Weev, Part 2

Published: 12/10/2024 05:03:00
Weev, Part 2 Episode Details
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, long time critics of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, followed Weev's trial - but did not get involved. For the appeal, however, the organization decided to step it. But althought the EFF had some strong points against the CFAA - the justices, appearntly, had something very different on their mind. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Weev, Part 1

Published: 11/27/2024 05:40:00
Weev, Part 1 Episode Details
Much like Aaron Swartz did, Andrew "weev" Auernheimer fought against the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a law both men belived to be dangerous and unjust. But unlike Swartz, the internet's own boy, weev is an unapologetic troll who spread bile and chaos wherever he goes, a man who seemed to take pleasure in making others miserable. His fight raises a thorny question: when a bad person fights for a good cause, how should we feel about it?  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Cuckoo Spear [B-Side]

Published: 11/20/2024 00:30:00
Cuckoo Spear [B-Side] Episode Details
APT-10 is a Chinese nation-state threat actor that in recent years has been targeting Japanese IT & Instrastructure organizations using a sophisticated backdoor malware known as LODEINFO. Recently, Jin Ito & Loic Castel, researchers from Cybereason's IR Team, uncovered a new tool used by the group: NOOPDOOR, which incorporates highly sophisticated persistence mechanisms, allowing APT-10 to evade detection and remain inside enterprise networks for two or even three years. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
The Man Who Went To War With Anonymous - And Lost

Published: 11/13/2024 04:31:00
The Man Who Went To War With Anonymous - And Lost Episode Details
Aaron Barr was en-signals intelligence officer specializing in analytics. As part of HBGary Federal, he came up with a plan to unmask the key leaders of Anonymous, the infamous hacker collective. People who worked with Aaron warned him that his data was sub-par, but the determined vet claimed he had a strong "gut feeling" that he was on the right track.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
What Can Organizations Learn from "Grim Beeper"? [B-Side]

Published: 11/05/2024 01:00:00
What Can Organizations Learn from "Grim Beeper"? [B-Side] Episode Details
On 17 and 18 of September 2024, thousands of pagers and hand held radio devices used by Hezbollah, exploded simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria, killing at least 42 terrorists and wounding more than 3,000. Devon Ackerman, Cybereasonâs Global Head of Digital Forensic and Incident response and a former Special Agent at the FBI's Operational Technology Division, discusses the lessons organizations can learn from this ultra-sophisticated supply chain attack. How such traumatic events impact the mindset of hacked organizations, what kind of threat actors are capable of pulling off long-term attacks like
The Fappening/Celebgate

Published: 10/29/2024 10:20:00
The Fappening/Celebgate Episode Details
Could thousands of people keep a secret? Common sense says noâsecrets spread, and people talk. But for over a decade, from 2006 to 2017, a website managed to stay under law enforcementâs radar, despite the fact that its many users were participating in illegal activities. The websiteâs users managed to keep it a secret for such a long time, because they shared one thing in common: they were creeps who traded nude photos. Until one user, driven by simple greed, brought it all crashing down.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Operation Snow White, Part 2

Published: 10/15/2024 09:36:00
Operation Snow White, Part 2 Episode Details
Scientology spies were trained in all covert operations techniques: surveillance, recruiting agents, infiltrating enemy lines, and blackmail. However, a suspicious librarian and a determined FBI agent brought the largest single spy operation in US government history to an end. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Operation Snow White, Part 1

Published: 10/01/2024 09:46:00
Operation Snow White, Part 1 Episode Details
In 1963, the FDA raided the headquaters of a budding new and esoteric religion - The Church of Scientology. In response to this and similar incidents to come, the church's founder - an eccentric science fiction author named L. Ron Hubbard - would go on to lead the single largest known government infiltration operation in United States historyAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Caught in the Crossfire: Infighting and Treason in Russiaâs Cyber World

