Hacking Humans
Deception, influence, and social engineering in the world of cyber crime.
Episodes
October 9, 2025 • 47 mins
This week, our hosts Dave Bittner , Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. Listener Chad wrote in after hearing an episode to share th...
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October 7, 2025 • 7 mins
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A set of services for managing identity and access management, or IAM across all of an organization's data islands.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/identity-fabric
Audio reference link: “Leadership Compass Identity Fabrics - Analyst Chat 126,” by KuppingerCole, YouTube, 30 May 2022.
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October 7, 2025 • 49 mins
Welcome in! You’ve entered, Only Malware in the Building. Join us each month to sip tea and solve mysteries about today’s most interesting threats. Your host is Selena Larson, Proofpoint intelligence analyst and host of their podcast DISCARDED. Inspired by the residents of a building in New York’s exclusive upper west side, Selena is joined by her co-hosts N2K Networks Dave Bittner and Kei...
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October 2, 2025 • 42 mins
This week, our hosts Dave Bittner , Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. We start off with a celebration of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. J...
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September 30, 2025 • 7 mins
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A cybersecurity first principle strategy focused on disrupting known adversary activity at one of several phases of an attack sequence.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/intrusion-kill-chain
Audio reference link: "Cybersecurity Days: A Network Defender's Future," by Rick Howard, Integrated Cyber Conference, Integrated Adaptive Cyber Defense (IACD), YouTube, 26...
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September 25, 2025 • 41 mins
This week, while Dave Bittner is out, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. Listener Daniel shares a follow-up where...
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September 23, 2025 • 6 mins
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A subset of security orchestration, the management of identities across an organization's set of digital islands.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/identity-orchestration
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September 18, 2025 • 46 mins
This week, our hosts Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. We start with a scam warning from Micha...
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September 16, 2025 • 7 mins
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A cyber threat intelligence analysis model that defines relationship pairs between four core components in the shape of a diamond of adversary playbook activity across the intrusion kill chain: the adversary, their capability, the infrastructure used or attacked, and the victim.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/diamond-model
Audio reference link: “Diamond Pre...
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September 11, 2025 • 48 mins
This week, our hosts Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. Maria's story is on her recent close encounter w...
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September 9, 2025 • 7 mins
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A knowledge base of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures established and maintained by the MITRE Corporation.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/mitre-attck
Audio reference link: “Attack Frameworks - SY0-601 CompTIA Security+ : 4.2,” Professor Messer, YouTube, 29 April 2021.
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September 4, 2025 • 43 mins
This week, our hosts Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. This week’s follow-up brings two gems: a smart tip from a l...
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September 2, 2025 • 36 mins
Welcome in! You’ve entered, Only Malware in the Building — but this time, it’s not just another episode. This is a special edition you won’t want to miss.
For the first time, our hosts are together in-studio — and they’re turning up the heat. Literally. Join Selena Larson, Proofpoint intelligence analyst and host of their podcast DISCARDED, along with N2K Networks Dave Bittner...
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September 2, 2025 • 7 mins
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The set of people, process, technology, and cultural norms that integrates software development and IT operations into a system-of-systems.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/devops
Audio reference link: "10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr," by John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, Velocity 09, 25 July 2009.
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August 28, 2025 • 48 mins
This week, our hosts Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. We start with some follow up, this time involving a surprising new fl...
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August 26, 2025 • 6 mins
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A software development model that relies on a series of sequential steps that flow into each other, like a series of waterfalls.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/waterfall-software-development
Audio reference link: “Creating Video Games - Agile Software Development,” by Sara Verrilli, MIT OpenCourseWare, YouTube, 10 December 2015
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August 21, 2025 • 49 mins
This week, our hosts Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. We start with some follow up from Chris Martin, a long-time listener and fan of the show....
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August 19, 2025 • 7 mins
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A software development philosophy that emphasizes incremental delivery, team collaboration, continual planning, and continual learning
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/agile-software-development
Audio reference link: "Velocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys Pe," John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, 2009 Velocity Conference, YouTube, 25 June 2009.
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August 14, 2025 • 45 mins
This week, our hosts Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) are back sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. Joe's story is on WhatsApp rolling out new anti-scam tools, disrupting over 6.8 million scam-l...
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August 12, 2025 • 8 mins
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The flagship product of the controversial Israeli spyware vendor, the NSO Group, use for remotely hacking mobile devices, most notably iPhones, via zero-click exploits.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/pegasus
Audio reference link:“Cybersecurity beyond the Headlines: A Conversation with Journalist Nicole Perlroth,” Kristen Eichensehr, and Nicole Perlroth, Univ...
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