Today concludes the Equifax hack podcast. But the story of the Equifax hack is much bigger than a tale of lost Social Security numbers. It’s about corporate greed. Exploitation of a natural resource (us) for gross profit margins. It’s about control. Epidsode 6 zooms out and returns to the [Keep reading]
If you’ve ever been wronged by a large company and wanted to do more than shake your angry irst at a building, you’re going to enjoy meeting Jessamyn West. When the Equifax hack hit, she wanted to do more than whine to friends and family. She wanted justice. So she [Keep reading]
A high school applicant to Worcester Polytechnic Institute says he was able to access his record within the school’s CRM software and edit crucial fields such as his own SAT scores, confidential recommendation letters, and even an “application decision” toggle field for his application. Dozens of other colleges might be [Keep reading]
Everyone makes mistakes. And every company might suffer a data breach. After years of examples, two things should be obvious to every company: 1) You will likely be hacked and 2) You should have an airtight, lock-solid plan for dealing with the aftermath of such an inevitable hack. Obvious, apparently, [Keep reading]
I’ll admit it; I love March Madness. Even if I have a million problems with the way the NCAA runs its business (and, it is a business). As long as we are all losing precious work hours checking in on our brackets, we might as well learn something. CNBC / [Keep reading]
Now, we’re getting into the nitty-gritty. How did criminals get inside Equifax, and what were all the missteps inside the company that led to the hack? In episode three, we hear from the GAO investigators who actually got inside Equifax and interviewed the principals involved. We find out that it [Keep reading]
It was inevitable, I just didn’t think it would happen so soon. Someone with a deep background in the hacker world is a serious candidate for President. Beto O’Rourke was an early member of the Cult of the Dead Cow, according to this remarkable story by Joseph Menn at Reuters. [Keep reading]
Laziness is one of humanity’s most powerful driving forces. It’s also perhaps the greatest insight from the field of behavioral science — or the one that’s been put to the most practical use, anyway. It goes by the fancy name “default bias,” and societies around the world are now using [Keep reading]
There are some things you can do in a podcast you can’t do with the written word. Here’s one: For this episode of Breach, we tracked down audio of the CEO of Equifax speaking at a business school in 2017. His words are tough to take knowing what we know [Keep reading]
ARCHIVE – August 4, 2011 Imagine being able to sit down in a bar, snap a few photos of people and quickly learn who they are, who their friends are, where they live, what kind of music they like … even predict their Social Security number. Now, imagine you could [Keep reading]
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