Published: 09/17/2024 07:35:00
Caught in the Crossfire: Infighting and Treason in Russia’s Cyber World Episode Details
On Dec. 5, 2016, two senior Russian Intelligence officers and two civilians were arrested and accused of treason. A few weeks later, when Western journalists were finally able to speak with the menâs lawyers, they learned that the case was based on events that were, oddly enough, already widely known. This made the arrests even more peculiar. As more details emerged over time, the picture became clearer, offering Westerners a rare glimpse into the typically secretive world of Russian intelligence.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
SNAP Fraud: Getting Rich by Stealing from the Poor

Published: 09/03/2024 08:50:00
SNAP Fraud: Getting Rich by Stealing from the Poor Episode Details
SNAP - better known as food stamps - goes back to the Great Depression. ,The physical stamps were replaced with EBT cards in the 1990s, but since these cards are without the secure EMV chip techonolgy, enterprising crimilas found ways to drain funds meant for low-income families.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
The Hollywood Con Queen, Part 2

Published: 08/20/2024 09:45:00
The Hollywood Con Queen, Part 2 Episode Details
Nicole Kotsianas, an investigator with K2 Intelligence, made it her personal mission to hunt down the Hollywood Con Queen, who crulley tormented her victioms and shattered their dreams. Nicole's efforts bore unexpected fruits, when she discovered that the Con Queen was actually... a man. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
The Hollywood Con Queen, Part 1

Published: 08/07/2024 02:26:00
The Hollywood Con Queen, Part 1 Episode Details
In 2015, two aspiring script writers flew to Indonesia to meet with executives of a large Chinese film corporation. It was a trap: the Hollywood Con Queen not only coned them out of tens of thousands of dollars, she also cruelly ruined their friendship. Two years later, a corporate investigator working for a big shot Hollywood producer, made a discovery that put her on the trail of this master of deciet. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
The Doomed Queenâs Secret Ciphers

Published: 07/23/2024 14:07:00
The Doomed Queen’s Secret Ciphers Episode Details
In the pre-internet era, encryption was a matter of life and death, and the motives behind these ciphers were varied and complex. Discover how George Lasry, a modern codebreaker, uncovered the secrets of Mary, Queen of Scots, hidden in the French National Library for over 400 years. This episode delves into the painstaking process and the historical impact of decoding these ancient messages, revealing the hidden motives and desperate actions of a doomed queen.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Why Did People Write Viruses In The 80s & 90s?

Published: 07/09/2024 08:49:00
Why Did People Write Viruses In The 80s & 90s? Episode Details
Why did people write malware in the pre-internet days? Back then, there was no way to make money by writing malware. So why write them in the first place? The lack of a financial motivation meant that virus authors had a plethora of other motives - and this diverse mix of motives had, as we shall hear, an interesting effect on the design and style of viruses created at that period. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Section 230: The Law that Makes Social Media Great, and Terrible

Published: 06/25/2024 05:05:00
Section 230: The Law that Makes Social Media Great, and Terrible Episode Details
Section 230 is the pivotal law that has enabled the rise of social media -while sparking heated debates over its implications. In this episode, we're charting the history of Section 230, from early landmark legal battles, to modern controversies, and exploring its complexities and the proposed changes that could redefine online speech and platform responsibility.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
What Happened at Uber?

Published: 06/11/2024 04:34:00
What Happened at Uber? Episode Details
In 2016, Joe Sullivan, former CISO of Facebook, was at the peak of his career. As Uber's new CISO, he and his team had just successfully prevented data from a recent breach from leaking to the internet. But less than a year later, Sullivan was unexpectedly fired from Uber, and three years later, the US Department of Justice announced criminal charges against him.So, what happened at Uber?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
The Nigerian Prince

Published: 05/28/2024 02:14:00
The Nigerian Prince Episode Details
In this episode of ML, we're exploring the history of the well-known Nigerian Prince scam, also known as 419 or advanced fee scam, from its roots in a Parisian prison during the French Revolution, to the economic and social reason why this particular scam became so popular with African youth. Also, will AI make such scams more dangerous - or, counter intuitively, go against the interests of scammers? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Unmasking Secrets: The Rise of Open-Source Intelligence

