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	Podcast:		Down the Security Rabbithole
	Episode:		DtSR Episode 131 - NewsCast for February 23rd, 2015
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:42:28
	Publish Date:		2015-02-23 00:00:00
	Description:		In this episode-- Would you be OK with your credit card company tracking you, to decrease fraud rates? Visa wants to track your smartphone. http://triblive.com/business/headlines/7774328-74/visa-card-fraud Your stolen healthcare data is increasingly being sold on the black market http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2015/2/19/security-experts-health-data-increasingly-being-sold-on-black-market Lenovo has shipped software that performs a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack against all SSL connections on some of its consumer laptops. This is really, really, really bad, but Lenovo doesn't seem to get it. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/ http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/02/extracting-superfish-certificate.html The web browser is totally broken, and a haven for malware. Long live the web browser? http://securityintelligence.com/broken-web-browsers-malwares-new-address/
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