The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.
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Once again, Tony Sheng finds himself without a job. This time, he wants to get it right. There are millions of things you could do, but you can only ever do one of those things at a time. It’s not fair. How do you find what you’re really meant to do? So instead of getting a job, he is starting a podcast to find out what everybody else is doing. And whether he should do it too. Honest and playful, Click Here To Apply is a weekly opportunity for Tony to catch up with the most interesting peopl ...
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187. Mic Drop: Crypto and the man: Prof. Lamont Black on Donald Trump’s federal bitcoin reserve
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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?…
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186. Ukraine’s Radio ROKS: Heavy metal (and hackers) for brothers in arms
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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.Door Recorded Future News
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185. Mic Drop: Evelyn Farkas on Ukraine: ‘Don’t count them out’
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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 tru…
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184. Escape from Bamban: One man’s scam farm nightmare in the Philippines
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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.Door Recorded Future News
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Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu says Moore’s Law of computing power doesn’t just apply to chips anymore – he says it describes the exponential growth of satellite launches, too.Door Recorded Future News
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182. Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone on national security threats, life after the NSA, and a possible return to government
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(November 12, 2024) A week before the election, we sat down with Ret. General Paul Nakasone and he talked about North Korea, Russian hackers, his life after the NSA and why he hasn’t ruled out taking another government job. More from our interview: https://therecord.media/nakasone-click-here-interview-north-korea-exploding-pagers-government-job…
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181. A hacker’s final frontier — Space
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Recently, a lot of smart people who work on space problems gathered at the Value of Space Summit in Colorado Springs and talked to us about the things that keep them up at night. At the top of their list? Earthlings hacking satellites and speeding bits of space junk.Door Recorded Future News
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180. Mic Drop Exclusive: Gen. Nakasone says reports about influence campaigns are ‘a sign of success’
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We sit down one-on-one with Retired General Paul Nakasone, the man who dreamed up the US response to the latest iteration of foreign election chicanery. He explains why he’s so confident the 2024 vote will be safe and secure.Door Recorded Future News
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179. Mic Drop: Guardians of the Galaxy are sitting in Colorado Springs
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While the world was taking selfies against the colorful backdrop of solar storm auroras this past spring, officials at the Space Watch Center in Colorado Springs were searching for something more nefarious.Door Recorded Future News
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178. Saving Odie: A team of space geeks, a scrappy lunar lander and today’s hackable space race
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NASA has off-loaded much of the space program onto the private sector. Companies are building space suits and moon buggies and lunar landers. We tell the story of a scrappy little lander — and how earthlings had to hack it to save it.Door Recorded Future News
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177. Mic Drop: NSA’s David Luber on Russia, China and the power of partnerships
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We talk to the NSA’s Director of Cybersecurity, David Luber, about Ukraine, adversaries in cyberspace, and the importance of partnerships.Door Recorded Future News
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176. Spamouflage: Is China’s best known disinformation gang taking new aim at the US?
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China’s influence campaigns look different from Russia’s. Instead of Moscow’s firehose of falsehoods, the Chinese tend to change the subject by inundating social media hashtags with content. And, Click Here has learned, their premier disinformation gang appears to be honing its skills on, among others, Florida Senator Marco Rubio. First in 2022, an…
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We talk to Nick Percoco, Kraken’s chief security officer, about joining forces with a popular YouTube scambaiter.Door Recorded Future News
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174. Beyond Ukraine: Russia wages low-grade, hybrid attacks on Europe
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Dozens of small acts of sabotage and arson have flared across Europe as part of Russia’s hybrid battle against the West. This week, we spoke with four experts on Europe and Russia at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC to try to make sense of the Russian campaign and what the West can do in response.…
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173. Mic Drop: Hear ye, Hear ye, the Hacker’s Court is in session
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We re-visit our conversation with Analyst1 senior researcher Jon DiMaggio about how hackers settle their disputes – think People’s Court without all the robes.Door Recorded Future News
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172. Want a crypto education? A new WhatsApp scam is tailor-made just for you.
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When Stephanie joined a WhatsApp group to get advice on cryptocurrency investing, it began a wild ride that included the CEO of a large investment firm, cybercriminals half a world away, and a brush with a rag tag team of computer nerds in Alabama chasing a $5 billion problem.Door Recorded Future News
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171. Mic Drop: Andrew Ferguson says AI’s introduction into the simple police report, isn’t that simple.
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In the U.S. criminal justice system, a lot of things hinge on the simple police report. As departments begin to use AI and large language model software to help cops write them, American University law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson worries people don’t understand the possible downstream effects.Door Recorded Future News
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