Published: 05/14/2024 03:15:00
Unmasking Secrets: The Rise of Open-Source Intelligence Episode Details
Dive into the world of open-source intelligence (OSINT) in this episode, where we uncover how ordinary citizens use publicly available data to unravel some of the most complex global mysteries. From tracking conflicts in real-time to exposing the truth behind high-profile incidents like the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, discover how OSINT is revolutionizing the field of investigative journalism and transforming how we perceive and verify information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
The Source Code of Malicious Life

Published: 04/30/2024 02:37:00
The Source Code of Malicious Life Episode Details
A few weeks ago we had a listenerâs meetup in New York, and as part of that meetup, I gave a talk in which I discussed how Malicious Life came to be - a story that goes back to my days as a ship's captain in the Israeli Navy - and then about how me and Nate craft the stories that you hear every other week. That last part, I hope, might also be beneficial to those of you, our listeners, who find themselves giving talks about technically complex ideas, cyber-related
The Y2K Bug, Part 2

Published: 04/16/2024 13:00:00
The Y2K Bug, Part 2 Episode Details
In the waning years of the 20th century, amid growing anxieties about the turn of the millennium, one man, Robert Bemer, observed the unfolding drama from his remote home on King Possum Lake. A revered figure in computing, Bemer had early on flagged a significant, looming issue known as the Y2K bug, which threatened to disrupt global systems as calendars rolled over to the year 2000. This episode delves into Bemer's life during this critical period, exploring his predictions, the ensuing global frenzy to avert disaster, and the disparate views on
The Y2K Bug, Part 1

Published: 03/31/2024 04:31:00
The Y2K Bug, Part 1 Episode Details
In the 1950s and 60s - even leading into the 1990s - the cost of storage was so high, that using a 2-digit field for dates in a software instead of 4-digits could save an organization between $1.2-$2 Million dollars per GB of data. From this perspective, programming computers in the 1950s to record four-digit years wouldâve been outright malpractice. But 40 years later, this shortcut became a ticking time bomb which one man, computer scientist Bob Bemer, was trying to diffuse before it was too late. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Can You Bomb a Hacker?

Published: 03/19/2024 09:15:00
Can You Bomb a Hacker? Episode Details
The 2008 Russo-Georgian War marked a turning point: the first time cyberattacks were used alongside traditional warfare. But what happens when the attackers aren't soldiers, but ordinary citizens? This episode delves into the ethical and legal implications of civilian participation in cyberwarfare, examining real-world examples from Ukraine and beyond.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Kevin Mitnick, Part 2

Published: 03/04/2024 07:10:00
Kevin Mitnick, Part 2 Episode Details
In 1991, Kevin Mitnick was bouncing back from what was probably the lowest point of his life. He began to rebuild his life: he started working out and lost a hundred pounds, and most importantly - he was finally on the path towards ditching his self-destructive obsession of hacking. But just as he was in the process of turning his life around, his brother introduced him to a hacker named Eric Heinz, who told him about a mysterious piece of equipment he came across while breaking into Pacific Bell: SAS, a
Kevin Mitnick, Part 1

Published: 02/19/2024 04:03:00
Kevin Mitnick, Part 1 Episode Details
For Kevin Mitnick - perhaps the greatest social engineer who ever lived - hacking was an obsession: even though it ruined his marriage, landed him in scary correction facilities and almost cost him his sanity in solitary confinement, Mitnick wasn't able to shake the disease that compelled him to keep breaking into more and more communication systems. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
SIM Registration: Security, or Surveillance?

