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Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 48

In this edition of the podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss a McDonald’s Monopoly whopper, banning miners, hacking by inmates, and more.

Jeffrey Esposito
August 2, 2018

In this episode of the Kaspersky Lab Transatlantic Cable podcast, Dave and I talk about some juicy stories. We start off with the Google Play store banning apps that mine cryptocurrency, then hop over to some criminal-on-criminal crime, and then move on to the biggest whopper we’ve hit on in the podcast: corruption and fraud in the McDonald’s Monopoly game. For a full list of stories, check out the links below.

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