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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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Nov 15, 2022 · 27 min
41. Rounding up a cyber posse for Ukraine
Washington and the tech world have been talking about public private partnerships in cyberspace for decades. The NSA and Cyber Command have intelligence about attacks; cybersecurity companies have the means to block them. It looks like they are finally working together — not in the U.S, but in Ukraine.
Nov 8, 2022 · 19 min
40. Selling Vice Society: old exploits, easy targets, and the illusion of greatness
40. Selling Vice Society: old exploits, easy targets, and the illusion of greatness
Nov 1, 2022 · 22 min
39. Is open-source software the solution to our election woes?
Ben Adida is the executive director of a voting technology non-profit that provides software and operational support to states during elections. He’s embarked on an almost impossible missile: to restore faith in our election system. The way he proposes to do that? With open-source software that everyone can see.
Oct 25, 2022 · 21 min
38. The Supreme Court case that could change the internet
38. The Supreme Court case that could change the internet
Oct 18, 2022 · 21 min
37. ‘Presence Matters’: Nakasone and Easterly on Ukraine, collaboration and midterm elections
37. ‘Presence Matters’: Nakasone and Easterly on Ukraine, collaboration and midterm elections
Oct 11, 2022 · 25 min
36. The hijab will never be the same
36. The hijab will never be the same
Oct 4, 2022 · 21 min
35. Reality Winner and the handling of secret documents
35. Reality Winner and the handling of secret documents
Sep 27, 2022 · 27 min
34. Ukraine’s mass graves have stories to tell
The town whose name has become synonymous with Russian atrocities in Ukraine is rushing to digitize information about the dead --- not just to identify them and give families closure --- but to hold Russians accountable for the wanton brutality in Bucha. Plus, scandal in the elite chess world.
Sep 20, 2022 · 19 min
33. Throwing bricks for $$$: violence-as-a-service comes of age
33. Throwing bricks for $$$: violence-as-a-service comes of age
Sep 13, 2022 · 24 min
32. The great tractor jailbreak
32. The great tractor jailbreak
Sep 6, 2022 · 21 min
31. Seagulls in the park
31. Seagulls in the park
Aug 30, 2022 · 24 min
30. The scariest piece of malware since Stuxnet
30. The scariest piece of malware since Stuxnet
Aug 23, 2022 · 30 min
29. The musicians who came in from the cold
At a time when Vladimir Putin is attempting to redraw the Iron Curtain, we take a trip back to the Soviet Union circa 1985 when four American musicians smuggled messages in and out of the Soviet Union — with music. Plus, DefCon’s answer to those alien transmissions.
Aug 16, 2022 · 24 min
28. A return to Stanislav
28. A return to Stanislav
Aug 9, 2022 · 24 min
27. Exclusive: North Korea’s monster fake out
Thousands of satellites watch the world from above. We offer a mystery story about an infamous North Korean video, a team of very observant researchers, and a search for the truth.
Aug 2, 2022 · 21 min
26. Pegasus is listening
26. Pegasus is listening
Jul 26, 2022 · 24 min
25. Lapsus$ - The script kiddies are alright
An encore performance of one of our favorite episodes about LAPSUS$, a cyber extortion gang that convinced the world its low-tech hacking operations were really high-impact heists. Plus, we hear how two high school computer geeks almost brought down IBM’s computer center in Manhattan.
Jul 19, 2022 · 27 min
24. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment’ from Nothing is Foreign
Earlier this year, the CBC's Nothing is Foreign podcast reported on how El Salvador's promise of a cryptocurrency paradise runs up against reality.
Jul 12, 2022 · 20 min
23. The post-Roe digital world
An encore performance of one of our most popular episodes. Five years ago, a Mississippi woman named Latice Fisher was charged with murdering her stillborn child. The evidence against her: a controversial 400-year-old test and the search history on her cellphone.
Jul 5, 2022 · 1 hr 9 min
22. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘NSO’ from Darknet Diaries
Last August, the Darknet Diaries host Jack Rhysider did a story about the NSO Group’s most famous product — Pegasus — a surveillance program which has the ability to turn just about anyone’s phone into a pocket spy.

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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