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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
- 268
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
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.
00:24:36 |
Tue 09 Aug 2022
26. Pegasus is listening
Carine Kanimba’s father may be one of the most famous Rwandans on earth – Paul Rusesabagina. He was the manager of the Hôtel des Mille Collines, and he sheltered more than 1,200 Rwandans during the 1…
00:21:38 |
Tue 02 Aug 2022
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 …
00:24:37 |
Tue 26 Jul 2022
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.
00:27:01 |
Tue 19 Jul 2022
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 controve…
00:20:27 |
Tue 12 Jul 2022
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 in…
01:09:28 |
Tue 05 Jul 2022
21. Son of Conti
The Conti ransomware group appeared to be on ropes earlier this year when its internal chat logs went public –revealing the inner workings of a hacking cartel. Then, the gang surprised everyone by la…
00:20:03 |
Tue 28 Jun 2022
20. North Korea’s cryptocurrency obsession
For years, North Korea was known for making such a perfect counterfeit hundred-dollar note, the Treasury Department had to change how it printed them. Now, North Korea is all about crypto – and it ha…
00:23:08 |
Tue 21 Jun 2022
19. Gilman Louie and the dance with wolf warriors
In a wide-ranging conversation on the fringes of this month’s RSA Conference, we sat down with Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board member Gilman Louie. We t…
00:28:16 |
Tue 14 Jun 2022
18. The dog-eat-dragon world of Chinese gaming
Genshin Impact put the Chinese video gaming industry on the map. But while the game has delighted players, it begs the question: Can China’s Communist Party and a massively popular video game peacefu…
00:23:58 |
Tue 07 Jun 2022
17. REvil and the Texas hack that changed ransomware as we know it
An encore performance of the Click Here pilot episode on REvil and how it landed on a new business model. It happened in an unlikely place: Texas.
00:25:18 |
Tue 31 May 2022
16. Roe v. Wade in a world of digital dust
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 cellp…
00:22:48 |
Tue 24 May 2022
15. At war with facial recognition: Clearview AI in Ukraine
Facial recognition technology is changing the war in Ukraine. It is finding infiltrators, providing evidence for war crimes and, more darkly, providing fodder for propaganda. We talk to Clearview AI’…
00:24:37 |
Tue 17 May 2022
14. ‘Cream of the cream’: Russia’s high-tech brain drain
Tech entrepreneurs and developers are fleeing Putin’s Russia in droves. Meet three members of the exodus: a young successful entrepreneur… a corporate manager… and a high-school computer whiz who can…
00:27:20 |
Tue 10 May 2022
13. Spyware and ‘a world of Bond villains’
Ron Deibert founded The Citizen Lab, a high-tech human rights watchdog at the University of Toronto. He's concerned the Internet could unleash our darkest angels. Now, he has an even bigger worry: sp…
00:21:28 |
Tue 03 May 2022
12. Lapsus$: The script kiddies are alright
How a new cyber extortion team called LAPSUS$ managed to convince the world that it had turned low-tech hacking operations into high impact heists. And two high-schoolers who tinkered with a punch ca…
00:24:51 |
Tue 26 Apr 2022
11. The entrepreneur and the Jihadist
A Los Angeles tech entrepreneur reveals for the first time the role he played in bringing one of the world’s deadliest hackers to justice. And the founder of Craigslist talks about his effort to buil…
00:23:32 |
Tue 19 Apr 2022
10. Are America’s nuclear systems so old they’re un-hackable?
In its latest defense budget, the Biden Administration has asked Congress to fund the modernization of America’s nuclear weapons systems.The current system – that until recently was still using eight…
00:23:55 |
Tue 12 Apr 2022
9. The rise of high-tech despotism
Noura Al-Jizawi thought she’d left the repression of the Assad regime behind her when she left Syria with her sister. Instead she became the target of an online subversion campaign. Plus, we meet the…
00:26:38 |
Tue 05 Apr 2022
8. War, sanctions and crypto’s big moment
As sanctions squeeze the Russian economy, ordinary Russians are having to navigate a financial system in mid-collapse. For some, the solution has been cryptocurrencies. We talk to a small businessman…
00:20:53 |
Tue 29 Mar 2022
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