Data leak
Massive AT&T Data Leak, The Danger of Thread Hijacking
Episode 324 features discussions on a significant AT&T data breach affecting 73 million customers and a sophisticated thread jacking attack targeting a journalist. Co-host Scott Wright joins the discussion, highlighting how millions ...
US Marshals Ransomware Hack is ‘Major Incident’
The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) has been hacked (again). Scrotes stole sensitive stuff (supposedly) ...
U.S. ‘No Fly List’ Leaks, AI-Powered Phishing, Wi-Fi Used to See Humans Through Walls
A hacker discovered a copy of the US No Fly List, which contains the names of people banned from traveling in or out of the US on commercial flights, on an unsecured ...
6 Tips to Prevent Accidental Data Exposure Within Your Company
The threat of data exposure is real. With the amount of sensitive personal information that companies are collecting and storing, accidental data exposure can be devastating to a company's reputation. Here are ...
ChatGPT Goes Viral, More Trouble for LastPass, Apple’s New Data Protections
A chatbot developed by OpenAI, called ChatGPT, has gone viral and is able to mimic human language and speech styles and can interact with users in a conversational way. It can be ...
Data Breaches: What They Are, Why They Occur, and How to Prevent Them
Data breaches are invaluable to understanding a threat actor’s goals and motivations. Often fueled by financial gain, malicious actors, as well as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), will do whatever they can to ...
Is Social Media at a Tipping Point, The TikTok Invisible Challenge, San Francisco Police Can Use Killer Robots
A recent data breach of 5.4 million Twitter users and Meta being fined $265 million dollars from a 2021 data leak, and people are fleeing Twitter because of Elon Musk. Are we ...
RansomEXX Claims Credit, Ferrari Denies Data Leak
Ferrari’s security posture may not be quite as bold as its cars after attackers—allegedly, the ransomware group RansomEXX—leaked 7GB of the company’s data online. An account of the leak first surfaced in ...
FAIL: Los Angeles School District Loses 500GB of PII
The Los Angeles Unified School District has lost control of a huge cache of sensitive data because its superintendent, Alberto M. Carvalho, refused to pay the ransom ...
Network Security and Proactive Monitoring
According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach report, it now costs organizations an average of $4.35 million when a successful cyberattack targets their network. This is almost wholly due to the ...
