Hacking Humans
Deception, influence, and social engineering in the world of cyber crime.
Episodes
February 26, 2026 • 51 mins
This week, hosts of N2K CyberWire Maria Varmazis and Dave Bittner alongside Joe Carrigan are discussing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines. Maria’s story covers a BBC experi...
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February 24, 2026 • 7 mins
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An IT governance framework developed by ISACA.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/cobit
Audio reference link: isacappc. “How Do You Explain Cobit to Your Dad – or Your CEO?” YouTube, YouTube, 24 Aug. 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYATVkddIyw.
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February 19, 2026 • 45 mins
This week, hosts Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show), Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan are discussing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and crimin...
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February 17, 2026 • 8 mins
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A security architecture that incorporates the cloud shared responsibility model, a vendor provided security stack, and network peering with one or more of the big content providers and their associated fiber networks.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/security-service-edge
Audio reference link: Netskope (2022). What is Security Service Edge (SSE). YouTube. Avai...
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February 12, 2026 • 66 mins
This week, hosts Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show), Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan are discussing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploit...
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February 10, 2026 • 7 mins
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A social engineering tactic in which hackers build a malicious domain to mimic a legitimate one.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/domain-spoofing
Audio reference link: “Mission Impossible Fallout - Hospital Scene.” YouTube, YouTube, 8 Oct. 2018,
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February 5, 2026 • 51 mins
This week, while Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) is out at a conference, hosts Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan are joined by friend of the show Michele Kellerman, as they are sharing the lat...
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February 3, 2026 • 39 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 Bitt...
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February 3, 2026 • 9 mins
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A layer seven firewall that sits in line at the boundary between the internet and an organization's network perimeter that allows security policy enforcement and can perform certain prevention and detection tasks.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/secure-web-gateway
Audio reference link: Vintage Computer Federation (2015). VCF East 9.1 - Ches’ Computer Security...
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January 29, 2026 • 46 mins
This week, 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. ...
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January 27, 2026 • 6 mins
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Digital evidence that a system or network has been breached.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/indicator-of-compromise
Audio reference link: ”Suicide or Murder? | The Blind Banker | Sherlock,” uploaded by Sherlock, 18 October 2015
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January 22, 2026 • 47 mins
This week, 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. Joe share'...
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January 20, 2026 • 7 mins
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A system that monitors for malicious or unwanted activity, and either raises alerts when such activity is detected or blocks the traffic from passing to the target.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/intrusion-detection-system
Audio reference link: “Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention - CompTIA Security+ SY0-501 - 2.1,” Professor Messer, uploaded 16 Nove...
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January 15, 2026 • 51 mins
This week, while Maria Varmazis (also host of the T-Minus Space Daily show) is out, our hosts Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are m...
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January 13, 2026 • 6 mins
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Hackers bypass, multifactor authentication schemes by sending a blizzard of spamming login attempts until the accounts owner accepts the MFA prompt out of desperation to make the spamming stop.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/mfa-prompt-bombing
Audio reference link: movieclips. “Sneakers (2/9) Movie Clip - Defeating the Keypad (1992) HD.” YouTube, YouTube, ...
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January 8, 2026 • 53 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 ...
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January 6, 2026 • 6 mins
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An optional security mode for macOS and iOS that reduces the attack surface of the operating system by disabling certain commonly attacked features.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/apple-lockdown-mode
Audio reference link: “How NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Was Found on Jamal Khashoggi’s Fiancée’s Phone,” FRONTLINE, YouTube, 18 July 2021.
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January 6, 2026 • 44 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 ...
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January 1, 2026 • 36 mins
While our team is out on winter break, please enjoy this episode of Only Malware in the Building.
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 h...
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December 30, 2025 • 8 mins
While our team is out on winter break, please enjoy this episode of Word Notes.
A security awareness training technique in which authorized, but fake phishing emails are sent to employees in order to measure and improve their resistance to real phishing attacks.
CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/simulated-phishing
Audio reference link: “Blackhat (2014) - Hacking the NSA Scene (4/10) | Movieclips.” Y...
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