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.

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2020 election hack
Since 1993, hackers have traveled to Las Vegas from around the world to demonstrate their skills at DefCon’s annual convention, and every year new horrors...
Business identity theft
When Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was hacked for roughly 20 minutes, we all got a glimpse of corporate identity theft, and why it...
LinkedIn Data Mining
A federal appellate court ruled that mining and aggregating user data publicly posted to social media sites is allowable by law. In an opinion released...