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Length:
166 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Description

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.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 166 episodes

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165. Mic Drop: FIN7 is hiring

The Russian-speaking cyber gang, FIN7, has fooled red team hackers into doing their dir...

13 minutes
Sep 13, 2024

164. The Hunt for FIN7: Hot on the trail of a notorious cyber gang

Investigators have been chasing the Russian-speaking cyber gang for years — and they’ve...

37 minutes
Sep 10, 2024

163. Mic Drop: From banned to beloved, the Taliban’s unexpected embrace of the Internet

Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership may have smashed TVs in the 1990s, but these days thei...

14 minutes
Sep 06, 2024

162. Ehtesab in Afghanistan: an app’s struggle to survive under the Taliban

Technology has changed the way countries wage war, and today, we look at an app in Afgh...

33 minutes
Sep 03, 2024

161. Mic Drop: Can ransomware be an act of terror?

New legislation is seeking to designate some ransomware attacks as acts of terror. Form...

17 minutes
Aug 30, 2024

160. Anatomy of a fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story

Sky Lakes Medical Center in south central Oregon never imagined it could be on the rece...

34 minutes
Aug 27, 2024

159. Mic Drop: The NSA’s Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher’s dream

Just a stone’s throw from the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic ...

15 minutes
Aug 23, 2024

158. The antidote to our disinformation woes? Just a dash of fun

For years now, the Internet has trafficked in things that are more mean than fun. Disin...

31 minutes
Aug 20, 2024

157. Mic Drop: For researcher Alison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’

We talk with Unit 221B’s Allison Nixon about young cybercriminals, radicalization, and ...

17 minutes
Aug 16, 2024

156. Something different: a hacker redemption story

This isn’t your typical hacker tale. The one about boy meets computer, boy loves comput...

37 minutes
Aug 13, 2024