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The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.
186. Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms
185. Mic Drop: Evelyn Farkas on Ukraine: ‘Don’t count them out’
184. Escape from Bamban: One man’s scam farm nightmare in the Philippines
183. Mic Drop: Moore’s Law now applies to space
182. Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone on national security threats, life after the NSA, and a possible return to government
181. A hacker’s final frontier — Space
180. Mic Drop Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone says reports about influence campaigns are ‘a sign of success’
179. Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in Colorado Springs
178. Saving Odie: A team of space geeks, a scrappy lunar lander and today’s hackable space race
177. Mic Drop: NSA’s David Luber on Russia, China and the power of partnerships
176. Spamouflage: Is China’s best known disinformation gang taking new aim at the US?
175. Mic Drop: Kraken CSO Nick Percoco’s unusual anti-scamming campaign
174. Beyond Ukraine: Russia wages low-grade, hybrid attacks on Europe
173. Mic Drop: Hear ye, Hear ye, the Hacker’s Court is in session
172. Want a crypto education? A new WhatsApp scam is tailor-made just for you.
171. Mic Drop: Andrew Ferguson says AI’s introduction into the simple police report, isn’t that simple.
170. AI is writing police reports: Should we be worried?
169. Mic Drop: Election security? Slovakia’s cautionary tale
168. Exclusive: Senator Mark Warner on election fears and all things cyber and intelligence
167. Mic Drop: TikTok’s day in Appeals Court
166. The curious case of Esma Memtimin’s disappearing TikTok videos
165. Mic Drop: FIN7 is hiring
164. The Hunt for FIN7: Hot on the trail of a notorious cyber gang
163. Mic Drop: From banned to beloved, the Taliban’s unexpected embrace of the Internet
162. Ehtesab in Afghanistan: an app’s struggle to survive under the Taliban
161. Mic Drop: Can ransomware be an act of terror?
160. Anatomy of a fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story
159. Mic Drop: The NSA’s Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher’s dream
158. The antidote to our disinformation woes? Just a dash of fun
157. Mic Drop: For researcher Alison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’
156. Something different: a hacker redemption story
155. Mic Drop: Researcher Nina Jankowicz on Fox News, defamation, and our new information reality
154. It’s 9 o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in…
153. Mic Drop: CrowdStrike and the importance of kernels
152. The curious case of Tigran Gambaryan -- a renowned cryptocurrency investigator and Binance employee now on trial in Nigeria
151. Mic Drop: Embattled LockBit leader: ‘Now I want to create even more noise’
150. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'The Hack' from An Arm and a Leg
149. Mic Drop: China seeks a Great Leap Forward in cyber
148. They’re just hackers, living off the land
147. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto
146. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'Modi's India' from Understood
145. Mic Drop: Could an analysis of sound help save the Jaguar in Costa Rica?
144. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us?
143. Mic Drop: Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins wants to change the relationship you have with information.
142. Meet Antibot4Navalny: the mysterious researchers exposing Russia’s war on truth.
141. Legislative solutions for deepfake abuse finally begin to take shape
140. Are solutions to deepfake abuse finally coming into focus?
139. Mic Drop: GhostSec’s quest for redemption: their leader claims their life of crime is over.
138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer
137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine
136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist.
135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction
134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?
133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI
132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet.
131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam?
130. A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects
129. Mic Drop: LockbitSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy
128. Taking aim at Democracy: Russia’s Doppelgänger gang isn’t just targeting elections anymore
127. Mic Drop: NSC’s Neuberger on mitigating cyber attacks: ‘We should be using an operational approach’
126. The future of robotics from MIT’s "Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs Alliances" podcast
125. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto
124. The company man: US response to Nigeria’s detention of former IRS crypto investigator rankles federal agents
123. Mic Drop: China seeks a Great Leap Forward in cyber
122. The UK-US unmasked a giant Chinese cyber operation but forgot one thing: to tell many of its victims
121. Mic Drop: A unusual peek inside a North Korean malware lab
120. North Korea’s ScarCruft gang is behind some very crafty phishin’ campaigns
119. Mic Drop: Could an analysis of sound help save the jaguar in Costa Rica?
118. AI and the Holy Grail of conservation: Real-time monitoring
117. Mic Drop: The Big Chill: Nigeria, Binance battle likely to add to economic crisis
116. Detained execs, a bold escape, and tax evasion charges: Nigeria takes aim at Binance
115. Mic Drop: Hear ye, Hear ye, the Hacker’s Court is in session
114. Exclusive: LockBit ransomware leader says, ‘I felt like I was being hunted’ but they ‘can’t stop me’
113. Mic Drop: Exclusive: Embattled LockBit leader: ‘Now I want to create even more noise’
112. Inside the i-Soon papers and China’s secret world of hackers-for-hire
111. Mic Drop: Arms control expert Jeffrey Lewis on North Korea’s new BFF in Moscow
110. North Korean Missiles in Ukraine and Kim Jong-un’s new swagger
109. Mic Drop: FBI Director Wray on the latest wave of nation-state cyber threats
108. Exclusive: FBI Director Wray talks takedown operations, nation-state hackers, and growing threats in cyberspace
107. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘In the cockpit with AI’ from In Machines We Trust
106. Facial recognition software could help solve America’s missing person problem. Why hasn’t it?
105. Jordan’s wave of spyware infections
104. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us?
