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 a...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.