DtSR Episode 131 - NewsCast for February 23rd, 2015

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-fraudYour stolen healthcare data is increasingly being sold on the black markethttp://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2015/2/19/security-experts-health-data-increasingly-being-sold-on-black-marketLenovo 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.htmlThe web browser is totally broken, and a haven for malware. Long live the web browser?http://securityintelligence.com/broken-web-browsers-malwares-new-address/Have something to say? Let's hear it.Support the show>>> Please consider clicking the link above to support the show!-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=YouTube home: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyo0dkKRvfVtWXjRxNISrhme1MgBj3C2U&si=scHDiTuLXSEQ9qHqLinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/down-the-security-rabbithole-podcast/X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/dtsr_podcast