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.

Password manager
It’s World Password Day, and much like every other day of the year, the state of password security is terrible.  Despite repeated warnings from security...
Dating data leak
An unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) database leaked the personal information of hundreds of thousands of users of several niche and special interest dating...
Russian hackers
A Russia-based hacking group is exploiting the current Covid-19 pandemic to target and compromise U.S. companies with multiple strains of malware, according to a...
2020 data breach
2020 is on the path to becoming a record-breaking year for data breaches and compromised personal data. A recent article released by cybersecurity and antivirus...
MGM data breach
The discovery of a database for sale on the dark web suggests the 2019 data breach of MGM Resorts was significantly larger than initially...
Twitter Hack
The personal Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Warren Buffett in addition to the official...
Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated. Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit--malware, elaborate spear-phishing...
data leak
A collection of source code from companies including General Electric, Disney, Microsoft, Motorola, Qualcomm, Adobe, Nintendo and Microsoft has been aggregated and posted online.  The...
Apple Spectre Vulnerability
Apple admitted yesterday that all Macs and iOS devices are affected by the Meltdown and Spectre chip bugs, a massive vulnerability that was discovered...
Spectre Meltdown
The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that were revealed after the New Year have been the talk of the cybercommunity, and for good reason. The...