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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
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 gath…
00:43:08 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
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 b…
00:18:28 |
Fri 29 Nov 2024
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…
00:25:35 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
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 mo…
00:16:32 |
Fri 22 Nov 2024
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 m…
00:29:26 |
Tue 19 Nov 2024
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.
00:09:58 |
Fri 15 Nov 2024
182. Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone on national security threats, life after the NSA, and a possible return to government
(November 12, 2024)
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 takin…
00:29:43 |
Tue 12 Nov 2024
181. A hacker’s final frontier — Space
Recently, a lot of smart people who work on space problems gathered at the Value of Space Summit in Colorado Springs and talked to us about the things that keep them up at night. At the top of their …
00:19:44 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
180. Mic Drop Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone says reports about influence campaigns are ‘a sign of success’
We sit down one-on-one with Retired General Paul Nakasone, the man who dreamed up the US response to the latest iteration of foreign election chicanery. He explains why he’s so confident the 2024 vot…
00:18:39 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
179. Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in Colorado Springs
While the world was taking selfies against the colorful backdrop of solar storm auroras this past spring, officials at the Space Watch Center in Colorado Springs were searching for something more nef…
00:11:06 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
178. Saving Odie: A team of space geeks, a scrappy lunar lander and today’s hackable space race
NASA has off-loaded much of the space program onto the private sector. Companies are building space suits and moon buggies and lunar landers. We tell the story of a scrappy little lander — and how ea…
00:22:44 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
177. Mic Drop: NSA’s David Luber on Russia, China and the power of partnerships
We talk to the NSA’s Director of Cybersecurity, David Luber, about Ukraine, adversaries in cyberspace, and the importance of partnerships.
00:12:01 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
176. Spamouflage: Is China’s best known disinformation gang taking new aim at the US?
China’s influence campaigns look different from Russia’s. Instead of Moscow’s firehose of falsehoods, the Chinese tend to change the subject by inundating social media hashtags with content. And, Cli…
00:20:47 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
175. Mic Drop: Kraken CSO Nick Percoco’s unusual anti-scamming campaign
We talk to Nick Percoco, Kraken’s chief security officer, about joining forces with a popular YouTube scambaiter.
00:08:44 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
174. Beyond Ukraine: Russia wages low-grade, hybrid attacks on Europe
Dozens of small acts of sabotage and arson have flared across Europe as part of Russia’s hybrid battle against the West. This week, we spoke with four experts on Europe and Russia at the Council on F…
00:26:21 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
173. Mic Drop: Hear ye, Hear ye, the Hacker’s Court is in session
We re-visit our conversation with Analyst1 senior researcher Jon DiMaggio about how hackers settle their disputes – think People’s Court without all the robes.
00:11:13 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
172. Want a crypto education? A new WhatsApp scam is tailor-made just for you.
When Stephanie joined a WhatsApp group to get advice on cryptocurrency investing, it began a wild ride that included the CEO of a large investment firm, cybercriminals half a world away, and a brush …
00:23:53 |
Tue 08 Oct 2024
171. Mic Drop: Andrew Ferguson says AI’s introduction into the simple police report, isn’t that simple.
In the U.S. criminal justice system, a lot of things hinge on the simple police report. As departments begin to use AI and large language model software to help cops write them, American University l…
00:12:07 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
170. AI is writing police reports: Should we be worried?
Police departments across the country are testing generative AI and large language model software to see if they can cut down on the time officers spend writing reports. But AI seems to have this way…
00:30:13 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
169. Mic Drop: Election security? Slovakia’s cautionary tale
Leaders from Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft told the Senate Intelligence Committee that they were doing all they could to combat foreign interference ahead of the November election. The senators weren'…
00:12:31 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
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