50. LockBit Diaries: A researcher's year undercover with the world’s most dangerous ransomware gang

Vulnerabilities and exploits are the building blocks of hacking. We look at how China is flipping the script on how the world thinks about both. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

9 Tammi 202424min

In a recent conversation on WAMU’s nationally syndicated news show 1A, Click Here’s Dina Temple-Raston looks back on cyber in 2023 and discusses what we might expect in the year ahead. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

2 Tammi 202420min

Hackers and cybercriminals may not be so different from the rest of us after all. We talk to three real life hackers from an early dark market entrepreneur to an accidental recruit to the latest addition to the FBI’s most wanted list. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

26 Joulu 202351min

Ukraine is the world’s first truly hybrid war, and the battle is raging on two fronts --- on the ground and in cyberspace. What does the conflict mean for the future of war? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

19 Joulu 202350min

We look at the use of digital tools that have imposed an authoritarian version of morality on the masses, and the creative, inspiring way ordinary people have learned to respond. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

12 Joulu 202349min

Dictators use bombast and bullying as a kind of malevolent calling card. Meet the people who have found surprising and creative ways around that. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

5 Joulu 202351min

Three stories about technologies that started out doing one thing, and ended up doing quite another — from online tractors, to tasers in schools, to cellphone hackers who take their online battles into the real world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

28 Marras 202350min

There’s a specific kind of cyber attack targeting big industrial systems that is coming back into fashion: it’s called a ‘living off the land’ attack. What makes it particularly scary is that unlike traditional attacks in which bad actors break into a system and plant malicious code, in living off the land attacks, there’s nothing to find — bad actors leverage what’s already in the network. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

21 Marras 202322min