134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?
US adversaries are on a propaganda offensive around the world. Earlier this month, the Council on Foreign Relations in DC convened a discussion about the changing landscape of disinformation campaigns with James Rubin, special envoy at the Global Engagement Center at the State Department, Jon Bateman from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Anne Applebaum, a staff writer at The Atlantic. CLICK HERE moderated the conversation, and here are some highlights. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
28 Touko 202426min
133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI
When the Hoover Institution’s director of war gaming, Jackie Schneider, started organizing war simulations more than a decade ago, she assumed that participants would respond to cyber attacks the same way they responded to traditional weapons of war – but it turns out that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
24 Touko 202414min
132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet.
When North Korea hacked Alejandro Caceres, he expected the U.S. government to rush to his defense. When they just shrugged, he took matters into his own hands. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
21 Touko 202427min
131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam?
On the battlefields of Ukraine, Russia has become very adapt at electronic warfare — both jamming GPS satellites and spoofing satellite signals. We explain how it works and its ripple effects beyond the front lines. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
17 Touko 20247min
130. A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects
A story about satellites, electronic warfare, and a team of American techies who MacGyver-ed a way to keep the power flowing in Ukraine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
14 Touko 202423min
129. Mic Drop: LockbitSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy
In an interview, LockbitSupp, head of the Lockbit cybercrime operation, told us that the U.S., U.K. and Australia have the wrong guy — he’s not Dmitry Khoroshev, the 31-year-old Russian national they’ve charged with hacking. What’s more, he says more attacks are coming. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
10 Touko 20249min
128. Taking aim at Democracy: Russia’s Doppelgänger gang isn’t just targeting elections anymore
In a year that could bring a perfect storm of disinformation, meet Doppelgänger, a Russian-backed group seeking not just to shake up the world’s elections, but its institutions too. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
7 Touko 202425min
127. Mic Drop: NSC’s Neuberger on mitigating cyber attacks: ‘We should be using an operational approach’
The White House’s top cyber official is keen to set minimum cybersecurity standards for industry, put contingencies in place in case cyberattacks are successful, and start looping ordinary people into an effort to make products secure by design. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
3 Touko 20249min
