Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 23

In this week’s edition of Kaspersky Lab’s podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss a Ethereum scam in Twitter, China’s surveillance glasses, and iPhone source code on GitHub.

In this week’s edition of the Transatlantic Cable podcast, Dave and I keep to our tradition of delivering the news in 20 minutes or less. During our discussion, we discuss Chinese police using facial recognition glasses (think Google Glass meets the Matrix), Ethereum scam via Twitter, iPhone source code on GitHub, 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?