Podcast Episodes

On Digital Fingerprints and Dirty Money

Episode 226

Jeff Williams on the business of moving money: who gets blocked, what slips through, and why checking the right boxes doesn’t always mean a win in the nascent AI-powered sanctions compliance space. F…

Published on 8 hours ago

Big Breaches and Click Bots to AI and Beyond

Episode 225

When a young engineer uncovered a sizeable click fraud situation at Google, he discovered a bigger problem; namely, the perverse ingenuity that drives online fraud and scams. "Big Breaches" author Ne…

Published on 1 week ago

Jackals of Trust: A Short History of Cybercrime

Episode 224

Cybercrime expert Gary Warner joins to discuss Nigerian confraternities, the "campus cults" rooted in idealism that morphed into a multi-billion dollar transnational organized crime network. Learn ab…

Published on 2 weeks ago

How to Make Your House Invisible

Episode 223

When scammers tried to steal Graceland, it seemed like a fluke, but deed fraud is very much on the rise. Del Denney of the Land Trust Company explains how criminals steal homes and how to stop it fro…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Heather Barnhart Hunts Digital Ghosts

Episode 222

Forensic expert Heather Barnhart (SANS Institute) decoded Osama Bin Laden's phones and helped convict quadruple murderer Brian Kohberger. Learn how surviving her own harassment fueled her mission, pl…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Seth Godin's Anti-Spam Playbook: Be Awesome

Marketing visionary Seth Godin explains how the Internet got hijacked by an attention-stealing spam economy that keeps us in an endless loop of badly targeted marketing. Godin's anti-spam playbook: d…

Published on 1 month ago

The $5,000 Mistake: Inside a Facebook Scam

Episode 220

A locked account. A call for help. What happened next left Tony questioning everything he thought he knew about the Internet. This week is about trust, technology, and how quickly things can unravel …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

3 Ways Not to Lose Everything

Former federal prosecutor Tom O’Malley takes us inside the strange, high-stakes world of modern fraud—where victims are presumed guilty, families lose fortunes, and the fight against global crime rin…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Data Grift Everyone Missed

Episode 218

Every click, swipe, and post fuels the data economy. Credit cards, apps, even maps—our lives are scraped, stitched, and sold. It feels like a heist, and sometimes it is. Identity Theft Resource Cente…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Wrong Dan Sturman

Episode 217

It started with a slow roll of weird emails and phone calls. And then award-winning filmmaker Dan Sturman found himself in the crosshairs of serious hackers. With parallels to another case of mistake…

Published on 2 months ago