Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 58

In this edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast, we discuss Facebook’s Portal, chain letters on Facebook, Google+ being killed, and more.

After a week-long business trip, the Transatlantic Cable podcast returns to its regularly scheduled programming. You know the rules, infosec and hot takes in 20 minutes or less.

In the 58th edition of the podcast, Dave and I bid farewell to Google+, have a surprising conversation about Facebook’s new home video chat service, and discuss another zero-day discovered and disclosed by Kaspersky Lab. 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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