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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A look into the brain and those pesky emotions Cover art photo provided by Daniel Hjalmarsson on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@artic_studios
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Once again, Tony Sheng finds himself without a job. This time, he wants to get it right. There are millions of things you could do, but you can only ever do one of those things at a time. It’s not fair. How do you find what you’re really meant to do? So instead of getting a job, he is starting a podcast to find out what everybody else is doing. And whether he should do it too. Honest and playful, Click Here To Apply is a weekly opportunity for Tony to catch up with the most interesting peopl ...
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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.Από τον 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.Από τον Recorded Future News
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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.Από τον 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.Από τον Recorded Future News
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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.Από τον Recorded Future News
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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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We talk to Nick Percoco, Kraken’s chief security officer, about joining forces with a popular YouTube scambaiter.Από τον Recorded Future News
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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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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.Από τον Recorded Future News
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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.Από τον 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.Από τον Recorded Future News
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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.Από τον Recorded Future News
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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.Από τον Recorded Future News
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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.Από τον Recorded Future News
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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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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.Από τον Recorded Future News
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