Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 52

David and Jeff discuss Fortnite (again!), the T-Mobile data breach, and how a fish tank helped, in a way, with the development of the modern Internet.

In the anniversary episode of the Kaspersky Lab podcast, Jeff and I discuss some hot IT-related topics. Keeping it to 20 minutes or less, as always, we sort out the spat between Epic Games and Google intensifying after Google disclosed a vulnerability in Fortnite, what the recent US T-Mobile data breach means for you, and how a fish tank helped (in a small way) to develop some of the modern Internet protocols and systems we still use today.

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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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