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How Hacks Happen — 86 episodes

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Spotify: Making Millions With Bots

2

Voiceprint, Face ID, and Sneakers

3

Glitches in the Matrix

4

2025: The Year of AI Scams

5

The Barber Shop Scammers

6

It's Official: Facebook is Scammy

7

Signing Your Life Away: Subscriber Agreements

8

Personal Pest Control: Cybersecurity Awareness Month

9

AI Gone Rogue: Delusional Chats Lead to Heartbreak

10

Quick Tip: Protecting Your Money With Face ID

11

Bug Bounties: Getting Paid to Hack

12

Red Team: The Best Job in Cybersecurity (Until You Get Arrested)

13

Random Number Generators Pt 3: Under the Hood

14

Random Number Generators Pt 2: Unsecure Devices

15

Random Number Generators Pt 1: Cheating at Video Games

16

Welcome to Season 5!

17

Payday Loans: A Very American Scam

18

Summer 2025 Tour of Scams: Job Scams, Sextortion, and Threats

19

Hacks Ain't What They Used to Be

20

Who owns your trash? It's probably not you.

21

The Amanda Knox Case: How To Get Arrested for Being Weird

22

Send Me a Text! I'd love to hear from you.

23

Coinbase Hack and Impending Crypto Doom

24

Stingray Part II: The Fight for Privacy

25

Stingray Part I: Does Cell Phone Surveillance Violate Your Rights?

26

Identity Theft: Three Stories | Replay

27

Social Media Smoke: Razzlekhan, Dutch, and the $4 Billion Heist

28

Social Media Smoke: Andrew Tate and The Real World

29

Social Media Fraud: Hushpuppi and the Designer Lifestyle

30

April Fool's Day Exclusive: The Blackberry at the End of the Universe

31

Social Media Fraud: Fyre Festival

32

Hacker, Broker, Scam: Following Stolen Data

33

AI Part 3: Tools, Technology, and Magical Connections

34

Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road | Replay

35

AI Part 2: Recognizing Scams

36

AI Part 1: Deepseek

37

Equifax | Replay

38

Shady Cousins: Hacks and Scams

39

Wildfire Clickbait: Milking a Disaster on Social Media

40

2025 World Tour of Scams

41

Honey's Funny Money

42

Catfishing 3: The Money Mule

43

Catfishing 2: Money for Love

44

Catfishing 1: Social Engineering for Profit

45

What is a Password Leak?

46

Ashley Madison Breach | Replay

47

Change Healthcare Breach

48

Credit Card Fraud: 2024 Update

49

Are QR Codes Scammy?

50

Your SSN Is Out There. Deal With It.

51

Get Outta My Business! Bank Fraud Regulations

52

Pump and Dump: Typical Cryptocurrency Scam

53

Telemarketing: Spam or Scam?

54

The Pig Butchering Scam

55

ChatGPT's Web of Lies

56

Scammy AI Wants Your Money

57

Easy Money! Get Rich Schemes

58

How the WWII Enigma Machine Impacts Modern Cryptography

59

CrowdStrike Special

60

Sneaky Phone Downloads

61

Apple vs. The FBI and Your Right to Privacy

62

Buzzword Bingo: Deciphering the Lingo

63

Job Scams: Too Good to Be True

64

Is my phone spying on me? | Social Media Part III

65

Data Mining | Social Media Part II

66

How to Get Your Data | Social Media Part I

67

NFTs, Fraud, and Crazy Cats

68

Silk Road, the Illegal Drug Website

69

I Got Scammed! The White Van Scam

70

F12 is Not a Crime! Except in Missouri.

71

The Refund Scam: How it Works

72

Tor Browser and the Dark Web

73

TVU: Staying Safe Through Entertainment

74

The Tinder Swindler: 7 Red Flags

75

Sony Hack

76

Technology Peak: Why the Elderly Fall for Scams

77

Identity Theft: Three Stories

78

Quick Tip: Bike Thieves and Hackers

79

Quick Tip: Black Friday Shopping

80

Blockchain and Bitcoin

81

Quick Tip: Don't Scratch! Gift Card Scams

82

Quick Tip: Alarming Phone Calls

83

Ashley Madison Breach

84

Credit Card Fraud

85

Crypto Wars

86

Equifax Breach