Hacking Humans

Maria Varmazis host of the N2K daily space show, T-Minus, joins Dave and Joe to share her story from listener Chloe, who shared a post she found on a social media platformed called "Bluesky," where a company is asking for photos and videos of your children to help AI smarter. Our hosts share some listener follow up on how a scammer impersonated a government official to deceive a woman into converting her assets into gold bars, resulting in the theft of over $789,000. They also share some follow up from listener Steve to discuss the "No Numbers Project" from episode 300. Joe's story is on regulators investigating whether major banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, are adequately addressing Zelle scams by shutting down accounts used by fraudsters. Dave has the story on the FTC warning that scammers are the only ones who promise to remove all negative details from your credit report. Our catch of the day come from listener Benjamin who shares an email they received claiming to know things about him that he would not want getting out.

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Links to the stories:

• Bluesky
• Second gold bar scam suspect arrested, extradited to Maryland
• Regulators Probing Big Banks’ Handling of Zelle Scams
• FTC warns consumers of scammers offering to remove all negative information from credit reports

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Ann Johnson, Security Executive at Microsoft and host of the afternoon cyber tea podcast, joins Dave to discuss social engineering and ways to help prevent it, as well as the different types of social engineering she's seen from her experience, Dave and Joe share some listener follow up about macros in Office documents, Joe has two stories this week, one is on how Seth Green lost over 300K in NFTs, and the other is on a new scam with Chatbots on phishing emails, Dave's story is on how a California man was arrested for siphoning money, our catch of the day comes from listener Sadik who shares a suspicious looking email telling him, that his Norton service is about to expire.

Links to stories:

• Amazing mind reader reveals his 'gift'
• Seth Green Loses $200K Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT in Phishing Scam
• Phishing Scam Nets $23.5 Million From DoD, California Man Arrested Siphoning Money From Contractor
• Phishing websites now use chatbots to steal your credentials

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Trevin Edgeworth, Red Team Practice Director at Bishop Fox, is discussing how change, like M&A, staff, tech, lack of clarity or even self-promotion within and around security environments presents windows of opportunity for attackers. Joe and Dave share some listener follow up, the first one comes from Erin, who writes in from Northern Ireland, shares an interesting new find about scammers now keeping up with the news. The second one comes from listener Johnathan who shared thoughts on reconsidering his view on defining Apple's non-rate-limited MFA notifications as a "vulnerability." Lastly, we have follow up from listener Anders who shares an article on AI. Joe shares a story from Amazon sellers, and how they are being plagued in scam returns. Dave brings us the story of how to save yourself and your loved ones from AI robocalls.

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Links to the stories:

• Theory Is All You Need: AI, Human Cognition, and Decision Making
• Amazon Sellers Plagued by Surge in Scam Returns
• How to Protect Yourself (and Your Loved Ones) From AI Scam Calls
• News Insights: Does X Mark a Target? with Trevin Edgeworth, Director of Red Team

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The absence of telemetry that could help network defenders detect and respond to hostile attempts to compromise a system.

A formal record containing the details and supply chain relationships of various components used in building software.