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.

credential stuffing
Dailymotion is a Paris-based video-sharing rival of YouTube. The site gets about 300 million unique visitors a month who watch an estimated 3.5 billion videos. While that's...
Credit union phishing attempt
A phishing campaign targeting credit unions and other financial institutions recently found its way into the email inboxes of anti-money laundering officers. Credit unions and...
APT10
The Chinese government-linked hacking group APT10 is continuing its campaign against US and European businesses with increasingly sophisticated tactics and strategies, warn officials from...
Data Breach
A recent leak compromised the personal data of all 4,557 active students at the California State Polytechnic University Science School. This was not a...
Shodan
The recent data leak of the Oklahoma Security Commission that compromised 17 years’ worth of FBI investigations, the NGO leak of 4 million internship...
Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is the go-to story for Data Privacy Day with its new “user-friendly” tool called Replica,...
Trojan Ho
Trojan horse-based malware attacks and spyware rose sharply in 2018 as ransomware-based attacks declined, according to a new report published by Malwarebytes. One of...
shodan
The personal data of 4 million applicants for internships at a non-profit organization was exposed in a breach. The data included the applicants’ names,...
Phishing quiz
A Google offshoot is trying to teach people to be more circumspect about phishing attempts. Jigsaw, an incubator owned by Google parent company Alphabet,...
According to a study published in December by SplashData of the more than 5 million passwords compromised by hacks last year, way too many...