Episodios

  • 138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer

    138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer
    Jun 11 2024
    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 they’ve been robbed. We talk to the alleged co-founder of the Meduza infostealer and to some of the people intent on stopping this kind of attack.
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    32 m
  • 137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine

    137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine
    Jun 7 2024
    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 operators to help fend off the Russians while Ukraine awaits new arms from the U.S.
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    14 m
  • 136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist.

    136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist.
    Jun 4 2024
    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 to seeing by nation-states. They represent the changing face of hacktivism. Some hacktivists are becoming more professional, while others are falling prey to darker forces.
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    31 m
  • 135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction

    135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction
    May 31 2024
    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 fact from fiction.
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    12 m
  • 134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?

    134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?
    May 28 2024
    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 campaigns with James Rubin, special envoy at the Global Engagement Center at the State Department, Jon Bateman from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Anne Applebaum, a staff writer at The Atlantic. CLICK HERE moderated the conversation, and here are some highlights.
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    31 m
  • 133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI

    133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI
    May 24 2024
    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 same way they responded to traditional weapons of war – but it turns out that couldn’t be farther from the truth.
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    18 m
  • 132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet.

    132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet.
    May 21 2024
    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.
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    31 m
  • 131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam?

    131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam?
    May 17 2024
    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 the front lines.
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    12 m