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Rebecca
Sep 9, 2024
Excellent reporting and absolutely fascinating!
Dec 27, 2023
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.
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194. A return to the musicians who came in from the cold
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Dec 24, 2024 |
193. Mic Drop: For researcher Allison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’
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Dec 20, 2024 |
192. Return to the leak that unmasked China’s hackers-for-hire
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Dec 17, 2024 |
191. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘(Ai)ding Cybercrime’ from SHIFT
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Dec 13, 2024 |
190. Return to the curious case of the disappearing TikTok videos
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Dec 10, 2024 |
189. Mic Drop: Return to Wazawaka
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Dec 06, 2024 |
188. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The Right-Wing Plan for Trump-Friendly Spies’ from In the Room with Peter Bergen
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Dec 03, 2024 |
187. Mic Drop: Crypto and the man: Prof. Lamont Black on Donald Trump’s federal bitcoin reserve
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Nov 29, 2024 |
186. Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms
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Nov 26, 2024 |
185. Mic Drop: Evelyn Farkas on Ukraine: ‘Don’t count them out’
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Nov 22, 2024 |
184. Escape from Bamban: One man’s scam farm nightmare in the Philippines
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Nov 19, 2024 |
183. Mic Drop: Moore’s Law now applies to space
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Nov 15, 2024 |
182. Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone on national security threats, life after the NSA, and a possible return to government
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Nov 12, 2024 |
181. A hacker’s final frontier — Space
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Nov 08, 2024 |
180. Mic Drop Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone says reports about influence campaigns are ‘a sign of success’
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Nov 05, 2024 |
179. Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in Colorado Springs
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Nov 01, 2024 |
178. Saving Odie: A team of space geeks, a scrappy lunar lander and today’s hackable space race
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Oct 29, 2024 |
177. Mic Drop: NSA’s David Luber on Russia, China and the power of partnerships
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Oct 25, 2024 |
176. Spamouflage: Is China’s best known disinformation gang taking new aim at the US?
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Oct 22, 2024 |
175. Mic Drop: Kraken CSO Nick Percoco’s unusual anti-scamming campaign
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Oct 18, 2024 |
174. Beyond Ukraine: Russia wages low-grade, hybrid attacks on Europe
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Oct 15, 2024 |
173. Mic Drop: Hear ye, Hear ye, the Hacker’s Court is in session
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Oct 11, 2024 |
172. Want a crypto education? A new WhatsApp scam is tailor-made just for you.
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Oct 08, 2024 |
171. Mic Drop: Andrew Ferguson says AI’s introduction into the simple police report, isn’t that simple.
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Oct 04, 2024 |
170. AI is writing police reports: Should we be worried?
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Oct 01, 2024 |
169. Mic Drop: Election security? Slovakia’s cautionary tale
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Sep 27, 2024 |
168. Exclusive: Senator Mark Warner on election fears and all things cyber and intelligence
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Sep 24, 2024 |
167. Mic Drop: TikTok’s day in Appeals Court
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Sep 20, 2024 |
166. The curious case of Esma Memtimin’s disappearing TikTok videos
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Sep 17, 2024 |
165. Mic Drop: FIN7 is hiring
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Sep 13, 2024 |
164. The Hunt for FIN7: Hot on the trail of a notorious cyber gang
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Sep 10, 2024 |
163. Mic Drop: From banned to beloved, the Taliban’s unexpected embrace of the Internet
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Sep 06, 2024 |
162. Ehtesab in Afghanistan: an app’s struggle to survive under the Taliban
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Sep 03, 2024 |
161. Mic Drop: Can ransomware be an act of terror?
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Aug 30, 2024 |
160. Anatomy of a fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story
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Aug 27, 2024 |
159. Mic Drop: The NSA’s Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher’s dream
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Aug 23, 2024 |
158. The antidote to our disinformation woes? Just a dash of fun
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Aug 20, 2024 |
157. Mic Drop: For researcher Alison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’
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Aug 16, 2024 |
156. Something different: a hacker redemption story
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Aug 13, 2024 |
155. Mic Drop: Researcher Nina Jankowicz on Fox News, defamation, and our new information reality
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Aug 09, 2024 |
154. It’s 9 o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in…
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Aug 06, 2024 |
153. Mic Drop: CrowdStrike and the importance of kernels
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Aug 02, 2024 |
152. The curious case of Tigran Gambaryan -- a renowned cryptocurrency investigator and Binance employee now on trial in Nigeria
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Jul 30, 2024 |
151. Mic Drop: Embattled LockBit leader: ‘Now I want to create even more noise’
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Jul 26, 2024 |
150. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'The Hack' from An Arm and a Leg
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Jul 23, 2024 |
149. Mic Drop: China seeks a Great Leap Forward in cyber
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Jul 19, 2024 |
148. They’re just hackers, living off the land
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Jul 16, 2024 |
147. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto
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Jul 12, 2024 |
146. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'Modi's India' from Understood
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Jul 09, 2024 |
145. Mic Drop: Could an analysis of sound help save the Jaguar in Costa Rica?
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Jul 05, 2024 |
144. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us?
