Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 24

In this week’s edition of Kaspersky Lab’s podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss a new LinkedIn scam targeting pensioners, finding love with passwords, and alien hunting.

In this week’s edition of the Transatlantic Cable podcast, Dave and I keep to our tradition of delivering the news in 20 minutes of less. During our chat, we discuss a new scam on LinkedIn, how cryptomining is hurting alien hunting, finding dates through passwords, 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?