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 listener John Helt having some ch...
Dec 04, 2025•52 min•Season 8Ep. 365
Welcome in! You’ve entered, Only Malware in the Building. Wrap yourself in a warm blanket, pour your favorite mug of tea, and join us each month as we unwrap the season’s juiciest cyber mysteries. 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 ...
Dec 02, 2025•40 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. Software designed to prevent cheating in video games. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/anti-cheat-software Audio reference link: “ The BIG Problem with Anti-Cheat ,” by Techquickie, YouTube, 5 June 2020
Dec 02, 2025•8 min•Season 2Ep. 111
Please enjoy this encore of Hacking Humans. 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. Our hosts discuss and ponder whether or not diamonds are the original cryptocurrency, as well as diving further into Yubikeys for organizations. M...
Nov 27, 2025•53 min•Season 7Ep. 320
Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. Malware, in the guise of ransomware, that destroys data rather than encrypts. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/pseudoransomware Audio reference link: “ Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn | the Dark Knight ,” by YouTube, 2 November 2019.
Nov 25, 2025•7 min•Season 2Ep. 110
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 on China sentencing five members of a violent ...
Nov 20, 2025•56 min•Season 8Ep. 364
Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. A browser configuration control that prevents accessing resources within a private network. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/trusted-platform-module Audio reference link: “ TPM (Trusted Platform Module) - Computerphile ,” Computerphile, 23 July 2021
Nov 18, 2025•7 min•Season 2Ep. 109
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 big chicken news from Joe! Dave’s story is on Meta’s internal do...
Nov 13, 2025•53 min•Season 8Ep. 363
Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. A browser configuration control that prevents accessing resources within a private network. CyberWire Glossary link . Audio reference link: “ Chrome Limits Access to Private Networks ,” by Daniel Lowrie, ITProTV, YouTube, 19 January 2022.
Nov 11, 2025•6 min•Season 2Ep. 108
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, listener Jay shared how Robinhood tackled a $25.4 billion pho...
Nov 06, 2025•50 min•Season 8Ep. 362
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 FBI cybercrime investigator and now Chi...
Nov 04, 2025•38 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. The potential next evolution of the worldwide web that decentralizes interaction between users and content away from the big silicon valley social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and towards peer-to-peer interaction using blockchain as the underlying technology. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/web-30 Audio reference link: “ What Elon Musk Just Said about Metaverse, Web3 and Neuralink ,” By Clayton Morris,...
Nov 04, 2025•7 min•Season 2Ep. 107
Happy Halloween from the team at N2K Networks! We hope you share in our Halloween tradition of listening to the Malware Mash. You can check out our video here . Lyrics I was coding in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight for my malware threat score began to rise and suddenly to my surprise... It did the Mash It did the Malware Mash The Malware Mash It was a botnet smash It did the Mash It caught on 'cause of Flash The Malware Mash It did the Malware Mash From the Stuxnet w...
Oct 31, 2025•3 min
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. In our follow up, our hosts respond to a listener who wrote in with an insightful question about th...
Oct 30, 2025•40 min•Season 8Ep. 361
Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. A set of solutions for ensuring that the right users can only access the appropriate resources. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/identity-and-access-management Audio reference link: “ The Wrath of Khan (1982) ‘Kirk’s Response ,’” by Russell, YouTube, 16 May 2017.
Oct 28, 2025•12 min•Season 2Ep. 106
This week, while Dave Bittner is on vacation, 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. Users are reporting a potential new Signal scam involving fake in-app messages posing as of...
Oct 23, 2025•45 min•Season 8Ep. 360
Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. The deployment of rules to the security stack across all data islands, cloud, SaaS applications, data centers, and mobile devices designed to manifest an organization's cybersecurity first principle strategies of zero trust, intrusion kill chain prevention, resilience, and risk forecasting. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/policy-orchestration Audio reference link: “ The Value of Using Security Policy Orchestration and Automati...
Oct 21, 2025•6 min•Season 2Ep. 105
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. Dave's story is on how older aspiring models like Judy were scammed into paying hundreds for fake photoshoots, and ...
Oct 16, 2025•44 min•Season 8Ep. 359
Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. A process of hiding the complexity of a system by providing an interface that eases its manipulation. CyberWire Glossary link: https://thecyberwire.com/glossary/abstraction-layer Audio reference link: “ What Is Abstraction in Computer Science, ” by Codexpanse, YouTube, 29 October 2018.
Oct 14, 2025•6 min•Season 2Ep. 104
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 that he received a suspicious call that sounded like a prison-rela...
Oct 09, 2025•47 min•Season 8Ep. 358
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 FBI cybercrime investigator and now Chi...
Oct 07, 2025•50 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. 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....
Oct 07, 2025•8 min•Season 2Ep. 102
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. Joe's story is on how the North Wales Police are warning cryptocu...
Oct 02, 2025•43 min•Season 8Ep. 357
Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. 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 October 2018....
Sep 30, 2025•8 min•Season 2Ep. 102
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 scammers exploited details from a Texas car accident to pose a...
Sep 25, 2025•42 min•Season 8Ep. 356
Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. 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
Sep 23, 2025•6 min•Season 2Ep. 101
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 Michal, who is sharing the latest conference scam. Dave's got the s...
Sep 18, 2025•46 min•Season 8Ep. 355
Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. 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 Presentation v2 0: Diamond Model for Intrusion Analysis – Applied to St...
Sep 16, 2025•8 min•Season 2Ep. 100
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 with a Facebook scam. Dave's story is on a new strain of spyware...
Sep 11, 2025•49 min•Season 8Ep. 354
Please enjoy this encore of Word Notes. 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.
Sep 09, 2025•8 min•Season 2Ep. 99
