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.

Vendor Risk and Whistleblowers
Insider risk, supply chain vulnerability and vendor risk all boil down to the same thing: the more people have access to your data, the more vulnerable it is...
compromise by proxy
19 million Canadians are estimated to have been affected by data breaches between late 2018 and 2019, slightly more than half the population of...
Another Facebook Privacy Fail
As much as I love this one friend of mine, nothing is private when we’re together. You probably have a friend like this. The...
Deepfake audio
The CEO of a UK-based energy firm lost the equivalent of $243,000 after falling for a phone scam that implemented artificial intelligence, specifically a...
data breach cost
According to IBM Security's 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average time to identify and contain a breach was a whopping 279 days, and it took...
iphone hack
Researchers at Google announced the discovery of a hacking campaign that used hacked websites to deliver malware to iPhones. Project Zero, Google’s security research team,...
Data breach
The data breach of Capital One was big news, but it was also a familiar story: a major financial company with the budget and means to...
MoviePass
MoviePass confirmed a data breach that exposed customer data on an unprotected database. The incident included credit card numbers Researchers discovered the database online on...
Cybersecurity
Capital One's announcement of a hack that affected more than 100 million people should have you asking not what, but who's in your wallet. The...
Texas ransomware spree
The local governments and agencies from twenty-three Texas towns were hit by a coordinated ransomware campaign last week.  The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR)...