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Jul 02, 2024 |
143. Mic Drop: Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins wants to change the relationship you have with information.
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Jun 28, 2024 |
142. Meet Antibot4Navalny: the mysterious researchers exposing Russia’s war on truth.
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Jun 25, 2024 |
141. Legislative solutions for deepfake abuse finally begin to take shape
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Jun 21, 2024 |
140. Are solutions to deepfake abuse finally coming into focus?
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Jun 18, 2024 |
139. Mic Drop: GhostSec’s quest for redemption: their leader claims their life of crime is over.
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Jun 14, 2024 |
138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer
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Jun 11, 2024 |
137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine
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Jun 07, 2024 |
136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist.
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Jun 04, 2024 |
135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction
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May 31, 2024 |
134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?
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May 28, 2024 |
133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI
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May 24, 2024 |
132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet.
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May 21, 2024 |
131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam?
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May 17, 2024 |
130. A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects
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May 14, 2024 |
129. Mic Drop: LockbitSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy
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May 10, 2024 |
128. Taking aim at Democracy: Russia’s Doppelgänger gang isn’t just targeting elections anymore
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May 07, 2024 |
127. Mic Drop: NSC’s Neuberger on mitigating cyber attacks: ‘We should be using an operational approach’
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May 03, 2024 |
126. The future of robotics from MIT’s "Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs Alliances" podcast
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Apr 30, 2024 |
125. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto
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Apr 26, 2024 |
124. The company man: US response to Nigeria’s detention of former IRS crypto investigator rankles federal agents
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Apr 23, 2024 |
123. Mic Drop: China seeks a Great Leap Forward in cyber
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Apr 19, 2024 |
122. The UK-US unmasked a giant Chinese cyber operation but forgot one thing: to tell many of its victims
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Apr 16, 2024 |
121. Mic Drop: A unusual peek inside a North Korean malware lab
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Apr 12, 2024 |
120. North Korea’s ScarCruft gang is behind some very crafty phishin’ campaigns
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Apr 09, 2024 |
119. Mic Drop: Could an analysis of sound help save the jaguar in Costa Rica?
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Apr 05, 2024 |
118. AI and the Holy Grail of conservation: Real-time monitoring
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Apr 02, 2024 |
117. Mic Drop: The Big Chill: Nigeria, Binance battle likely to add to economic crisis
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Mar 29, 2024 |
116. Detained execs, a bold escape, and tax evasion charges: Nigeria takes aim at Binance
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Mar 26, 2024 |
115. Mic Drop: Hear ye, Hear ye, the Hacker’s Court is in session
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Mar 22, 2024 |
114. Exclusive: LockBit ransomware leader says, ‘I felt like I was being hunted’ but they ‘can’t stop me’
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Mar 19, 2024 |
113. Mic Drop: Exclusive: Embattled LockBit leader: ‘Now I want to create even more noise’
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Mar 15, 2024 |
112. Inside the i-Soon papers and China’s secret world of hackers-for-hire
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Mar 12, 2024 |
111. Mic Drop: Arms control expert Jeffrey Lewis on North Korea’s new BFF in Moscow
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Mar 08, 2024 |
110. North Korean Missiles in Ukraine and Kim Jong-un’s new swagger
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Mar 05, 2024 |
109. Mic Drop: FBI Director Wray on the latest wave of nation-state cyber threats
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Mar 01, 2024 |
108. Exclusive: FBI Director Wray talks takedown operations, nation-state hackers, and growing threats in cyberspace
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Feb 27, 2024 |
107. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘In the cockpit with AI’ from In Machines We Trust
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Feb 20, 2024 |
106. Facial recognition software could help solve America’s missing person problem. Why hasn’t it?
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Feb 13, 2024 |
105. Jordan’s wave of spyware infections
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Feb 06, 2024 |
104. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us?
