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  • 22 minutes 27 seconds
    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 messages in and out of the Soviet Union — with music.

    24 December 2024, 5:00 am
  • 13 minutes 46 seconds
    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.

    20 December 2024, 5:00 am
  • 22 minutes 39 seconds
    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 sound a little familiar to regular listeners. Earlier this year, CLICK HERE reported on a huge leak of internal documents from a private cybersecurity company that pulled back the curtain on the secret world of China’s hacker-for-hire network.

    17 December 2024, 5:00 am
  • 12 minutes 37 seconds
    191. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘(Ai)ding Cybercrime’ from SHIFT

    An episode of ‘SHIFT’ from PRX:

    AI is being integrated into our technologies at warp speed, but we are only starting to consider how it could be weaponized in the future. The SHIFT podcast talks to Lee Klarich, the chief product officer at Palo Alto Networks, about how AI is both helping and hurting cybersecurity. 

    13 December 2024, 5:00 am
  • 26 minutes 50 seconds
    190. Return to the curious case of the disappearing TikTok videos

    TikTok took down Esma Memtimin’s posts for allegedly violating the platform’s community rules, even though her videos were about little more than stickers and some current events. Just days after TikTok’s Chinese parent company asked a federal court to put a temporary hold on a law that would require ByteDance to sell the app or face a ban in this country, we go back to an episode we did this fall about a mysterious dearth of TikTok posts about subjects Beijing doesn’t like.

    10 December 2024, 8:00 am
  • 19 minutes 7 seconds
    189. Mic Drop: Return to Wazawaka

    We return to an earlier interview we had with Wazawaka, a Russian hacker who, in late 2023, was added to the FBI’s Cyber Most Wanted List. Russian authorities allegedly jailed him late last week — though we saw he was back online a short time later.

    6 December 2024, 8:00 am
  • 43 minutes 8 seconds
    188. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘The Right-Wing Plan for Trump-Friendly Spies’ from In the Room with Peter Bergen

    An episode from In the Room with Peter Bergen

    Longtime national security analyst Peter Bergen looks at what President-elect Trump’s return to the White House will likely mean for intelligence gathering as we know it – and whether the conservative Project 2025 will turn out to be the new intelligence gathering playbook. 

    This story was originally released before the November election.

    3 December 2024, 5:00 am
  • 18 minutes 28 seconds
    187. Mic Drop: Crypto and the man: Prof. Lamont Black on Donald Trump’s federal bitcoin reserve

    Crypto was envisioned as the ultimate democratic currency, the thing that allowed you to buy things without “the man.” But, now the president-elect’s newfound interest means “the man" may be adding bitcoin to the federal reserve. We ask DePaul University professor and former Fed economist Lamont Black what will the digital currency do now?

    More from our interview:

    https://therecord.media/trump-cryptocurrency-reserve-depaul-lamont-black

    29 November 2024, 5:00 am
  • 25 minutes 35 seconds
    186. Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms

    Before the invasion of Ukraine, Serhii Zenin was the host of one of the nation’s most popular hard rock radio shows on Radio ROKS 103.6. Some three years later, Serhii is a soldier and Radio ROKS has taken on a whole new role, too.

    26 November 2024, 8:00 am
  • 16 minutes 32 seconds
    185. Mic Drop: Evelyn Farkas on Ukraine: ‘Don’t count them out’

    As Vladimir Putin says the Ukraine war is about to go global, we sat down with former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Evelyn Farkas. She's now at the McCain Institute. Farkas tells us about the mood in Ukraine during her recent trip, President-elect Trump's claim he could end the Ukraine war in 24 hours, and what's next for the world's first truly hybrid war.

    22 November 2024, 8:00 am
  • 29 minutes 26 seconds
    184. Escape from Bamban: One man’s scam farm nightmare in the Philippines

    Back in February, Dylan went to the Philippines for what he thought would be a great Chinese Lunar New Year vacation. Then he found himself held hostage in a gang-run scamming compound. We tell one man’s story about getting out and what the Philippines is doing to shut these operations down.

    19 November 2024, 8:00 am
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