Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Feb. 1

From Facebook’s research app being pulled from iOS devices to a new-found dump of compromised credentials, here are the top news of the week.

Data privacy dominated the week of news ending Feb. 1. News headlines included both Facebook and Google finding themselves in hot water over distributing data-sucking apps on iOS devices. A severe flaw was also found in kid-tracking IoT smartwatches that could expose sensitive information for 35,000 children.

Also this week was a new data dump of 2.2 billion compromised credentials discovered on the Dark Web, This was labeled “Collections #2-5.”

Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals discuss these top news stories and more in this week’s Threatpost news wrap.

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