In this week’s edition of The Security Ledger Podcast we talk with security researcher and data spelunker Chris Vickery of the firm UpGuard about his discovery of  a data trove containing consumer profiles on 123 million American households. Also: there’s a tough new standard for handling federal data come January 1st in the form of NIST’s 800-171 standard. And: Katie Moussouris joins us back in the studio to talk about what the updated Wassenaar Arrangement means for security researchers. The firm UpGuard last week reported on the discovery of a data trove containing consumer profiles on 123 million American households. (Given that the US Census Bureau counts only 126 million US households, that’s basically everyone.) The data, compiled by the firm Alteryx, included a mix of U.S. Census Data and consumer tracking data collected by the firm Experian. It’s just the latest massive data breach, following the hack of the credit […]