This Week on What the Hack: Scareware
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 sounding the alarm on how foreign crime rings steal billions from Americans with smishing campaigns, scareware, and gift cards. We talked about solutions.
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This Week on What the Hack: DEF CON 33 Unpacked
This Week on What the Hack: DEF CON 33 Unpacked
Welcome to the infuriating world of surveillance pricing. Chris “the Producer” Parr created a digital nobody to find out whether companies would charge the new him less. What he found was stranger. So how much does what companies know about you affect what you pay?
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