Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 19

In this week’s edition of Kaspersky Lab’s podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss Olympic phishing, medical records hacked, police giving away infected USB drives and more.

In this week’s edition of the Transatlantic Cable podcast, David and I discuss discuss scammers targeting the South Korean Olympics, a Florida medical hack, Taiwan Police giving out infected USB drives to winners of cybersecurity quiz and more.

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Cracked in under a minute: (nearly) every other password

We’ve revisited our study on the crackability of real-world passwords leaked on the dark web — originally conducted two years ago. The findings are sobering: nearly every other password can be cracked in under a minute, and three out of five take less than an hour. How can we move away from insecure passwords?