In today’s episode, we dig into the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s annual Breachies, highlighting some of the year’s most avoidable, eye-opening, and sometimes head-shaking data breaches. From companies collecting far more data than they need to third-party missteps and quiet misconfigurations, the Breachies offer a revealing look at how familiar privacy failures keep repeating—and why they matter for users.

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Today’s we have a CyberWire holiday favorite: The 12 Days of Malware — with Dave and a lineup of cybersecurity friends gleefully rewriting The 12 Days of Christmas to celebrate malware, mishaps, and life online, one verse at a time.

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