82. The Clop gang’s in love with a special kind of bug
Back in May, a Russian-speaking cyber gang named Clop broke into MOVEit, a little-known file transfer program. They managed to steal data from some 60 million people (and counting). While the scale of...
29 Aug 202324min
81. Ilya Sachkov v. the Kremlin
Ilya Sachkov co-founded the cybersecurity company Group-IB to make the world safe from Russian-speaking cybercriminals. Then he asked Russian authorities to help round them up, and things went spectac...
22 Aug 202328min
80. Meet ChatGPT’s evil twin
Wave “goodbye” to those pesky emails from Nigerian princes and say “hello” to the latest generation of AI enabled email scamming. It’s smarter, faster and, by the way, looks like it’s coming from your...
15 Aug 202323min
79. One woman’s Orwellian experience with disinformation
We look at an American disinformation campaign that makes clear online abuse directed at women goes far beyond a couple of mean tweets. And, an update on a Syrian activist who was on the receiving end...
8 Aug 202325min
78. Trouble in the cloud
Putting your data in the cloud used to be seen as the gold standard of information security. Why have your small IT team protect your data when the experts at Microsoft or Google or AWS can do it inst...
1 Aug 202318min
77. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The internet is at the bottom of the sea’ from Things That Go Boom
This week, we share an episode from PRX and Inkstick Media’s “Things that Go Boom” podcast about the thousands of miles of fiber optic cable lying at the bottom of the sea. Some 95 percent of the worl...
25 Jul 202339min
76. The Mexican army’s love affair with spyware
Since our story on spyware in Mexico aired back in March, researchers have discovered a roster of Pegasus spyware infections on the phones of local journalists, activists, and even officials within th...
18 Jul 202324min
75. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'Life, death and AI' from Endless Thread
From WBUR's “Endless Thread" podcast, a story on a growing segment of artificial intelligence: immortalizing the dead through predictive AI text and how bots can help us understand grief. Learn about...
11 Jul 202334min
