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.

Data Security
Given all of the big-name data breaches that have occurred during the past few years, there’s a good chance your personal or payment information...
If you have an account on Facebook, you may have noticed posts featuring a nicely designed cloud comprised of the words that your Facebook...
In 2015, somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices will be purchased, an increase of 60% over the previous...
In my forthcoming book, Swiped, partially excerpted below, I examine some of the enterprise level, cybersecurity best practices. These are the questions organizations need...
Account takeover fraud — which occurs when a cybercriminal gains unauthorized access to an online account — is growing rapidly, a new analysis by...
Lipstick on collar
The other cufflink fell on the Ashley Madison hack Tuesday. According to Wired, 9.7 gigabytes of Ashley Madison data were dumped on the dark web,...
ransomware
Some secrets are more valuable than others. And some secrets are more valuable TO others. In perhaps the most predictable extortion hack ever, cheating...
True or False? There was no way the Office of Personnel Management could have prevented hackers from stealing the sensitive personal information of 4.1...
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...
For the first time, according to a recent study, criminal and state-sponsored hacks have surpassed human error as the leading cause of health care...