Podcast Episodes

This industry profits from knowing you have cancer, explains Cody Venzke

Season 5 Episode 22

On the internet, you can be shown an online ad because of your age, your address, your purchase history, your politics, your religion, and even your likelihood of having cancer.

This is because of the…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Exposing the Facebook funeral livestream scam

Season 5 Episode 21

Online scammers were seen this August stooping to a new low—abusing local funerals to steal from bereaved family and friends.

Cybercrime has never been a job of morals (calling it a “job” is already l…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

San Francisco’s fight against deepfake porn, with City Attorney David Chiu

Season 5 Episode 20

On August 15, the city of San Francisco launched an entirely new fight against the world of deepfake porn—it sued the websites that make the abusive material so easy to create.

“Deepfakes,” as they’re…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

What the arrest of Telegram's CEO means, with Eva Galperin

Season 5 Episode 19

On August 24, at an airport just outside of Paris, a man named Pavel Durov was detained for questioning by French investigators. Just days later, the same man was charged in crimes related to the dis…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Move over malware: Why one teen is more worried about AI (re-air)

Season 5 Episode 18

Every age group uses the internet a little bit differently, and it turns out for at least one Gen Z teen in the Bay Area, the classic approach to cyberecurity—defending against viruses, ransomware, w…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

AI girlfriends want to know all about you. So might ChatGPT

Season 5 Episode 17

Somewhere out there is a romantic AI chatbot that wants to know everything about you. But in a revealing overlap, other AI tools—which are developed and popularized by far larger companies in technol…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

SIEM is not storage, with Jess Dodson

Season 5 Episode 16

In the world of business cybersecurity, the powerful technology known as “Security Information and Event Management” is sometimes thwarted by the most unexpected actors—the very people setting it up.…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

How an AI “artist” stole a woman’s face, with Ali Diamond

Season 5 Episode 15

Full-time software engineer and part-time Twitch streamer Ali Diamond is used to seeing herself on screen, probably because she’s the one who turns the camera on.

But when Diamond received a Direct Me…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Busted for book club? Why cops want to see what you’re reading, with Sarah Lamdan

Season 5 Episode 14

More than 20 years ago, a law that the United States would eventually use to justify the warrantless collection of Americans’ phone call records actually started out as a warning sign against an enti…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

(Almost) everything you always wanted to know about cybersecurity, but were too afraid to ask, with Tjitske de Vries

Season 5 Episode 13

🎶 Ready to know what Malwarebytes knows?

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What is a passphrase and what makes it—what’s the word?

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Every day, countless readers, listeners, posters, an…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago