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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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Recent Episodes of Click Here


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

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

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.

Episode 10 September 2024 37m and 13s


163. Mic Drop: From banned to beloved,  the Taliban’s unexpected embrace of the Internet

163. Mic Drop: From banned to beloved, the Taliban’s unexpected embrace of the Internet

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.

Episode 6 September 2024 14m and 23s


162. Ehtesab in Afghanistan: an app’s struggle to survive under the Taliban

162. Ehtesab in Afghanistan: an app’s struggle to survive under the Taliban

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.

Episode 3 September 2024 33m and 30s


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

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

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.

Episode 30 August 2024 17m and 1s


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

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

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.

Episode 27 August 2024 34m and 53s


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

159. Mic Drop: 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 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.

Episode 23 August 2024 15m and 47s


158. The antidote to our disinformation woes? Just a dash of fun

158. The antidote to our disinformation woes? Just a dash of fun

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.

Episode 20 August 2024 31m and 26s


157. Mic Drop: For researcher Alison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’

157. Mic Drop: For researcher Alison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’

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

Episode 16 August 2024 17m and 19s


156. Something different: a hacker redemption story

156. Something different: a hacker redemption story

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.

Episode 13 August 2024 37m and 33s


155. Mic Drop: Researcher Nina Jankowicz on Fox News, defamation, and our new information reality

155. Mic Drop: Researcher Nina Jankowicz on Fox News, defamation, and our new information reality

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.






Episode 9 August 2024 15m and 12s

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