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Episodes
Episode 60 - Second Chances, Ukraine’s IT Army Disrupts Alcohol Flow in Russia, Fixing World Password Day, China Dumps US-Made PCs, Depp-Heard Trial
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Be sure...
Episode 59 - Happy Mother’s Day, Emotet Roars Back, Russia Turns to Prison Labor for IT Support, BEC Still Reigns Supreme for Cybercrime, TV Shows Can...
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 58 - Stolen iCloud Backup Leads to $660k Theft, Radio Station Bricks Mazda Infotainment Systems, DJI Drones Sabotaged in Ukraine, Airline Etiq...
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 57 - Netflix Loses Streaming War, Russian Ransomware Destroys Russia, Notorious Hacking Forum Seized by FBI, Ransomware Gang Undetected for Mo...
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 56 - Intuit’s Ad Troubles, FBI Removes Web Shells Again, Hydra Dark Market Shuts Down, Okta’s Passwords Stored In a Spreadsheet, TVs Scheming ...
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 55 - Brian and Glenn Meet Up, Deep Fakes and OSINT in Russia-Ukraine Conflict, Emergency Search Warrant as a Service, Russia’s FSB Food Prefer...
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 54 - Liberty Taco Bell, Russian APT Bypasses Multi-Factor Authentication, US Bans Kaspersky, Text Messages From Your Own Number, Tips To Focus...
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 53 - Unencrypted communications in Ukraine, Lapsus$ hacks Okta, Nvidia hacks Lapsus$, Italy Joins Have I Been Pwned, Bye Bye Internet Explorer
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 52 - One Year of the PEBCAK Podcast, Shadow Banned Again, Denver Airport Conspiracies, Russia Creates Certificate Authority, Future of PEBCAK,...
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 51 - Two Years to Flatten the Curve, Stolen Code-Signing Certificates Signing Malware, Bounties for DDoS, Conti Ransomware Crew Gets Owned, Su...
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Bonus Episode 8 - The Hosts Try Smelling Salts (Thanks Brian)
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our eighth bonus episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! The hosts try smelling salts, care of Brian. Check out the full video on Instagram. Follow...
Episode 50 - Interview with Sahir Hidayatullah and Sudarshan Pisupati. Cat Dad, M&A Thoughts, Niccolò Machiavelli vs USSR, 99% Hacking Success Rate, ...
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Bonus Episode 7 - Uber Privacy Update, Hosts’ Uber Rider Ratings, Best and Worst Rider Cities
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our seventh bonus episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! The content ran long enough to split off into a separate bonus episode. Follow us on Ins...
Episode 49 - TrickBot Shuts Down For Good, Russia Amplifies Cyber Attacks in Ukraine Before Invading, California Vaccine Registry Peddling ED Medicati...
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 48 - Super Bowl Ads, Cringe Rap Videos Lead to Cryptocurrency Thieves’ Arrest, Honda Faces Y22K Problem, Teens Arrested for Terrorist Acts Ins...
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Bonus Episode 6 - History of NeXT and Steve Jobs’ Return to Apple
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our sixth bonus episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! The content ran long enough to split off into a separate bonus episode. Follow us on Insta...
Episode 47 - Ransomware’s Unconventional Ransom Demand, Azure AD MFA Adoption Low, Hackers Adapt to MFA Requirements, Modified AirTags Get Creepier
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 46 - Halo Schmovie Coming Soon, iPhone Spyware Persists and Evolves, CISA Warns of Russian Attacks, Red Cross Begs Hackers Not To Leak Stolen ...
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 45 - Minecraft Password Frustrations, Ten Years After The Great Internet Blackout, Russian Precursor to Invasion, Merck Wins $1.4B From NotPet...
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 44 - Russia Arrests REvil Ransomware Gang, Crypto.com Gets Hacked, Hotel Chain Ditches Windows to Stop Ransomware, Signal Offers Anonymous Pay...
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 43 - December 33, Malware Steals Real Estate Viewers’ Information, Hackers Go Full Hipster, Google Loses Legal Battle and Trolls Opponent, Com...
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 42 - Apple M1 Max Macs, Microsoft’s Hair-Brained Y22K Bug, Verizon’s Tracking Program, Norton Anti-Virus Launches Cryptomining Malware, Hazard...
