193. Mic Drop: For researcher Allison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’
We return to a conversation we had over the summer with Unit 221B’s Allison Nixon about young cybercriminals, radicalization, and the search for self in the virtual world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
20 Des 202413min
192. Return to the leak that unmasked China’s hackers-for-hire
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 Des 202422min
191. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘(Ai)ding Cybercrime’ from SHIFT
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 Des 202412min
190. Return to the curious case of the disappearing TikTok videos
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 Des 202426min
189. Mic Drop: Return to Wazawaka
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 Des 202419min
188. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The Right-Wing Plan for Trump-Friendly Spies’ from In the Room with Peter Bergen
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 Des 202443min
187. Mic Drop: Crypto and the man: Prof. Lamont Black on Donald Trump’s federal bitcoin reserve
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 Nov 202418min
186. Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms
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 Nov 202425min
