Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 55

In this edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast, a pair of animals making tech news, adult gaming on Steam, and Amazon deleting reviews.

In the 55th installment of the Kaspersky Lab Transatlantic Cable Podcast, Dave and Jeff cover a lot of ground. We start in China, where Amazon is looking into claims that bad reviews are being removed by employees in exchange for cash.

We also look into a new development on Steam, where a sexually explicit game has made headlines, and then over to the US, where a government payment system suffered a breach for more than six years. On top of those stories, we also cover a pair of animals making tech news on land and in the sea. For the full text of the stories, 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?

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