The ego exploit
Zoom was built for speed. But in its rush to connect us, it may have left a few doors open. We return to a conversation with Dan Guido, the CEO of the cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits. He walks us thr...
19 Des 202514min
Introducing kill switch
An episode from kill switch:On October 20, an Amazon Web Services outage knocked out big swaths of the internet — from Snapchat and Reddit to smart beds and government services. On the series kill swi...
16 Des 202533min
The algorithm will see you now - AI and psychiatry
We return to a conversation we had with Dr. Stephen Xenakis, a psychiatrist and retired Army brigadier general. He's has always had an open mind when it comes to cutting-edge technology. Now he’s look...
12 Des 202515min
Introducing The Homework Machine
An episode from The Homework Machine:Three years after ChatGPT landed in classrooms, schools are still sorting out what comes next. What counts as cheating when AI can do your homework? How should tea...
9 Des 202553min
A former North Korean hacker speaks out
For years, North Korea has quietly dispatched an army of IT workers overseas—not to innovate, but to infiltrate. Disguised as freelancers, they apply for jobs, breach systems, and wire stolen funds ba...
5 Des 202513min
Knights of Old and a ransomware joust
We return to a story on the Akira ransomware group. For 150 years Knights of Old, a U.K. logistics company, survived everything from two world wars to Brexit. Then Akira stormed the company's networks...
2 Des 202521min
Former Deputy DNI Sue Gordon: ‘it is conceivable that the world order has already been broken’
Washington is trimming budgets… and bleeding digital expertise. So what happens when national security is run by agencies living in the past? Sue Gordon, former Principal Deputy Director of National I...
28 Nov 202526min
When big cyberattacks hit small towns
We tend to picture cyberattacks as distant battles—state hackers, big targets, glowing maps of global chaos. But often, the frontlines are more local: a water plant, a 911 system, the power lines outs...
25 Nov 202539min
