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.

USA Elections
One of the most discussed topics of this year’s election cycle is how best to protect the elections themselves from hackers and other outside...
Amazon.com ads
When investing, it's always a good idea to spread the wealth. Whether you invest only as much as can be insured, or you use...
The personal information of roughly 75,000 people was leaked in a data breach of the Healthcare.gov system October 13. The centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
War Rooms for Interference
The social media companies Facebook and Reddit are publicizing “War Rooms” set up to closely monitor their network content for election tampering. Facebook in...
Data breach
A bill seeking to standardize data breach notifications for the financial industry at the federal level was passed this week by the House Financial...
The credit card data and travel records of roughly 30,000 employees of the U.S. Defense Department have been compromised in a data breach. The...
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Kanye West and Donald Trump really are brothers from different mothers; both like making headlines--doesn’t much matter how or why, and they share the...
Facebook announced today that a security bug in its WhatsApp messaging service that allowed hackers to take control of users’ phones has been fixed....
instagram
High-profile Instagram accounts are being targeted by ransomware attacks and phishing schemes, with evidence suggesting that many account holders are paying the attackers. According to...
bribery for data
Amazon revealed a breach of customer data last week, but it wasn’t a data breach of the usual variety. Rather than falling prey to...