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.

phishing
A phishing campaign is targeting employees with phony email reminders for cybersecurity and phishing awareness training.  In a clever spin on more widely known phishing...
Hartford ransomware
The city of Hartford, Connecticut’s capital, was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted many of its critical systems and caused the city’s first...
With the average cost of a data breach exceeding three million dollars, cyber insurance has become a necessity for SMBs. Find out more on...
NSA Wiretapping
The controversial collection of details on billions of American phone calls by the National Security Agency (NSA) was illegal and possibly unconstitutional, according to...
Voter leak
Databases containing the personal information of millions of U.S. voters have appeared on Russian hacking forums. According to Russian news outlet Kommersant, a hacker called...
Zoom outage
Zoom’s service outage on August 24 caused a ripple effect felt in schools and companies across the world. Students were unable to attend classes...
Bridgefy
A messaging app popular with activists and protesters around the globe was found to have several major vulnerabilities that could compromise user privacy. Bridgefy is...
carnival data breach
Carnival Corporation, the largest cruise ship company in the world, announced that it had experienced a data breach following a ransomware attack on their...
Unsubscribe links in the footers of unwanted emails present an ideal trap for hackers. In the latest episode of Third Certainty, Adam Levin explains...
SANS institute
The SANS Institute, a company that provides cybersecurity training and certification, announced that a data breach compromised the personally identifiable data of roughly 28,000...