{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"One Employee's Password, Seven Million Driver's Licenses","description":"Jeff read the headline in Craig's newsletter and assumed a digit had slipped. One password at one auto insurer \u2014 Assurance America \u2014 and seven million people's records left the building. Names. Driver's licenses. Insurance history. Social Security numbers. That is the smaller of the two numbers this week. The other is roughly 220 million voter records, which makes it larger than Equifax. Craig walks through what a file that size is actually used for: not fabricated messages from an obvious source, but ads, search results and AI answers that arrive with an opinion already attached, aimed at people identified by town, by voting history, by reach. He also makes a point about Social Security numbers issued at birth that is worth the segment on its own. Nobody looks at that number for sixteen years. Plenty of young adults are learning at their first job that it has been in use the entire time. Also in this segment: Iran moving oil money through cryptocurrency \u2014 and why "anonymous" was never the right word for a public ledger The patch window: it used to run six months to a year between a flaw being found and being used. It now runs about a day. Windows Update covers Microsoft software, and not all of it. Adobe Reader is among the worst of what it leaves behind. Craig previews Thursday's free session at 2 p.m.: which programs on your computer are not being patched, how to find them, and how to fix them. Free newsletter and session signup: CraigPeterson.com ","author_name":"Craig Peterson - Secure Your Business, Your Privacy, and Save Your Sanity","author_url":"https:\/\/cptt.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"