How Hacks Happen
Hacks, scams, cyber crimes, and other shenanigans explored and explained. Presented by your friendly neighborhood cybersecurity gal Michele Bousquet.
How Hacks Happen
Personal Pest Control: Cybersecurity Awareness Month
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Many Worlds Productions
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and it's time to clean house! Let's get rid of all those dust bunnies (weak passwords) and vacuum under the sofa cushions (no multi-factor authentication) and even do a check under the bed for that half-eaten Pop Tart (vulnerable emails). Hear about a few instances where poor cybersecurity led to unfortunate consequences, so you can avoid the same fate.
Resources
- $61K, gone just like that for Oro Valley couple.
- Dream Kitchen Renovation Ruined by a Scam
- PassGAN: A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing
- Historic UK KNP transport firm collapses after ransomware attack
- Hacker leaks account data of 12 million Zacks Investment users
- Researchers Instantly Crack Simple Passwords With AI
- Lost $45k to Wire Fraud Scam on E*TRADE – Even with MFA Enabled.
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