Click Here
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
168. Exclusive: Senator Mark Warner on election fears and all things cyber and intelligence
We sat down with US Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia to talk about election interference, his recent hearing with tech execs on misinformation and disinformation, and the future of cybersecurity.
00:31:42 |
Tue 24 Sep 2024
167. Mic Drop: TikTok’s day in Appeals Court
TikTok’s lawyers were in a U.S. Court of Appeals this week trying to push back against a law that requires the popular video app to sell its American subsidiary to a non-Chinese owner or be banished …
00:11:32 |
Fri 20 Sep 2024
166. The curious case of Esma Memtimin’s disappearing TikTok videos
TikTok took down Esma Memtimin’s posts for allegedly violating the platform’s community rules even though her videos were about stickers and current events. A recent study from Rutgers University sug…
00:30:13 |
Tue 17 Sep 2024
165. Mic Drop: FIN7 is hiring
The Russian-speaking cyber gang, FIN7, has fooled red team hackers into doing their dirty work by masquerading as legitimate cybersecurity companies just looking for talent. Silent Push’s Zach Edward…
00:09:38 |
Fri 13 Sep 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 stayed just one step ahead. Threat researcher Zach Edwards lays out why bringing gangs like this to justice has…
00:33:28 |
Tue 10 Sep 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 they are embracing slickly-produced videos and social media influencers to try to rehab their image abroad. Afghan a…
00:10:38 |
Fri 06 Sep 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 Afghanistan that wanted to change the way people on the ground experienced it.
00:29:45 |
Tue 03 Sep 2024
161. Mic Drop: Can ransomware be an act of terror?
New legislation is seeking to designate some ransomware attacks as acts of terror. Former FBI agent John Riggi talks about the proposal and how it might change the battle against ransomware gangs.
00:13:16 |
Fri 30 Aug 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 receiving end of a ransomware attack. Then Ryuk put them in the crosshairs.
00:31:08 |
Tue 27 Aug 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 Museum displays dozens of rarely seen code breaking machines that, quite literally, changed the course of histor…
00:12:02 |
Fri 23 Aug 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. Disinformation, online bullying, and a general malaise are all over social media. We talk to former Stanford Internet…
00:27:41 |
Tue 20 Aug 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 the search for self in the virtual world.
00:13:34 |
Fri 16 Aug 2024
156. Something different: a hacker redemption story
This isn’t your typical hacker tale. The one about boy meets computer, boy loves computer, boy weaponizes computer to commit crimes. This is about what comes after that.
00:33:48 |
Tue 13 Aug 2024
155. Mic Drop: Researcher Nina Jankowicz on Fox News, defamation, and our new information reality
The latest on disinformation researcher Nina Jankowicz’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News — and why the Dominion Voting Machine settlement doesn’t necessarily help her case.
00:11:28 |
Fri 09 Aug 2024
154. It’s 9 o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in…
A new wave of piano scams is targeting the weakest link on the internet: humans.
00:25:43 |
Tue 06 Aug 2024
153. Mic Drop: CrowdStrike and the importance of kernels
Today, we’re talking to TJ Nelson at Recorded Future in a bid to understand how the CrowdStrike outage caused millions of computers around the world to fade to black.
00:14:20 |
Fri 02 Aug 2024
152. The curious case of Tigran Gambaryan -- a renowned cryptocurrency investigator and Binance employee now on trial in Nigeria
In a recent conversation on WAMU’s 1A news magazine, Click Here host Dina Temple-Raston discusses the latest developments in the case of former IRS investigator Tigran Gambaryan. He now works for the…
00:26:02 |
Tue 30 Jul 2024
151. Mic Drop: Embattled LockBit leader: ‘Now I want to create even more noise’
In an ancore episode of Click Here's Mic Drop, we speak with the leader of one of the most prolific ransomware-as-a-service gangs the world has ever known — LockBit. We spoke to him weeks after Opera…
00:08:50 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
150. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'The Hack' from An Arm and a Leg
The hack on Change Healthcare left hundreds, if not thousands, of providers without the ability to obtain insurance approval or payment for everything from prescriptions to surgeries, and it shed new…
00:17:35 |
Tue 23 Jul 2024
149. Mic Drop: China seeks a Great Leap Forward in cyber
Chinese hackers are stepping up their game, according to Nigel Inkster, the former director of operations for Britain’s MI6. In an encore episode of Mic Drop, he says Chinese hackers are taking on a …
00:10:24 |
Fri 19 Jul 2024
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