• The Minnesota assassin used data brokers as a weapon
    Jun 30 2025

    Digital stalking, aided by data brokers, took another deadly turn this month in Minnesota. When alleged political assassin Vance Boelter began his rampage on June 13, he had a list of 45 state politicians in his car. He also had a notebook full of their personal information -- and detailed information on 11 different Internet data brokers. When will Congress and tech giants take this crisis seriously? David Hoffman, director of the Duke Initiative for Science and Society, is here with analysis.

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    9 mins
  • UnitedHealth hack episode 4 -- Will anything change?
    May 15 2025

    Outrage was high after the UnitedHealth hack was revealed, but will that anger turn into action? In this final episode of our 4-part series on the UnitedHealth hack, Duke's Hannah Pechet examines both the legal and the policy fallout from the cyberattack. When ransomware gangs strike again, will corporations, governments, and society be ready?

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    18 mins
  • UnitedHealth hack episode 3 -- Who did it?
    May 14 2025

    Ransomware gangs operate in a shadowy digital underworld. Sometimes they play by certain rules, sometimes they don't. In episode 3 of this 4-part series, Duke University's Jacqueline Rodriguez delves into the hacking gangs who hacked UnitedHealth and extorted the firm.

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    16 mins
  • UnitedHealth hack episode 2 -- What makes this cyberattack so significant?
    May 13 2025

    Nearly 200 million Americans' data were exposed by the UnitedHealth hack, and the event crippled some healthcare delivery systems across the country. In episode 2 of the UnitedHealth hack series, Duke's Navina Doss reveals the true depth of the cyberattack.

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    10 mins
  • UnitedHealth hack Episode 1: Timeline of a health data disaster
    May 12 2025

    Imagine showing up at a pharmacy and being told you can't pick up your prescription because of a cyberattack. The UnitedHealthcare hack was much more than a typical smash-and-grab data theft. In the opening episode of Duke University's 4-part series on the UnitedHealth hack, Veronica Roque offers a day-by-day account as the true depth and significance of the cyberattack slowly became apparent.

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    22 mins
  • Announcing the UnitedHealth hack series
    May 12 2025

    Duke University Professor David Hoffman joins host Bob Sullivan to explain the 4-part series Debugger will soon release covering all aspects of the UnitedHealthcare hack or 2024.

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    5 mins
  • The Center for Latin American Convergence
    Mar 26 2024

    The Latin American tech industry is growing….fast…and so is the region’s cybersecurity needs. There’s an ambitious plan to bring together all the various interested parties for discussion at an organization called the Center for Latin American Convergence – also known as CCLATAM. Today’s guest is Piero Bonadeo, president and co-founder of the Miami-based organization.

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    13 mins
  • 'We need a lot of people to protect the world'
    Mar 6 2024

    There's a shortage of cybersecurity professionals all around to world -- and that includes Costa Rica, home of today's guest, Carolina Taborda. She heads a new project there called the CyberSec Cluster which aims to deal with this issue, among others. Taborda joins us just a few days before a Cybersecurity Leadership Program in Costa Rica that will be co-hosted by Duke University.

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    15 mins