The Rising Tide of Insider Threats: Are Companies Prepared? ep23 The Human Element Podcast episode 23, hosted by Scott Gombar, focuses on the rising tide of insider threats. Gombar discusses a report by Secura Nix revealing that 76% of organizations have seen increased insider threat activity over the past five years, but only 21% have […]

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Episode 22: The Unexpected Email Imagine receiving an email unexpectedly from yourself. You’d probably think that was pretty weird but you open it anyway and what you read next is even more shocking. Someone else has access to your email and they want a ransom in bitcoin to return your email to you, and to […]

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Episode 21: Lost and Found – The Dark Side of Facebook Scams 3 Common Facebook Scams and How to Recognize Them Facebook scams are not new but they seem to be increasing, and becoming a little more sophisticated in some cases. We review 3 of the more popular scams being used on Facebook as of […]

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July is Ransomware Awareness Month 10 Things You Need to Do to Avoid a Ransomware Attack/Data Breach Ransomware is the scourge of the internet, and one of the biggest threats to small businesses all over the world, but what can we do? Well, it starts with awareness and education. We recorded this podcast to raise […]

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Episode 19: Fake LinkedIn Account Spotted As the owner of a LinkedIn group of almost 10,000 members, one of the tasks I have is to ensure the members are going to be good citizens. It is a geographically based group and as such I only allow members from Connecticut and the surrounding states into the […]

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Episode 18: No, They Are Not Going to Pay Your Bill On the day of this recording, I received a phone call claiming to be from “TMobile/Sprint”. They wanted to advise of an overpayment on my account and that I was owed a credit. As I fumbled in an attempt to record the conversation and […]

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Episode 17: A Hack Is Imminent I was made aware of a cybercriminal that has access to the network and computers of at least two businesses in the same industry as one of my clients. Some of the details were eerily similar but not all of the information matched. Not that it matters because we […]

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Episode 16: Pretexting – What You Need to Know Social Engineering starts with research. You have to understand your target and have some information to continue to phase 2. Phase 2 is pretexting and that’s the topic for Episode 16. Pretexting is similar to building a rapport with someone. An attacker tries to build a […]

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