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Beau Friedlander

2025 in Review: The Year Privacy Got Real

For a long time, privacy felt theoretical, technical, like something you worried about after a breach, after a scam, after your information ended up…
Beau Friedlander
December 23, 2025

When AI Polishes the Scam and People Search Delivers the Victim

This week’s episode of “What the Hack?” begins with a story about a lock installed by friends of the show’s producer Andrew Steven, that illustrates…
Beau Friedlander
December 16, 2025

The Cybersecurity Habits That Actually Work: Lessons From a Conversation With Bob Lord

On this week’s episode of What the Hack I talked to Bob Lord, a highly respected cybersecurity expert and renowned authority on digital risk. Spend a…
Beau Friedlander
December 11, 2025

When the Stranger Isn’t a Stranger

What Social Media Is Telling Us About Privacy that We’re Not Teaching Our Kids We talked with cybercrime expert Paul Raffile about sextortion this we…
Beau Friedlander
December 2, 2025

The Anti-Money Laundering Paradox: AI versus Outlier Criminality

The global financial system moves vast sums of money every second—a blur of capital that includes everything from micro-payments to billions of dolla…
Beau Friedlander
November 18, 2025

A(I) Blueprint for Modern Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity titan Neil Daswani was this week’s guest on ”What the Hack?” where we shot the gamut, landing on a critical question: How much harder w…
Beau Friedlander
November 12, 2025

The Scarcity Trap: Where Scammer and Scammed Collide

It’s not just greed: The global fraud machine fueled by financial need on one side and loneliness on the other, isn’t just about money; i…
Beau Friedlander
November 4, 2025

Is Home Title Fraud Really a Thing?

The most valuable asset for most Americans is their home and that’s probably why it’s the target of scammers looking to profit from easy-to-file pape…
Beau Friedlander
October 28, 2025

Your Phone Isn’t a Crime Scene—Yet: The Forensics of a Digital Life

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we hear the same advice every year: update your passwords, get a password manager, use two-factor authenticat…
Beau Friedlander
October 21, 2025

The Earned Internet? Seth Godin Leads the Way (Again)

This week’s episode of “What the Hack?” featuring Seth Godin forced a fundamental re-evaluation of what I thought I knew about our digital lives, spe…
Beau Friedlander
October 15, 2025

2025 in Review: The Year Privacy Got Real

For a long time, privacy felt theoretical, technical, like something you worried about after a breach, after a scam, after your information ended up…
Beau Friedlander
December 23, 2025

When AI Polishes the Scam and People Search Delivers the Victim

This week’s episode of “What the Hack?” begins with a story about a lock installed by friends of the show’s producer Andrew Steven, that illustrates…
Beau Friedlander
December 16, 2025

The Cybersecurity Habits That Actually Work: Lessons From a Conversation With Bob Lord

On this week’s episode of What the Hack I talked to Bob Lord, a highly respected cybersecurity expert and renowned authority on digital risk. Spend a…
Beau Friedlander
December 11, 2025

When the Stranger Isn’t a Stranger

What Social Media Is Telling Us About Privacy that We’re Not Teaching Our Kids We talked with cybercrime expert Paul Raffile about sextortion this we…
Beau Friedlander
December 2, 2025

The Anti-Money Laundering Paradox: AI versus Outlier Criminality

The global financial system moves vast sums of money every second—a blur of capital that includes everything from micro-payments to billions of dolla…
Beau Friedlander
November 18, 2025

A(I) Blueprint for Modern Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity titan Neil Daswani was this week’s guest on ”What the Hack?” where we shot the gamut, landing on a critical question: How much harder w…
Beau Friedlander
November 12, 2025

The Scarcity Trap: Where Scammer and Scammed Collide

It’s not just greed: The global fraud machine fueled by financial need on one side and loneliness on the other, isn’t just about money; i…
Beau Friedlander
November 4, 2025

Is Home Title Fraud Really a Thing?

The most valuable asset for most Americans is their home and that’s probably why it’s the target of scammers looking to profit from easy-to-file pape…
Beau Friedlander
October 28, 2025

Your Phone Isn’t a Crime Scene—Yet: The Forensics of a Digital Life

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we hear the same advice every year: update your passwords, get a password manager, use two-factor authenticat…
Beau Friedlander
October 21, 2025

The Earned Internet? Seth Godin Leads the Way (Again)

This week’s episode of “What the Hack?” featuring Seth Godin forced a fundamental re-evaluation of what I thought I knew about our digital lives, spe…
Beau Friedlander
October 15, 2025
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