Too Much (dis)Information

#Episode 12

She also leads Security Positive, a digital security consulting firm for the often-overlooked security needs of activists.

Shauna is a former intelligence analyst with the US government, who spent the last decade protecting democracy activists from discovery and reprisal by authoritarian regimes. 

Topics covered:

Brightlines

Too Much (dis)Information

The podcast that explores everything related to disinformation and online networks. To help us make sense of the global town square that is social media, in every episode, our host speaks to a fresh voice to uncover the good, bad, and fake online.

This podcast believes that we are at a pivotal moment in the fight against disinformation. Many people apply the word disinformation to everything from fake news, bot networks, malicious actors, influence operations, manipulation, inauthentic accounts, social media imposters, OSINT threat intelligence, and much more.

So do we...

From the trends to the tools, Too Much (dis)Information brings you the experts on the front line fighting disinformation, and all its forms, across the public sector, brands, cyber security professionals, and academia.

Brought to you by Cyabra

#Episode 11

Andrew Kirsch

Today, Andrew is a consultant on issues of physical, cyber, and National Security. But earlier in his career, he spent many years at the Canadian Security Intelligence Services as an intelligence officer. He was also a Security Officer enhancing the physical, information, and network security across the Ontario Public Service.

He sits on the Ontario Expert Panel on Cyber Security, which examines cyber security practices in the broader public sector.

Last year, he published his memoir, I Was Never Here, which pulls the curtain back and gives us a glimpse into the Canadian spy world. 

Topics discussed:

Andrew's book, I Was Never Here, can be found on Amazon.

Too Much (dis)Information

The podcast that explores everything related to disinformation and online networks. To help us make sense of the global town square that is social media, in every episode, our host speaks to a fresh voice to uncover the good, bad, and fake online.

This podcast believes that we are at a pivotal moment in the fight against disinformation. Many people apply the word disinformation to everything from fake news, bot networks, malicious actors, influence operations, manipulation, inauthentic accounts, social media imposters, OSINT threat intelligence, and much more.

So do we...

From the trends to the tools, Too Much (dis)Information brings you the experts on the front line fighting disinformation, and all its forms, across the public sector, brands, cyber security professionals, and academia.

Brought to you by Cyabra

#Episode 10

Professor Alan Jagolinzer

Auditing Disinformation: Can We Use Accounting Principles to Fight Fake News?

But it's his journey to this point that is particularly interesting. After almost a decade in the US Airforce, he has been a professor of accounting at Stanford, the University of Colorado, and now Cambridge Judge Business School, where he heads the accounting faculty department at Cambridge University. 

It’s the disinformation around stock and market manipulation that led him down the rabbit hole, and he is now developing research and curriculum on this subject.

Media literacy, transparency, and government oversight. What role does each play in ensuring accountability in our online world?

How do we protect free speech and hold accountable that speech within social media platforms?

Should people be allowed to sue platforms for damages?

Alan spoke through the direct ways corporations are falling victim to bad actors on social - from manipulating stock prices, competitor attacks, political influence, impersonations, and threats to senior executives. 

If you would like to book your in-person or virtual ticket to the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, you can visit the site.

A post by Alan explaining his motivation in fighting disinformation and organizing such an event. Read here.

Too Much (dis)Information

The podcast that explores everything related to disinformation and online networks. To help us make sense of the global town square that is social media, in every episode, our host speaks to a fresh voice to uncover the good, bad, and fake online.

This podcast believes that we are at a pivotal moment in the fight against disinformation. Many people apply the word disinformation to everything from fake news, bot networks, malicious actors, influence operations, manipulation, inauthentic accounts, social media imposters, OSINT threat intelligence, and much more.

So do we...

From the trends to the tools, Too Much (dis)Information brings you the experts on the front line fighting disinformation, and all its forms, across the public sector, brands, cyber security professionals, and academia.

Brought to you by Cyabra

#Episode 9

Joe Gray

Slithering Schemes: A New Social Media Bait and Switch Phenomenon

In this episode, we introduce a new identity fraud tactic conducted by malicious actors on social media. 

There are few people more qualified to talk about this topic than Joe Gray. 

Joe, a veteran of the U.S. Navy Submarine Force, is the Founder of The OSINTion, which provides online and in-person training about OSINT and social engineering. 

By day, Joe is a Security Threat Hunting and Intelligence Engineer at Mercari. 