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Jan 30, 2024 |
103. Dr. Dolittle never spoke whale, AI just might
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Jan 23, 2024 |
102. Cyber Av3ngers and their unlikely targets
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Jan 16, 2024 |
101. Bug bounties with Chinese characteristics
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Jan 09, 2024 |
100. The 2023 cyber year in review
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Jan 02, 2024 |
99. Meet the hackers
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Dec 26, 2023 |
98. Lessons from the world's first hybrid war
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Dec 19, 2023 |
97. Policing Morality? There’s an app for that.
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Dec 12, 2023 |
96. The art of decoding dictators
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Dec 05, 2023 |
95. Reality Bytes: the URL-IRL crash
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Nov 28, 2023 |
94. They’re just hackers, living off the land
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Nov 21, 2023 |
93. Tech that allows ordinary people to make peace with wartime
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Nov 14, 2023 |
92. Israel, Gaza and all the light you cannot see
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Nov 07, 2023 |
91. Bucha wants to be known for something else: Justice.
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Oct 31, 2023 |
90. Saving Ukraine’s cultural heritage with a click
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Oct 24, 2023 |
89. Exclusive: Ukraine says joint mission with U.S. derailed Moscow’s cyber attacks
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Oct 17, 2023 |
88. Exclusive: Inside Ukraine’s secret drone factories
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Oct 10, 2023 |
87. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘How AI Will Turbocharge Misinformation’ from Humans vs. Machines
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Oct 03, 2023 |
86. What will Moscow do with the Wagner Group now?
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Sep 26, 2023 |
85. What Wagner Group learned from ISIS
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Sep 19, 2023 |
84. Dutch police, cyber booby traps and a dark market takedown for the ages
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Sep 12, 2023 |
83. “Ding-dong ditch” on steroids
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Sep 05, 2023 |
82. The Clop gang’s in love with a special kind of bug
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Aug 29, 2023 |
81. Ilya Sachkov v. the Kremlin
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Aug 22, 2023 |
80. Meet ChatGPT’s evil twin
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Aug 15, 2023 |
79. One woman’s Orwellian experience with disinformation
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Aug 08, 2023 |
78. Trouble in the cloud
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Aug 01, 2023 |
77. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The internet is at the bottom of the sea’ from Things That Go Boom
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Jul 25, 2023 |
76. The Mexican army’s love affair with spyware
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Jul 18, 2023 |
75. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'Life, death and AI' from Endless Thread
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Jul 11, 2023 |
74. Reality Winner and the handling of secret documents
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Jul 04, 2023 |
73. Can satellite surveillance save Sudan from itself?
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Jun 27, 2023 |
72. Exclusive: Inside an American Hunt Forward Operation in Ukraine
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Jun 20, 2023 |
71. A return to model drone pilots and Ukraine’s spring offensive
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Jun 13, 2023 |
70. An unlikely teacher: What Wagner Group learned from ISIS
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Jun 06, 2023 |
69. Wazawaka: ‘Most Wanted’ and, he says, undeterred
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May 30, 2023 |
68. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'The Slave Armies Powering a New Kind of Golden Triangle Cybercrime' from The Underworld Podcast
