Podcast Episodes

193. Mic Drop: For researcher Allison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’

We return to a conversation we had over the summer with Unit 221B’s Allison Nixon about young cybercriminals, radicalization, and the search for self…

1 year, 6 months ago

192. Return to the leak that unmasked China’s hackers-for-hire

Recently, the US sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity company and one of its employees who compromised tens of thousands of firewalls worldwide, with p…

1 year, 6 months ago

191. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘(Ai)ding Cybercrime’ from SHIFT

An episode of ‘SHIFT’ from PRX:

AI is being integrated into our technologies at warp speed, but we are only starting to consider how it could be weapo…

1 year, 6 months ago

190. Return to the curious case of the disappearing TikTok videos

TikTok took down Esma Memtimin’s posts for allegedly violating the platform’s community rules, even though her videos were about little more than sti…

1 year, 6 months ago

189. Mic Drop: Return to Wazawaka

We return to an earlier interview we had with Wazawaka, a Russian hacker who, in late 2023, was added to the FBI’s Cyber Most Wanted List. Russian au…

1 year, 6 months ago

188. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The Right-Wing Plan for Trump-Friendly Spies’ from In the Room with Peter Bergen

An episode from In the Room with Peter Bergen. 

Longtime national security analyst Peter Bergen looks at what President-elect Trump’s return to the Wh…

1 year, 7 months ago

187. Mic Drop: Crypto and the man: Prof. Lamont Black on Donald Trump’s federal bitcoin reserve

Crypto was envisioned as the ultimate democratic currency, the thing that allowed you to buy things without “the man.” But, now the president-elect’s…

1 year, 7 months ago

186. Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms

Before the invasion of Ukraine, Serhii Zenin was the host of one of the nation’s most popular hard rock radio shows on Radio ROKS 103.6. Some three y…

1 year, 7 months ago

185. Mic Drop: Evelyn Farkas on Ukraine: ‘Don’t count them out’

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 …

1 year, 7 months ago

184. Escape from Bamban: One man’s scam farm nightmare in the Philippines

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 host…

1 year, 7 months ago