James Casey has made a life-long career out of understanding why people break the law. He began in law enforcement and was on the National Security Council in Washington. Then he worked in the FBI for over 25 years, where he was named the Special Agent in charge of the Jacksonville division. James is currently the president of FCS Global Advisors, an investigative and crisis management firm where he has been for the past 8 years.
Fraud Detection with Traci Brown
Traci Brown is a Body Language Expert and Certified Speaking Professional. She has studied lie and deception detection alongside law enforcement, FBI, and Army Green Berets. She is the author of several books including How to Detect Lies, Fraud, and Identity Theft Field Guide and hosts her own fraud detection podcast called Fraud Busting.
Scam Baiting with Jim Browning
Today’s guest is Jim Browning. Jim can’t stand scammers, so he’s doing something about it. Jim has been baiting, investigating, and exposing scammers on his YouTube channel for over 5 years. His channel now has over 2.3 million subscribers and many of his videos showing how these scams work have been watched millions of times.
Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking with Ed Skoudis
Ed Skoudis is the founder of the SANS Penetration Testing Curriculum and Counter Hack; leads the team that builds NetWars, Holiday Hack, and CyberCity; and serves on the Board for the SANS Technology Institute and RSA. Ed has taught upwards of 20,000 security professionals globally and his contributions to information security have had an immense impact on the community.
Charity Scams with Michael Thatcher and Zachary Weinsteiger
Founded in 2001, Charity Navigator has become the nation’s largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities. In their quest to help donors, their team of professional analysts has examined tens of thousands of non-profit financial documents. They’ve used this knowledge to develop an unbiased, objective, numbers-based rating system to assess over 9,000 of America’s best-known and some lesser known, but worthy, charities.
Psychological Security with Adam Anderson
Adam Anderson is chairman of the board and founder for Hook Security and a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur. He is one of the founders of the Psychological Security Movement. Psychological Security or “Psy-Sec,” was born to create new technologies and processes to help build resilient human minds that can resist manipulations through technology.
The Life of a Cybercriminal with Brett Johnson
Brett Johnson, former cybercriminal, has been a central figure in the cybercrime world for over 20 years. Brett was responsible for refining modern financial cybercrime as we know it today. After being placed on the United States’ Most Wanted list, captured and convicted of 39 felonies, Brett promptly escaped prison. Captured again, Brett served his time, accepted responsibility, and found redemption through his loved ones and the help of the FBI. Today, Brett works as a security consultant and public speaker.
Embezzlement with Kelly Paxton
Kelly Paxton, also known as the Pink Crime Lady, has more than 25 years of investigation experience and is a certified fraud examiner and private investigator. She started her career in law enforcement as a special agent for the US Customs Office of Investigation in 1993. She has worked white collar crime, fraud, money laundering, embezzlement, and conflict of interest cases. Kelly is also the proud owner of Pink Collar Crime, a passion of hers about embezzlers in the workplace.
Surveillance and Digital Rights with Danny O’Brien
Danny O’Brien has been an activist for online free speech and privacy for over 20 years. In his home country of the UK, he fought against repressive anti-encryption law and co-founded the Open Rights Group. He is now the Director of Strategy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) where he supervises medium and long-term strategy with an eye to maintaining the organization’s global impact and reputation.
Charity and Personal Finance Scams with Dori Zinn
Dori Zinn has over a decade’s experience in digital journalism, mostly as a personal finance writer. Her work has been featured everywhere, from Huffington Post to Yahoo Finance and she has been a speaker at FinCon in years past. Her writing covers topics like banking, investing, credit, debt, student loans, personal loans, budgeting, and overall financial literacy.
You Can Stop Stupid with Ira Winkler
Ira Winkler is considered one of the world’s most influential security professionals and was named a “Modern Day James Bond” by the media. He did this by performing espionage simulations, where he broke into some of the largest companies in the world, investigating crimes against them. He has used these simulations to assist organizations and has won several prestigious industry awards.
Disinformation and Misinformation with Morgan Wright
Morgan Wright is an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity strategy, cyberterrorism, and advanced technology. His landmark testimony before Congress on healthcare.gov changed how the government collected personally identifiable information. He has made hundreds of appearances on national news – radio, print, and web – and has spoken to audiences around the world.
Dating Scams with Kezia Noble
Kezia Noble is a leading female dating and attraction expert for men. Kezia’s company helps clients learn conversation skills and ways to overcome anxiety in dating situations. She and her team have helped over 100,000 men to overcome a multitude of sticking points and limiting beliefs, and open their eyes to the skills, techniques, insights, and secrets needed to be successful in dating. She joins us today to talk about red flags on dating apps and how you can protect yourself from potential scammers.
Social Engineering with Jack Rhysider
Jack Rhysider is the host of the podcast DarkNet Diaries, a podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network. It chronicles true stories that meticulously dissect a topic through interviews, audio footage, and Jack’s narration.
Reputation Management with Chris Silver Smith
Chris Silver Smith is the CEO of Argent Media, a marketing agency focused heavily on reputation management where Chris helps people clean up their reputations in search engines. Chris has also served as an expert witness in defamation lawsuits in state and federal court. In his long time column at Search Engine Land, he has advocated for reputation victims.
Conspiracy Theories with Dr. Michael Shermer
Dr. Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine, the host of the Science Salon Podcast, and a presidential fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Why People Believe Weird Things and his latest book is Giving the Devil His Due.
Managing Credit Cards with Sara Rathner
Sara Rathner is a NerdWallet travel and credit cards expert. She appeared on the Today Show, Nasdaq, and CNBC’s Nightly Business Report and has been quoted in Yahoo Finance, Time, Business Insider, and MarketWatch. She’s held a total of 23 credit cards using travel reward points to see the world on a budget. A proud Northwestern University alum, she also has a certificate in financial planning from Boston University.
The Unexpected Cost of Privacy with John McAfee
John McAfee is known for founding McAfee Antivirus, being a cryptocurrency evangelist and a privacy activist. In this episode, John shares the lengths he goes to protect his own privacy with significant unexpected costs. John lives and plays by his own rules and this interview is no exception. If you are sensitive to profanity, be warned.
Cybersecurity in the News with Graham Cluley
Graham Cluley has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990’s. He was in senior roles with Sophos and McAfee. In 2011, he was inducted into the Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame. Graham runs his own award-winning computer security blog and hosts the Smashing Security Podcast which has been a successful cybersecurity podcast since 2016.
Privacy and Security with Rebecca Herold
Rebecca Herold, also known as The Privacy Professor, has over 25 years of experience in system engineering, information security privacy, and compliance. She has authored 19 books, been a member of the Mist Cyber Security IOT Development Team, and was an adjunct professor for Norwich University’s Masters of Science in Information and Security and Assurance Program.
Stalkerware with John Bambenek
John Bambenek is the Vice President of Security Research and Intelligence at ThreatSTOP and the President and Chief Forensic Examiner for Bambenek Consulting. John shares his experiences with Stalkerware and we discuss how this type of malware can be detected and handled on a personal and corporate level.
SIM Swapping with Haseeb Awan
Haseeb Awan is an expert at protecting high profile individual cell phone numbers. He’s also co-founder of the first bitcoin ATM company. Haseeb shares his many experiences with working with SIM swapping. We talk about how we are all at risk and the precautions we can take to avoid becoming a victim of SIM swapping.
Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sociopaths with Dr. Ramani Durvasula
Dr. Ramani Durvasula is one of the world-leading experts on narcissism. She is a clinical psychologist, professor, best selling author, and speaker. She is on a mission to demystify and dismantle the toxic influence of narcissism on all of our lives.
Credit Card Skimming with Scott Schober
We’ve all had that random fraudulent charge show up on our credit card and we wonder how did that happen. Do I need to cancel my credit card? Do I need to get a new one? Today we talk about credit card skimming with Scott Schober.
Tracking Scammers with Wayne May
Wayne May shares how he helps real-world victims of those scams and he has participated in taking down criminal enterprises. He began as a scam baiter in 2005 before concentrating and helping the victims of scams. Wayne shares his many experiences working with email scams, sextortion, and romance scams. We also discuss specific things you can look for when receiving a spammy email and how to research and check it out for yourself.
