493 Episodes

  1. Mic Drop: The man behind a Binance exec’s Nigerian detention

    Published: 2/14/2025
  2. The Company Man: Binance exec detained in Nigeria breaks his silence

    Published: 2/11/2025
  3. Mic Drop: The algorithm will see you now - AI and psychiatry

    Published: 2/7/2025
  4. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘With AIs Wide Open’ from IRL: Online Life is Real Life

    Published: 2/4/2025
  5. Mic Drop: Tracking a Ghost

    Published: 1/31/2025
  6. Knights of Old and a ransomware joust

    Published: 1/28/2025
  7. Mic Drop: Australia’s attempt to keep kids off social media

    Published: 1/24/2025
  8. Australia takes aim at encrypted apps

    Published: 1/21/2025
  9. Mic Drop: Elon Musk, come and get your space junk.

    Published: 1/17/2025
  10. Space Jam: What if adversaries hacked a dead satellite?

    Published: 1/14/2025
  11. Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom

    Published: 1/10/2025
  12. Tech workers return to Russia, not quite with love

    Published: 1/7/2025
  13. Mic Drop: The demise of ransomware and the rise of crypto

    Published: 1/3/2025
  14. 196. 2024: A year of living more dangerously in cyberspace.

    Published: 12/31/2024
  15. 195. Mic Drop: A return to the NSA's Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher's dream

    Published: 12/27/2024
  16. 194. A return to the musicians who came in from the cold

    Published: 12/24/2024
  17. 193. Mic Drop: For researcher Allison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’

    Published: 12/20/2024
  18. 192. Return to the leak that unmasked China’s hackers-for-hire

    Published: 12/17/2024
  19. 191. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘(Ai)ding Cybercrime’ from SHIFT

    Published: 12/13/2024
  20. 190. Return to the curious case of the disappearing TikTok videos

    Published: 12/10/2024

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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.