Published: 02/05/2024 04:40:00
SIM Registration: Security, or Surveillance? Episode Details
Right now, hundreds of thousands of people in the southern African country of Namibia are faced with a choice. At the end of next month, their phone service is going to be shut off permanently: to prevent that from happening, theyâll have to give up their data privacy. As a result, nearly two million Namibian citizens are facing a data privacy problem which may haunt them for years to come - and hundreds of thousands more are set to join them, or else theyâll lose their phone service for good. All
The Mariposa Botnet

Published: 01/22/2024 04:27:00
The Mariposa Botnet Episode Details
In 2008, The 12 million PCs strong Mariposa Botnet infected almost half of Furture 100 companey - but the three men who ran it were basiclly script kiddies who didn't even knew how to code.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
The Real Story of Citibankâs $10M Hack

Published: 01/09/2024 09:00:00
The Real Story of Citibank’s $10M Hack Episode Details
Valdimir Levin is often presented as "the first online bank robber," and appeares on many lists of the "Top 10 Greatest Hackers." But a few veteran Russian hackers cliam that Levin's infamous hack had been mangled by the journlists who wrote about it. What's the truth behind the 1994 $10.7 million Citibank hack?...Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
How to Hack Into Satellites

Published: 12/27/2023 01:05:00
How to Hack Into Satellites Episode Details
About a year ago, six academics from Ruhr University Bochum and the CISPA Â Helmholtz Center for Information Security set out to survey engineers and developers on the subject of satellite cybersecurity. But most of these engineers were very reluctant to share any details about their satellites and their security aspects. Why were satellite engineers so reticent to talk about cybersecurity? What was so secretive, so wrong with it, that they didnât feel they could answer even general questions, anonymously? Because letâs be clear: if thereâs something wrong with the security
Moonlight Maze

Published: 12/11/2023 02:34:00
Moonlight Maze Episode Details
When investigators discovered in 1996 that US military networks were being extensively hacked, they didn't realize they were witnessing the birth of what would become Russia's formidable Turla APT espionage group. We uncover the 20-year metamorphosis of this original group of hackers into one of the most sophisticated and dangerous state-sponsored threats that's still active today.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Volt Typhoon

Published: 11/28/2023 01:09:00
Volt Typhoon Episode Details
In August 2021, a port in Houston, Texas, was attacked. Over the following months, a series of attacks occurred in various locations, reminiscent of a serial killer's pattern. Targets included telecommunications companies, government agencies, power plants, and water treatment facilities. How did Volt Typhoon manage to evade authorities and analysts for such an extended period?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Is NSO Evil? Part 2

Published: 11/13/2023 03:11:00
Is NSO Evil? Part 2 Episode Details
By the time Forbidden Stories published its âPegasus Projectâ in 2021, NSO was already knee deep in what was probably the worst PR disaster ever suffered by a cybersecurity company - and then, in November 2021, came the fateful blow: the US Dept. of Commerce added NSO to its âEntity List.â Is NSO to blame for its troubles? Could the company have acted differently to prevent its downfall? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Is NSO Evil? Part 1

Published: 10/30/2023 07:34:00
Is NSO Evil? Part 1 Episode Details
NSO Group, creator of the infamous Pegasus spyware, is widely regarded as a vile, immoral company: a sort of 21st century soldier of fortune, a mercenary in the service of corrupt and evil regimes. Yet among its many clients are many liberal democracies, including the US, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, to name but a few. So, is NSO really as evil as many think it is? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Should You Pay Ransomware Attackers? A Game Theory Approach

Published: 10/17/2023 03:50:00
Should You Pay Ransomware Attackers? A Game Theory Approach Episode Details
The FBI explicitly advises companies against paying ransomware attackers - but itself payed 4.4 million dollars worth of Bitcoin after the Colonial Pipeline attack. So, should you listen to what the experts say, or follow what they occasionally do? Itâs complicated, but we can model this problem.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Silent Firewalls: The Underrepresentation of Women in Cyber

Published: 10/02/2023 02:25:00
Silent Firewalls: The Underrepresentation of Women in Cyber Episode Details
In the vast landscape of STEM, women constitute a mere 28% of the workforce. Yet, when we zoom into the realm of cybersecurity, the number dwindles even further to a startling 20 to 24 percent. What are the underlying reasons behind this disparity?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Operation Kudo

Published: 09/20/2023 11:10:00
Operation Kudo Episode Details
In 1981, during the G7 Summit in Quebec, French president Francois Mitterand handen President Raegan a top secret collection of documents, called "Farewell Dossier." The information found in the dossier allowed the US to devise a cunning plan - the very first supply chain attack, if you will - to bring a firey end to one of largest industrial espionage campaigns in history. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Can We Stop the AI Cyber Threat?

