Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 48

In this edition of the podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss a McDonald’s Monopoly whopper, banning miners, hacking by inmates, and more.

In this episode of the Kaspersky Lab Transatlantic Cable podcast, Dave and I talk about some juicy stories. We start off with the Google Play store banning apps that mine cryptocurrency, then hop over to some criminal-on-criminal crime, and then move on to the biggest whopper we’ve hit on in the podcast: corruption and fraud in the McDonald’s Monopoly game. For a full list of stories, check out the links below.

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The pros and cons of AI-powered browsers

A race between tech giants is unfolding before our very eyes. Who’ll be the first to transform the browser into an AI assistant app? As you test these new products, be sure to consider their enormous impact on security and privacy.

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