Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 5

The real scale of the Yahoo breach (spoiler: 3 billion), Facebook’s own Face ID, UK Lottery DDoS, and more.

In this week’s edition of the Transatlantic Cable podcast, we discuss a DDoS attack of the UK Lottery, Spaceballs, sand everywhere, and more. As always, we do this in 20 minutes or less to fit into your busy life. For more on this week’s topics, see:

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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?