Published: 09/04/2023 07:44:00
Can We Stop the AI Cyber Threat? Episode Details
Much of the cybersecurity software in use today utilizes AI, especially things like spam filters and network traffic monitors. But will all those tools be enough to stop the proliferation of malware that will come from generative AI-driven cyber attacks? The potential of AI to disrupt cyberspace is far greater than any solutions weâve come up with thus far, which is why some researchers are looking beyond the traditional answers, towards more aggressive measures.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Is Generative AI Dangerous?

Published: 08/22/2023 13:55:00
Is Generative AI Dangerous? Episode Details
Every so often, the entire landscape of cybersecurity shifts, all at once: The latest seismic shift in the field occurred just last year. So in this episode of Malicious Life weâre going to take a look into the future of cybersecurity: at how generative AI like ChatGPT will change cyberspace, through the eyes of five research teams breaking ground in the field. Weâll start off simple, and gradually build to increasingly more complex, more futuristic examples of how this technology might well turn against us, forcing us to solve problems weâd
Why aren't there more bug bounty programs?

Published: 08/08/2023 00:20:00
Why aren't there more bug bounty programs? Episode Details
On the face of it, there's an obvious economic incentive for both vendors and security researchers to collaborate on disclosing vulnerabilities safely and privately. Yet bug bounty programs have gained prominence only in the past decade or so, and even today only a relatively small portion of vendors have such programs at place. Why is that? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
The Voynich Manuscript

Published: 07/25/2023 02:25:00
The Voynich Manuscript Episode Details
The constant battle between those who wish to encrypt data and those who wish to break these ciphers has made modern encryption schemes extremely powerful. Subsequently, the tools and methods to break them became equivalently sophisticated. Yet, could it be that someone in the 15th century created a cipher that even todayâs most brilliant codebreakers and most sophisticated and advanced tools - cannot break?...Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Roman Seleznev: Did the Punishment Fit the Crime?

Published: 07/10/2023 03:40:00
Roman Seleznev: Did the Punishment Fit the Crime? Episode Details
In 2019, Roman Seleznev, a 34 years-old Russian national, was sentenced to 27 years in prison: A sentence thatâd make any criminal quiver. Seleznev's deeds had a horrendous effect on the 2.9 million individuals whose credit cards he stole and sold to cyber criminals for identity theft and financial crimes. On one hand, itâs hard to imagine any nonviolent computer crime worth 27 years in prison. But then what is an appropriate sentence for such a man as Seleznev?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Sony BMG's Rootkit Fiasco

Published: 06/27/2023 01:11:00
Sony BMG's Rootkit Fiasco Episode Details
"We made a mistake and Sony paid a terrible price.â A terrible price indeed: an arrogant and ill-advised decision to include a rootkit in its music CDs cost Sony BMG a lot of money - and painted it as a self-centered, self-serving company that cares more about its bottom line than its customers. Why did Sony BMG make such a poor decision?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Ad Fraud, Part 2

Published: 06/09/2023 02:04:56
Ad Fraud, Part 2 Episode Details
In the last episode of our show, we heard the story of Methbot: an army of hundreds of thousands of bots, programmatically viewing thousands of advertisements on thousands of made-up websites in order to siphon away millions of dollars worth of ad revenue. But even the giant Methbot scam was just a drop in the ocean that is ad fraud. Putting Zhukov in jail made hardly any difference at all, because of how many other people just like him are still out there today.What makes ad fraud so successful, and so
Ad Fraud, Part 1