He is also an esteemed author, with titles including The Essentials of Cybersecurity and his most recent book called, Practical Social Engineering. He is a great person to follow either on LinkedIn where he writes about all the INTs! GEOINT, IMINT, SOCMINT etc.

Topics discussed:

Too Much (dis)Information

The podcast that explores everything related to disinformation and online networks. To help us make sense of the global town square that is social media, in every episode, our host speaks to a fresh voice to uncover the good, bad, and fake online.

This podcast believes that we are at a pivotal moment in the fight against disinformation. Many people apply the word disinformation to everything from fake news, bot networks, malicious actors, influence operations, manipulation, inauthentic accounts, social media imposters, OSINT threat intelligence, and much more.

So do we...

From the trends to the tools, Too Much (dis)Information brings you the experts on the front line fighting disinformation, and all its forms, across the public sector, brands, cyber security professionals, and academia.

Brought to you by Cyabra

#Episode 8

Sonia Cook-Broen

Sonia Cook-Broen is the founder of The Tech Margin, which aims to bring more women and underrepresented people into tech jobs. She is also a CTO via AcornOak, a fractional executive leadership service. 

She is a regular speaker on the tech scene and has held senior developer positions at companies, including Salesforce and the threat intelligence company Crowdstrike. 

Topics discussed:

You can find out more about Sonia via:

TheTechMargin Website

TheTechMargin YouTube

TheTechMargin Newsletter

Book recommendations made on the episode:

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a book by Yuval Noah Harari

Too Much (dis)Information

The podcast that explores everything related to disinformation and online networks. To help us make sense of the global town square that is social media, in every episode, our host speaks to a fresh voice to uncover the good, bad, and fake online.

This podcast believes that we are at a pivotal moment in the fight against disinformation. Many people apply the word disinformation to everything from fake news, bot networks, malicious actors, influence operations, manipulation, inauthentic accounts, social media imposters, OSINT threat intelligence, and much more.

So do we...

From the trends to the tools, Too Much (dis)Information brings you the experts on the front line fighting disinformation, and all its forms, across the public sector, brands, cyber security professionals, and academia.

Brought to you by Cyabra

#Episode 7

Now at Capgemini Engineering and previously at Dataminr, she has extensive experience working for the US government across the NSA, the US Army as a Cyber Intelligence Threat Analyst, and also the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Topics discussed:

Social Links Blog - OSINT Trends for 2023 and Beyond

Social Links - Global OSINT Vendor Products

The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to OSINT

Getting Your First Job in OSINT

The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to OSINT [2022]

SANS Institute - Must Have Free Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Resources

Echo Analytics Group - Open Source Intelligence Training

NobleProg - Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Training in Virginia

APSIS Protection Service - Open Source Intelligence Training

Authentic8 OSINT Academy

Open Source Tradecraft - Canadian Program

Western Governors University - Open-Source Intelligence Investigator Career Guide

CISA Website - Certified in Open Source Intelligence (C|OSINT)

McAfee Institute - Certified In Open Source Intelligence (C|OSINT)

Too Much (dis)Information

The podcast that explores everything related to disinformation and online networks. To help us make sense of the global town square that is social media, in every episode, our host speaks to a fresh voice to uncover the good, bad, and fake online.

This podcast believes that we are at a pivotal moment in the fight against disinformation. Many people apply the word disinformation to everything from fake news, bot networks, malicious actors, influence operations, manipulation, inauthentic accounts, social media imposters, OSINT threat intelligence, and much more.

So do we...

From the trends to the tools, Too Much (dis)Information brings you the experts on the front line fighting disinformation, and all its forms, across the public sector, brands, cyber security professionals, and academia.

Brought to you by Cyabra

#Episode 6

Daria is the Program Manager at The International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Her work is focused on building democratic institutions and civil society to ensure election integrity and countering foreign influence in democratic processes.

A European-American from Chicago, now based in DC, she’s also spent time at the Atlantic Council and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. 

Topics discussed:

Links for further reading:

To learn more about The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) work in democracy-building and electoral integrity programming in Europe and across the globe, visit: https://www.ifes.org

IFES’ online discussion series, Democratic Resilience in Europe - https://www.youtube.com/@IFESRegionalEuropeOffice/videos

You can follow Daria on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/daria-azarjew/

Too Much (dis)Information

The podcast that explores everything related to disinformation and online networks. To help us make sense of the global town square that is social media, in every episode, our host speaks to a fresh voice to uncover the good, bad, and fake online.

