147. Mic Drop: The problem with the Nigerian economy has nothing to do with crypto

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 Nov 202322min

If you want to know how Ukrainians are coping with the war, look at the Ukraine apps in the app store. From an air raid alert built in the first week of the invasion to a map that helps work-from-homers find electricity, technology is helping Ukraine find some sense of normalcy in wartime. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

14 Nov 202328min

We talk to two ordinary people who decided to tackle two extraordinary problems: identifying the thousands who went missing in Israel in the days after the October 7th attacks, and one man’s leap of faith to get internet and cellphone service into Gaza. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

7 Nov 202329min

Bucha, a bedroom community just outside of Kyiv, is best known for enduring Russia’s atrocities during a month-long occupation in the Spring of 2022. Now the citizens of Bucha don’t want revenge, they want justice. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

31 Okt 202330min

When a Russian bomb damaged a beloved library in the Ukrainian town of Chernihiv, locals feared that it would be lost forever. Then a cutting-edge technology came to the rescue. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

24 Okt 202330min

We traveled to Ukraine last month to learn more about a hunt forward operation Cybercom and cyber operators from Ukraine secretly launched before the war. This is the first time the Ukrainian side of the story has been revealed publicly. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

17 Okt 202323min

We travel to Ukraine to look at its grassroots defense industry and take you into its secret drone factories where entrepreneurs are able to put innovative weapons into the hands of soldiers at the front in a matter of weeks, not months. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

10 Okt 202326min

An episode from “Humans vs. Machines” from Aventine Research Institute and Pineapple Street Studios.Misinformation has influenced elections, ruined reputations and fundamentally changed society’s relationship with the truth. Now, large language models like ChatGPT have the potential to create and spread misinformation at a scale we’ve never seen before. As technology improves, the question won’t be, ‘What we can believe in?’ but whether we’ll be able to believe in anything at all. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

3 Okt 202326min