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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 205: Cybersecurity Girl Caitlin Sarian Tries...

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2025/06/24

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 Sarian AKA Cybersecurity Girl joined us this week to discuss why scrubbing your information is trickier than it sounds and what you can do about it.

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49:04

Episode 204: Nicole Perlroth Says All the Things that...

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2025/06/17

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. Join us as we explore with Perlroth a cyberscape where mistakes are weaponized, backdoors abound and we all have zero degrees of separation from spies and the people they spy on.

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44:30

Episode 203: Jack Rhysider Exposes Our Digital Secrets

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2025/06/10

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 personal puzzle—revealing just how easily your privacy can be pieced together and exploited.

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37:11

Episode 202: Shannon Edwards Reveals the Student Data...

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2025/05/27

As technology is integrated deeper into classrooms, the lines between education and data privacy have been destroyed by for-profit data miners. This week, privacy advocate Shannon Edwards reveals how educational apps harvest sensitive information from children, commodify their data, and what parents can do to fight it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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41:41

Episode 201: Keren Elazari Decrypts the Ransomeware...

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2025/05/20

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 crimes set their sites on mission critical targets. We talked about it with renowned cybersecurity expert Keren Elazari this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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50:13

Episode 200: The Wild West of the Loophole Economy

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2025/05/13

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 way of the web these days, whether it’s direct-from-manufacturer or super-sticky subscriptions, we have your back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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43:11

Episode 199: CISA Director Jen Easterly Stands Watch...

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2025/05/06

From elections to ransomware, CISA Director Jen Easterly breaks down the threats to America’s critical infrastructure and what’s being done to stop them, sharing along the way her journey from the real-life battlefield to the frontlines of cybersecurity. This is a rare glimpse into the most pressing threats America faces—and a compelling story about Director Easterly’s own experience being targeted..Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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42:19

Episode 198: Cory Doctorow Makes Us Wonder if...

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2025/04/29

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 falling prey to the most basic of cons. He joins us this week to talk about that and to fill us in about his new book, “The Bezzle.”Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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50:00

Episode 197: FBI Operative Eric O’Neill:...

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2025/04/22

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, the man who took down spy Robert Hanssen, explains how digital spies target us, offering along the way real-world tips to protect ourselves in a world where everyone’s a potential target.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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49:43

Episode 196: Max Lebow Battles a Cyber PsyOps Nightmare

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2025/04/15

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47:05

Episode 195: Can AI Commit the Perfect Crime?

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2025/04/08

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 efficiently. What’s next? We dive into the dark side of AI and ask two experts: Could AI commit the perfect crime?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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37:00

Episode 194: Karen Johnson’s Scam Project Is a...

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2025/04/01

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 to a Pandora’s Box of the usual advice about avoiding the most common scams out there. But the thing that really got us thinking is the role AI played in almost every aspect of this week’s show.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Episode 193: Roy Wood, Jr. Exposes the Loch Ness...

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2025/03/18

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 comedy. By skewering the media and the people in the news, he has special insight into how misinformation affects the way we think about the world and what we know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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50:54

Episode 192: Max McCoy Investigates $47 Million That...

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2025/03/11

Max McCoy stumbled on a $47 million swindle that starts just north of the Oklahoma panhandle and bounces to Australia before things get really confusing in a haze of small town corruption, secretive law enforcement and competing theories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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43:18

Episode 191: Erin West Puts the Bad Guys to Shame

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2025/03/04

Erin West is the Deputy District Attorney in Santa Clara County, California, and the founder of Project Shamrock. Whether she’s prosecuting eye-popping SIM-swap money grabs or putting large-scale pig butchering operations out of business, her stories and experience can help you stay safer.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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43:35

Episode 190: Dick Gephardt Wants a Safer Internet

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2025/02/25

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 engagement-driven algorithms are fueling harmful content for the sake of profit, is it time for the U.S. to take bold action to rein in the Internet? (You know the answer, but this is a must listen!)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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41:46

Episode 189: Kara Swisher Calls Out the Man Babies of...

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2025/02/18

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 the new robber barons of our digital lives). In a new memoir called Burn Book, she pulls the curtain back on a world run by powerful babies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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46:18

Episode 188: Jen Caltrider Unwraps Hidden Privacy...

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2025/02/11

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 moment—are a privacy nightmare. Is going analog the only safe option? Learn how to protect your data from the prying eyes of Big Tech.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Episode 187: Al Franken Holds a Mock Senate Hearing...

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2025/02/04

No deep fake here. This week, Al Franken does his own impersonations of Bernie Sanders, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Sherrod Brown and Susan Collins in this mock Senate Hearing featuring Siri (played by the actual voice-over talent Susan Bennett) and Al’s fellow SNL alum Laraine Newman playing the part of Alexa.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Episode 186: Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark...

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2025/01/28

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), and that’s why Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark is taking aim at the industry behind that technology. We also review Charity’s top scams to watch for this year, and other topics near and dear to our own scam-hating hearts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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