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13. Spyware and ‘a world of Bond villains’
Ron Deibert founded The Citizen Lab, a high-tech human rights watchdog at the University of Toronto. He's concerned the Internet could unleash our da…
4 years, 2 months ago
12. Lapsus$: The script kiddies are alright
How a new cyber extortion team called LAPSUS$ managed to convince the world that it had turned low-tech hacking operations into high impact heists. A…
4 years, 2 months ago
11. The entrepreneur and the Jihadist
A Los Angeles tech entrepreneur reveals for the first time the role he played in bringing one of the world’s deadliest hackers to justice. And the fo…
4 years, 2 months ago
10. Are America’s nuclear systems so old they’re un-hackable?
In its latest defense budget, the Biden Administration has asked Congress to fund the modernization of America’s nuclear weapons systems.The current …
4 years, 2 months ago
9. The rise of high-tech despotism
Noura Al-Jizawi thought she’d left the repression of the Assad regime behind her when she left Syria with her sister. Instead she became the target o…
4 years, 2 months ago
8. War, sanctions and crypto’s big moment
As sanctions squeeze the Russian economy, ordinary Russians are having to navigate a financial system in mid-collapse. For some, the solution has bee…
4 years, 3 months ago
7. Fighting Russia with computers, not rifles
A volunteer army made up of thousands of IT professionals from around the world is seeking to fight Russia in cyberspace. We talk to some of its memb…
4 years, 3 months ago
6. ‘Baggage from a severely harmed relationship’
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman explains how we – in a few short years – went from a controversial phone call between an American president and Ukrainian …
4 years, 3 months ago
5. Conti leaks: the Panama Papers of ransomware
Not long after the Conti ransomware group threw its weight behind Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine someone leaked two years’ of its interna…
4 years, 3 months ago
4. 'They are fighting like lions'
The most surprising thing about the Russian invasion of Ukraine – aside from the invasion itself – is how small a role cyber operations have played t…
4 years, 4 months ago