Fall is here, football season is upon us! You sit down to watch your favorite team only to realize you cant watch the game because you don't have a subscription to every streaming platform...kind of makes you miss the old cable subscription.

You aren't alone in that feeling of frustration about the current state of sports or streaming. Our guest today was frustrated, too, and found a workaround to get all of the streaming services in one place. The solution was...creative...and he called it HeheStreams.

Eventually, Law Enforcement caught on, and Josh Brody was in front of a judge being sentenced to prison for the time he ran HeheStreams.

Today, Josh Brody has "gone legit" and works in cybersecurity. Josh sat down with our hosts to discuss how HeheStreams started, how our laws surrounding cybercrime are outdated, and what society can do to get people who are highly skilled to work for the "good guys" instead of becoming "cyber criminals."

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Interested in learning more or discussing these topics with Josh? He is open to connecting and answering questions: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshmn/

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Interested in learning more about the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation & Training? Visit our website: www.cybertraining.msu.edu

Advance your career with a Masters Degree in Cybercrime and Digital Investigation from the MSU School of Criminal Justice: https://online.cj.msu.edu/ms-masters-cybercrime-digital-investigation

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Crossing the Firewall is hosted by Dr. Tom Holt, Dr. Rachel McNealey, and Dr. Taylor Fisher. Edited by JJ Thomas.

All views and opinions expressed are the views of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of their home institutions or places of work. All information provided in this podcast should not be taken as business, personal, financial, or legal advice.

Tim Pappa is a Staff Incident Response Engineer for Cyber Deception Strategy at Walmart, with previous experience as an agent with the FBI.

In this latest episode of Crossing The Firewall, we discuss behaviors and perceptions of cyberthreat actors. Tim is widely celebrated for his knowledge and experience in offensive cyber responses, working to prevent large-scale cyber attacks.

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Interested in learning more about the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation & Training? Visit our website: www.cybertraining.msu.edu

Advance your career with a Masters Degree in Cybercrime and Digital Investigation from the MSU School of Criminal Justice: https://online.cj.msu.edu/ms-masters-cybercrime-digital-investigation

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Follow Crossing the Firewall on social media! Find us on BlueSky and Instagram. You can also follow the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation and Training on LinkedIn.

Crossing the Firewall is hosted by Dr. Tom Holt, Dr. Rachel McNealey, and Dr. Taylor Fisher. Edited by JJ Thomas.

All views and opinions expressed are the views of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of their home institutions or places of work. All information provided in this podcast should not be taken as business, personal, financial, or legal advice.

The Core Team of Crossing The Firewall looks back on the first year of the podcast. What went right, what went wrong, and what the future holds.

Thank you to everyone who has joined us for this journey!

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Interested in learning more about the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation & Training? Visit our website: www.cybertraining.msu.edu

Advance your career with a Masters Degree in Cybercrime and Digital Investigation from the MSU School of Criminal Justice: https://online.cj.msu.edu/ms-masters-cybercrime-digital-investigation

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Follow Crossing the Firewall on social media! Find us on BlueSky and Instagram. You can also follow the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation and Training on LinkedIn.

Crossing the Firewall is hosted by Dr. Tom Holt, Dr. Rachel McNealey, and Dr. Taylor Fisher. Edited by JJ Thomas.

All views and opinions expressed are the views of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of their home institutions or places of work. All information provided in this podcast should not be taken as business, personal, financial, or legal advice.

This week, we take a break from our usual discussions around cybercime and focus on technology use inside of prisons. With education programs becoming increasingly digital and online, multiple vendors have come along promising digital education programs for prison rehabilitation programs.

Our guest, Dr. Thomas Dearden, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech, has been conducting research on the impacts of technology in prison and the outcomes of the digital education in rehabilitation programs.

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Learn more about Dr. Dearden: https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-sociology/faculty/thomas-dearden.html

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Interested in learning more about the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation & Training? Visit our website: www.cybertraining.msu.edu

Advance your career with a Masters Degree in Cybercrime and Digital Investigation from the MSU School of Criminal Justice: https://online.cj.msu.edu/ms-masters-cybercrime-digital-investigation

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Follow Crossing the Firewall on social media! Find us on BlueSky and Instagram. You can also follow the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation and Training on LinkedIn.

