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What the Hack?
"What the Hack?" is the award-winning true cybercrime podcast--the place to hear memorable stories and get good advice.
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Episode 221: Seth Godin's Anti-Spam Playbook: Be Awesome
Marketing visionary Seth Godin explains how the Internet got hijacked by an attention-stealing spam economy that keeps us in an endless loop of badly...
Episode 220: The $5,000 Mistake: Inside a Facebook Scam
A locked account. A call for help. What happened next left Tony questioning everything he thought he knew about the Internet. This week is about trust...
Episode 219: 3 Ways Not to Lose Everything
Former federal prosecutor Tom O’Malley takes us inside the strange, high-stakes world of modern fraud—where victims are presumed guilty, families lose...
Episode 218: The Data Grift Everyone Missed
Every click, swipe, and post fuels the data economy. Credit cards, apps, even maps—our lives are scraped, stitched, and sold. It feels like a heist, a...
Episode 217: The Wrong Dan Sturman
It started with a slow roll of weird emails and phone calls. And then award-winning filmmaker Dan Sturman found himself in the crosshairs of serious h...
Episode 216: Who’s Watching the Watchers?
Feeling watched? Join us as Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark breaks down the new reality of digital surveillance. From school apps to AI scams,...
Episode 215: They Targeted His Mom, He Went Full CIA
A fake Microsoft pop-up cost Ken Westbrook’s mom her life savings. But they scammed the wrong family. Westbrook is former CIA. These days he’s soundin...
Episode 214: DEF CON Redux with Rachel Tobac!
In this second installment of our DEF CON two-parter, we talked to SocialProof Security CEO Rachel Tobac about how and why people are often the weakes...
Episode 213: Inside DEF CON’s Social Engineering Village
At DEF CON’s Social Engineering Village, contestants have 22 minutes to charm real employees at real companies into revealing real details that could...
Episode 212: How to Talk to a Cybercriminal
Kurtis Minder knows the dark web better than most—and he’s not just watching from the sidelines. As a ransomware negotiator, he’s helped victims talk...
Episode 211: The Coldplay Couple and the End of Anonymity
A not-entirely innocent moment at a concert set the internet on fire. But what if that was just a symptom of a bigger problem? New York Times journali...
Episode 210: Cracking the Code of Fraud with AARP's Kathy Stokes
Online fraud isn't just annoying; it's a national crisis. Last year alone, it may have siphoned $158 billion from the U.S. economy. This episode featu...
Episode 209: Unmasking the North Korean IT Scam
Fortune Magazine's Amanda Gerut offers a deep dive into the secret army of remote IT workers funding North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Explore the hidd...
Episode 208: Will AI Write Its Own Laws?
Join Ben Winters, director of AI and Privacy at the Consumer Federation of America, for a front-row seat to the chaotic world of AI regulation where d...
Episode 207: Kristen and the Phantom Puppy
Kristin got scammed because she didn't want to give a puppy mill her business. This classic digital scam has it all: fake breeders, phony shipping age...
Episode 206: Chris Hutchins’s Travel Hacking Gets Hacked
If you have never listened to Chris Hutchins explain how to get free travel, you’ve probably been paying too much for your vacations. Turns out, a thr...
Episode 205: Cybersecurity Girl Caitlin Sarian Tries to Delete Herself Online
Every part of life that comes in contact with the Internet is tracked, packed and sold to a a seemingly infinite network of data brokers. Caitlin Sari...
Episode 204: Nicole Perlroth Says All the Things that Keep Adam Up at Night
Nicole Perlroth’s book This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is a masterpiece on the topic of cyberwar and the zero-day hacks that make it deadly. J...
Episode 203: Jack Rhysider Exposes Our Digital Secrets
What if your digital footprint made you a target? Jack Rhysider, host of "Darknet Diaries," shares how a fan turned his online presence into a persona...
Episode 202: Shannon Edwards Reveals the Student Data Free-for-All
As technology is integrated deeper into classrooms, the lines between education and data privacy have been destroyed by for-profit data miners. This w...
