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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. This week, the team shares follow up about FEMA and Hurricane Helene relief. Dave's story is about romance scams involving an impersonator of a WWE star scamming a grandfather out of their retirement savings, Maria shares a story about a valid-looking document impersonating DocuSign's API (application programming interface). Joe's got a few stories including one about a CVE (Common Vulnerabilities Enumeration) relating to an Okta bug and one from the Better Business Bureau with a new twist on online shopping scams where your get a "card declined" message. Our Catch of the Day comes from listener William about an email from the "United Nations."

Resources and links to stories:

• DisasterAssistance.gov
• They’re Giving Scammers All Their Money. The Kids Can’t Stop Them.
• Attackers Abuse DocuSign API to Send Authentic-Looking Invoices At Scale
• DMARC: Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance
• CVE-2024-10327
• BBB Scam Alert: 'Card declined' error may lead to multiple fraudulent charges

You can hear more from the T-Minus space daily show here.

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