The streaming service knows your preferences, the time you're watching, when you're watching,

and that's very good telemetry data for a malicious actor in a targeted attack.

Hi and welcome to Sabar reasons malicious life besides.

I'm Rand Leffi. Media companies probably get hacked no more than other non-media-oriented organizations such as hospitals and banks.

But these hacks are often more visible and more memorable than other cases, because, well, media companies are more public

facing by their very nature. For example, when someone hijacked the television

signals of two stations in Chicago in 1987 and

broadcasted a clip of someone wearing Max Headroom Mask, well everyone who was watching TV that evening knew that something was off.

The story received so much publicity that even we did an episode about it some 30 years

later. In another case in 2013 the Associated Press Twitter

account was hacked and the attackers tweeted about an explosion in the

White House and about President Obama being injured.

Six minutes later, the Dow Jones plummeted, costing investors some $136 dollars. In this B-side interview then we're focusing on the

security threats against media companies. How can these organizations be hacked and why should we care about such attacks?

Nate Nelson spoke with Joel Molinoff, former Chief Information Risk Officer for CBS Cooperation and Dan Vassil, former Vice President of

Information Security at Paramount.

Enjoy the Internet. I personally worry about attacks against data brokers because they house my personal information. I worry about critical infrastructure because those facilities are

necessary to my health and well-being.

Pirateing and leaks just aren't my business and my Roku apps frankly already cut out so often that I hardly think I'd even recognize if my content providers were being hacked midstream.

So, Dan, Joel, what reason do I or any of our listeners have to worry about cyber attacks against media companies?

Media companies' breaches can impact consumers from a minor inconvenience like the

favorite streaming service not being available or and that's an impact on the

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