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Byron Tau on data brokers; US sanctions, indicts Chinese hackers
Journalist Byron Tau sits down with host Elias Groll to discuss his eye-opening book about commercially available data. CyberScoop reporter Derek B. Johnson…
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Sherrod DeGrippo on APT groups experimenting with AI
When ChatGPT debuted in the fall of 2022, it set the internet ablaze and opened many people’s eyes to the capabilities of a new generation of machine learning…
Safe Mode PodcastKiersten Todt on the cybersecurity policy landscape; AI training for election officials
Kiersten Todt has worked on just about every hot-button cybersecurity issue you can imagine. Currently the CEO of Liberty Group Ventures, her most recent role…
Safe Mode PodcastDavid Haber breaks down the AI security industry; ALPHV snarls U.S. health care
Every day, AI models are being deployed in new places, and that is creating demand for a new industry: companies that secure AI systems. Whether it’s…
Safe Mode PodcastRobert M. Lee on critical infrastructure attacks; and is LockBit back?
In recent months, U.S. security officials have issued a series of dire warnings about the hacking threat to American critical infrastructure. According to a…
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LockBit’s very bad day; Adam Meyers on Israel-Gaza cyber ops
When Hamas fighters crossed into Israel on Oct. 7, killing some 1,200 Israelis and kidnapping hundreds more, it marked a new era of the conflict between Israel…
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Legal aid for hackers; Big Tech wants action on commercial spyware
Whether you call it hacking or legitimate security research, getting computers to do things that they shouldn’t is an activity that exists in a legal gray…
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How the Pentagon is embracing AI; election officials’ concerns going into 2024
Everyone seems to agree that AI is going to revolutionize warfare, but exactly how is very much up for debate. Jack Shanahan has worked at the center of the…
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Craig Newmark on why he’s funding cybersecurity projects
Founded in 1995, Craigslist helped shape the modern web as we know it today, reshaping online economies and how people bought and sold goods. Today, its…
Safe Mode PodcastThreats to elections in 2024 and a deepfake in New Hampshire
In the year 2024, elections will take place around the world affecting some 4 billion people — an election year unlike any other. Besides the United States…
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How do you prevent a political campaign from getting hacked?
The upcoming year will feature an unprecedented number of democratic elections. In addition to the United States’s pivotal federal elections, countries that…
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Looking back at 2023 with the NSA’s Rob Joyce and Morgan Adamski
In our first episode of the year, we begin by looking back at 2023. The NSA’s Rob Joyce and Morgan Adamski sit down with host Elias Groll to examine the major…
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Major breaches, the government’s AI push and UFOs: Scoop reporters on 2023’s biggest stories
In our final episode of the year, host Elias Groll sits down with reporters from CyberScoop, FedScoop and Defense Scoop to discuss the biggest stories of the…
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Five years of Distributed Denial of Secrets and a dangerous automotive vulnerability
It was WikiLeaks that pioneered the publishing and hosting of sensitive information, and while Julian Assange’s whistleblowing project has withered away…
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Iranian attacks on U.S. water systems and the data broker economy
To be a person in the world today is to have your data collected. Whether it’s your internet browsing history, your location history as you walk around with…
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Supercomputers for AI and the proliferation of commercial spyware
A growing industry exists today that provides governments with highly advanced tools to surveil their opponents. While this industry has become personified by…
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A deep dive on cyberpsychology and a look at autonomy in the U.S. military
Just as behavioral psychology revolutionized economics by integrating human behavior into the study of financial decisions — creating the field of behavioral…
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Russian cyberattack cut power in Ukraine, Michigan secretary of state talks election security
Russia’s cyberattacks against Ukraine’s electrical grid occupy a canonical place in the history of cyber warfare. By turning out the lights in Ukraine in 2016…
Safe Mode PodcastBiden’s AI executive order and a CIA veteran on North Korean cyber ops
President Joe Biden’s sprawling executive order on artificial intelligence has finally arrived. The sprawling document contains a long list of new…
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The “new elite” shaping coverage of Israel and Gaza
Over the past 15 years, Twitter — now X — has become pivotal to how we understand crises. From the Arab Spring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and, now, the…
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Inside the FBI’s DDOS investigations with Special Agent Elliott Peterson
Distributed denial of service attacks are one of the great nuisances of online life today, but they can also have more serious impact on the internet…
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Perri Adams on DARPA’s AI cyber challenge and Israeli cyber operations
Cybersecurity firms have pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in their products, but the latest generation of AI technology offers hope that a greater…
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GOP presidential candidate Will Hurd on cyber, AI and China
When Will Hurd served in the House of Representatives he quickly made a name for himself as one of the Congress’s leading voices on cybersecurity. The Texas…
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Journalist Kashmir Hill on facial recognition and the underage hackers hitting Vegas
When journalist Kashmir Hill first revealed the facial recognition technology built by Clearview AI it served as a wake up call for what a group of renegade…
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Venture capital landscape for cybersecurity startups and how Elon Musk broke X's privacy protections
A slowing U.S. economy has taken a brutal toll on cybersecurity companies. A deteriorating economic environment has resulted in cutbacks in security spending…
Safe Mode PodcastTen years of I Am the Cavalry, a Microsoft mystery revealed and Trickbot sanctions
Josh Corman and Beau Woods, the founders of I Am the Cavalry, join CyberScoop Senior Editor to discuss the ten-year anniversary of their grassroots hacking…
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Big ideas for solving the cyber skills gap, hacking AI and furries at DEF CON
It’s been called the cybersecurity poverty line. Many organizations just don’t have the money to afford a skilled cybersecurity team to protect themselves from…
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Live from Black Hat: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade on Microsoft’s recent cybersecurity problems
A string of breaches involving Microsoft infrastructure has left many within the security community frustrated with the company’s approach to securing its…
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Former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis from Black Hat in Las Vegas
Chris Inglis led the Office of the National Cyber Director until February of this year and helped steer national policy on some of the most pressing national…
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FBI surveillance and the fight in Washington over FISA Section 702
Sean Vitka, senior policy counsel at the tech advocacy group Demand Progress, joins the show to discuss the debate over Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence…
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Bilyana Lilly on how cybersecurity assistance to Ukraine has helped thwart Russian cyberattacks
Writer and researcher Bilyana Lilly breaks down how private sector and government assistance to Ukraine has helped stop many Russian cyberattacks targeting…
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Bruce Schneier on thinking like hackers, AI and rebuilding US democracy
Thinking like a hacker means finding creative solutions to big problems, discovering flaws in order to make improvements and often subverting conventional…
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Victor Zhora on the frontlines of digital war between Ukraine and Russia
Cyberattacks have played a significant role in the war in Ukraine. Officials in Washington and Kyiv have blamed Russian hackers for targeting satellite systems…
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White House cyber adviser Anne Neuberger on AI, disinformation and Russian hackers
There’s growing concern about the existential dangers of AI. At the same time, there’s boundless optimism about its potential for good. Anne Neuberger, White…
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How the FBI fights ransomware
When the FBI seized the website earlier this year operated by the Hive ransomware group, it was the result of the bureau's efforts to infiltrate the…
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Why pig butchering is the worst kind of online scam
Pig butchering has become an all-too-common online con that costs victims millions of dollars annually. And there’s little remedy for a growing number of…
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Safe Mode - Trailer
You've probably noticed that hackers are changing the world. Everday, data breaches are putting you at risk. Privacy invading apps are chasing your attention…