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May 23, 2023 |
67. Hive’s WeWork experiment — and what went wrong
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May 16, 2023 |
66. ‘Operation Cookie Monster' and the Genesis takedown
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May 09, 2023 |
65. Morality in Iraq: You should worry because there’s an app for that
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May 02, 2023 |
64. Portrait of Bassterlord as a young man
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Apr 25, 2023 |
63. Tracers on the stage: Andy Greenberg, Michael Gronager and Tigran Gambaryan talk cryptocurrency tracking
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Apr 18, 2023 |
62. How a mathematician and an entrepreneur helped law enforcement take a bite out of crypto crime
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Apr 11, 2023 |
61. Snowmen in the park and Iran’s quiet viral dissent
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Apr 04, 2023 |
60. Clear the runway: Ukraine's model pilots
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Mar 28, 2023 |
59. What the cyber war in Ukraine is teaching us
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Mar 21, 2023 |
58. Enemy of the State (Part 2) : ¿Quién es Guacamaya? (Who is Guacamaya?)
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Mar 14, 2023 |
57. Enemy of the State (Part 1): Mexico, spyware, and a secret military intelligence unit
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Mar 07, 2023 |
56. Ukraine’s drone whisperers: What the weapons are telling us
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Feb 28, 2023 |
55. Oyez, Oyez, Oyez: Twenty-six words get their day in the High Court
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Feb 21, 2023 |
54. Miss Lonelyhearts and the money mules
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Feb 14, 2023 |
53. Xi's brave new world
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Feb 07, 2023 |
52. SPECIAL FEATURE: Shoot the Messenger: Espionage, Murder & Pegasus Spyware
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Jan 31, 2023 |
51. Exclusive: Axon still wants to put Taser drones in your kid’s school
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Jan 24, 2023 |
50. LockBit Diaries: A researcher's year undercover with the world’s most dangerous ransomware gang
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Jan 17, 2023 |
49. Genshin Impact: trying to balance mass appeal with Beijing's blessing
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Jan 10, 2023 |
48. Call me crypto curious
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Jan 03, 2023 |
47. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘Summer in Caputh’ from Exile
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Dec 27, 2022 |
46. The musicians who came in from the cold
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Dec 20, 2022 |
45. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘Saving Ukrainian Cultural History Online’ from The Last Archive
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Dec 13, 2022 |
44. Throwing bricks for $$$: violence-as-a-service comes of age
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Dec 06, 2022 |
43. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ from Big Brother: North Korea's Forgotten Prince
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Nov 29, 2022 |
42. North Korea's monster fake out
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Nov 22, 2022 |
41. Rounding up a cyber posse for Ukraine
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Nov 15, 2022 |
40. Selling Vice Society: old exploits, easy targets, and the illusion of greatness
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Nov 08, 2022 |
39. Is open-source software the solution to our election woes?
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Nov 01, 2022 |
38. The Supreme Court case that could change the internet
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Oct 25, 2022 |
37. ‘Presence Matters’: Nakasone and Easterly on Ukraine, collaboration and midterm elections
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Oct 18, 2022 |
36. The hijab will never be the same
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Oct 11, 2022 |
35. Reality Winner and the handling of secret documents
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Oct 04, 2022 |
34. Ukraine’s mass graves have stories to tell
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Sep 27, 2022 |
33. Throwing bricks for $$$: violence-as-a-service comes of age
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Sep 20, 2022 |
32. The great tractor jailbreak
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Sep 13, 2022 |
31. Seagulls in the park
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Sep 06, 2022 |
30. The scariest piece of malware since Stuxnet
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Aug 30, 2022 |
29. The musicians who came in from the cold
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Aug 23, 2022 |
28. A return to Stanislav
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Aug 16, 2022 |
27. Exclusive: North Korea’s monster fake out
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Aug 09, 2022 |
26. Pegasus is listening
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Aug 02, 2022 |
25. Lapsus$ - The script kiddies are alright
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Jul 26, 2022 |
24. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment’ from Nothing is Foreign
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Jul 19, 2022 |
23. The post-Roe digital world
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Jul 12, 2022 |
22. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘NSO’ from Darknet Diaries
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Jul 05, 2022 |
21. Son of Conti
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Jun 28, 2022 |
20. North Korea’s cryptocurrency obsession
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Jun 21, 2022 |
19. Gilman Louie and the dance with wolf warriors
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Jun 14, 2022 |
18. The dog-eat-dragon world of Chinese gaming
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Jun 07, 2022 |
17. REvil and the Texas hack that changed ransomware as we know it
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May 31, 2022 |
16. Roe v. Wade in a world of digital dust
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May 24, 2022 |
15. At war with facial recognition: Clearview AI in Ukraine
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May 17, 2022 |
14. ‘Cream of the cream’: Russia’s high-tech brain drain
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May 10, 2022 |
13. Spyware and ‘a world of Bond villains’
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May 03, 2022 |
12. Lapsus$: The script kiddies are alright
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Apr 26, 2022 |
11. The entrepreneur and the Jihadist
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Apr 19, 2022 |
10. Are America’s nuclear systems so old they’re un-hackable?
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Apr 12, 2022 |
9. The rise of high-tech despotism
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Apr 05, 2022 |
8. War, sanctions and crypto’s big moment
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Mar 29, 2022 |
7. Fighting Russia with computers, not rifles
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Mar 22, 2022 |
6. 'Baggage from a severely harmed relationship'
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Mar 15, 2022 |
5. Conti leaks: the Panama Papers of ransomware
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Mar 08, 2022 |
4. 'They are fighting like lions'
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Mar 01, 2022 |
3. In touch with reality
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Feb 22, 2022 |
2. A place called darkode
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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