Published: 05/30/2023 08:45:00
Ad Fraud, Part 1 Episode Details
Right now, a man named Aleksandr Zhukov is sitting in jail for one of the most financially ruinous schemes ever invented for the internet. Zhukov is guilty. He was caught and convicted under a mountain of evidence against him. Except the deeper you look into it, the deeper the well goes. In this episode, weâll learn how Aleksandr Zhukov defrauded some of the biggest American corporations for millions of dollars. And weâll ask the question that hardly anyone else is willing to acknowledge: Was this clever, successful, guilty cybercriminal merely a
The Economics Of Cybersecurity

Published: 05/15/2023 05:30:00
The Economics Of Cybersecurity Episode Details
The numbers canât be any clearer: a DDoS attack costs less than a hundred dollars, while the price tag for mitigating it might reach tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. A single well crafted phishing email can easily circumvent cyber defenses which cost millions of dollars to set up. How can we change the extreame cost asymmetry between attackers and defenders in cyberspace?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
The Reason You Donât Have Data Privacy

Published: 05/01/2023 07:52:01
The Reason You Don’t Have Data Privacy Episode Details
Weâve all experienced the creepiness of modern data trafficking, but that kind of daily annoyance is the surface of a much bigger issue: Big Tech companies such as Amazon & Microsoft are lobbying policymakers to veto laws that harm their business, and often hide their lobbying behind industry coalitions or organizations with names that are vague and seemingly harmless. Will current and future privacy laws actually protect your information, or will they protect the companies collecting your information?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
How Entire Countries Can Lose the Internet

Published: 04/17/2023 07:00:00
How Entire Countries Can Lose the Internet Episode Details
Disruptions to the worldâs internet cables happen more often than you think: Whether it be ship anchors or animals or saboteurs, cut a few wires in the right places and at nearly the speed of light you can disrupt or shut off the internet for broad populations of people at a time. It is an immense power that runs through these lines -- a power that can be sabotaged or, in the right hands, weaponized.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Olympic Destroyer

Published: 04/03/2023 08:31:00
Olympic Destroyer Episode Details
In the midst of 35,000 exhilarated spectators eagerly chanting the time-honored countdown to kick off the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, a sinister malware crept through the games' network, threatening to disrupt the highly-anticipated event. The obvious question in everyoneâs minds was - who was responsible for the attack? Who was vile enough to launch such a potentially destructive attack against an event which, more than anything, symbolizes peace and global cooperation?Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
The Lawerence Berkeley Hack, Part 2

Published: 03/20/2023 04:15:46
The Lawerence Berkeley Hack, Part 2 Episode Details
O× May 23rd, 1989, Karl Koch - a 23 years old West German hacker who worked for the KGB - Â took a drive, from which he would never return: Nine days later his charred remains were found by the police in a remote forest. Was Koch assasinated by the US or the Sovient Union, or is there another, more 'mystical' explanation for his death? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
The Lawerence Berkeley Hack, Part 1

Published: 03/08/2023 01:43:00
The Lawerence Berkeley Hack, Part 1 Episode Details
Four decades ago, three quarters wouldâve gone a lot further than they do today. With that kind of loose change you couldâve picked up some milk from the grocery store, or over half a gallon of gas, or a bus ticket. But that doesnât explain why, on one fateful day in 1986, a systems administrator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California made such an issue over 75 missing cents.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Russian Propaganda, Explained [ML B-Side]

Published: 02/28/2023 02:51:00
Russian Propaganda, Explained [ML B-Side] Episode Details
You may have heard of the cyber operations performed by Russia. You definitely heard about the missiles being fired by Russia at Ukraine - but how about the propaganda being distributed through the different media platforms?In this B-Side episode, our Senior Producer Nate Nelson interviewed Dr. Bilyana Lilly - CISSP, a leader in cybersecurity and information warfare with over fifteen years of managerial, technical, and research experience, and author of "Russian Information Warfare" - about the Russian use of instant messaging and social media platforms such as Telegram and Twitter in
Operation Ivy Bells