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Bonus Episode 5 - Google Trends For 2021, What Would You Do?, Dumb Things Your Kids Should Do
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 41 - LastPass Accounts Hacked, Huawei Caught Installing Backdoors in Hardware, Crowdsourced Information, TikTok Challenges, Awesome Christmas ...
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 40 - Hosts’ Favorite Stories, Predictions for 2022, Meta World Peace, Brian Calls Out Airport Passengers, Log4j Redux, Dogecoin to the Moon, ...
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 39 - Un-shadowbanned, PEBCAK Podcast Goes NFT, Log4j and Log4Shell Deep Dive, Ethics of Greyhat Hacking, Employee Burnout Poses Serious Threat
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 38 - AirTags Help Car Thieves, Life360 Sells Your Data, Beware of Free Amazon Gifts, Thank You Listeners!
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 37 - Encrypted Phones Not So Secure, WordPress Ransomware Backfires, There’s No Place Like Home (For Now), SEO, The Earth Is Flat
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 36 - Cyber Monday, Ransomware Crews Buy Zero Days, Next Gen Phishing Uses College Tactics, Hackers Offer Degree in Building Botnets, Thanksgiv...
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 35 - Happy Thanksgiving, College Textbook Scam, Emotet is Back, What’s a Meta, The Matrix and Bored Apes NFTs, What Motivates the Hosts
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 34 - Ransomware Evolves Again, US Government Misses MFA Deadline, US Blocks NSO Group, Elon Musk Trolls United Nations
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 33 - Credit Bureaus Need to Go, Zero Day Exploits for VPN in High Demand, Microsoft Stops World’s Largest DDoS Attack, Deep Fake Voice Causes ...
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 32 - Apple Announcement, BlackMatter Victims Get Free Decryption Key, Darkside Cashing Out and Shutting Down, Hackers Target M&A Activity, Use...
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 31 - The Purge, Espionage With Peanut Butter Sandwiches, 31 Nation Ransomware Meeting Without China or Russia, Major Twitch Hack, Boycott Cano...
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to this week's very special Halloween episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got four amazing stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep ...
Episode 30 - Dutch Raise Stakes in Ongoing Cyber War, Ransomware Gangs Hate Negotiators, OTP Interception Becomes Trivial, Which Hosts Upgrade to Wind...
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 29 - Facebook’s Network Problem, Apple AirTags Threaten Good Samaritans, World’s First Ransomware Death Revisited, IT Admin Steals Power to M...
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 28 - FBI in Hot Water For Holding Kaseya Decryption Key, Confluence RCE Wreaks Havoc, Ex-Spies Fined for UAE Government Work, SSD Manufacturer...
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 27 - Motorcycle Leads to Ransomware Discovery, Shipping Company UPS’s Website Serving Malware, Botnet Influence Campaigns and Clickfraud
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 26 - Chinese and Russian Malware Authors Arrested, ProtonMail Is Not As Private As Previously Thought, iPhone 13 and Emergency iOS Zero-Day Pa...
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Bonus Episode 4 - Final Destination
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our fourth bonus episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! The content ran long enough to split off into a separate bonus episode. This week we talk ...
Episode 25 - Criminals Selling Your Bandwidth, Emoji Phishing Techniques, Apple CSAM Update and Privacy Appreciation, Is College Still Worth It
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 24 - T-Mobile’s Atrocious Security, Largest DDoS Attack in History, Captchas to Bypass Browser Security, USB Rubber Ducky
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Bonus Episode 3 - The Shaggy Defense
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our third bonus episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! The hosts managed to derail the main PEBCAK Podcast episode with our opening topic to create...
Episode 23 - Private Intelligence Companies, Scamming the Scammers, Content Filtering At Home, Evolving Corporate Acceptable Use Policies
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Bonus Episode 2 - Fast Food Talk
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our second bonus episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! The hosts managed to derail the main PEBCAK Podcast episode long enough to create a bonus e...
Episode 22 - Apple’s Other Child Protection Measures, When Kindle E-Readers Attack, Ransomare Crews Target Disgruntled Insiders, Hosts Get Hacked Part...
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 21 - Russian APT Crew Uses Year-Old Infrastructure, Apple is NOT Spying On You (Sort Of), Hacker Steals then Returns $600m in Cryptocurrency, ...
