Cyber Crime Junkies

He Hacked AT&T as a Kid. The FBI Wanted 500 Years

Cyber Crime Junkies. Host David Mauro. Season 9 Episode 25

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Meet The Human Behind AT&T Hack. Welcome John Young: One of 11 People Certified in All 9 ISC2 Disciplines. Real cybercrime stories. AI threats. Ransomware attacks. Social engineering tactics that are working against you right now.

Hosted by David Dean Mauro — experienced former trial lawyer, AI Security Advisor, FBI InfraGard member, VP of NetGain Technologies and Author, Moving Target Trilogy Book Series (#1 Amazon Hot New Release 2026).

Chapters
00:00 Welcome John Young: One of 11 People Certified in All 9 ISC2 Disciplines
02:30 Phone Phreaking in 1973: How Two Kids Hacked AT&T for Free Calls
05:00 The FBI Knocks: Interstate Theft of Services and 500 Years of Charges
07:30 Three Methods: Whistle Tones, Social Engineering, and Operator Tricks
10:00 From ARPANET Pioneer to McDonnell Douglas: A Career Before the Internet Existed
13:00 IBM Trade School, Mainframes, and the Road to a Fortune 50 Company
31:00 The Quantum Computer Cybersecurity Preparedness Act and the 4 NIST Algorithms
34:00 IBM Starling and the 30 Billion Dollar Race to Quantum Supremacy
37:00 Quantum Random Number Generation: Why Math-Based Encryption Is Already Vulnerable
40:00 Quantum Emotion America: Hardware, Software, and the World's First Quantum Safe Crypto Wallet
43:00 Telehealth, Patient Monitoring, and Quantum Security in Healthcare
46:00 Y2K Was Not a Nothing

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Hosted by David Dean Mauro. Former trial lawyer, AI Security Advisor, FBI InfraGard member, VP of Strategic Growth at NetGain Technologies, and author of the Moving Target Trilogy (#1 Amazon Hot New Release, 2026).

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