Published: 02/20/2023 02:32:19
Operation Ivy Bells Episode Details
In the early 1970's, US intelligance pointed at the possibility that the Russians have laid an underwater communication cable between two important naval bases in the Far East. The dangerous mission of installing a listening device on that cable was given to the navy most secretive and unusual submarine.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Why Do NFTs Disappear? [ML BSide]

Published: 02/13/2023 08:36:00
Why Do NFTs Disappear? [ML BSide] Episode Details
What happens when an NFT marketplace goes under, and disappears? You would imagine that the usersâ NFTs are perfectly safe: after all, the blockchain itself is still there, right? But thatâs not how things work in the real world. Jason Bailey is the co-founder and CEO of ClubNFT, a company  building the next generation of tools to discover, protect, and share NFTs. Jason is an early collector and proponent of CryptoArt, and he spoke with Nate Nelson, our Sr. producer, about the risks facing sellers and buyers who are unfamiliar
The (Other) Problem with NFTs

Published: 02/06/2023 04:00:00
The (Other) Problem with NFTs Episode Details
Physical artworks in museums are usually well-guarded - but digital artworks are something else entirely: in 2021 alone, scammers successfully stole 100 million dollars worth of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. Yet blockchain technology, where most NFTs live - is one of the most secure technologies in history. Why, then, are NFT collectors keep getting hacked? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
SIM Swapping Follow Up [ML B-Side]

Published: 01/30/2023 02:50:00
SIM Swapping Follow Up [ML B-Side] Episode Details
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You Should Be Afraid of SIM Swaps

Published: 01/23/2023 09:00:00
You Should Be Afraid of SIM Swaps Episode Details
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FBI vs. REvil [ML BSide]

Published: 01/16/2023 03:24:00
FBI vs. REvil [ML BSide] Episode Details
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Cyberbunker, Part 2

Published: 01/10/2023 04:26:00
Cyberbunker, Part 2 Episode Details
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Cyberbunker, Part 1

Published: 01/02/2023 09:00:00
Cyberbunker, Part 1 Episode Details
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How Netflix Learned Cloud Security

Published: 12/26/2022 01:13:00
How Netflix Learned Cloud Security Episode Details
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Fred Cohen: The Godfather of Computer Viruses [ML B-Side]

Published: 12/19/2022 06:16:00
Fred Cohen: The Godfather of Computer Viruses [ML B-Side] Episode Details
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Thamar Reservoir

Published: 12/13/2022 03:13:00
Thamar Reservoir Episode Details
Thamar Gindin is an Israeli scholar whose research focuses on the Persian language. For the past seven years (at least) Thamar has been a target for an endless stream of spear-phishing attempts by the Iranian regime, trying to take over her email account and lure her away from her country's borders. Her family, friends, and colleagues have also suffered numerous attacks. So, how does it feel to live for years with a virtual target mark on your back?â¦Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
The Problem With Kernel-Mode Anti-Cheat Software

Published: 12/06/2022 00:35:39
The Problem With Kernel-Mode Anti-Cheat Software Episode Details
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Norse Corp.: How To NOT build a cybersecurity startup

Published: 11/27/2022 04:11:00
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Jailbreaking Tractors [ML BSide]

Published: 11/20/2022 04:47:00
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The Russian Business Network

Published: 11/13/2022 08:17:00
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What can Chess grandmasters teach us about Cyber? [ML BSide]

Published: 11/07/2022 09:48:34
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LabMD Vs. The FTC

Published: 10/31/2022 05:24:00
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What Would Happen if CBS Got Hacked? [ML BSide]

Published: 10/24/2022 06:08:00
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Hacking Stock Markets, Part 2

Published: 10/18/2022 12:37:00
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Vishing: Voice Scams [ML BSide]

Published: 10/10/2022 09:11:00
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Hacking Stock Markets, Part 1

Published: 10/04/2022 02:43:00
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Whatâs it's Like to Fight LulzSec [ML B-Side]

Published: 09/27/2022 02:00:00
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"King Kimble": Kim DotCom

