Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 48

In this edition of the podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss a McDonald’s Monopoly whopper, banning miners, hacking by inmates, and more.

In this episode of the Kaspersky Lab Transatlantic Cable podcast, Dave and I talk about some juicy stories. We start off with the Google Play store banning apps that mine cryptocurrency, then hop over to some criminal-on-criminal crime, and then move on to the biggest whopper we’ve hit on in the podcast: corruption and fraud in the McDonald’s Monopoly game. For a full list of stories, check out the links below.

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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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