Episodes

  • 134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?

    134. Are autocrats winning the disinformation war?
    May 28 2024
    US adversaries are on a propaganda offensive around the world. Earlier this month, the Council on Foreign Relations in DC convened a discussion about the changing landscape of disinformation campaigns with James Rubin, special envoy at the Global Engagement Center at the State Department, Jon Bateman from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Anne Applebaum, a staff writer at the Atlantic. CLICK HERE moderated the conversation, and here are some highlights.
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    31 mins
  • 133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI

    133. Mic Drop: A surprising thing about war games and cyber attacks and why the military can’t trust AI
    May 24 2024
    When the Hoover Institution’s director of war gaming, Jackie Schneider, started organizing war simulations more than a decade ago, she assumed that participants would respond to cyber attacks the same way they responded to traditional weapons of war – but it turns out that couldn’t be farther from the truth.
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    18 mins
  • 132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet.

    132. Meet the guy who single-handedly took down North Korea’s Internet.
    May 21 2024
    When North Korea hacked Alejandro Caceres, he expected the U.S. government to rush to his defense. When they just shrugged, he took matters into his own hands.
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    31 mins
  • 131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam?

    131. Mic Drop: Could spoofing satellites become Russia’s new jam?
    May 17 2024
    On the battlefields of Ukraine, Russia has become very adapt at electronic warfare — both jamming GPS satellites and spoofing satellite signals. We explain how it works and its ripple effects beyond the front lines.
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    12 mins
  • 130. A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects

    130. A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects
    May 14 2024
    A story about satellites, electronic warfare, and a team of American techies who MacGyver-ed a way to keep the power flowing in Ukraine.
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    27 mins
  • 129. LockbitSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy

    129. LockbitSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy
    May 10 2024
    In an interview, LockbitSupp, head of the Lockbit cybercrime operation, told us that the U.S., U.K. and Australia have the wrong guy — he’s not Dmitry Khoroshev, the 31-year-old Russian national they’ve charged with hacking. What’s more, he says more attacks are coming.
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    14 mins
  • 128. Taking aim at Democracy: Russia’s Doppelgänger gang isn’t just targeting elections anymore

    128. Taking aim at Democracy: Russia’s Doppelgänger gang isn’t just targeting elections anymore
    May 7 2024
    In a year that could bring a perfect storm of disinformation, meet Doppelgänger, a Russian-backed group seeking not just to shake up the world’s elections, but its institutions too.
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    29 mins
  • 127. Mic Drop: NSC’s Neuberger on mitigating cyber attacks: ‘We should be using an operational approach’

    127. Mic Drop: NSC’s Neuberger on mitigating cyber attacks: ‘We should be using an operational approach’
    May 3 2024
    The White House’s top cyber official is keen to set minimum cybersecurity standards for industry, put contingencies in place in case cyberattacks are successful, and start looping ordinary people into an effort to make products secure by design.
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    14 mins