14. ‘Cream of the cream’: Russia’s high-tech brain drain

Recently, the US sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity company and one of its employees who compromised tens of thousands of firewalls worldwide, with potentially deadly consequences. All of this could sound a little familiar to regular listeners. Earlier this year, CLICK HERE reported on a huge leak of internal documents from a private cybersecurity company that pulled back the curtain on the secret world of China’s hacker-for-hire network. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

17 Joulu 202422min

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 weaponized in the future. The SHIFT podcast talks to Lee Klarich, the chief product officer at Palo Alto Networks, about how AI is both helping and hurting cybersecurity.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

13 Joulu 202412min

TikTok took down Esma Memtimin’s posts for allegedly violating the platform’s community rules, even though her videos were about little more than stickers and some current events. Just days after TikTok’s Chinese parent company asked a federal court to put a temporary hold on a law that would require ByteDance to sell the app or face a ban in this country, we go back to an episode we did this fall about a mysterious dearth of TikTok posts about subjects Beijing doesn’t like. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

10 Joulu 202426min

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 authorities allegedly jailed him late last week — though we saw he was back online a short time later. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

6 Joulu 202419min

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 White House will likely mean for intelligence gathering as we know it – and whether the conservative Project 2025 will turn out to be the new intelligence gathering playbook. This story was originally released before the November election. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

3 Joulu 202443min

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 newfound interest means “the man" may be adding bitcoin to the federal reserve. We ask DePaul University professor and former Fed economist Lamont Black what will the digital currency do now?More from our interview:https://therecord.media/trump-cryptocurrency-reserve-depaul-lamont-black Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

29 Marras 202418min

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 years later, Serhii is a soldier and Radio ROKS has taken on a whole new role, too. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

26 Marras 202425min

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 the McCain Institute. Farkas tells us about the mood in Ukraine during her recent trip, President-elect Trump's claim he could end the Ukraine war in 24 hours, and what's next for the world's first truly hybrid war. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

22 Marras 202416min