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.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman explains how we – in a few short years – went from a controversial phone call between an American president and Ukrainian leader to the largest territorial aggression in Europe since WWII. Plus, Ukraine’s all volunteer IT Army. SHOW NOTES: Here, Right Matters The Day After Russia Attacks America Must Do More to Help Ukraine Fight Russia Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Not long after the Conti ransomware group threw its weight behind Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine someone leaked two years’ of its internal chat logs. What they’ve revealed has rocked the cyber world and made clear that running a world-class ransomware operation isn’t as easy as it used to be. Plus, a new look at information warfare with author Amy Zegart. SHOW NOTES: Conti ransomware gang chats leaked by pro-Ukraine member Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
The most surprising thing about the Russian invasion of Ukraine – aside from the invasion itself – is how small a role cyber operations have played to this point. That’s likely to change. Plus the administration’s unusual weapon against misinformation campaigns: declassifying intelligence. SHOW NOTES: Russia appears to deploy digital defenses after DDoS attacks Biden: U.S. ‘prepared to respond’ to Russian cyberattacks as invasion of Ukraine continues Russia or Ukraine: Hacking groups take sides ...
In a rare interview, Click Here catches up with former NSA contractor Reality Winner. Back in 2017, she leaked a five-page classified document to journalists that showed how Russia tried to interfere in the 2016 elections. She went to prison for it and talks at length about why she did what she did and how it so spectacularly backfired. And a chat with the head of the internet watchdog, Netblocks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Ryan Green helped start one of the largest English-language dark markets in the world: Darkode. He takes us behind-the-scenes of how it started, how it ended, and how it managed to come back again. Plus, we look at a Russian misinformation re-tread. SHOW NOTES: CBS NEWS: How authorities infiltrate the Internet underworld Department of Justice announcement on Darkode’s takedown Russian 2014 fake news story Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Our first episode is an origin story. Ransomware-as-a-service got its start in an unlikely place: Texas. We tell the story of how a Russian cyber gang called REvil went toe-to-toe with a bunch of Texas towns and emerged with a new business model. SHOW NOTES: An interview with REvil’s Unknown Surveillance video of REvil's hacks Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
It seems like we hear about new cyberattacks almost every day. The targets used to be just big companies and government agencies. Now they are focused on you. Every Tuesday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston dives deep into the world of cyber and intelligence. You’ll hear stories about everything from ransomware to misinformation to the people shaping the cyber world, from hacking masterminds to the people who try to stop them. Click Here. Produced by The Record Media Le...
