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Feb 2017
16m 30s

Bear prints around the Czech Foreign Min...

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Bear prints in the Czech foreign ministry. Tinker, tailor, soldier, hacker in Moscow, with a side of Humpty Dumpty. Gamer forum data breaches go undetected for seventeen months. Credential reuse (and the limitations of human memory) are seen as a big threat to security. An IBM study throws up its hands over the state of healthcare cyber security. Trustwave's Chris Schueler reviews their latest report on resource limitations. Emily Wilson from Terbium Labs tracks the increased use of doxing. And Phineas Phisher, depending on whom you believe, is either under arrest or still at large.

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