In-brief: In this week’s podcast, Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts talks with noted security researcher Robert “RSnake” Hansen about the data breach at Equifax and why the company’s response to it was so lacking. Also: Chris Sumner of the Online Privacy Foundation talks about why Facebook is a killer app for information operations and we talk to the president of ASPertise: a consulting firm by and of professionals with Aspergers and Autism spectrum disorders. Barely a week goes by without some news of a data breach at a major firm and last week was no different with credit monitoring firm Equifax acknowledging that information on some 143 million Americans was exposed in an attack on its servers. Equifax’s announcement is just the latest in a steady drumbeat of data breach announcements. And, while it was somewhat larger than average, what was most disturbing about the news was Equifax’s […]

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