Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 230

This week on the Kaspersky podcast, Dave and Jag talk about facial recognition for goats, Tolkien crypto, and fines for default passwords.

This week on the Kaspersky podcast, Dave and Jag talk about facial recognition for goats, Tolkien crypto, and fines for default passwords.

Welcome to episode 230 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast. Ahmed and Jeff are unable to attend the taping this week because of travel commitments. Filling in is the ever-dependable Jag.

To start, we look at an interesting story from down under, where an impending government policy will force social media companies to unmask online trolls. From there, we move on to a story about facial recognition for goats in China (yes, really.)

After that rather unusual bit of news, David chats with David Emm about the recent Kaspersky GReAT APT review. We then look at two stories from the BBC, the first of a cryptocurrency called JRR Token (no relation to JRR Tolkien, according to the creators), the second on proposed legislation in the UK to ban default passwords on smart devices. Smart thinking, I say.

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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?

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