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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.

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362 episodes
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Jun 21, 2024 · 7 min
141. Legislative solutions for deepfake abuse finally begin to take shape
141. Legislative solutions for deepfake abuse finally begin to take shape
Jun 18, 2024 · 25 min
140. Are solutions to deepfake abuse finally coming into focus?
After years of shouting into the wind about deepfakes and deepfake porn, we take a look at some possible solutions that offer not just deterrence but accountability. Plus, something we rarely see these days: bipartisan agreement on a bill in Congress.
Jun 14, 2024 · 8 min
139. Mic Drop: GhostSec’s quest for redemption: their leader claims their life of crime is over.
139. Mic Drop: GhostSec’s quest for redemption: their leader claims their life of crime is over.
Jun 11, 2024 · 28 min
138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer
138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer
Jun 7, 2024 · 10 min
137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine
137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine
Jun 4, 2024 · 27 min
136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist.
136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist.
May 31, 2024 · 8 min
135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction
Oren Etzioni used to be one of those AI optimists. Now, not so much. In fact, he’s so worried about AI-manipulated content, he created a non-profit, TrueMedia.org, to help ordinary people sort AI fact from fiction.
May 28, 2024 · 26 min
134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?
134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?
May 24, 2024 · 14 min
133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI
133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI
May 21, 2024 · 27 min
132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet.
When North Korea hacked Alejandro Caceres, he expected the U.S. government to rush to his defense. When they just shrugged, he took matters into his own hands.
May 17, 2024 · 7 min
131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam?
On the battlefields of Ukraine, Russia has become very adapt at electronic warfare — both jamming GPS satellites and spoofing satellite signals. We explain how it works and its ripple effects beyond the front lines.
May 14, 2024 · 23 min
130. A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects
A story about satellites, electronic warfare, and a team of American techies who MacGyver-ed a way to keep the power flowing in Ukraine.
May 10, 2024 · 9 min
129. Mic Drop: LockbitSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy
In an interview, LockbitSupp, head of the Lockbit cybercrime operation, told us that the U.S., U.K. and Australia have the wrong guy — he’s not Dmitry Khoroshev, the 31-year-old Russian national they’ve charged with hacking. What’s more, he says more attacks are coming.
May 7, 2024 · 25 min
128. Taking aim at Democracy: Russia’s Doppelgänger gang isn’t just targeting elections anymore
In a year that could bring a perfect storm of disinformation, meet Doppelgänger, a Russian-backed group seeking not just to shake up the world’s elections, but its institutions too.
May 3, 2024 · 9 min
127. Mic Drop: NSC’s Neuberger on mitigating cyber attacks: ‘We should be using an operational approach’
The White House’s top cyber official is keen to set minimum cybersecurity standards for industry, put contingencies in place in case cyberattacks are successful, and start looping ordinary people into an effort to make products secure by design.
Apr 30, 2024 · 24 min
126. The future of robotics from MIT’s "Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs Alliances" podcast
126. The future of robotics from MIT’s "Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs Alliances" podcast
Apr 26, 2024 · 9 min
125. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto
Before Nigerian authorities detained two mid-level Binance executives back in February, they were telling anyone who would listen that the cryptocurrency platform was manipulating the value of its currency, the naira. It turns out the more likely culprit is more than a decade of economic mismanagement. We explain.
Apr 23, 2024 · 30 min
124. The company man: US response to Nigeria’s detention of former IRS crypto investigator rankles federal agents
A former American IRS investigator responsible for some of the earliest dark market takedowns has been in Nigerian custody since February. Neither Nigerian nor the US authorities seem to be distinguishing Tigran Gambaryan from Binance, the company where he works.
Apr 19, 2024 · 10 min
123. Mic Drop: China seeks a Great Leap Forward in cyber
Chinese hackers are stepping up their game, according to Nigel Inkster, the former director of operations for Britain’s MI6. He says they are taking on a new swagger in cyberspace and borrowing things from a familiar playbook: a Russian one.
Apr 16, 2024 · 25 min
122. The UK-US unmasked a giant Chinese cyber operation but forgot one thing: to tell many of its victims
The US and UK made a splashy coordinated announcement last month about a years-long cyber espionage campaign by Chinese state-backed hackers. The US indicted seven, the UK leveled sanctions. They just neglected to do one thing --- let some of the victims know.

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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