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Bloomberg interview with vinny troia, founder of data viper
When you were telling me some of the things you found, my mind was blown

Amanda Drury
CNBC
TV Appearances
A Selection of Vinny Troia’s TV News Appearances
Cyber Holiday Card Fraud - Vinny Troia on CNBC
Vinny Troia, CEO of NightLion Security, cybersecurity keynote speaker, live on CNBC discussing holiday credit card fraud and what consumers can do to protect themselves against hackers and privacy thieves.
JPMorgan Data Breach discussion - CNBC Vinny Troia & Kevin O'Leary
Dark Web researcher and Hacker Vinny Troia joins Kevin O'Leary, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and the staff of CNBC's Closing Bell to discuss the JPMorgan data breach. Troia provides information on why the stolen data can lead to a very big problem for consumers in the near future.
Air Date: 10-1-2014
Did North Korea hack Sony? - Vinny Troia cybersecurity expert on CNBC
Vinny Troia, CEO of Night Lion Security, and Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator, live on CNBC Street Signs with Amanda Drury. Troia has serious doubts North Korea was responsible for the hack on Sony.
Vinny Troia on Bloomberg - Discovery of 1.2 Billion People Data Leak DataBreach
Bloomberg News interviews cybersecurity author and PhD, Vinny Troia, on the major data leak containing over 1 billion records from People Data Labs. The PDL leak was publicly accessible and contained personal information on hundreds of millions of people, including full social media profiles and personal information, cell phone, data of birth, and more.
Celebrity iCloud Photo Hack the Shook Hollywood - ABC World News with Vinny Troia
Cybersecurity expert Vinny Troia joins Rebecca Jarvis and David Muir on ABC World News to break down one of the most infamous celebrity hacking scandals — the iCloud photo breach that exposed private and nude images of celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Ariana Grande, and Scarlett Johansson.
In this interview, Troia explains how hackers gained access to celebrity iCloud accounts, the methods used in credential stuffing and phishing, and what this breach revealed about the state of personal data security in the cloud.
As a leading ethical hacker and dark web investigator, Troia provides expert analysis on digital privacy, password security, and the broader implications of hacked, breached, and leaked data in the modern digital age.
Hillary Clinton Email Server - Greta w/ Vinny Troia (Fox News)
Cybersecurity expert Vinny Troia featured on Greta "On The Record" discussing Hillary Clinton's hacked email server.
Cyber Security Defense Bill - Vinny Troia on Fox News w/ Trish Regan
Vinny Troia, cyber security expert and ethical hacker, joins Senator Mike Rounds and Trish Regan on the Intelligence Report on Fox Business.
Hackers using the Dark Net to buy Stolen Credit Cards
Computer security expert and CEO of Night Lion Security, Vinny Troia, shows St. Louis NBC News Channel 5's Anne Allred the underground world of untraceable crooks.
"There's a number of very popular credit card shops where hackers who commit these massive credit card breaches sell your credit card number to any thief that knows how to log on," Troia said.
Privacy Concerns over Obama's Cyber Security Sharing
President Obama signed an executive order Friday that urges companies to share cybersecurity-threat information with one another and the federal government.
Vinny Troia, Cyber Security Expert and CEO of Night Lion Security joins Neil Cavuto's 'Your World' on Fox News to discuss.
Home Depot - Largest Card Data Breach in History
The Fox Business News network interviews security expert and digital forensics investigator, Vinny Troia, CEO of Night Lion Security, on the massive Home Depot data breach. The latest report states that the breach was isolated to the self checkout lanes, but that does not make a lot of sense from a technical standpoint. Why only infect certain machines? The point of sale systems would not be so isolated that you could only access some but not the others. Potentially, there could be a different in the software used on the self checkout lanes.
Either way, Home Depot should have detected this data breach long before the 5 month point.
Cyber Forensic Expert skeptical of Lois Lerner IRS lost emails
Hacking Forensic Expert Vinny Troia, CEO of Night Lion Security, is interviewed by Gretchen Carlson of Fox news to discuss the "lost" IRS emails. Troia does not believe that the Lois Lerner emails are lost forever. Federal security requirements (FISMA) provide for multiple levels of redundancy with respect to backups.
Inspection of the IRS FISMA audits also revealed some very disturbing deficiencies in the IRS' information security program.
Data Breaches and Cyber legislation changes - Senator Rounds & Vinny Troia
Vinny Troia joins Senator Rounds on Fox News with Trish Regan to discuss the upcoming cyber legislation changes.
Federal Government misplacing laptops with sensitive census data
Vinny Troia, CEO of Night Lion Security, is interviewed on the Willis Report on Fox Business, to discuss the growing trend of Federal agencies and their ability (or inability) to protect sensitive user data. Troia says this is a common occurrence, and based on annual FISMA reports to Congress, Federal agencies have trouble maintaining security within their environment - which is why there is a mandate to switch to cloud providers.
Vinny Troia / Shadowbyte: Hackers, ransoms and crypto theft w/ Cavuto on Fox Business (July 2021)
Vinny Troia joins Neil Cavuto to discuss the Akamai outage, hackers, and how they are affecting organizations through ransomware, cyber extortions, and the theft of personal bitcoin wallets.
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