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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185. Mic Drop: Evelyn Farkas on Ukraine: ‘Don’t count them out’
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As Vladimir Putin says the Ukraine war is about to go global, we sat down with former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Evelyn Farkas. She's now at the McCain Institute. Farkas tells us about the mood in Ukraine during her recent trip, President-elect Trump's claim he could end the Ukraine war in 24 hours, and what's next for the world's first tru…
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184. Escape from Bamban: One man’s scam farm nightmare in the Philippines
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Back in February, Dylan went to the Philippines for what he thought would be a great Chinese Lunar New Year vacation. Then he found himself held hostage in a gang-run scamming compound. We tell one man’s story about getting out and what the Philippines is doing to shut these operations down.By Recorded Future News
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183. Mic Drop: Moore’s Law now applies to space
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Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu says Moore’s Law of computing power doesn’t just apply to chips anymore – he says it describes the exponential growth of satellite launches, too.By Recorded Future News
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182. Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone on national security threats, life after the NSA, and a possible return to government
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(November 12, 2024) A week before the election, we sat down with Ret. General Paul Nakasone and he talked about North Korea, Russian hackers, his life after the NSA and why he hasn’t ruled out taking another government job. More from our interview: https://therecord.media/nakasone-click-here-interview-north-korea-exploding-pagers-government-job…
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Recently, a lot of smart people who work on space problems gathered at the Value of Space Summit in Colorado Springs and talked to us about the things that keep them up at night. At the top of their list? Earthlings hacking satellites and speeding bits of space junk.By Recorded Future News
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180. Mic Drop Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone says reports about influence campaigns are ‘a sign of success’
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We sit down one-on-one with Retired General Paul Nakasone, the man who dreamed up the US response to the latest iteration of foreign election chicanery. He explains why he’s so confident the 2024 vote will be safe and secure.By Recorded Future News
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179. Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in Colorado Springs
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While the world was taking selfies against the colorful backdrop of solar storm auroras this past spring, officials at the Space Watch Center in Colorado Springs were searching for something more nefarious.By Recorded Future News
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178. Saving Odie: A team of space geeks, a scrappy lunar lander and today’s hackable space race
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NASA has off-loaded much of the space program onto the private sector. Companies are building space suits and moon buggies and lunar landers. We tell the story of a scrappy little lander — and how earthlings had to hack it to save it.By Recorded Future News
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177. Mic Drop: NSA’s David Luber on Russia, China and the power of partnerships
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We talk to the NSA’s Director of Cybersecurity, David Luber, about Ukraine, adversaries in cyberspace, and the importance of partnerships.By Recorded Future News
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176. Spamouflage: Is China’s best known disinformation gang taking new aim at the US?
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China’s influence campaigns look different from Russia’s. Instead of Moscow’s firehose of falsehoods, the Chinese tend to change the subject by inundating social media hashtags with content. And, Click Here has learned, their premier disinformation gang appears to be honing its skills on, among others, Florida Senator Marco Rubio. First in 2022, an…
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175. Mic Drop: Kraken CSO Nick Percoco’s unusual anti-scamming campaign
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We talk to Nick Percoco, Kraken’s chief security officer, about joining forces with a popular YouTube scambaiter.By Recorded Future News
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174. Beyond Ukraine: Russia wages low-grade, hybrid attacks on Europe
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Dozens of small acts of sabotage and arson have flared across Europe as part of Russia’s hybrid battle against the West. This week, we spoke with four experts on Europe and Russia at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC to try to make sense of the Russian campaign and what the West can do in response.…
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173. Mic Drop: Hear ye, Hear ye, the Hacker’s Court is in session
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We re-visit our conversation with Analyst1 senior researcher Jon DiMaggio about how hackers settle their disputes – think People’s Court without all the robes.By Recorded Future News
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172. Want a crypto education? A new WhatsApp scam is tailor-made just for you.
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When Stephanie joined a WhatsApp group to get advice on cryptocurrency investing, it began a wild ride that included the CEO of a large investment firm, cybercriminals half a world away, and a brush with a rag tag team of computer nerds in Alabama chasing a $5 billion problem.By Recorded Future News
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171. Mic Drop: Andrew Ferguson says AI’s introduction into the simple police report, isn’t that simple.
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In the U.S. criminal justice system, a lot of things hinge on the simple police report. As departments begin to use AI and large language model software to help cops write them, American University law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson worries people don’t understand the possible downstream effects.By Recorded Future News
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170. AI is writing police reports: Should we be worried?
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Police departments across the country are testing generative AI and large language model software to see if they can cut down on the time officers spend writing reports. But AI seems to have this way of always surprising us, and the benefits it brings to police may have nothing to do with time.By Recorded Future News
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169. Mic Drop: Election security? Slovakia’s cautionary tale
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Leaders from Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft told the Senate Intelligence Committee that they were doing all they could to combat foreign interference ahead of the November election. The senators weren't convinced.By Recorded Future News
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168. Exclusive: Senator Mark Warner on election fears and all things cyber and intelligence
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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.By Recorded Future News
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167. Mic Drop: TikTok’s day in Appeals Court
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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 from app stores. Alan Rozenshtein, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, and expert in lawfare, explains what’s at stake.…
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166. The curious case of Esma Memtimin’s disappearing TikTok videos
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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 suggests Memtimin isn’t alone — when researchers compared TikTok’s content with other similar platforms there is a mysterious dearth of posts about subjec…
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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 Edwards talks about the scam.By Recorded Future News
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164. The Hunt for FIN7: Hot on the trail of a notorious cyber gang
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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 always been so hard.By Recorded Future News
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163. Mic Drop: From banned to beloved, the Taliban’s unexpected embrace of the Internet
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Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership may have smashed TVs in the 1990s, but these days their embracing slickly-produced videos and social media influencers to try to rehab their image abroad. Afghan anthropologist Omar Sharifi unpacks whether its working.By Recorded Future News
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162. Ehtesab in Afghanistan: an app’s struggle to survive under the Taliban
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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.By Recorded Future News
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161. Mic Drop: Can ransomware be an act of terror?
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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.By Recorded Future News
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