Mic Drop: Elon Musk, come and get your space junk.

The latest on disinformation researcher Nina Jankowicz’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News — and why the Dominion Voting Machine settlement doesn’t necessarily help her case. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

9 Elo 202411min

A new wave of piano scams is targeting the weakest link on the internet: humans. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

6 Elo 202425min

Today, we’re talking to TJ Nelson at Recorded Future in a bid to understand how the CrowdStrike outage caused millions of computers around the world to fade to black. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

2 Elo 202414min

In a recent conversation on WAMU’s 1A news magazine, Click Here host Dina Temple-Raston discusses the latest developments in the case of former IRS investigator Tigran Gambaryan. He now works for the cryptocurrency exchange, Binance. Nigerian prosecutors have charged Gambaryan, a middle manager at the company, for what they say are his employer’s transgressions. He’s been held in Nigeria since February. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

30 Heinä 202426min

In an ancore episode of Click Here's Mic Drop, we speak with the leader of one of the most prolific ransomware-as-a-service gangs the world has ever known — LockBit. We spoke to him weeks after Operation Cronos, a global police action against the group. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

26 Heinä 20248min

The hack on Change Healthcare left hundreds, if not thousands, of providers without the ability to obtain insurance approval or payment for everything from prescriptions to surgeries, and it shed new light on a part of the health care system that is often overlooked. Dan Weissmann, the host of An Arm and a Leg podcast, speaks with reporters Brittany Trang of STAT News and Maureen Tkacik of The American Prospect about the hack and what it is telling us about antitrust concerns in the health care industry. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

23 Heinä 202417min

Chinese hackers are stepping up their game, according to Nigel Inkster, the former director of operations for Britain’s MI6. In an encore episode of Mic Drop, he says Chinese hackers are taking on a new swagger in cyberspace and borrowing things from a familiar playbook: a Russian one. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

19 Heinä 202410min

In an encore episode, we report on 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

16 Heinä 202419min