Crossing the Firewall is hosted by Dr. Tom Holt, Dr. Rachel McNealey, and Dr. Taylor Fisher. Edited by JJ Thomas.

All views and opinions expressed are the views of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of their home institutions or places of work. All information provided in this podcast should not be taken as business, personal, financial, or legal advice.

Cybercrime and cybersecurity impacts everyone, but oftentimes conversations surrounding cybercrime do not focus on all populations. This week's guest, Dr. Cooper Maher, conducts research on how to protect vulnerable populations from cybercrime and how to communicate cybercrime risks with everyone.

Dr. Maher is an Assistant Professor in the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice and Associate of the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation & Training.

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Interested in learning more about the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation & Training? Visit our website: www.cybertraining.msu.edu

Advance your career with a Masters Degree in Cybercrime and Digital Investigation from the MSU School of Criminal Justice: https://online.cj.msu.edu/ms-masters-cybercrime-digital-investigation

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Follow Crossing the Firewall on social media! Find us on BlueSky and Instagram. You can also follow the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation and Training on LinkedIn.

Crossing the Firewall is hosted by Dr. Tom Holt, Dr. Rachel McNealey, and Dr. Taylor Fisher. Edited by JJ Thomas.

All views and opinions expressed are the views of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of their home institutions or places of work. All information provided in this podcast should not be taken as business, personal, financial, or legal advice.

This week, we are joined by Ruby Farr and Dr. Julia Davidson of the University of East London to discuss juvenile engagement in cybercrime and cyber deviancy.

Their work with the Institute for Connected Communities (ICC) works to reduce involvement and harm from cybercrime.

Learn more: https://www.uel.ac.uk/our-research/institute-connected-communities-icc

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Interested in learning more about the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation & Training? Visit our website: www.cybertraining.msu.edu

Advance your career with a Masters Degree in Cybercrime and Digital Investigation from the MSU School of Criminal Justice: https://online.cj.msu.edu/ms-masters-cybercrime-digital-investigation

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Follow Crossing the Firewall on social media! Find us on BlueSky and Instagram. You can also follow the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation and Training on LinkedIn.

Crossing the Firewall is hosted by Dr. Tom Holt, Dr. Rachel McNealey, and Dr. Taylor Fisher. Edited by JJ Thomas.

All views and opinions expressed are the views of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of their home institutions or places of work. All information provided in this podcast should not be taken as business, personal, financial, or legal advice.

Romance Fraud is committed by gaining someone's trust and using their romantic feelings to leverage monetary gain. To gain the victim's trust and to build these emotional "bonds" over time, fraudsters utilize linguistic tools.

Today we are joined by Dr Elisabeth Carter, a criminologist and forensic linguist at Kingston University - London. Dr. Carter discusses how language is used to commit fraud and digital crime, and common linguistic themes that fraudsters use to lure in their victims.

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Dr. Elisabeth Carter is an Associate Professor at Kingston University - London. Dr. Carter has also served as a Consultant on Effective Communication Practices for Fraud Prevention with the United Nations, and is Vice President of the International Society of Economic Criminology.

Dr. Carter is also co-host of the podcast Scam Secrets on BBC Radio 4.

Learn more about Dr. Carter: https://www.kingston.ac.uk/about/staff/dr-elisabeth-carter

Listen to Scam Secrets: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h2gt

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Interested in learning more about the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation & Training? Visit our website: www.cybertraining.msu.edu

Advance your career with a Masters Degree in Cybercrime and Digital Investigation from the MSU School of Criminal Justice: https://online.cj.msu.edu/ms-masters-cybercrime-digital-investigation

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Follow Crossing the Firewall on social media! Find us on BlueSky and Instagram. You can also follow the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation and Training on LinkedIn.

Crossing the Firewall is hosted by Dr. Tom Holt, Dr. Rachel McNealey, and Dr. Taylor Fisher. Edited by JJ Thomas.

