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Hunting Warhead Introduces: Gay Girl Gone

Of all the young in Syria during the Arab Spring, Amina is different. An out lesbian in a country where homosexuality is illegal, she bravely documents her life on the blog Gay Girl in

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Hunting Warhead Introduces: Bloodlines

From BBC Sounds and CBC Podcasts. Syria. 2018. ISIS is on the brink of defeat. A toddler disappears in the chaos. In London, his grandad needs answers. Poonam Taneja investigates. More episodes are av

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The Viral Kia Boys’ Car Theft Trend That’s Going Viral on Instagram

Kias and Hyundais are being stolen in America at an alarming rate. Using a screwdriver and a USB cable, it’s trivially easy to steal one. Kia and Hyundai blame social media, but the problem is so over

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H1 2023 in Cybersecurity [CPRadio]

Once a year, Check Point Research releases a “mid-year report”: a summary of the first half of the calendar year in cybersecurity, including all of the major changes, trends, and events that defined J

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Hunting Warhead Introduces: Crime Story

Fraud. Abduction. Murder. Every week, Crime Story host and investigative journalist Kathleen Goldhar goes deep into a tale of true crime with the storyteller who knows it best. From the reporter who e

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Space Junk, Nuclear Waste, AI Nukes and the Reason We’re All Still Here

There’s a lot of reasons to be worried about the future. Climate change, nuclear weapons, space junk, and World War III are all threats both present and long-term. But, every day, people are trying to

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Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Broke and How to Fix It

Have you noticed your internet is …. kinda shitty? Does Spotfiy’s smart shuffle keep playing the same Cure song over and over again? Does a quick google search give you page after page of obvious adve

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You Can't Automate Buy-In

Putting new technology to use is an exciting prospect. But going from purchase to production isn’t always smooth—even when it’s something everyone is looking forward to. Code Comments covers the bumps

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Silent Firewalls: The of Women in Cyber

In the vast landscape of STEM, women constitute a mere 28% of the workforce. Yet, when we zoom into the realm of cybersecurity, the number dwindles even further to a startling 20 to 24 percent. What a

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Vegas Gets Hacked + So Does Sony + The Crypto Reality Show

On this chat episode we discuss the twin hacks of two of the biggest casino companies in the world, the recent claims of a new hack against Sony, another piece of stalkerware hacked, and a very entert

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The Real History of the Luddites

Luddites! It’s a dirty word, right? One that’s become synonymous with crusaders that want to return us to an idyllic past where everyone is free from their phones. But who were the Lud

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Operation Underground Railroad, Psychic Intelligence, and The Sound of Freedom’

This summer, a movie called The Sound of Freedom took America by storm. The hero was Tim Ballard, the founder of an organization called Operation Underground Railroad. The movie depicted Ballard as an

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Hunting Warhead Introduces: Someone Knows Something | Season 8

Host David Ridgen joins victims' family members as they investigate cold cases, tracking down leads, speaking to suspects and searching for answers. In the 8th season of Someone Kno

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Operation Kudo

In 1981, during the G7 Summit in Quebec, French president Francois Mitterand handen President Raegan a top secret collection of documents, called "Farewell Dossier." The information found in t

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How to Brute Force Music

The story of two guys who set out to put every musical melody in the world into the public domain, and the technology they hacked together to do it. Featuring Damien Riehl from

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Extremely Online’ With Taylor Lorenz

It’s time for a new history of the internet, one that focuses on the recent revolutions that define the world we all live in. Social media has changed the way many of us live and work. It’s a world de

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Hot Labor Summer

The heat is still here, but the summer will soon be over. Here at the precipice of fall I wanted to take a moment to reflect on one of the big stories that Motherboard covered this season: labor, stri

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Can We Stop the AI Cyber Threat?

Much of the cybersecurity software in use today utilizes AI, especially things like spam filters and network traffic monitors. But will all those tools be enough to stop the proliferation of malware t

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FraudGPT + Chip Wars + Hacking Poker Machines + The Problem with Credit Bureaus

In this chat episode we discuss the new world of sketchy ChatGPT alternatives like WormGPT and FraudGPT, take a brief detour into the looming chip wars, before bringing it home with stories about a po

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The Jason Koebler Exit Interview, Part Two

It’s part two of our bittersweet episode of Cyber where we bid farewell to Motherboard Jason Koebler. This week we do a deep dive into the Motherboard lore. The stories that broke us,

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Is Generative AI Dangerous?

Every so often, the entire landscape of cybersecurity shifts, all at once: The latest seismic shift in the field occurred just last year. So in this episode of Malicious Life we’re going to take a loo

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Rare Motherboard Lore and a Goodbye to Jason Koebler

It’s a bittersweet episode of Cyber as we bid farewell to Motherboard Jason Koebler. It’s a long episode so we’ve split it into two parts. This week you get some discussions about the

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Pondering the Worldcoin Orb + the Gang Who Cracked Outlook + Hacking Together Superconducto

In this chat episode we discuss Sam Altman's Worldcoin biometric ID / crypto project, the cybercrime syndicate that used a vulnerability in Microsoft to hack the US State Department, and a weird week

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Why aren't there more bug bounty programs?

On the face of it, there's an obvious economic incentive for both vendors and security researchers to collaborate on disclosing safely and privately. Yet bug bounty programs have g

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The Viral Science Video That Will Save the World or Do Nothing At All

are here! Maybe! Look, science is a liar sometimes, especially in the internet age. Motherboard science reporter Becky Ferreira is here to help us parse the truth from

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Mission Critical

Jordan interviews TechCrunch Senior Writer Lorenzo about a new chapter in crypto in the US; the first criminal charges for hacking a decentralized crypto exchange. Which is maybe

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The Barbenheimer Special

We’ve got a super sized Cyber for you today that’s all about the two hottest movies in theaters. One is a mythological take on the creation of the modern world and the devastating weapons that ushered

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The Voynich Manuscript

The constant battle between those who wish to encrypt data and those who wish to break these ciphers has made modern encryption schemes extremely powerful. Subsequently, the tools and methods to break

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Adam Conover On the Hollywood Strike

It’s a brutally hot summer, a great time to cool off in an air conditioned movie theater or to catch up on some of those TV shows you’ve had on your list forever. But did you know the people who make

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Stalking Stalkerware + FTX Spending Sprees + the Uncertain Future of AI Game Dev

On this chat episode we talk about recent public disclosures revealing all the wild stuff FTX bought, the hacking of LetMeSpy and the world of stalkerware, and a Reddit post that revealed a major shif

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The False Claims Behind an Group’s Hollywood Moment

A movie about a Mormon activist made headlines when it beat Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny at the box office. But Sound of Freedom’s box office numbers aren’t all they’re crack

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How Microsoft Changed Cyberspace With One Decision [CPRadio]

Kias and Hyundais are being stolen in America at an alarming rate. Using a screwdriver and a USB cable, it’s trivially easy to steal one. Kia and Hyundai blame social media, but the problem is so over3