139. Mic Drop: GhostSec’s quest for redemption: their leader claims their life of crime is over.
The GhostSec hacktivist group used to be known for its cyberattacks against terrorist groups like ISIS. Then, last year, the group took an unexpected turn — it created GhostLocker and began launching ...
14 Jun 20248min
138. Almost every cyber attack begins with a key ingredient: an Infostealer
Infostealers commit close to the perfect crime. They sneak into your computer, grab your logins, passwords, and anything of value, and then delete themselves on the way out — victims don’t even know t...
11 Jun 202428min
137. Mic Drop: Inside a secret drone school in Ukraine
As Russian forces zero in on Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, drones are among the weapons that are coming to the rescue. We went to a secret drone academy where Ukraine is training its drone o...
7 Jun 202410min
136. Money and fame — not just social change — are creating a new kind of hacktivist.
A hacktivist group called the Belarusian Cyber Partisans rocked Belarus when it hacked into government servers and released secret police files and government wiretaps – the kinds of hacks we’re used ...
4 Jun 202427min
135. Mic Drop: Oren Etzioni has a way to help us sort fact from AI fiction
Oren Etzioni used to be one of those AI optimists. Now, not so much. In fact, he’s so worried about AI-manipulated content, he created a non-profit, TrueMedia.org, to help ordinary people sort AI fact...
31 Mai 20248min
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...
28 Mai 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...
24 Mai 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.p...
21 Mai 202427min
