Adam Levin

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) became law on January 1, 2020, and as was the case on the effective date of the General...

MIT researchers have discovered several vulnerabilities in a mobile voting application, raising serious questions about election security.  Voatz’s eponymous app has been used since the...

Adam Levin was featured on WHIOTV 7, where he discussed election security. “We're living in a dangerous world,” said Levin. “There are more vulnerabilities that...

As if cybersecurity weren't already a red-letter issue, the United States and, most likely, its allies--in other words, the global economic community--are in Iran's cyber sites, a major...

Online scammers are using the 2020 Oscars to spread malware. A recent study released by Kaspersky Labs uncovered several hacking and phishing campaigns promising their...

Adam Levin explains how scammers get businesses, organizations, and individuals to wire money.

A new extortion scam is targeting users of marital infidelity site Ashley Madison whose accounts were compromised in a 2015 data breach. Site members are...

Avast will phase out Jumpshot, a subsidiary that sells user browsing data gleaned from its antivirus and security products.  “I – together with our board...

January 28 is Data Privacy Day—not exactly a major holiday, but it does provide an important opportunity to address something that’s compromising your privacy...

A subsidiary of Avast antivirus is selling sensitive user browsing data to many companies, including Revlon, Microsoft, Google, Yelp, Condé Nast, and TripAdvisor. According to...

In the tenth episode of Third Certainty, Adam Levin explains how to protect retirement and financial accounts against takeovers by scammers.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it experienced a major data breach in June 2019 that has been traced back to a Chinese hacking group. “ur...

This tax season it’s the same old story when it comes to fraud; but the 2020 reboot is going to require tax professionals and...

The FBI has seized the domain of WeLeakInfo.com, an online service that sold data from hacked and breached websites. The domain seizure and termination of...

An unsecured database discovered online has leaked thousands of baby photos and videos.  Bithouse, Inc. left unprotected and accessible online an Elasticsearch database containing nearly...

The City of Las Vegas successfully averted what could have been a disastrous cyberattack earlier this month. City officials detected a cyberattack January 7, and...

Currency exchange giant Travelex has effectively been taken offline by a ransomware attack.  The attack was first detected the night of December 31. Soon after,...

A federal website was defaced with pro-Iranian messaging in what is believed to be retaliation for the U.S. drone strike that killed one of...

California’s groundbreaking privacy law went into effect January 1, 2020. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires businesses to inform state residents if their data...

2020 seems to be getting off to an inauspicious start with the compromise of the home addresses of prominent UK citizens--many of them in...