Published: 09/18/2022 08:22:24
"King Kimble": Kim DotCom Episode Details
The US government says that Kim Schmitz, better know as Kim DotCom, is the leader of a file sharing crime ring. He sees himself as a an internet freedom fighter: a fugitive on the run from vindictive overly-powerful governments. Can King Kimble escape the wrath of the USA? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Hacking Multi-Factor Authentication

Published: 09/13/2022 04:48:00
Hacking Multi-Factor Authentication Episode Details
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is usually considered a better solution for authentication than just using passwords. But Roger Grimes, a veteran security professional, and a Data-Driven Defense Evangelist claims that the sense of security current MFA solutions provides us - is false. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Hacking Language Models

Published: 09/05/2022 07:24:00
Hacking Language Models Episode Details
Language models are everywhere today: they run in the background of Google Translate and other translation tools; they help operate voice assistants like Alexa or Siri; and most interestingly, they are available via several experiential projects trying to emulate natural conversations, such as OpenAIâs GPT-3 and Googleâs LaMDA. Can these models be hacked to gain access to the sensitive information they learned from their training data? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) [ML BSide]

Published: 08/31/2022 04:06:00
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Leo Kuvayevâ The Czar of Spammers

Published: 08/22/2022 06:00:00
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Criminals, particularly cyber criminals, arenât âgoodâ people; in most cases, they do have their own personal boundaries. Every once in a while, you encounter a criminal whoâs different. Someone who seems not to have limits at all. A ruthless person, for whom the goal truly justifies the means. Leo Kuvayev is that kind of a person - and that made him so successful as a cyber-criminal. But even a genius criminal can go just one step too far.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
"A CISO's Nightmare": Israel Baron on Railway Secuirty

Published: 08/14/2022 15:59:00
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âDesigned by criminals, for criminalsâ: Operation Trojan Shield

Published: 08/08/2022 08:00:00
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Andrew Ginter: A 40-Years-Old Backdoor [ML-BSide]

Published: 08/01/2022 08:18:00
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Silk Road, The Amazon of Drugs - Part 2

Published: 07/21/2022 07:28:00
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Kurtis Minder: Ransomware Negotiations [ML BSide]

Published: 07/18/2022 02:29:00
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Silk Road: The Amazon of drugs, Part 1

Published: 07/11/2022 03:37:00
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Jacob Goldstein: The Future of BitCoin [ML BSide]

Published: 07/04/2022 09:29:00
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The âCypherpunksâ Who Invented Private Digital Money

Published: 06/22/2022 09:29:00
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Malicious LIVE: Celebrating 5 Years of Malicious Life

Published: 06/19/2022 06:16:00
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Hackers vs. Spies: The Stratfor Leaks, Pt. 2

Published: 06/14/2022 03:41:00
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Hackers vs. Spies: The Stratfor Leaks, Pt. 1

Published: 06/07/2022 07:40:00
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Catching A Cybercriminal [ML B-Side]

Published: 05/30/2022 05:38:00
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What The LinkedIn Hack Taught Us About Storing Passwords

Published: 05/24/2022 01:43:00
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Operation CuckooBees [ML B-Side]

Published: 05/17/2022 11:22:00
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How to Russia-Proof Your Democracy [ML BSide]

Published: 05/09/2022 04:08:00
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Op. Sundevil And The Birth of the EFF

Published: 05/02/2022 03:48:00
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MITRE Attack Flow [ML B-Sides]

Published: 04/24/2022 07:43:00
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Aaron Swartz

Published: 04/19/2022 08:40:00
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The Russia-Ukraine Cyberwar [ML B-Side]

Published: 04/10/2022 03:06:00
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Chris Roberts: Hackers on a Plane

Published: 04/05/2022 03:03:00
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DIE - A New Paragidm for Cyber Security [ML B-Side]

Published: 03/28/2022 02:04:00
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Cyber PTSD

Published: 03/22/2022 06:00:00
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How Resilient Is Our Banking System?

Published: 03/16/2022 08:04:00
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