What the Hack? Podcast
What the Hack? Podcast
What the Hack? Podcast
What the Hack? Podcast

Data Security

The latest on data breaches and cybersecurity and data security by Adam K Levin.

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The COVID19 pandemic, also known as the novel coronavirus, has affected daily life in unprecedented ways. Because of home-work and homeschooling measures, millions of...
Adam Levin provides tips on how to protect your smartphone and your data from hackers.
business email compromise
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 billion. Of those...
e-skimming
While ransomware and leaky or completely unprotected databases dominated headlines in 2019, e-skimmers quietly made a killing. A major e-skimming compromise was discovered on Macy's website...
ransomware
You couldn't go a week last year without seeing a ransomware headline in the news. And it wasn't because the media paid more attention to this...
The global coronavirus pandemic has created a fertile field for cybercriminals seeking to prey upon the fears of their victims. In the latest episode...
stalkerware
The number of stalkerware apps detected on smartphones increased in 2019, a full 60% over the previous year according to a new report released...
ransomware
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory following a ransomware attack on a natural gas compression facility. In...
MGM Resorts
The personal information of over 10.6 million customers of MGM Resorts has been published online. MGM Resorts confirmed the leaked data as being the result...
CCPA
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) became law on January 1, 2020, and as was the case on the effective date of the General...