want to be convinced it is fake.

Guest Etay Maor of Cato Networks joins Dave Bittner to discuss the impact that deepfakes will have on our society, we share some fun feedback on the Lightning Rod story edit, Dave's story talks about ...

16 Sep 202144min

dead-box forensics (noun) [Word Notes]

A forensic technique where practitioners capture an entire image of a system and analyze the contents offline.

14 Sep 20216min

Collaboration platforms are a gateway for ransomware attacks.

Guest Gil Friedrich from Avanan joins Dave to discuss how collaboration platforms, like Microsoft Teams, Slack and others, opened up a new gateway to ransomware attacks, Joe's story comes from listene...

9 Sep 202133min

cybersecurity maturity model certification (CMMC) (noun) [Word Notes]

A supply chain cybersecurity accreditation standard designed for the protection of controlled unclassified information that the U.S. Department of Defense, or DoD, will require for all contract bids b...

7 Sep 20216min

Don't blindly test your colleagues.

Guest Javvad Malik from KnowBe4 shares his thoughts on bad security training with the CyberWire's UK correspondent Carole Theriault, Dave's story is about deepfake technology being used for business c...

2 Sep 202140min