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8th Layer Insights — 87 episodes

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Cognitive Heists series #7: The Trojan Gift

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Cognitive Heist series #6: The Shill

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Cognitive Heist series #5: The Long Con

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Cognitive Heist series #4: The Ghost - Panic, Urgency, and the Speed of Deception

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Cognitive Heists series #3: The Call Is Coming from Inside Your Mind

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Cognitive Heist series #2: The Bait Man

7

Cognitive Heists series #1: The Insider -- Trust by Proximity, not Proof

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Narrative Armor: Why Some Stories Become Immune to the Truth

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Repeat Until Real

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Truth Hurts. So We Lie.

11

The Costume of Truth: Why We Trust the Logo, the Lab Coat, and the Lanyard

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Feel First, Think Never: Your Emotions Are the Exploit

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Too Easy to Be True: The Fluency Trap and the Lie That Slides Right Past You

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The Plausibility Effect

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👁️ Look Here: Why Every Great Deception Starts with Stolen Attention

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Artifacts of Deception (Deceptive Minds - issue #2)

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Deceptive Minds (the audio experience): Issue #1

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The FAIK Files | Holiday Special: AI Safety Update

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The FAIK Files | The Butcher Will Scam You Now

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The FAIK Files | AI Gone Wild: Worrisome Leaks, Misguided Conspiracies, and More

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The FAIK Files | A Hunch about Hutch

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The FAIK Files | Consciousness, Scams, & Death Threats

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FAIK Miniseries (sneak peek) | Chapter 3: The Mindset and Tools of a Digital Manipulator

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FAIK Miniseries (sneak peek) | Chapter 2: New Frontiers of Deception: AI and Synthetic Media

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FAIK Miniseries (sneak peek) | Chapter 1: The Eternal Battle for the Mind

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Digital Mindhunters

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Let's talk Social Engineering

28

What About Ethics?

29

Can You Really Tell if Something is Written by an AI?

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Money Laundering 101: a chat with Investigative Journalist Geoff White

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Communicating Complex Topics with Creativity and Passion

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How Rachel Tobac Hacked Me

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How AI Can Deceive and be Deceived

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Frame the Future: The Art of Becoming a Futurist

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How to Scam a Romance Scammer

36

Artificial Intelligence: Insights & Oddities

37

Technology and the Law of Unintended Consequences (Encore)

38

Cybersecurity First Principles w/Rick Howard

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OSINT, Curiosity, Creativity, & Career Pivots: A Conversation with Rae Baker

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Conversational Security Awareness: Putting Humanity into Your Human Risk Management Program

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Blending Awareness, Social Engineering, and Physical Penetration Testing -- A Conversation with Jayson E. Street

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How to Fool the White House (Encore)

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We are the Champions

44

Something Wicked This Way Comes: PenTesting Your Environment w/Chad Peterson of NetSPI

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Carrots, Sticks, and Culture: The Art and Science of Social Signaling

46

Hacking the Paranormal -- a conversation with Banachek

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What Cybersecurity Pros can Learn from Star Wars

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Postcards from the Intersection of Cybersecurity and Folklore

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Season 3 finale: What's the deal with Authentication, MFA, and Password Managers?

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Quick announcement and sneak peek of my new show: Digital Folklore

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Cybersecurity, Creativity, Leadership: a Conversation with Chris Cochran and Ron Eddings

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Your Life, Their Profit: Buyer Awareness in the 21st Century

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[Holiday Replay] The Battle for Truth: Disinformation, Misinformation, & Conspiracies

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Spycraft: A Behind the Curtain Look into the Intelligence Community

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8th Layer Insights and the Quest for Security Culture

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Social Engineering and Breaking into Stuff with Jenny Radcliffe

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Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): The Data We Leak

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The Secrets to Consistently Creating Great Content

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If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable: a Conversation with Mikko Hyppönen

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Finding Your Path: Mid-Career Moves into Cybersecurity

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Cyber Mindfulness

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Lockpicking, Physical Penetration Testing, and More with Deviant Ollam

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The Lazarus Heist: Investigative Journalism, Podcasting, and North Korean Hacking (with Geoff White)

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An Announcement, a Request, and How You Can Win Some $$$

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An Interview with a Password

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Creativity for Non-Creatives

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The Next Evolution of Security Awareness

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Why Are We So Bad At Risk?

69

Fun and Games: Lock Picking, Capture the Flag Contests, Simulations, and More

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World's Greatest Con – A Conversation with Brian Brushwood

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Security is Alive

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How to Fool The White House -- A conversation with James Linton (aka The Email Prankster)

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Bridging the Cyber Skills Gap

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Technology & the Law of Unintended Consequences

75

You're Listening to "The Dark Stream"

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Igniting and Sustaining Creativity

77

Security ABCs Part 2: 8th Layer Insights and the Quest for Security Culture

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Security ABCs Part 1: Make Awareness Transformational

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The Risk Episode: Black Swans, Grey Rhinos, Angels & Demons

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Going Mental: A Conversation with Banachek

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Embrace an Attacker Mindset to Improve Security

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Going Meta: A Conversation and AMA with Bruce Schneier

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Deceptionology 101: Introduction to the Dark Arts

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This is BS!

85

The Battle for Truth: Disinformation, Misinformation, & Conspiracies

86

Unleashing Trojan Horses for the Mind

87

Introducing 8th Layer Insights