How do you prevent a political campaign from getting hacked?
The upcoming year will feature an unprecedented number of democratic elections. In addition to the United States’s pivotal federal elections, countries that collectively make up more than half of the ...
18 Jan 202442min
Looking back at 2023 with the NSA’s Rob Joyce and Morgan Adamski
In our first episode of the year, we begin by looking back at 2023. The NSA’s Rob Joyce and Morgan Adamski sit down with host Elias Groll to examine the major cybersecurity trends of the year, the evo...
11 Jan 202452min
Major breaches, the government’s AI push and UFOs: Scoop reporters on 2023’s biggest stories
In our final episode of the year, host Elias Groll sits down with reporters from CyberScoop, FedScoop and Defense Scoop to discuss the biggest stories of the year. Christian Vasquez and AJ Vicens join...
21 Des 202351min
Five years of Distributed Denial of Secrets and a dangerous automotive vulnerability
It was WikiLeaks that pioneered the publishing and hosting of sensitive information, and while Julian Assange’s whistleblowing project has withered away, groups like Distributed Denial of Secrets are ...
14 Des 20231h 2min
Iranian attacks on U.S. water systems and the data broker economy
To be a person in the world today is to have your data collected. Whether it’s your internet browsing history, your location history as you walk around with your phone in your pocket, or the purchases...
7 Des 202346min
Supercomputers for AI and the proliferation of commercial spyware
A growing industry exists today that provides governments with highly advanced tools to surveil their opponents. While this industry has become personified by Israel’s NSO Group, it in fact goes far b...
30 Nov 202330min
A deep dive on cyberpsychology and a look at autonomy in the U.S. military
Just as behavioral psychology revolutionized economics by integrating human behavior into the study of financial decisions — creating the field of behavioral economics — the study of cyberpsychology t...
16 Nov 202345min
Russian cyberattack cut power in Ukraine, Michigan secretary of state talks election security
Russia’s cyberattacks against Ukraine’s electrical grid occupy a canonical place in the history of cyber warfare. By turning out the lights in Ukraine in 2016 and 2017, Russia demonstrated the reach o...
9 Nov 202335min