Episode 201: Keren Elazari Decrypts the Ransomeware Nightmare
Ransomware is a type of malware that allows hackers to commandeer data on a device or an entire network. Increasingly, the threat actors behind these...
Episode 200: The Wild West of the Loophole Economy
We’ve all been there. You see something perfect online, you do all the clicks and then think, “Wait, was that legit?” Scam-lite transactions are the w...
Episode 199: CISA Director Jen Easterly Stands Watch in the Cyberwars
From elections to ransomware, CISA Director Jen Easterly breaks down the threats to America’s critical infrastructure and what’s being done to stop th...
Episode 198: Cory Doctorow Makes Us Wonder if Everything’s a Scam
Think you’re too savvy to get scammed? Author and activist Cory Doctorow explains how we’re all one muffaletta and a malfunctioning jet door away from...
Episode 197: FBI Operative Eric O’Neill: Cybercriminals Are Spies—Not Hackers
What if the biggest threat to your privacy wasn’t some hacker in a hoodie—but a spy trained to infiltrate your life? Former FBI operative Eric O’Neill...
Episode 196: Max Lebow Battles a Cyber PsyOps Nightmare
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Episode 195: Can AI Commit the Perfect Crime?
AI is everywhere – in the news, on our devices, assisting us, making life easier for us, and for criminals, too, harnessing AI to swindle people more...
Episode 194: Karen Johnson’s Scam Project Is a Teachable Moment for AI
Karen Johnson is a catfisher-turned-scam avoidance coach turned–you guessed it–catfishing victim. The scam that got her is a classic, opening the door...
Episode 193: Roy Wood, Jr. Exposes the Loch Ness Monster Gun Lobby Conspiracy
As a Daily Show correspondent, comedian Roy Wood, Jr. knows a thing or two about fake news and truthiness as well as the truth-and-a-half that is come...
Episode 192: Max McCoy Investigates $47 Million That Isn’t in Kansas Anymore
Max McCoy stumbled on a $47 million swindle that starts just north of the Oklahoma panhandle and bounces to Australia before things get really confusi...
Episode 191: Erin West Puts the Bad Guys to Shame
Erin West is the Deputy District Attorney in Santa Clara County, California, and the founder of Project Shamrock. Whether she’s prosecuting eye-poppin...
Episode 190: Dick Gephardt Wants a Safer Internet
Former House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt is on a mission to kill Section 230, the legal shield that lets social media giants profit from chaos. If...
Episode 189: Kara Swisher Calls Out the Man Babies of Big Tech
Kara Swisher has been covering Silicon Valley since the early days, and she’s made a ton of enemies the old fashioned way (by telling the truth about...
Episode 188: Jen Caltrider Unwraps Hidden Privacy Nightmares
Privacy expert Jen Caltrider reveals how those shiny new AI gadgets with their mind-bending tech—not to mention the social media apps capturing every...
Episode 187: Al Franken Holds a Mock Senate Hearing on Privacy with Siri and Alexa
No deep fake here. This week, Al Franken does his own impersonations of Bernie Sanders, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Sherrod Brown and Susan Colli...
Episode 186: Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark Hates Scammers More than We Do
Ever wonder why facial recognition is so accurate? Well, one reason is the shocking amount of personal data it needs (think: all the world’s snapshots...
Episode 185: Senators Blackburn and Blumenthal Join Us to Discuss the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)
From cyberbullying to harmful algorithms, the risks are real. This week, Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal join us to discuss their bip...
Episode 184: Kristin Bride Lost Her Son and Now She’s on a Mission
Kristen Bride’s 16-year-old son died by suicide after being cyberbullied on Snapchat. Setting her sites on anonymous messaging apps that intentionally...
Episode 183: Ava Smithing Battles Big Tech and the Algorithm Trap
Ava Smithing was eleven when she saw a swimsuit on Pinterest that she liked. That innocent click turned into an eating disorder. How? This episode exp...
Episode 182: The Most Scary, Interesting, and Important Stories of 2024
We look back at the internet’s scariest moments, the boldest defenders, and the most surprising tech twists of 2024—groundbreaking legislation, intern...