All views and opinions expressed are the views of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of their home institutions or places of work. All information provided in this podcast should not be taken as business, personal, financial, or legal advice.

Humans are social creatures, and we tend to take the opinions of those around us seriously. The reviews of people we don't even know can influence our decision to purchase a product, eat at a particular restaurant, and even determine how we do our job.

This week, Dr. Brandon Van Der Heide joins us to discuss how Social Proof influences our decision-making and how this can be hijacked by bad actors. This episode meets at the intersection of Communication, Marketing, Cybercrime, and Medicine.

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Dr. Brandon Van Der Heide is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University.

Learn more about Dr. Van Der Heide: https://comartsci.msu.edu/our-people/brandon-van-der-heide

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Interested in learning more about the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation & Training? Visit our website: www.cybertraining.msu.edu

Advance your career with a Masters Degree in Cybercrime and Digital Investigation from the MSU School of Criminal Justice: https://online.cj.msu.edu/ms-masters-cybercrime-digital-investigation

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Follow Crossing the Firewall on social media! Find us on BlueSky and Instagram. You can also follow the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation and Training on LinkedIn.

Crossing the Firewall is hosted by Dr. Tom Holt, Dr. Rachel McNealey, and Dr. Taylor Fisher. Edited by JJ Thomas.

All views and opinions expressed are the views of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of their home institutions or places of work. All information provided in this podcast should not be taken as business, personal, financial, medical, or legal advice.

This week's episode of Crossing The Firewall, we discuss Artificial Intelligence (AI), Government policy, and regulations. Can we regulate our way to a safe AI environment, or has the metaphorical train left the station and we are simply on the ride?

Our guest Dr. Johannes Bauer is a Professor in the College of Communication Arts & Sciences at Michigan State University, and Quello Chair for Media and Information Policy.

Dr. Bauer's expertise is in the digital economy, focusing on harnessing the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICTs) while avoiding their downsides. In addition to his role at MSU, Dr. Bauer has also served as Chief Economist in the Office of Economics and Analytics (OEA) of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in Washington, DC.

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Learn more about Dr. Bauer: https://comartsci.msu.edu/our-people/johannes-m-bauer

Interested in learning more about the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation & Training? Visit our website: www.cybertraining.msu.edu

Advance your career with a Masters Degree in Cybercrime and Digital Investigation from the MSU School of Criminal Justice: https://online.cj.msu.edu/ms-masters-cybercrime-digital-investigation

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Follow Crossing the Firewall on social media! Find us on BlueSky and Instagram. You can also follow the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation and Training on LinkedIn.

Crossing the Firewall is hosted by Dr. Tom Holt, Dr. Rachel McNealey, and Dr. Taylor Fisher. Edited by JJ Thomas.

All views and opinions expressed are the views of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of their home institutions or places of work. All information provided in this podcast should not be taken as business, personal, financial, or legal advice.

Join us for this phishing adventure with Michael Joyce, Executive Director of the Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership and host of the popular Cybercrimeology podcast!

We discuss Phishing scams, the ethics of conducting cybercrime research, and what it takes for us to protect ourselves from scams that are becoming more sophisticated.

Listen to the Cybercrimeology Podcast here: https://cybercrimeology.com/

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Interested in learning more about the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation & Training? Visit our website: www.cybertraining.msu.edu

Advance your career with a Masters Degree in Cybercrime and Digital Investigation from the MSU School of Criminal Justice: https://online.cj.msu.edu/ms-masters-cybercrime-digital-investigation

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Follow Crossing the Firewall on social media! Find us on BlueSky and Instagram. You can also follow the MSU Center for Cybercrime Investigation and Training on LinkedIn.

Crossing the Firewall is hosted by Dr. Tom Holt, Dr. Rachel McNealey, and Dr. Taylor Fisher. Edited by JJ Thomas.

All views and opinions expressed are the views of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of their home institutions or places of work. All information provided in this podcast should not be taken as business, personal, financial, or legal advice.