Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 54

This edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast looks at the latest — a British Airways hack and Facebook’s litigation.

In the 54th edition of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast, we take a slightly different route than normal. Instead of jumping around a bunch of unrelated stories, Dave and I focus on a handful of stories surrounding two companies: Facebook and British Airways. With Facebook, we look at an ongoing legal battle; and for British Airways, we do a 101-level survey of the breach, its impact, where we are now, and GDPR fallout. For the full articles, please click 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?