Hacking Humans
Deception, influence, and social engineering in the world of cyber crime.
Episodes
July 3, 2025 • 44 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. We start with some follow up, as Joe shares with us a complaint he has with Vanguard. Maria’s story is on McAfee’s latest research revealing tha...
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July 1, 2025 • 41 mins
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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 N2K Networks ...
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July 1, 2025 • 6 mins
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A descriptive model that provides a baseline of observed software security initiatives and activities from a collection of volunteer software development shops.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/bsimm
Audio reference link: “OWASP AppSecUSA 2014 - Keynote: Gary McGraw - BSIMM: A Decade of Software Security.” YouTube Video. YouTube, September 19, 2014.
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June 26, 2025 • 41 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. We start with some follow-up from listener Abdussobur, who wonders if a pair of suspicious text messages—one sent to his wife and another to him with a ne...
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June 24, 2025 • 8 mins
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Software libraries, frameworks, packages, and other components, and their dependencies (third-party code that each component uses) that have inherent security weaknesses, either through newly discovered vulnerabilities or because newer versions have superseded the deployed version.
Audio reference Link: "The Panama Papers: A Closer Look," Late Night with Seth Meyers, YouTube, 12 April...
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June 19, 2025 • 45 mins
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On Hacking Humans, Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of N2K's daily space podcast, T-Minus), are once again sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines to help our audience become aware of what is out there. First we start off with some follow up, our hosts share some more information on V...
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June 12, 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. We start off with some more chicken follow up, this week, delving into malware-related chicken names. Dave’s got the story of Brevard-based Health First Health Plans te...
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June 10, 2025 • 8 mins
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Code and data repositories that don't protect against unauthorized changes.
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June 5, 2025 • 46 mins
This week, our hosts 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 a listener on class action settlements: they’re a class action attorney and shared that the best way to verify a notice is to contact the law firm listed in ...
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June 3, 2025 • 36 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 Keith Mularski, former F...
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June 3, 2025 • 7 mins
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An attack technique that leverages an unprotected web server as a proxy for attackers to send commands through to other computers.
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May 29, 2025 • 41 mins
This week, our three 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 bit of follow up, one from listener Aaron, who shares some safety tips for chickens, and from listener Shannon, who writes in with a new fashion statement. Ma...
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May 27, 2025 • 6 mins
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The absence of telemetry that could help network defenders detect and respond to hostile attempts to compromise a system.
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May 22, 2025 • 58 mins
This week, our three 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 Jim notes that money launderers and couriers mentioned in recent episodes are often scam victims themselves, unknowingly processing fraudulent payments or delivering items, ...
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May 20, 2025 • 5 mins
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Ineffectual confirmation of a user's identity or authentication in session management.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/owasp-identification-and-authentication-failure
Audio reference link: “Mr. Robot Hack - Password Cracking - Episode 1.” YouTube Video. YouTube, September 21, 2016.
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May 15, 2025 • 43 mins
And....we're back! This week, our three hosts Dave Bittner, Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) are all back to share the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. The team shares three bits of follow-up and then breaks into their stories. Joe starts off sharing some stories about influencer fakery on fake private jet sets and a sc...
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May 13, 2025 • 9 mins
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An open source Java-based software tool available from the Apache Software Foundation designed to log security and performance information.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/log4j
Audio reference link: “CISA Director: The LOG4J Security Flaw Is the ‘Most Serious’ She’s Seen in Her Career,” by Eamon Javers (CNBC) and Jen Easterly (Cybersecurity and Infrastruct...
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May 8, 2025 • 46 mins
As Dave Bittner is at the RSA Conference this week, our hosts Maria Varmazis and Joe Carrigan, are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. We start with some follow-up from José on episode 335, sharing how UK banking features like Faster Payments and the “Check Payee” function might have helped prevent a scam involving fake banking apps—and he even te...
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May 6, 2025 • 41 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 N2K Networks Dave Bittner and our newest co-host, Keith Mularski, former FBI cy...
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May 6, 2025 • 7 mins
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Software users are allowed access to data or functionality contrary to the defined zero trust policy by bypassing or manipulating the installed security controls.
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