Caught in the Crossfire: Infighting and Treason in Russia’s Cyber World
On Dec. 5, 2016, two senior Russian Intelligence officers and two civilians were arrested and accused of treason. A few weeks later, when Western journalists were finally able to speak with the men’s ...
17 Sep 202426min
SNAP Fraud: Getting Rich by Stealing from the Poor
SNAP - better known as food stamps - goes back to the Great Depression. ,The physical stamps were replaced with EBT cards in the 1990s, but since these cards are without the secure EMV chip techonolgy...
3 Sep 202429min
The Hollywood Con Queen, Part 2
Nicole Kotsianas, an investigator with K2 Intelligence, made it her personal mission to hunt down the Hollywood Con Queen, who crulley tormented her victioms and shattered their dreams. Nicole's effor...
20 Aug 202431min
The Hollywood Con Queen, Part 1
In 2015, two aspiring script writers flew to Indonesia to meet with executives of a large Chinese film corporation. It was a trap: the Hollywood Con Queen not only coned them out of tens of thousands ...
7 Aug 202434min
The Doomed Queen’s Secret Ciphers
In the pre-internet era, encryption was a matter of life and death, and the motives behind these ciphers were varied and complex. Discover how George Lasry, a modern codebreaker, uncovered the secrets...
23 Jul 202430min
Why Did People Write Viruses In The 80s & 90s?
Why did people write malware in the pre-internet days? Back then, there was no way to make money by writing malware. So why write them in the first place? The lack of a financial motivation meant that...
9 Jul 202427min
Section 230: The Law that Makes Social Media Great, and Terrible
Section 230 is the pivotal law that has enabled the rise of social media -while sparking heated debates over its implications. In this episode, we're charting the history of Section 230, from early la...
25 Jun 202434min
What Happened at Uber?
In 2016, Joe Sullivan, former CISO of Facebook, was at the peak of his career. As Uber's new CISO, he and his team had just successfully prevented data from a recent breach from leaking to the interne...
11 Jun 202437min
