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  • 166. The curious case of Esma Memtimin’s disappearing TikTok videos

    166. The curious case of Esma Memtimin’s disappearing TikTok videos
    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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    34 分
  • 165. Mic Drop: FIN7 is hiring

    165. Mic Drop: FIN7 is hiring
    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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    13 分
  • 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
    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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    37 分
  • 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
    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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    14 分
  • 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
    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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    34 分
  • 161. Mic Drop: Can ransomware be an act of terror?

    161. Mic Drop: Can ransomware be an act of terror?
    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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    17 分
  • 160. Anatomy of a fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story

    160. Anatomy of a fall: One rural hospital’s ransomware story
    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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    35 分
  • 159. Mic Drop: The NSA’s Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher’s dream

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