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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 17, 2025 · 10 min
Mic Drop: Elon Musk, come and get your space junk.
Jordan Hobbs, a cattle farmer in the Australian Outback, discovers an unexpected offering from low-earth orbit. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 14, 2025 · 24 min
Space Jam: What if adversaries hacked a dead satellite?
Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu used to worry about asteroids crashing into earth. Now, he’s turned his attention to an even more pressing problem – the weaponization of space debris — and officials say it may have already happened. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 10, 2025 · 12 min
Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom
Russia’s military spending has propped up the economy, made some military families rich and set off a housing boom. But some worry the center will not hold. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 7, 2025 · 25 min
Tech workers return to Russia, not quite with love
We look at the strange and complicated journeys of Russian tech workers who left their country by the thousands when the war in Ukraine first began and now, begrudgingly, are returning home. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 3, 2025 · 13 min
Mic Drop: The demise of ransomware and the rise of crypto
2024 was a banner year for cybercriminal takedowns. Recorded Future analyst Alexander Leslie talks about how ransomware has had to adapt and what the Trump administration’s vow to take cryptocurrency mainstream will mean for the cyber criminals in 2025. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 31, 2024 · 42 min
196. 2024: A year of living more dangerously in cyberspace.
In a recent conversation on WAMU’s nationally syndicated 1A news show, Click Here’s Dina Temple-Raston speaks with 1A’s host Jenn White about China and Russia’s increasingly aggressive cyberattacks, and in the second half of the show, White speaks with human rights advocate Bill Browder about what the world needs to do for Ukraine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 27, 2024 · 11 min
195. Mic Drop: A return to the NSA's Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher's dream
Just a stone's throw from the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic Museum displays dozens of rarely seen codebreaking machines that, quite literally, changed the course of history. We revisit our tour and chat with the museum's director, Vince Houghton. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 24, 2024 · 22 min
194. A return to the musicians who came in from the cold
At a time when Vladimir Putin is attempting to redraw the Iron Curtain, we revisit an earlier episode in which 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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 20, 2024 · 13 min
193. Mic Drop: For researcher Allison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’
We return to a conversation we had over the summer with Unit 221B’s Allison Nixon about young cybercriminals, radicalization, and the search for self in the virtual world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 17, 2024 · 22 min
192. Return to the leak that unmasked China’s hackers-for-hire
Recently, the US sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity company and one of its employees who compromised tens of thousands of firewalls worldwide, with potentially deadly consequences. All of this could sound a little familiar to regular listeners. Earlier this year, CLICK HERE reported on a huge leak of internal documents from a private cybersecurity company that pulled back the curtain on the secret world of China’s hacker-for-hire network. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 13, 2024 · 12 min
191. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘(Ai)ding Cybercrime’ from SHIFT
An episode of ‘SHIFT’ from PRX: AI is being integrated into our technologies at warp speed, but we are only starting to consider how it could be weaponized in the future. The SHIFT podcast talks to Lee Klarich, the chief product officer at Palo Alto Networks, about how AI is both helping and hurting cybersecurity. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 10, 2024 · 26 min
190. Return to the curious case of the disappearing TikTok videos
TikTok took down Esma Memtimin’s posts for allegedly violating the platform’s community rules, even though her videos were about little more than stickers and some current events. Just days after TikTok’s Chinese parent company asked a federal court to put a temporary hold on a law that would require ByteDance to sell the app or face a ban in this country, we go back to an episode we did this fall about a mysterious dearth of TikTok posts about subjects Beijing doesn’t like. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 6, 2024 · 19 min
189. Mic Drop: Return to Wazawaka
We return to an earlier interview we had with Wazawaka, a Russian hacker who, in late 2023, was added to the FBI’s Cyber Most Wanted List. Russian authorities allegedly jailed him late last week — though we saw he was back online a short time later. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 3, 2024 · 43 min
188. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The Right-Wing Plan for Trump-Friendly Spies’ from In the Room with Peter Bergen
An episode from In the Room with Peter Bergen. Longtime national security analyst Peter Bergen looks at what President-elect Trump’s return to the White House will likely mean for intelligence gathering as we know it – and whether the conservative Project 2025 will turn out to be the new intelligence gathering playbook. This story was originally released before the November election. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nov 29, 2024 · 18 min
187. Mic Drop: Crypto and the man: Prof. Lamont Black on Donald Trump’s federal bitcoin reserve
Crypto was envisioned as the ultimate democratic currency, the thing that allowed you to buy things without “the man.” But, now the president-elect’s newfound interest means “the man" may be adding bitcoin to the federal reserve. We ask DePaul University professor and former Fed economist Lamont Black what will the digital currency do now? More from our interview: https://therecord.media/trump-cryptocurrency-reserve-depaul-lamont-black Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nov 26, 2024 · 25 min
186. Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms
Before the invasion of Ukraine, Serhii Zenin was the host of one of the nation’s most popular hard rock radio shows on Radio ROKS 103.6. Some three years later, Serhii is a soldier and Radio ROKS has taken on a whole new role, too. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nov 22, 2024 · 16 min
185. Mic Drop: Evelyn Farkas on Ukraine: ‘Don’t count them out’
As Vladimir Putin says the Ukraine war is about to go global, we sat down with former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Evelyn Farkas. She's now at the McCain Institute. Farkas tells us about the mood in Ukraine during her recent trip, President-elect Trump's claim he could end the Ukraine war in 24 hours, and what's next for the world's first truly hybrid war. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nov 19, 2024 · 29 min
184. Escape from Bamban: One man’s scam farm nightmare in the Philippines
Back in February, Dylan went to the Philippines for what he thought would be a great Chinese Lunar New Year vacation. Then he found himself held hostage in a gang-run scamming compound. We tell one man’s story about getting out and what the Philippines is doing to shut these operations down. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nov 15, 2024 · 9 min
183. Mic Drop: Moore’s Law now applies to space
Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu says Moore’s Law of computing power doesn’t just apply to chips anymore – he says it describes the exponential growth of satellite launches, too. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nov 12, 2024 · 29 min
182. Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone on national security threats, life after the NSA, and a possible return to government
A week before the election, we sat down with Ret. General Paul Nakasone and he talked about North Korea, Russian hackers, his life after the NSA and why he hasn’t ruled out taking another government job.

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Mic Drop: Elon Musk, come and get your space junk.

Space Jam: What if adversaries hacked a dead satellite?

Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom

Tech workers return to Russia, not quite with love

Mic Drop: The demise of ransomware and the rise of crypto

196. 2024: A year of living more dangerously in cyberspace.

195. Mic Drop: A return to the NSA's Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher's dream

194. A return to the musicians who came in from the cold

193. Mic Drop: For researcher Allison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’

192. Return to the leak that unmasked China’s hackers-for-hire

191. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘(Ai)ding Cybercrime’ from SHIFT

190. Return to the curious case of the disappearing TikTok videos

189. Mic Drop: Return to Wazawaka

188. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The Right-Wing Plan for Trump-Friendly Spies’ from In the Room with Peter Bergen

187. Mic Drop: Crypto and the man: Prof. Lamont Black on Donald Trump’s federal bitcoin reserve

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