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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.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 269
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
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 f…
00:26:33 |
Tue 10 Oct 2023
87. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘How AI Will Turbocharge Misinformation’ from Humans vs. Machines
An episode from “Humans vs. Machines” from Aventine Research Institute and Pineapple Street Studios.
Misinformation has influenced elections, ruined reputations and fundamentally changed society’s …
00:26:36 |
Tue 03 Oct 2023
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: wh…
00:26:44 |
Tue 26 Sep 2023
85. What Wagner Group learned from ISIS
Back in August, the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was killed in a fiery plane crash. So we decided to revisit an episode we did a few months ago about the Wagner group and how it rec…
00:27:50 |
Tue 19 Sep 2023
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.
00:28:09 |
Tue 12 Sep 2023
83. “Ding-dong ditch” on steroids
Remember ding-dong ditch? You and your friends rang a doorbell and then ran away? These days the prank of choice among the young cyber set is something called swatting: calling the police with a hoax…
00:28:28 |
Tue 05 Sep 2023
82. The Clop gang’s in love with a special kind of bug
Back in May, a Russian-speaking cyber gang named Clop broke into MOVEit, a little-known file transfer program. They managed to steal data from some 60 million people (and counting). While the scale o…
00:24:00 |
Tue 29 Aug 2023
81. Ilya Sachkov v. the Kremlin
Ilya Sachkov co-founded the cybersecurity company Group-IB to make the world safe from Russian-speaking cybercriminals. Then he asked Russian authorities to help round them up, and things went specta…
00:28:41 |
Tue 22 Aug 2023
80. Meet ChatGPT’s evil twin
Wave “goodbye” to those pesky emails from Nigerian princes and say “hello” to the latest generation of AI enabled email scamming. It’s smarter, faster and, by the way, looks like it’s coming from you…
00:23:42 |
Tue 15 Aug 2023
79. One woman’s Orwellian experience with disinformation
We look at an American disinformation campaign that makes clear online abuse directed at women goes far beyond a couple of mean tweets. And, an update on a Syrian activist who was on the receiving en…
00:25:30 |
Tue 08 Aug 2023
78. Trouble in the cloud
Putting your data in the cloud used to be seen as the gold standard of information security. Why have your small IT team protect your data when the experts at Microsoft or Google or AWS can do it ins…
00:18:11 |
Tue 01 Aug 2023
77. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The internet is at the bottom of the sea’ from Things That Go Boom
This week, we share an episode from PRX and Inkstick Media’s “Things that Go Boom” podcast about the thousands of miles of fiber optic cable lying at the bottom of the sea. Some 95 percent of the wor…
00:39:33 |
Tue 25 Jul 2023
76. The Mexican army’s love affair with spyware
Since our story on spyware in Mexico aired back in March, researchers have discovered a roster of Pegasus spyware infections on the phones of local journalists, activists, and even officials within t…
00:24:58 |
Tue 18 Jul 2023
75. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'Life, death and AI' from Endless Thread
From WBUR's “Endless Thread" podcast, a story on a growing segment of artificial intelligence: immortalizing the dead through predictive AI text and how bots can help us understand grief.
00:34:20 |
Tue 11 Jul 2023
74. Reality Winner and the handling of secret documents
We revisit a sit-down interview we had with NSA contractor Reality Winner shortly after she spent 4 years in prison for passing a single classified document to a reporter. Given all the focus on clas…
00:22:22 |
Tue 04 Jul 2023
73. Can satellite surveillance save Sudan from itself?
Two decades after Arab militias first torched villages and killed hundreds of thousands of people in West Darfur, violence has returned to the region. We tell the story of one group of researchers wh…
00:28:17 |
Tue 27 Jun 2023
72. Exclusive: Inside an American Hunt Forward Operation in Ukraine
We go behind the scenes of U.S. Cyber Command’s Hunt Forward Operation in Ukraine. We interviewed half a dozen American cyber warriors who were on the ground in Kyiv, and they provide new details abo…
00:28:49 |
Tue 20 Jun 2023
71. A return to model drone pilots and Ukraine’s spring offensive
As Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive begins, we revisit a story we did last winter about some unusual Ukrainian women training to become part of the nation’s Army of Drones.
00:19:08 |
Tue 13 Jun 2023
70. An unlikely teacher: What Wagner Group learned from ISIS
The Russian private army known as the Wagner Group is trying to persuade young men to join the fight in Ukraine. Their online recruitment efforts don’t just hint at the future of modern warfare: they…
00:26:53 |
Tue 06 Jun 2023
69. Wazawaka: ‘Most Wanted’ and, he says, undeterred
This month, the FBI added Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev to their Most Wanted hacker list for his alleged role in a number of ransomware attacks against U.S. targets. In a rare interview shortly after the…
00:21:40 |
Tue 30 May 2023
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