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 20 - Ransomware Rebrands Itself, The Hosts Get Hacked (Again), BYOD Gets Ransomware Through VPN, Corporate E-mail For Personal Use
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 19 - 2020 Olympics, Ransomware Gang Gets Scammed, Keyboards Are Biohazards, Twitter Users’ Abysmal MFA Adoption Rate, Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 18 - Dark VCs Finance Cyber Crime, Man Sells Kidney for iPhone, Facebook Catches a Predator, Poor Financial Decisions
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 17 - Kaseya Ravages Thousands of Organizations, $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin Disappears, The Deflector of Doom, Hosts Get Scammed, PSVOD
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 16 - States Ban Ransomware Payments, US Law to Raise Cybersecurity Awareness, iPhone Thieves Drain Victims’ Bank Accounts, Bad Job References
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 15 - Goodbye John McAfee, Windows 11 News, Apple Requiring Bodycams, Massive Ongoing Data Destruction Campaign, Latest Gadget Talk
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 14 - Breaking iPhone’s WiFi, Hackers Try Poisoning California’s Water Supply, Cl0p Ransomware Crew Arrested, Things That Need to be Illegal
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 13 - FBI Recovers Colonial Pipeline Bitcoin, Difficulty of Securing Data in the Cloud, Electronic Arts Hacked Through Slack Cookie, Laws the Hosts are Most Likely to Break
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! Friend-of-the-show Zoltan Kovacs joins us as a guest co-host, filling in for Brian this week. ...
Episode 12 - US DOJ Elevates Ransomware Priority to Terrorism, Apple Builds a TOR Network, FBI Secretly Runs Criminal Messaging App
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Programming note: Several of us met up in person to socially distantly record this episode. The audio may have more echoes and volume variance than ...
Episode 11 - Ransomware Decryption Tools, Dark Escrow, Fake Job Scams, Glenn Meets an NBA Superstar
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Programming note: Since we released two episodes last week, both episodes may not have been downloaded due to your podcast app settings. Please manu...
Bonus Episode 1 - Tenet Movie Review and Zombie Talk
30 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a special bonus episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! Our colleague Rich Khan joins us as we discuss Christopher Nolan's film Tenet (2020) and z...
Episode 10 - Deception Security, Signal Trolls iPhone Hacking Company, Farewell to IE, iPhone Location Tracking
30 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! Our colleague Rich Khan joins us as our first guest on the show. We’ve got four amazing st...
Episode 9 - A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Ransomware Defense, China Buys Foreign AntiVirus Software, AXA Insurance Hit With Ransomware After Saying It Will Not Pay, Hosts’ Jobs Outside of Tech
23 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Programming note: Glenn was traveling during the recording of episode 9 so his audio quality is not as great as prior episodes. Episode 10 should re...
Episode 8 - Darkside Ransomware Cuts off Florida Man’s Gas Supply, Peloton’s Troubles Spill Into Cyber World, Western Union Stories
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 7 - Public-Private Partnership Takes on Ransomware, Facebook’s Scumbag Move to Enable Ads, Novel Phishing Techniques, Return of Microsoft Zune
09 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 6 - Apple Scrubs Top Secret Specs From Leak Site, US OpSec is Impeccable, New iPhone OS Stops Creepy Ad Tracking, Cow Tipping
02 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 5 - FBI Warning for Deep Fakes, Deep Dive into Emotet and Web Shells, Securing Large Bank Transfers, Regional Slang
25 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 4 - FBI Nukes Web Shells, Brian Lowers His Social Credit Score, Hosts’ Favorite Podcasts, Tech Interview Practice Questions
18 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 3 - Ubiquiti Breach Coverup, Creepy Living Room Accessory, Mental Health Talk, Honest Smart Treadmill Review
11 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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Episode 2 - Ransomware Offers Refunds, No-Auth RCE (Again), Last-Passageddon, Favorite Movie Hacks
04 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to this week's episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got an action-packed episode this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! ...
Episode 1 - $50 Million Ransomware Demand, Bypassing MFA in M365, Potato Chips in Your Browser, Zoom-Free Fridays, Dad Jokes
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the inaugural episode of the PEBCAK Podcast! We’ve got some great stories this week so sit back, relax, and keep being awesome! Top ...
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25 Mar 2021
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