This podcast believes that we are at a pivotal moment in the fight against disinformation. Many people apply the word disinformation to everything from fake news, bot networks, malicious actors, influence operations, manipulation, inauthentic accounts, social media imposters, OSINT threat intelligence, and much more.

So do we...

From the trends to the tools, Too Much (dis)Information brings you the experts on the front line fighting disinformation, and all its forms, across the public sector, brands, cyber security professionals, and academia.

Brought to you by Cyabra

#Episode 5

Dr. Welton Chang

Dr. Welton Chang is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pyrra Technologies, which tracks threats across alt-social sites. Earlier in his career, he served as an intel officer with the US Army, and then as an analyst with the US Department of Defense, serving in Iraq, where he was assigned to train the Iraqi National Intelligence Cell. Welton has pretty much seen it all when it comes to identifying threats online. 

Welton was a senior researcher at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where he developed technical solutions to address disinformation and online propaganda. 

Topics discussed:

Relevant links:

Here's a link to a case study Pyrra Tech conducted on Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:linkedInArticle:7058795496693198850/

Welton mentioned the anti-drag show trend. Here’s a link to the analysis that his team conducted:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:linkedInArticle:7049725023455989760/

Too Much (dis)Information

The podcast that explores everything related to disinformation and online networks. To help us make sense of the global town square that is social media, in every episode, our host speaks to a fresh voice to uncover the good, bad, and fake online.

This podcast believes that we are at a pivotal moment in the fight against disinformation. Many people apply the word disinformation to everything from fake news, bot networks, malicious actors, influence operations, manipulation, inauthentic accounts, social media imposters, OSINT threat intelligence, and much more.

So do we...

From the trends to the tools, Too Much (dis)Information brings you the experts on the front line fighting disinformation, and all its forms, across the public sector, brands, cyber security professionals, and academia.

Brought to you by Cyabra

#Episode 4

Luigi Lenguito

Disinformation Goes Corporate: The Growing Threat to Companies from Public-Sector Tactics

A native of Naples, Italy, but now residing in France, Luigi is the founder of Bfore.ai, a Predictive Cybersecurity company. I have met with him in New York and Tel Aviv, so he gets around!

Previously a VP of EMEA at Quest Software, where he led a team of 300, Luigi spent 17 years at Dell, doing everything from consumer education, sales, & M&A. He also started the “Dell for Entrepreneurs" startup program in France - which at the time was the largest FrenchTech accelerator.

But the most impressive thing on his CV is once being a professional karting driver!

Topics covered: 

You can follow Luigi via his LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/in/llenguito/

Too Much (dis)Information

The podcast that explores everything related to disinformation and online networks. To help us make sense of the global town square that is social media, in every episode, our host speaks to a fresh voice to uncover the good, bad, and fake online.

This podcast believes that we are at a pivotal moment in the fight against disinformation. Many people apply the word disinformation to everything from fake news, bot networks, malicious actors, influence operations, manipulation, inauthentic accounts, social media imposters, OSINT threat intelligence, and much more.

So do we...

From the trends to the tools, Too Much (dis)Information brings you the experts on the front line fighting disinformation, and all its forms, across the public sector, brands, cyber security professionals, and academia.

Brought to you by Cyabra

#Episode 3

Cyber Resilience: Tomorrow’s Threats Today

Derrick Butts

Derrick is a cyber-resilience strategist who spent nearly 8 years as the Chief Information and Cybersecurity Officer of Truth Initiative. He has also held security roles at both the US Navy and Siemens. 

Nowadays can be found as the CEO & Founder of Continuums Strategies, a cyber business transformation adviser helping companies manage their cyber resilience as a predictable risk. 

Topics covered:

Links that were mentioned during the episode:

You can connect with Derrick via:

Too Much (dis)Information

The podcast that explores everything related to disinformation and online networks. To help us make sense of the global town square that is social media, in every episode, our host speaks to a fresh voice to uncover the good, bad, and fake online.

This podcast believes that we are at a pivotal moment in the fight against disinformation. Many people apply the word disinformation to everything from fake news, bot networks, malicious actors, influence operations, manipulation, inauthentic accounts, social media imposters, OSINT threat intelligence, and much more.

So do we...

From the trends to the tools, Too Much (dis)Information brings you the experts on the front line fighting disinformation, and all its forms, across the public sector, brands, cyber security professionals, and academia.

Brought to you by Cyabra