103. Dr. Dolittle never spoke whale, AI just might
102. Cyber Av3ngers and their unlikely targets
101. Bug bounties with Chinese characteristics
100. The 2023 cyber year in review
99. Meet the hackers
98. Lessons from the world's first hybrid war
97. Policing Morality? There’s an app for that.
96. The art of decoding dictators
95. Reality Bytes: the URL-IRL crash
94. They’re just hackers, living off the land
93. Tech that allows ordinary people to make peace with wartime
92. Israel, Gaza and all the light you cannot see
91. Bucha wants to be known for something else: Justice.
90. Saving Ukraine’s cultural heritage with a click
89. Exclusive: Ukraine says joint mission with U.S. derailed Moscow’s cyber attacks
88. Exclusive: Inside Ukraine’s secret drone factories
87. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘How AI Will Turbocharge Misinformation’ from Humans vs. Machines
86. What will Moscow do with the Wagner Group now?
85. What Wagner Group learned from ISIS
84. Dutch police, cyber booby traps and a dark market takedown for the ages
83. “Ding-dong ditch” on steroids
82. The Clop gang’s in love with a special kind of bug
81. Ilya Sachkov v. the Kremlin
80. Meet ChatGPT’s evil twin
79. One woman’s Orwellian experience with disinformation
78. Trouble in the cloud
77. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The internet is at the bottom of the sea’ from Things That Go Boom
76. The Mexican army’s love affair with spyware
75. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'Life, death and AI' from Endless Thread
74. Reality Winner and the handling of secret documents
73. Can satellite surveillance save Sudan from itself?
72. Exclusive: Inside an American Hunt Forward Operation in Ukraine
71. A return to model drone pilots and Ukraine’s spring offensive
70. An unlikely teacher: What Wagner Group learned from ISIS
69. Wazawaka: ‘Most Wanted’ and, he says, undeterred
68. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'The Slave Armies Powering a New Kind of Golden Triangle Cybercrime' from The Underworld Podcast
67. Hive’s WeWork experiment — and what went wrong
66. ‘Operation Cookie Monster' and the Genesis takedown
65. Morality in Iraq: You should worry because there’s an app for that
64. Portrait of Bassterlord as a young man
63. Tracers on the stage: Andy Greenberg, Michael Gronager and Tigran Gambaryan talk cryptocurrency tracking
62. How a mathematician and an entrepreneur helped law enforcement take a bite out of crypto crime
61. Snowmen in the park and Iran’s quiet viral dissent
60. Clear the runway: Ukraine's model pilots
59. What the cyber war in Ukraine is teaching us
58. Enemy of the State (Part 2) : ¿Quién es Guacamaya? (Who is Guacamaya?)
57. Enemy of the State (Part 1): Mexico, spyware, and a secret military intelligence unit
56. Ukraine’s drone whisperers: What the weapons are telling us
55. Oyez, Oyez, Oyez: Twenty-six words get their day in the High Court
54. Miss Lonelyhearts and the money mules
53. Xi's brave new world
52. SPECIAL FEATURE: Shoot the Messenger: Espionage, Murder & Pegasus Spyware
51. Exclusive: Axon still wants to put Taser drones in your kid’s school
50. LockBit Diaries: A researcher's year undercover with the world’s most dangerous ransomware gang
49. Genshin Impact: trying to balance mass appeal with Beijing's blessing
48. Call me crypto curious
47. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘Summer in Caputh’ from Exile
46. The musicians who came in from the cold
45. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘Saving Ukrainian Cultural History Online’ from The Last Archive
44. Throwing bricks for $$$: violence-as-a-service comes of age
43. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ from Big Brother: North Korea's Forgotten Prince
42. North Korea's monster fake out
41. Rounding up a cyber posse for Ukraine
40. Selling Vice Society: old exploits, easy targets, and the illusion of greatness
39. Is open-source software the solution to our election woes?
38. The Supreme Court case that could change the internet
37. ‘Presence Matters’: Nakasone and Easterly on Ukraine, collaboration and midterm elections
36. The hijab will never be the same
35. Reality Winner and the handling of secret documents
34. Ukraine’s mass graves have stories to tell
33. Throwing bricks for $$$: violence-as-a-service comes of age
32. The great tractor jailbreak
31. Seagulls in the park
30. The scariest piece of malware since Stuxnet
29. The musicians who came in from the cold
28. A return to Stanislav
27. Exclusive: North Korea’s monster fake out
26. Pegasus is listening
25. Lapsus$ - The script kiddies are alright
24. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment’ from Nothing is Foreign
23. The post-Roe digital world
22. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘NSO’ from Darknet Diaries
21. Son of Conti
20. North Korea’s cryptocurrency obsession
19. Gilman Louie and the dance with wolf warriors
18. The dog-eat-dragon world of Chinese gaming
17. REvil and the Texas hack that changed ransomware as we know it
16. Roe v. Wade in a world of digital dust
15. At war with facial recognition: Clearview AI in Ukraine
14. ‘Cream of the cream’: Russia’s high-tech brain drain
13. Spyware and ‘a world of Bond villains’
12. Lapsus$: The script kiddies are alright
11. The entrepreneur and the Jihadist
10. Are America’s nuclear systems so old they’re un-hackable?
9. The rise of high-tech despotism
8. War, sanctions and crypto’s big moment
7. Fighting Russia with computers, not rifles
6. 'Baggage from a severely harmed relationship'
5. Conti leaks: the Panama Papers of ransomware
4. 'They are fighting like lions'
3. In touch with reality
2. A place called darkode
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