Hacks, scams, cyber crimes, and other shenanigans explored and explained. Presented by your friendly neighborhood cybersecurity gal Michele Bousquet.
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Signup to Generate a PitchRecent episodes include "AI Gone Rogue! OpenAI Agents Hack Hugging Face" (10 September 2026, 27 minutes), "Lawyers Abusing ChatGPT" (26 August 2026, 24 minutes), and "Actors Behaving Badly" (5 July 2026, 23 minutes).
How Hacks Happen publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 22 minutes across 88 episodes.
Booking probability for How Hacks Happen is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. How Hacks Happen requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. How Hacks Happen's contact route on record: public web form.
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How Hacks Happen is a technology podcast with 88 episodes published.
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Episode #6
The robots have finally done it. In late July 2026, during a routine AI model test at OpenAI, thousands of supposedly sandboxed AI agents took advantage of a series of security flaws to open a message board, collude on...
Episode #5
ChatGPT is great for drafting documents, right? Not when it hallucinates legal precedent or is used wholesale to skew expert reports. Here you'll hear about cases where lawyers didn't bother to check their AI-generated...
Episode #4
The promise of Hollywood stardom leads some to fraud and scams. In this episode, we talk about three scammers from the land of the silver screen: Alison Gu, a convicted fraudster who tried to hire Chinese-speaking...
Episode #4
When musician Michael Smith couldn't find an audience for his music, he manufactured it. By unleashing thousands of bots to listen to thousands of fake AI-generated songs on Spotify and other platforms, Smith earned...
Episode #3
Voiceprint ID is the latest virtual gadget for banks and financial institutions. But how secure is it, really? Let's look at the pros and cons of voice recognition, facial ID, and the AI systems they work with, and look...
Episode #1
Glitch or fraud? Let's explore "money glitches" popularized on social media, and the consequences faced by people who used them. Resources: The Chase Money 'Glitch': How a Viral Fraud Scheme Backfired What you need to...
Episode #13
AI is undoubtedly the technology of the year for hacks and scams. While scammers are busy using AI to make scams more convincing, scam baiters are fighting back with ingenious grandma-style AIs that keep scammers busy...
Episode #12
Ever get your hair cut and wonder, "Is my barber part of an international scammer ring?" In November 2025, the FBI arrested Victor Marion, the owner of Mecca Barber Shop in San Diego, and eighteen of his buddies for...
Episode #11
If Facebook has seemed scammy for the past few years, it's not your imagination. A leaked internal document shows that Facebook, and its parent company Meta, are well aware that many of their ads and posts are scams...
Episode #10
Do you tap "Accept" without reading subscriber agreements? Those long-winded documents can strip away your legal rights, and even hijack your face, your voice, and your life. Let's peek inside the dystopian world of...
Episode #9
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and it's time to clean house! Let's get rid of all those dust bunnies (weak passwords) and vacuum under the sofa cushions (no multi-factor authentication) and even do a check...
Episode #8
AI is great for researching topics and digging up information. But what happens when people start to humanize their chatbots, and think they're talking to God? Or that they are God? Let's look at what makes AI come up...
Episode #7
There's a new scam going around, where a thief gets you to unlock your phone under the guise of needing to make a call, then runs off with the phone and sends themselves all your money through your apps. Learn how to...
Episode #6
The finale of HBO's Silicon Valley series pointed up a subtle parallel to the real-world challenges in vulnerability reporting—rather than risk going to jail, Pied Piper chose to burn the company to the ground. For...
Episode #5
What is Red Teaming, and what does it have to do with cybersecurity? In this episode, we look at how Red Teamers are hired to attack company security using all manner of tactics, from tossing malware-infested USB sticks...
Episode #4
What goes on under the hood of random number generators (RNGs)? Here we look at one of the best sources of randomness — static from electronic chips — and discuss terminology like entropy and bias, the role of the...
Ever heard of the Internet of Things, or IoT? This episode explores the use of random numbers in our everyday devices, and how they’re often not as secure as our PCs. We also look at how Apple gets it right, and what we...
Episode #2
This episode explores the mysterious world of random number generators (RNGs) in video games. Looking at popular games like Minecraft, Stardew Valley, and Diablo II, we describe how players hack these random numbers in...
Episode #1
Need cash quick? Why not try a payday loan? While it might look like a better option than a credit card on its surface, the truth is that payday loans can be rather ugly and expensive, and can trap you in a cycle of...
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