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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
48. Call me crypto curious
We take a deep dive into a corner of the cryptocurrency economy that hasn’t (completely) tanked yet: Bitcoin mining. It is part cryptography, part math, and part luck.
00:21:27 |
Tue 03 Jan 2023
47. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘Summer in Caputh’ from Exile
An episode from “Exile” from the Leo Baeck Institute and Antica Productions. At the height of his fame, a shirtless, barefooted Albert Einstein escapes the bustle of Berlin for a simpler life. The be…
00:30:20 |
Tue 27 Dec 2022
46. 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…
00:22:54 |
Tue 20 Dec 2022
45. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘Saving Ukrainian Cultural History Online’ from The Last Archive
Sharing a special episode of another podcast, The Last Archive, a show about the history of truth -- or the lack thereof. Harvard historian Jill Lepore uncovers the secrets of the past the way a dete…
00:14:19 |
Tue 13 Dec 2022
44. Throwing bricks for $$$: violence-as-a-service comes of age
We go back to an episode we did earlier this year about a gang of SIM swappers who are behind something called violence-as-a-service. Doxing or defacing websites, they told us, just doesn’t send enou…
00:19:24 |
Tue 06 Dec 2022
43. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ from Big Brother: North Korea's Forgotten Prince
“Big Brother: North Korea's Forgotten Prince” from School of Humans and iHeartPodcasts introduce you to the person who should have been North Korea’s leader – had he not been on the receiving end of …
00:39:49 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
42. North Korea's monster fake out
North Korea has launched an unprecedented number of missiles this month. So we bring you an encore episode about a team of researchers using open-source intelligence to track the hermit kingdom's nuc…
00:31:31 |
Tue 22 Nov 2022
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 th…
00:27:24 |
Tue 15 Nov 2022
40. Selling Vice Society: old exploits, easy targets, and the illusion of greatness
Vice Society burst on the ransomware scene in early 2021, attacking a roster of government offices, hospitals and, notoriously, schools. But cybersecurity experts say the group isn't your typical ran…
00:19:15 |
Tue 08 Nov 2022
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 rest…
00:22:04 |
Tue 01 Nov 2022
38. The Supreme Court case that could change the internet
Nohemi Gonzalez was killed in the 2015 ISIS attacks in Paris and now is at the heart of a Supreme Court case that will reconsider a 1995 law that shields social media companies from liability. Gonzal…
00:21:05 |
Tue 25 Oct 2022
37. ‘Presence Matters’: Nakasone and Easterly on Ukraine, collaboration and midterm elections
The head of NSA and Cybercom Gen. Paul Nakasone and CISA director Jen Easterly came to the Council on Foreign Relations last week for a rare sit-down interview. They talked about hunt teams in Ukrain…
00:21:38 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
36. The hijab will never be the same
The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in Iran has ignited the most powerful protests the country has seen in years. In addition to violence, authorities have responded with a host of new tools to thro…
00:25:56 |
Tue 11 Oct 2022
35. Reality Winner and the handling of secret documents
As the wrangling continues over classified documents former President Trump took to his Florida home, we take a second look at the case of Reality Winner, the NSA contractor who served time in prison…
00:21:55 |
Tue 04 Oct 2022
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 …
00:27:16 |
Tue 27 Sep 2022
33. Throwing bricks for $$$: violence-as-a-service comes of age
Young people who have been making millions hacking mobile phones — known as SIM swappers — have found a new way to intimidate and harass their rivals. They call it “violence-as-a-service” or “IRL job…
00:19:38 |
Tue 20 Sep 2022
32. The great tractor jailbreak
The talk of DEF CON 2022 was the handiwork of a white hat hacker named Sick Codes. On stage, he demonstrated how he broke the digital locks of a John Deere tractor. He did it with such ease, it made …
00:24:35 |
Tue 13 Sep 2022
31. Seagulls in the park
Hydra was a darknet superstore. It started out as an online illegal drug site and morphed into a billion-dollar business with codes of conduct, customer support, and legal and medical services. It ha…
00:21:20 |
Tue 06 Sep 2022
30. The scariest piece of malware since Stuxnet
Back in April, cybersecurity officials discovered the notorious “Industroyer” malware in the Ukrainian electrical grid. It might have been the scariest infrastructure hack since malware destroyed cen…
00:24:40 |
Tue 30 Aug 2022
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 Unio…
00:30:17 |
Tue 23 Aug 2022
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