In this episode of The Security Ledger Podcast (#91): with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying he will testify before Congress, we ask Harvard’s Matthew Baum about what Congressmen and women should ask him and how to best fight fake news. Also: Adam Kujawa of Malwarebytes updates us on that company’s latest quarterly threat report and helps us answer the question “what’s with all the cryptomining”? Shadowboxing fake news Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has promised to testify before the US Congress in the wake of serial revelations about his company’s ties to shady data analytics operations that helped foment social unrest and political tension around both the Brexit vote and the US Presidential election. It is now believed that more than 80 million Facebook users may have had their data exposed to Cambridge Analytica and its many clients. Ahead of Zuckerberg’s (presumed) testimony, however, there has been lots of attention to […]

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