44. Throwing bricks for $$$: violence-as-a-service comes of age
We go back to an episode we did earlier this year about a gang of SIM swappers who are behind something called violence-as-a-service. Doxing or defacing websites, they told us, just doesn’t send enoug...
6 Dec 202219min
43. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ from Big Brother: North Korea's Forgotten Prince
“Big Brother: North Korea's Forgotten Prince” from School of Humans and iHeartPodcasts introduce you to the person who should have been North Korea’s leader – had he not been on the receiving end of w...
29 Nov 202239min
42. North Korea's monster fake out
North Korea has launched an unprecedented number of missiles this month. So we bring you an encore episode about a team of researchers using open-source intelligence to track the hermit kingdom's nucl...
22 Nov 202231min
41. Rounding up a cyber posse for Ukraine
Washington and the tech world have been talking about public private partnerships in cyberspace for decades. The NSA and Cyber Command have intelligence about attacks; cybersecurity companies have the...
15 Nov 202227min
40. Selling Vice Society: old exploits, easy targets, and the illusion of greatness
Vice Society burst on the ransomware scene in early 2021, attacking a roster of government offices, hospitals and, notoriously, schools. But cybersecurity experts say the group isn't your typical rans...
8 Nov 202219min
39. Is open-source software the solution to our election woes?
Ben Adida is the executive director of a voting technology non-profit that provides software and operational support to states during elections. He’s embarked on an almost impossible missile: to resto...
1 Nov 202222min
38. The Supreme Court case that could change the internet
Nohemi Gonzalez was killed in the 2015 ISIS attacks in Paris and now is at the heart of a Supreme Court case that will reconsider a 1995 law that shields social media companies from liability. Gonzale...
25 Okt 202221min
37. ‘Presence Matters’: Nakasone and Easterly on Ukraine, collaboration and midterm elections
The head of NSA and Cybercom Gen. Paul Nakasone and CISA director Jen Easterly came to the Council on Foreign Relations last week for a rare sit-down interview. They talked about hunt teams in Ukraine...
18 Okt 202221min
