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
108. Exclusive: FBI Director Wray talks takedown operations, nation-state hackers, and growing threats in cyberspace
FBI Director Chris Wray sat down for a rare interview with Click Here to talk about Operation Dying Ember, the uptick in nation-state hacking, and how just about everyone is now in hackers’ crosshair…
00:23:11 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
107. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘In the cockpit with AI’ from In Machines We Trust
An episode from ‘In Machines We Trust’ from MIT Technology Review.
How we train fighter pilots—both real and artificial—is undergoing a series of rapid changes. In order for these systems to be use…
00:24:50 |
Tue 20 Feb 2024
106. Facial recognition software could help solve America’s missing person problem. Why hasn’t it?
Some 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. every year. Thousands of bodies lie unclaimed and unidentified in American morgues. Facial recognition software could put a name to these faces, s…
00:28:51 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
105. Jordan’s wave of spyware infections
A report published last week by Access Now revealed that since 2019 nearly three dozen journalists, human rights officials and political activists in Jordan have had their phones infected with spywar…
00:27:24 |
Tue 06 Feb 2024
104. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us?
Today’s generative AI knows how to write, compose music, and even create works of art. But it learned to do all these things by training on data made by human creators, without asking their permissio…
00:26:52 |
Tue 30 Jan 2024
103. Dr. Dolittle never spoke whale, AI just might
Some data scientists and acoustic biologists have joined forces to see if artificial intelligence can ferret meaning out of non-human language. And one of their early subjects is a perennial favorite…
00:24:26 |
Tue 23 Jan 2024
102. Cyber Av3ngers and their unlikely targets
We take a look at the part of the Israel-Hamas war that is harder to see – the battle raging in cyberspace. Hacktivists are joining forces with Iran-backed operators to target victims with gossamer c…
00:23:42 |
Tue 16 Jan 2024
101. Bug bounties with Chinese characteristics
Vulnerabilities and exploits are the building blocks of hacking. We look at how China is flipping the script on how the world thinks about both.
00:24:22 |
Tue 09 Jan 2024
100. The 2023 cyber year in review
In a recent conversation on WAMU’s nationally syndicated news show 1A, Click Here’s Dina Temple-Raston looks back on cyber in 2023 and discusses what we might expect in the year ahead.
00:20:53 |
Tue 02 Jan 2024
99. Meet the hackers
Hackers and cybercriminals may not be so different from the rest of us after all. We talk to three real life hackers from an early dark market entrepreneur to an accidental recruit to the latest addi…
00:51:30 |
Tue 26 Dec 2023
98. Lessons from the world's first hybrid war
Ukraine is the world’s first truly hybrid war, and the battle is raging on two fronts --- on the ground and in cyberspace. What does the conflict mean for the future of war?
00:50:55 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
97. Policing Morality? There’s an app for that.
We look at the use of digital tools that have imposed an authoritarian version of morality on the masses, and the creative, inspiring way ordinary people have learned to respond.
00:49:35 |
Tue 12 Dec 2023
96. The art of decoding dictators
Dictators use bombast and bullying as a kind of malevolent calling card. Meet the people who have found surprising and creative ways around that.
00:51:30 |
Tue 05 Dec 2023
95. Reality Bytes: the URL-IRL crash
Three stories about technologies that started out doing one thing, and ended up doing quite another — from online tractors, to tasers in schools, to cellphone hackers who take their online battles in…
00:50:12 |
Tue 28 Nov 2023
94. They’re just hackers, living off the land
There’s 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 particularly scary is that unlike …
00:22:37 |
Tue 21 Nov 2023
93. Tech that allows ordinary people to make peace with wartime
If you want to know how Ukrainians are coping with the war, look at the Ukraine apps in the app store. From an air raid alert built in the first week of the invasion to a map that helps work-from-hom…
00:28:44 |
Tue 14 Nov 2023
92. Israel, Gaza and all the light you cannot see
We talk to two ordinary people who decided to tackle two extraordinary problems: identifying the thousands who went missing in Israel in the days after the October 7th attacks, and one man’s leap of …
00:29:29 |
Tue 07 Nov 2023
91. Bucha wants to be known for something else: Justice.
Bucha, a bedroom community just outside of Kyiv, is best known for enduring Russia’s atrocities during a month-long occupation in the Spring of 2022. Now the citizens of Bucha don’t want revenge, the…
00:30:12 |
Tue 31 Oct 2023
90. Saving Ukraine’s cultural heritage with a click
When a Russian bomb damaged a beloved library in the Ukrainian town of Chernihiv, locals feared that it would be lost forever. Then a cutting-edge technology came to the rescue.
00:30:47 |
Tue 24 Oct 2023
89. Exclusive: Ukraine says joint mission with U.S. derailed Moscow’s cyber attacks
We traveled to Ukraine last month to learn more about a hunt forward operation Cybercom and cyber operators from Ukraine secretly launched before the war. This is the first time the Ukrainian side of…
00:23:44 |
Tue 17 Oct 2023
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