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.

A recent report by cybersecurity management firm Venafi showing that a vast majority of the world’s largest companies remain vulnerable to attacks stemming from...
Cyber thief
One of the most popular sessions at the RSA Conference was the Cryptographers’ Panel, during which some of the founding fathers of modern cryptography discussed...
cyber-security
Pick a subject, any subject, and there are myths and pure nonsense that someone will buy into. Birds will die if they eat the...
Boardroom cybersecurity
Enterprises, SMBs must gird for new rules and protect sensitive data - or pay hefty price British telecom giant TalkTalk actually may have gotten off...
malware
Social media is embedded in our lives—Facebook alone had 1.79 billion daily users as of September 2016—which means cyber criminals are not far behind. As...
Summertime Scams
As the weather gets warmer, mosquitos and ticks re-enter our lives, and along with them comes their larger cousin, the scam artist. There are...
The internet stirred earlier this week about the meaning of the word “Covfefe”—generated, one could guess, when the president fell asleep mid-tweet, phone in hand....
biometric scan
You can't change your physical traits very easily, so if a hacker steals your biometric data--look out. Scanning a fingerprint or even an eyeball to authenticate your...
Phone wiretapping
“These apps are brutal,” Ondrej Krehel told me during a conversation about spyware, or “spouseware” as the software is sometimes called. “It doesn’t matter what...
venmo
With Venmo being one of the most popular ways to send money, it makes sense to wonder what’s keeping your personal data and digital...