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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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168. Exclusive: Senator Mark Warner on election fears...

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2024/09/24

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.

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12:18

167. Mic Drop: TikTok’s day in Appeals Court

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2024/09/20

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.

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33:57

166. The curious case of Esma Memtimin’s disappearing...

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2024/09/17

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.

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13:22

165. Mic Drop: FIN7 is hiring

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2024/09/13

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.

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37:13

164. The Hunt for FIN7: Hot on the trail of a ...

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2024/09/10

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.

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14:23

163. Mic Drop: From banned to beloved, the Taliban’s...

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2024/09/06

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.

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33:30

162. Ehtesab in Afghanistan: an app’s struggle to...

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2024/09/03

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.

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17:01

161. Mic Drop: Can ransomware be an act of terror?

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2024/08/30

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.

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34:53

160. Anatomy of a fall: One rural hospital’s...

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2024/08/27

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.

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14:47

159. Mic Drop: The NSA’s Cryptologic Museum - a...

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2024/08/23

Just a stone’s throw from the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic Museum displays dozens of rarely seen code breaking machines that, quite literally, changed the course of history. We take a tour and chat with the museum’s affable director, Vince Houghton.

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31:26

158. The antidote to our disinformation woes? Just a...

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2024/08/20

For years now, the Internet has trafficked in things that are more mean than fun. Disinformation, online bullying, and a general malaise are all over social media. We talk to former Stanford Internet Observatory Research Director Renee Diresta about her new book “Invisible Rulers” and ask why, ahead of the DNC Convention, the Dems’ new unbearable lightness has gone so viral.

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16:19

157. Mic Drop: For researcher Alison Nixon, young...

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2024/08/16

We talk with Unit 221B’s Allison Nixon about young cyber criminals, radicalization, and the search for self in the virtual world.

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37:33

156. Something different: a hacker redemption story

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2024/08/13

This isn’t your typical hacker tale. The one about boy meets computer, boy loves computer, boy weaponizes computer to commit crimes. This is about what comes after that.

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155. Mic Drop: Researcher Nina Jankowicz on Fox News,...

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2024/08/09

The latest on disinformation researcher Nina Jankowicz’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News — and why the Dominion Voting Machine settlement doesn’t necessarily help her case.

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29:28

154. It’s 9 o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd...

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2024/08/06

A new wave of piano scams is targeting the weakest link on the internet: humans.

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153. Mic Drop: CrowdStrike and the importance of kernels

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2024/08/02

Today, we’re talking to TJ Nelson at Recorded Future in a bid to understand how the CrowdStrike outage caused millions of computers around the world to fade to black.

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152. The curious case of Tigran Gambaryan -- a...

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2024/07/30

In a recent conversation on WAMU’s 1A news magazine, Click Here host Dina Temple-Raston discusses the latest developments in the case of former IRS investigator Tigran Gambaryan. He now works for the cryptocurrency exchange, Binance. Nigerian prosecutors have charged Gambaryan, a middle manager at the company, for what they say are his employer’s transgressions. He’s been held in Nigeria since February.

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151. Mic Drop: Embattled LockBit leader: ‘Now I want...

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2024/07/26

In an ancore episode of Click Here's Mic Drop, we speak with the leader of one of the most prolific ransomware-as-a-service gangs the world has ever known — LockBit. We spoke to him weeks after Operation Cronos, a global police action against the group.

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150. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'The Hack' from An Arm and a Leg

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2024/07/23

The hack on Change Healthcare left hundreds, if not thousands, of providers without the ability to obtain insurance approval or payment for everything from prescriptions to surgeries, and it shed new light on a part of the health care system that is often overlooked. Dan Weissmann, the host of An Arm and a Leg podcast, speaks with reporters Brittany Trang of STAT News and Maureen Tkacik of The American Prospect about the hack and what it is telling us about antitrust concerns in the health care

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149. Mic Drop: China seeks a Great Leap Forward in cyber

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2024/07/19

Chinese hackers are stepping up their game, according to Nigel Inkster, the former director of operations for Britain’s MI6. In an encore episode of Mic Drop, he says Chinese hackers are taking on a new swagger in cyberspace and borrowing things from a familiar playbook: a Russian one.

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