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Get ready for a deep dive into what cybersecurity professionals often refer to as the "8th Layer" of security: HUMANS. Welcome to 8th Layer Insights (8Li). This podcast is a multidisciplinary exploration into how the complexities of human nature affect security and risk. Author, security researcher, and behavior science enthusiast Perry Carpenter taps experts for their insights and illumination. Topics include cybersecurity, psychology, behavior science, communication, leadership, and more.
👁️ Look Here: Why Every Great Deception Starts with Stolen Attention
8th Layer Insights
13 minutes
8 months ago
👁️ Look Here: Why Every Great Deception Starts with Stolen Attention
Welcome to issue #3 of Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it.
In this week's episode: 🚨 Your attention is under attack! 🚨
From WWII rubber tanks to 2023’s phantom Paris bedbugs, the first strike of any scam is the same: steal your gaze, shape your reality. This issue of Deceptive Minds is all about “attention theft”—how con-artists, phishers, and AI-powered tricksters hijack that split-second between stimulus and thought…and what to do about it.
🕵️♂️🗞️I NSIDE:
Operation Fortitude’s audacious distraction playbook
The modern attention-hijack toolkit (urgency, authority, AI personalization)
Fast-action defenses to keep your cognitive perimeter intact
... and a few other fun items from the past week!
Listen now: turn the tables on the impostors, and guard the one resource every attacker wants first: your focus.
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Stay sharp,
— Perry
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8th Layer Insights
Get ready for a deep dive into what cybersecurity professionals often refer to as the "8th Layer" of security: HUMANS. Welcome to 8th Layer Insights (8Li). This podcast is a multidisciplinary exploration into how the complexities of human nature affect security and risk. Author, security researcher, and behavior science enthusiast Perry Carpenter taps experts for their insights and illumination. Topics include cybersecurity, psychology, behavior science, communication, leadership, and more.
