{"id":9714,"date":"2026-01-08T02:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/smashing-security-podcast-449-how-to-scam-someone-in-seven-days\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T02:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:04:05","slug":"smashing-security-podcast-449-how-to-scam-someone-in-seven-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/smashing-security-podcast-449-how-to-scam-someone-in-seven-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Security podcast #449: How to scam someone in seven days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smashing Security podcast #449: How to scam someone in seven days
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Romance scammers have apparently discovered astrology… and Taurus is their secret weapon.<\/p>\n

In episode 449 of “Smashing Security”, we take a look inside an actual romance-fraud handbook – complete with scripts, personality \u201ctypes\u201d, corporate jargon, and a seven-day plan to get victims from hello to hand over the crypto.<\/p>\n

Then Lesley “hacks4pancakes” Carhart delivers a reality check on the dire cybersecurity jobs market for juniors: why entry-level roles are evaporating, how automated CV screening is chewing candidates up, and what hopeful newcomers (and weary veterans) can do about it.<\/p>\n

Plus, Graham talks to ThreatLocker CEO Danny Jenkins about why misconfigurations are behind an uncomfortable number of breaches, how default-deny security actually works in practice, and why detecting attacks after they\u2019ve started is already too late.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Smashing Security podcast #449: How to scam someone in seven days Romance scammers have apparently discovered astrology… and Taurus is their secret weapon. In episode 449 of “Smashing Security”, we take a look inside an actual romance-fraud handbook – complete with scripts, personality \u201ctypes\u201d, corporate jargon, and a seven-day plan to get victims from hello […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2206,54,166,417,1610,175],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-9714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","category-grahamcluley","category-podcast","category-romance-baiting","category-romance-scam","category-smashing-security","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}