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.

Earlier this morning, news began to trickle out that something happened at eBay. A press release has now confirmed it: There has been a...
Privacy and security
Gregg Steinhafel’s ouster at Target this week was a major C-Suite casualty in corporate America’s war on hackers. Sales took a major nosedive after...
Today’s data breaches are like a game of musical chairs: sooner or later, you’ll have to face the music. Last year was bad for...
The latest security alert online seems to be the work of a Walking Dead fan. Twitter is lighting up with users complaining that long-closed...
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine – let’s call her Mallory - got an unsettling call from her accountant. The accountant had...
Smart business people know that they must secure their systems to withstand the most determined and persistent real-world, as well as cyber, attacks. They...
My alma mater, Stanford University, is awaiting final judicial approval of a $4 million settlement in a class action suit over its 2011 data...
There is a line of thinking among many of my small-business colleagues that allowing employees to supply their own computers and phones – known...
Medical history
The Ponemon Institute released a report today that includes some alarming news: Criminal attacks on healthcare organizations increased by an eye-popping 100 percent since...
If you’ve had to go get a new passport lately, you have learned (like me) it’s no longer the easiest thing to prove that...