Adam Levin

It’s Data Privacy Day, so here are a few quick and easy data privacy related activities you can do to protect your identity and...

Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is the go-to story for Data Privacy Day with its new “user-friendly” tool called Replica,...

Trojan horse-based malware attacks and spyware rose sharply in 2018 as ransomware-based attacks declined, according to a new report published by Malwarebytes. One of...

The personal data of 4 million applicants for internships at a non-profit organization was exposed in a breach. The data included the applicants’ names,...

A Google offshoot is trying to teach people to be more circumspect about phishing attempts. Jigsaw, an incubator owned by Google parent company Alphabet,...

According to a study published in December by SplashData of the more than 5 million passwords compromised by hacks last year, way too many...

A gigantic trove of email addresses and passwords containing over 2 billion records has been discovered online. The breached data, dubbed “Collection #1” by...

A massive leak of unprotected data on a server belonging to the Oklahoma Securities Commission was discovered in December 2018. Three terabytes of data...

U.S. citizens are more vulnerable to the effects of identity theft and scams as a result of the ongoing government shutdown. The two primary...

AT&T and T-Mobile announced that in March 2019 they would stop selling user location data to third parties. The announcements came on the heels...

Adam Levin was interviewed on NBC Nightly News to discuss recent reports that phone carriers are selling their user location data. "Hackers can get this...

The ongoing shutdown of the U.S. Government has impacted federal cybersecurity according to several reports. The roughly 800,000 federal workers currently on furlough include: ...

Hackers have published the personal data and documents of hundreds of German politicians and celebrities online. The data breach was announced by the German government....

When the North Carolina State Board of Elections and Ethics voted against certifying Republican Mark Harris as the winner over Democrat Dan McCready in the state's 9th Congressional...

A cyberattack disrupted several major newspapers printed by Tribune Publishing shortly before New Year’s Day. Print versions of the Chicago Tribute, Los Angeles Times,...

2019 will be the year consumers start thinking more about cyber hygiene, and the year Congress becomes more proactive in the areas of privacy and cybersecurity. While the year...

Unless you live in a boot at the bottom of Loon Lake, you know that everything you do online is tracked. When you load a...

This midterm election, a steady flow of headlines and heated controversy focused not on political leanings or flipping seats (at least directly), but rather on...

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced that it experienced a data breach in October. In an internal memo sent to employees,...

Adam Levin gave the 2018 convocation speech at Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Georgia. "It's incumbent upon us to...