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  • 33 minutes 58 seconds
    170. AI is writing police reports: Should we be worried?

    Police departments across the country are testing generative AI and large language model software to see if they can cut down on the time officers spend writing reports. But AI seems to have this way of always surprising us, and the benefits it brings to police may have nothing to do with time.

    1 October 2024, 7:00 am
  • 16 minutes 16 seconds
    169. Mic Drop: Election security? Slovakia’s cautionary tale

    Leaders from Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft told the Senate Intelligence Committee that they were doing all they could to combat foreign interference ahead of the November election. The senators weren't convinced.

    27 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 35 minutes 27 seconds
    168. Exclusive: Senator Mark Warner on election fears and all things cyber and intelligence

    We sat down with US Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia to talk about election interference, his recent hearing with tech execs on misinformation and disinformation, and the future of cybersecurity.

    24 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 15 minutes 17 seconds
    167. Mic Drop: TikTok’s day in Appeals Court

    TikTok’s lawyers were in a U.S. Court of Appeals this week trying to push back against a law that requires the popular video app to sell its American subsidiary to a non-Chinese owner or be banished from app stores. Alan Rozenshtein, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, and expert in lawfare, explains what’s at stake.

    20 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 33 minutes 57 seconds
    166. The curious case of Esma Memtimin’s disappearing TikTok videos

    TikTok took down Esma Memtimin’s posts for allegedly violating the platform’s community rules even though her videos were about stickers and current events. A recent study from Rutgers University suggests Memtimin isn’t alone — when researchers compared TikTok’s content with other similar platforms there is a mysterious dearth of posts about subjects Beijing considers hot button issues.

    17 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 13 minutes 22 seconds
    165. Mic Drop: FIN7 is hiring

    The Russian-speaking cyber gang, FIN7, has fooled red team hackers into doing their dirty work by masquerading as legitimate cybersecurity companies just looking for talent. Silent Push’s Zach Edwards talks about the scam.

    13 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 37 minutes 13 seconds
    164. The Hunt for FIN7: Hot on the trail of a notorious cyber gang

    Investigators have been chasing the Russian-speaking cyber gang for years — and they’ve stayed just one step ahead. Threat researcher Zach Edwards lays out why bringing gangs like this to justice has always been so hard.

    10 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 14 minutes 23 seconds
    163. Mic Drop: From banned to beloved, the Taliban’s unexpected embrace of the Internet

    Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership may have smashed TVs in the 1990s, but these days their embracing slickly-produced videos and social media influencers to try to rehab their image abroad. Afghan anthropologist Omar Sharifi unpacks whether its working.

    6 September 2024, 7:00 am
  • 33 minutes 30 seconds
    162. Ehtesab in Afghanistan: an app’s struggle to survive under the Taliban

    Technology has changed the way countries wage war, and today, we look at an app in Afghanistan that wanted to change the way people on the ground experienced it.

    3 September 2024, 7:00 am
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    161. Mic Drop: Can ransomware be an act of terror?

    New legislation is seeking to designate some ransomware attacks as acts of terror. Former FBI agent John Riggi talks about the proposal and how it might change the battle against ransomware gangs.

    30 August 2024, 7:00 am
  • 34 minutes 53 seconds
    160. Anatomy of a fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story

    Sky Lakes Medical Center in south central Oregon never imagined it could be on the receiving end of a ransomware attack. Then Ryuk put them in the crosshairs.

    27 August 2024, 7:00 am
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