Presidential prank, pensioner pilfered.
Dave recounts the news that US President Trump likely fell for a prank phone call. Joe outlines the sad story of a woman robbed of her retirement savings. Twitter account recovery scams. Charles Arthu...
12 Jul 201830min
Phone scams, phantom employees and sitting Ducks.
Joe warns of a harrowing phone scam technique, Dave reveals an alternate persona, a listener tries to sell a truck, and Carole Theriault from the Smashing Security Podcast interviews Sophos' Paul Duck...
5 Jul 201830min
Separating fools from money.
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...
28 Jun 201829min
Playing on kindness.
Joe explains the Ben Franklin effect. Dave describes job applicants tricked unto money laundering. A listener tells a tale of being fooled by an appeal to greed. Joe interviews Stacey Cameron from Dir...
21 Jun 201822min
Gaming pro athletes online.
Joe warns of scammers taking advantage of natural disasters, Dave explores romance scams, and gets a strange voice mail. Stephen Frank from the National Hockey League Players Association joins us to ...
14 Jun 201831min
A flood of misinformation and fake news.
In this episode, Joe examines the anatomy of a phishing attack, Dave explores pretexting, and a scammer targets real estate agents. Professor Stephen Lewandowsky from the University of Bristol joins ...
7 Jun 201831min
Social Engineering works because we're human.
In this premier episode of the Hacking Humans podcast, cohosts Dave Bittner from the CyberWire and Joe Carrigan from the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute discuss noteworthy soci...
30 Mai 201830min
