Protecting Yourself from Holiday Scams and Fraudulent Transactions

Welcome to the Social-Engineer Podcast: The SE Etc. Series. This series will be hosted by Chris Hadnagy, CEO of Social-Engineer LLC, and The Innocent Lives Foundation, as well as Social-Engineer.Org and The Institute for Social Engineering. Chris will be joined by his co-host Patrick Laverty as they discuss topics pertaining to the world of Social Engineering. [Nov 27, 2023]

00:00 - Intro

00:19 - Patrick Laverty Intro

00:50 - Intro Links

-          Social-Engineer.com - http://www.social-engineer.com/

-          Managed Voice Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/vishing-service/

-          Managed Email Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/se-phishing-service/

-          Adversarial Simulations - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/social-engineering-penetration-test/

-          Social-Engineer channel on SLACK - https://social-engineering-hq.slack.com/ssb

-          CLUTCH - http://www.pro-rock.com/

-          innocentlivesfoundation.org - http://www.innocentlivesfoundation.org/                                     

04:33 - Intro Chat: QRishing

10:25 - Todays Topic: End of year threats

12:50 - Phishin' in the Amazon

16:29 - The Argument for Password Managers

18:51 - MFA But Not SMS

22:23 - Smishing All Around

25:40 - Training Us to be Victims

27:49 - Don't Answer!

30:43 - Less Generalized

31:52 - It's the Season for Vishing

34:17 - The Gift Card Scams

40:49 - Seasonal Summery

42:37 - Next Month: Storytime

43:21 - Wrap Up & Outro

-          www.social-engineer.com

-          www.innocentlivesfoundation.org

Find us online

-          Chris Hadnagy

-          Twitter: @humanhacker

-          LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christopherhadnagy

-          Patrick Laverty

-          Twitter: @plaverty9

-          LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/plaverty9