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#13 - From Profiling Hackers to Spotting Psychopaths - Mark T. Hofmann


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In this episode, Mark T, Hofmann discusses the 'bright side' (soft skills, negotiation) and the' dark side' (cybercrime & psychopaths) of cyber security. The various topics include how malicious actors and hacker’s have varying motivations, from financial gain, espionage and ideology. With Ideology being the MOST interesting. Identifying an online perpetrator can be profiled by forensically investigating language, including spelling and communication. Lastly what it's like sitting down with hackers, cyber criminals and psychopaths all have demonstrable ‘cold empathy’.


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Show Notes:

00:00 - People as cybersecurity’s weakest link
10:14 - Financial gain, espionage, ideology as motives for cybercrime
18:06 - Profiling in the digital world involves analyzing language to understand behavior
23:29 - Analysis of language to help identify potential perpetrator
35:28 - Cold empathy in cybercrime


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Dark Mode PodcastBy Gabe Marzano