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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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Jan 9, 2024 · 24 min
101. Bug bounties with Chinese characteristics
Vulnerabilities and exploits are the building blocks of hacking. We look at how China is flipping the script on how the world thinks about both.
Jan 2, 2024 · 20 min
100. The 2023 cyber year in review
In a recent conversation on WAMU’s nationally syndicated news show 1A, Click Here’s Dina Temple-Raston looks back on cyber in 2023 and discusses what we might expect in the year ahead.
Dec 26, 2023 · 51 min
99. Meet the hackers
Hackers and cybercriminals may not be so different from the rest of us after all. We talk to three real life hackers from an early dark market entrepreneur to an accidental recruit to the latest addition to the FBI’s most wanted list.
Dec 19, 2023 · 50 min
98. Lessons from the world's first hybrid war
Ukraine is the world’s first truly hybrid war, and the battle is raging on two fronts --- on the ground and in cyberspace. What does the conflict mean for the future of war?
Dec 12, 2023 · 49 min
97. Policing Morality? There’s an app for that.
We look at the use of digital tools that have imposed an authoritarian version of morality on the masses, and the creative, inspiring way ordinary people have learned to respond.
Dec 5, 2023 · 51 min
96. The art of decoding dictators
Dictators use bombast and bullying as a kind of malevolent calling card. Meet the people who have found surprising and creative ways around that.
Nov 28, 2023 · 50 min
95. Reality Bytes: the URL-IRL crash
Three stories about technologies that started out doing one thing, and ended up doing quite another — from online tractors, to tasers in schools, to cellphone hackers who take their online battles into the real world.
Nov 21, 2023 · 22 min
94. They’re just hackers, living off the land
94. They’re just hackers, living off the land
Nov 14, 2023 · 28 min
93. Tech that allows ordinary people to make peace with wartime
93. Tech that allows ordinary people to make peace with wartime
Nov 7, 2023 · 29 min
92. Israel, Gaza and all the light you cannot see
We talk to two ordinary people who decided to tackle two extraordinary problems: identifying the thousands who went missing in Israel in the days after the October 7th attacks, and one man’s leap of faith to get internet and cellphone service into Gaza.
Oct 31, 2023 · 30 min
91. Bucha wants to be known for something else: Justice.
Bucha, a bedroom community just outside of Kyiv, is best known for enduring Russia’s atrocities during a month-long occupation in the Spring of 2022. Now the citizens of Bucha don’t want revenge, they want justice.
Oct 24, 2023 · 30 min
90. Saving Ukraine’s cultural heritage with a click
When a Russian bomb damaged a beloved library in the Ukrainian town of Chernihiv, locals feared that it would be lost forever. Then a cutting-edge technology came to the rescue.
Oct 17, 2023 · 23 min
89. Exclusive: Ukraine says joint mission with U.S. derailed Moscow’s cyber attacks
We traveled to Ukraine last month to learn more about a hunt forward operation Cybercom and cyber operators from Ukraine secretly launched before the war. This is the first time the Ukrainian side of the story has been revealed publicly.
Oct 10, 2023 · 26 min
88. Exclusive: Inside Ukraine’s secret drone factories
We travel to Ukraine to look at its grassroots defense industry and take you into its secret drone factories where entrepreneurs are able to put innovative weapons into the hands of soldiers at the front in a matter of weeks, not months.
Oct 3, 2023 · 26 min
87. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘How AI Will Turbocharge Misinformation’ from Humans vs. Machines
87. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘How AI Will Turbocharge Misinformation’ from Humans vs. Machines
Sep 26, 2023 · 26 min
86. What will Moscow do with the Wagner Group now?
The Russian private army known as the Wagner Group has been tied not just to atrocities in Ukraine but to operations in Africa that helped Russia extend its reach. The looming question for Moscow: what do we do with Wagner now?
Sep 19, 2023 · 27 min
85. What Wagner Group learned from ISIS
85. What Wagner Group learned from ISIS
Sep 12, 2023 · 28 min
84. Dutch police, cyber booby traps and a dark market takedown for the ages
Led by a motley crew of old-school cops and cyber whiz-kids, a Dutch police unit takes control of one of the dark web's most notorious drug markets and make history.
Sep 5, 2023 · 28 min
83. “Ding-dong ditch” on steroids
83. “Ding-dong ditch” on steroids
Aug 29, 2023 · 24 min
82. The Clop gang’s in love with a special kind of bug
82. The Clop gang’s in love with a special kind of bug

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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