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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
148. They’re just hackers, living off the land
In an encore episode, we report on a specific kind of cyber attack targeting big industrial systems that is coming back into fashion: it’s called a ‘living off the land’ attack. What makes it particu…
00:19:12 |
Tue 16 Jul 2024
147. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto
Before Nigerian authorities detained two mid-level Binance executives back in February, they were telling anyone who would listen that the cryptocurrency platform was manipulating the value of its cu…
00:10:02 |
Fri 12 Jul 2024
146. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'Modi's India' from Understood
In the latest season of Understood from CBC, Mumbai-based journalist Salimah Shivji examines how Modi went from being barred from the US, to becoming one of the most powerful men in the world.
Ab…
00:34:16 |
Tue 09 Jul 2024
145. Mic Drop: Could an analysis of sound help save the Jaguar in Costa Rica?
From an encore episode of Mic Drop. Everyone is talking about the power of Al in conservation, but a professor at Arizona State University has found an even simpler, more elegant solution — and all y…
00:11:26 |
Fri 05 Jul 2024
144. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us?
In an encore episode, we look at the tension between AI and the work of humans from which it learns. Media companies like the New York Times and a roster of authors and artists have sued some of the …
00:23:57 |
Tue 02 Jul 2024
143. Mic Drop: Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins wants to change the relationship you have with information.
Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins has been working with young people not just to show them how to sort fact from fiction, but to give them a reason to believe that truth can still empower the weak and…
00:09:20 |
Fri 28 Jun 2024
142. Meet Antibot4Navalny: the mysterious researchers exposing Russia’s war on truth.
Antibot4Navalny is a small but mighty group of anonymous researchers calling out Russian disinformation — and punching way above their weight.
00:26:45 |
Tue 25 Jun 2024
141. Legislative solutions for deepfake abuse finally begin to take shape
Omny Miranda Martone has been working with a handful of Washington lawmakers for more than a year on legislation that would put an end to the impunity of deepfake abuse. The bill, known as the Defian…
00:07:57 |
Fri 21 Jun 2024
140. Are solutions to deepfake abuse finally coming into focus?
After years of shouting into the wind about deepfakes and deepfake porn, we take a look at some possible solutions that offer not just deterrence but accountability. Plus, something we rarely see the…
00:25:31 |
Tue 18 Jun 2024
139. Mic Drop: GhostSec’s quest for redemption: their leader claims their life of crime is over.
The GhostSec hacktivist group used to be known for its cyberattacks against terrorist groups like ISIS. Then, last year, the group took an unexpected turn — it created GhostLocker and began launching…
00:08:23 |
Fri 14 Jun 2024
138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer
Infostealers commit close to the perfect crime. They sneak into your computer, grab your logins, passwords, and anything of value, and then delete themselves on the way out — victims don’t even know …
00:28:40 |
Tue 11 Jun 2024
137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine
As Russian forces zero in on Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, drones are among the weapons that are coming to the rescue. We went to a secret drone academy where Ukraine is training its drone …
00:10:07 |
Fri 07 Jun 2024
136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist.
A hacktivist group called the Belarusian Cyber Partisans rocked Belarus when it hacked into government servers and released secret police files and government wiretaps – the kinds of hacks we’re used…
00:27:44 |
Tue 04 Jun 2024
135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction
Oren Etzioni used to be one of those AI optimists. Now, not so much. In fact, he’s so worried about AI-manipulated content, he created a non-profit, TrueMedia.org, to help ordinary people sort AI fac…
00:08:42 |
Fri 31 May 2024
134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?
US adversaries are on a propaganda offensive around the world. Earlier this month, the Council on Foreign Relations in DC convened a discussion about the changing landscape of disinformation campaign…
00:26:54 |
Tue 28 May 2024
133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI
When the Hoover Institution’s director of war gaming, Jackie Schneider, started organizing war simulations more than a decade ago, she assumed that participants would respond to cyber attacks the sam…
00:14:39 |
Fri 24 May 2024
132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet.
When North Korea hacked Alejandro Caceres, he expected the U.S. government to rush to his defense. When they just shrugged, he took matters into his own hands.
00:27:16 |
Tue 21 May 2024
131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam?
On the battlefields of Ukraine, Russia has become very adapt at electronic warfare — both jamming GPS satellites and spoofing satellite signals. We explain how it works and its ripple effects beyond …
00:07:48 |
Fri 17 May 2024
130. A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects
A story about satellites, electronic warfare, and a team of American techies who MacGyver-ed a way to keep the power flowing in Ukraine.
00:23:12 |
Tue 14 May 2024
129. Mic Drop: LockbitSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy
In an interview, LockbitSupp, head of the Lockbit cybercrime operation, told us that the U.S., U.K. and Australia have the wrong guy — he’s not Dmitry Khoroshev, the 31-year-old Russian national they…
00:09:45 |
Fri 10 May 2024
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