Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom
Russia’s military spending has propped up the economy, made some military families rich and set off a housing boom. But some worry the center will not hold. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx....
10 Jan 202512min
Tech workers return to Russia, not quite with love
We look at the strange and complicated journeys of Russian tech workers who left their country by the thousands when the war in Ukraine first began and now, begrudgingly, are returning home. Learn ab...
7 Jan 202525min
Mic Drop: The demise of ransomware and the rise of crypto
2024 was a banner year for cybercriminal takedowns. Recorded Future analyst Alexander Leslie talks about how ransomware has had to adapt and what the Trump administration’s vow to take cryptocurrency ...
3 Jan 202513min
196. 2024: A year of living more dangerously in cyberspace.
In a recent conversation on WAMU’s nationally syndicated 1A news show, Click Here’s Dina Temple-Raston speaks with 1A’s host Jenn White about China and Russia’s increasingly aggressive cyberattacks, a...
31 Dec 202442min
195. Mic Drop: A return to the NSA's Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher's dream
Just a stone's throw from the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic Museum displays dozens of rarely seen codebreaking machines that, quite literally, changed the course of history....
27 Dec 202411min
194. A return to the musicians who came in from the cold
At a time when Vladimir Putin is attempting to redraw the Iron Curtain, we revisit an earlier episode in which we take a trip back to the Soviet Union circa 1985 when four American musicians smuggled ...
24 Dec 202422min
193. Mic Drop: For researcher Allison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’
We return to a conversation we had over the summer with Unit 221B’s Allison Nixon about young cybercriminals, radicalization, and the search for self in the virtual world. Learn about your ad choices...
20 Dec 202413min
192. Return to the leak that unmasked China’s hackers-for-hire
Recently, the US sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity company and one of its employees who compromised tens of thousands of firewalls worldwide, with potentially deadly consequences. All of this could s...
17 Dec 202422min
