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How Russia Uses Facial Recognition to Stop Protestors

Facial recognition systems are here. They’ve been deployed extensively along America’s southern border and in its cities. Authoritarian regimes in Iran and Russia are using the technology to crack dow

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Olympic Destroyer

In the midst of 35,000 exhilarated spectators eagerly chanting the time-honored countdown to kick off the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, a sinister malware crept through the games' network, threate

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Adrian the Video Game Hacker and GDC 2023

A chat + interview combo in which we talk with Adrian Bednarek, a man who has been hacking video games for profit for about as long as there has been any profit to be made hacking video games, and JB

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What’s Driving the AI Hype?

Love it or hate it, you can’t escape artificial intelligence. People are using Midjourney to make viral photos of Donald Trump’s arrest and the Pop’s puffy coat. Redditors are creating entire fake his

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The DEA Is Skipping Warrants and Buying Data from Rogue Employees

In America, no one can protect you from a transportation employee being paid off by the feds. The Drug Enforcement Agency has a single remit: to prosecute America’s long-failed war on drugs. Jose

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Why Does Congress Want to Ban TikTok?

America is thinking about banning the most popular social media app in the world. TikTok has exploded in the past few years and whether you love it or hate it, you can’t deny its huge

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Scalpers Are Selling Whole Ticketmaster Accounts Now

It’s almost impossible to get retail priced tickets to The Cure’s newest live tour. Fans are, once again, turning to the secondary market despite the band’s insistence that Ticketmaster shut it down.&

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The Lawerence Berkeley Hack, Part 2

Oמ May 23rd, 1989, Karl Koch - a 23 years old West German hacker who worked for the KGB - took a drive, from which he would never return: Nine days later his charred remains were found by the police i

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Hunting Warhead Introduces: The Naked Emperor

Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't like other crypto moguls: he drove a Toyota Corolla, he was an advocate for government regulation, he said he would give billions away to charity. That is, until he lost it al

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This Is Why America's Trains Keep Crashing

In America the trains never seem to run on time. On February 3, a train crashed in East Palestine, Ohio releasing toxic chemicals into the air. Almost a month later, another train owned by the same co

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Crypto Mines in Crawl Spaces, Youtube as Infinite Storage, and Voice Biometrics Aren't Doin

A chat episode about the a teacher who allegedly built a crypto mine in a school crawl space, researchers using Stable Diffusion to read MRIs, the state of voice biometrics, a credential stuffing atta

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Crypto Mines in Crawl Spaces + Youtube as Infinite Storage +Voice Biometrics Aren't Doing S

A chat episode about the a teacher who allegedly built a crypto mine in a school crawl space, researchers using Stable Diffusion to read MRIs, the state of voice biometrics, a credential stuffing atta

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WTF Is Up With the Silicon Valley Bank Bailout?

Collapse. It’s the word on everybody’s lips. Silicon Valley Bank and Signature are no more. The banks, folks, they’ve collapsed. But don’t worry, these aren’t your typical banks. SVB and Signature wer

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LastPass Isn’t Safe and Your Hiking App May be Tracking You

It’s Cipher time, baby. It’s that infrequent style of Cyber we do where we decipher Motherboard’s tech coverage in a potpourri for the panopticon age. On today’s episode we’ve got a little bit of

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The Lawerence Berkeley Hack, Part 1

Four decades ago, three quarters would’ve gone a lot further than they do today. With that kind of loose change you could’ve picked up some milk from the grocery store, or over half a gallon of gas, o

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The Great Balloon Panic Has Been Weird But Good for Balloon Hobbyists

On February 4, 2023, an F-22 fighter jet committed the first air to air kill in the weapons history. It was an alleged Chinese spy balloon near Myrtle Beach. In the days that followed the F-22 would s

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How Tubgirl Became a TikTok Sensation

YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok are awash in people reacting to horrifying videos. 2 girls 1 cup, Tubgirl, Goatse, and websites like Ogrish.com shaped the modern internet. Appropriating and sharing the

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The King of Ad Fraud

The story of how profitable it can be to serve ads to nobody, featuring Zach Edwards from HUMAN Security. We discuss Methbot, Vastflux, how organized criminals use ad fraud to launder wild sums of mon

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Russian Propaganda, Explained [ML B-Side]

You may have heard of the cyber operations performed by Russia. You definitely heard about the missiles being fired by Russia at Ukraine - but how about the propaganda being distributed through the di

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We Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

Banks in the U.S. and Europe tout voice ID as a secure way to log into your account. We proved it's possible to trick such systems with free or cheap AI-generated voices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co

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Operation Ivy Bells

In the early 1970's, US intelligance pointed at the possibility that the Russians have laid an underwater communication cable between two important naval bases in the Far East. The dangerous mission o

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The FBI Shuts Down Hive, Sky Hacks, and the Phishing Never Ends.

A chat episode about the FBI takedown of the Hive ransomware as a service gang, a leak of the No Fly List, a mucked up file that grounded every plane in the US, the persistence of phishing, and the sl

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Why Do NFTs Disappear? [ML B-Side]

What happens when an NFT marketplace goes under, and disappears? You would imagine that the users’ NFTs are perfectly safe: after all, the blockchain itself is still there, right? But that’s not how t

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Why Do NFTs Disappear? [ML BSide]

What happens when an NFT marketplace goes under, and disappears? You would imagine that the users’ NFTs are perfectly safe: after all, the blockchain itself is still there, right?But that’s not how th

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Voice Generating-AI Is Now the Plaything of 4Chan

AI has made the voice of Emma Watson say some very strange things, and 4Chan is to blame. But trolls playing with new tools aren’t the only villain in this story. Actors are being ask

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2022 in Cybersecurity [CPRadio]

In 2022, government APTs wiped out entire computer systems, hackers turned good software evil, and ransomware evolved into something entirely new. In this episode we'll review the biggest stories, mos

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What's the Deal With AI Seinfeld?

What if you could watch new episodes of your favorite shows, forever?That’s one of the promises of artificial intelligence. On Twitch, the show Nothing, Forever pumped out episode after episode of con

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The (Other) Problem with NFTs

Physical artworks in museums are usually well-guarded - but digital artworks are something else entirely: in 2021 alone, scammers successfully stole 100 million dollars worth of non-fungible tokens, o

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One Man’s Obsession With Being 18 Forever

What would you give to live forever? Hell, what would you give to have the body of an 18-year-old well into your 40s? That’s the goal of tech CEO Bryan Johnnson. He is, by his own estimation, the most

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Iran’s AI-Powered Surveillance State

On January 31, a court in Iran handed out a combined sentence of 10 years to a couple who danced outside of Azadi Tower in Tehran, Iran. A film of the brief dance went viral on Instagram and Twitter.

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Beaming in the Metaverse

A conversation about all the conversations we aren't having about Roblox. Featuring Quintin Smith of People Make Games.Check outHow to Fix the Internet by the EFF: more about your

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SIM Swapping Follow Up [ML B-Side]

A chat + interview combo in which we talk with Adrian Bednarek, a man who has been hacking video games for profit for about as long as there has been any profit to be made hacking video games, and JB3