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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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Last Episode Date: 17 January 2025

Total Episodes: 202

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Mic Drop: Elon Musk, come and get your space junk.
17 January 2025
Mic Drop: Elon Musk, come and get your space junk.

Jordan Hobbs, a cattle farmer in the Australian Outback, discovers an unexpected offering from low-earth orbit.

10 min
Space Jam: What if adversaries hacked a dead satellite?
14 January 2025
Space Jam: What if adversaries hacked a dead satellite?

Former NASA astronaut Ed Lu used to worry about asteroids crashing into earth. Now, he’s turned his attention to an even more pressing problem – the weaponization of space debris — and officials say it may have already happened.

24 min
Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom
10 January 2025
Mic Drop: Russia’s unexpected wartime real estate boom

Russia’s military spending has propped up the economy, made some military families rich and set off a housing boom. But some worry the center will not hold.

12 min
Tech workers return to Russia, not quite with love
7 January 2025
Tech workers return to Russia, not quite with love

We look at the strange and complicated journeys of Russian tech workers who left their country by the thousands when the war in Ukraine first began and now, begrudgingly, are returning home.

25 min
Mic Drop: The demise of ransomware and the rise of crypto
3 January 2025
Mic Drop: The demise of ransomware and the rise of crypto

2024 was a banner year for cybercriminal takedowns. Recorded Future analyst Alexander Leslie talks about how ransomware has had to adapt and what the Trump administration’s vow to take cryptocurrency mainstream will mean for the cyber criminals in 2025.

13 min
196. 2024: A year of living more dangerously in cyberspace.
31 December 2024
196. 2024: A year of living more dangerously in cyberspace.

In a recent conversation on WAMU’s nationally syndicated 1A news show, Click Here’s Dina Temple-Raston speaks with 1A’s host Jenn White about China and Russia’s increasingly aggressive cyberattacks, and in the second half of the show, White speaks with human rights advocate Bill Browder about what the world needs to do for Ukraine.

42 min
195. Mic Drop: A return to the NSA's Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher's dream
27 December 2024
195. Mic Drop: A return to the NSA's Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher's dream

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

11 min
194. A return to the musicians who came in from the cold
24 December 2024
194. A return to the musicians who came in from the cold

At a time when Vladimir Putin is attempting to redraw the Iron Curtain, we revisit an earlier episode in which we take a trip back to the Soviet Union circa 1985 when four American musicians smuggled messages in and out of the Soviet Union — with music.

22 min
193. Mic Drop: For researcher Allison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’
20 December 2024
193. Mic Drop: For researcher Allison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’

We return to a conversation we had over the summer with Unit 221B’s Allison Nixon about young cybercriminals, radicalization, and the search for self in the virtual world.

13 min
192. Return to the leak that unmasked China’s hackers-for-hire
17 December 2024
192. Return to the leak that unmasked China’s hackers-for-hire

Recently, the US sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity company and one of its employees who compromised tens of thousands of firewalls worldwide, with potentially deadly consequences. All of this could sound a little familiar to regular listeners. Earlier this year, CLICK HERE reported on a huge leak of internal documents from a private cybersecurity company that pulled back the curtain on the secret world of China’s hacker-for-hire network.

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