How Online Disinformation Affects the Real World

Introducing CYBER: A Hacking Podcast by MOTHERBOARD: Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to. CYBER is coming next week, and will help you understand... by CYBER

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The PewDiePie Hacks: In November, 50,000 printers started suddenly printing a message urging recipients to subscribe to PewDiePie—YouTube’s most popular star ever, with 80 million subscribers. It came with a warning, too: That the printers were hacked because they were dan... by CYBER

23 min listen

How the ‘New York Times’ Protects its Journalists From Hackers and Spies: This week, CYBER speaks to Runa Sandvik, the senior director of information security at The New York Times about how she helps the Times journalists stay safe online and help them protect sources.  by CYBER

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How to Track Government Hackers and APTs: Fancy Bear, APT10, Lazarus Group, Charming Kitten. These are all the names given to government hacker groups. And if you pay any attention to cybersecurity news you heard about Russian hackers, Chinese hackers, and groups that are usually called APTs... by CYBER

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America's Voting Machines Are Vulnerable to Election Hacking: When you say “election hacking” it means something different than the Kremlin's disinformation campaigns. On this episode of CYBER, we talk about what real election hacking is with Motherboard contributor Kim Zetter, who just wrote a piece for New... by CYBER

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The Base: CYBER host Ben Makuch and reporter Mack Lamoureux recently spent months embedded on in a secretive social network called “The Base," which is used by American neo-Nazis to organize real-life meetups. by CYBER

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The Dark Overlord and the 9/11 Insurance Files Hack: A few hours before midnight on New Year’s Eve, the mysterious hacking group the Dark Overlord tweeted a link to an encrypted file: “We'll be providing many answers about 9/11 conspiracies through our 18,000 secret documents leak.” This is just t... by CYBER

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How Hackers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones: In spring, 2017, a teenager walked up behind a woman leaving the Metro in Northeast Washington DC and put her in a chokehold: "Be quiet," he said. And "delete your iCloud." He grabbed her iPhone 6S and ran away. The iCloud securit... by CYBER

28 min listen

Who’s Afraid of Huawei?: In this week's CYBER podcast, we spoke to VICE News reporter William Turnton, who just spent a week in China as part of a bizzarre Huawei junket. by CYBER

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How ‘Unicorn Riot’ Exposes The Far Right Online: This week, CYBER speaks to Freddy Martinez, one of the members of Unicorn Riot, an activist and media collective that’s been tracking and exposing nazis, racists, and other far-right people on the internet.  by CYBER

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The Zuckerberg Deepfake Heard Around the World: Last week a video of Mark Zuckerberg emerged online. The video showed Facebook's CEO speaking to the camera in his office, but what he was saying didn’t seem right. This deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg was perhaps the biggest troll of Facebook in rece... by CYBER

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Why There’s No Need to Panic About a ‘Cyber 9/11’: On this week's episode of CYBER, we spoke to Robert Lee, a former NSA analyst and infrastructure hacking expert, about the state of critical infrastructure, the threats it faces, and why there's still no need to panic. by CYBER

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I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone: Earlier this month, Motherboard sent $300 to a bounty hunter. Within moments, he sent us a Google Maps screenshot with the real-time location data of a phone that we'd asked him to track. Motherboard editor-in-chief Jason Koebler and senior staff ... by CYBER

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[BONUS] Malicious Life: The Ashley Madison Hack: This week, CYBER presents an episode from Malicious Life, one of our favorite hacking podcasts. In this episode, host Ran Levi takes a deep dive into how Ashley Madison, "the dating site for people who want to have an affair," got hacked. Mor... by CYBER

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Manhattan’s District Attorney Explains How She Prosecutes Cybercrime: Elizabeth Roper, the chief of the cybercrime and identity theft bureau in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office explains how one of the country’s most important prosecutors goes after cybercriminals. by CYBER

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The Cybersecurity Industrial Complex: Last year, investors poured $5 billion in cybersecurity startups. The whole industry will be worth $170 billion in three years, according to a recent estimate. There’s so many infosec companies it's hard to keep track of them. And yet, are we all ... by CYBER

24 min listen

The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked: In the coming weeks, millions of people will get new phones, computers, Amazon Echos, Google Homes, Smart Coffee Makers, and other internet of things devices. All of these things come with their own privacy, surveillance, and hacking risks, but there a... by CYBER

38 min listen

The Spyware Sting Operation: Citizen Lab, a human rights watchdog, tracks governments who do bad things online, and learned that slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi's phone was bugged. Soon after that revelation, Citizen Lab's researchers began getting weird requests to mee... by CYBER

42 min listen

Why Hackers Are Stoked That Beto O’Rourke Was One Of Them: This week, CYBER speaks to Oxblood Ruffin, a long-time member of the legendary hacking group Cult of The Dead Cow, or cDc. Ruffin told us about the cDc, its historical importance, and why it's a big deal that a US presidential candidate was once p... by CYBER

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SIM Hijacking and the Phone Number Ransom: Imagine if your phone suddenly stopped working. And then you couldn’t login to Facebook, Instagram, your email, or bank account. Your phone switches back on, and you get a call. On the other end of the line is a guy telling you he’s stolen your phone n... by CYBER

26 min listen

Inside the Messy World of Nintendo Switch Hacking: Pirates recently dumped Super Smash Bros. Ultimate around two weeks before it was scheduled to hit stores. Motherboard senior staff writer Joseph Cox takes us inside the messy world of Nintendo Switch hacking and piracy. The Switch pi... by CYBER

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The Prototype iPhones Hackers Use to Research Apple’s Most Sensitive Code: Very few people have heard of them, but "dev-fused" iPhones sold on the grey market are one of the most important tools for the best iOS hackers in the world. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai talks about his blockbuster investigation, and host B... by CYBER

32 min listen

Why The ASUS Supply Chain Hack Is a Big Deal: On this week’s episode of CYBER, we sat down with Kim Zetter, the legendary cybersecurity reporter and the author of the original news story on the ASUS hack. Zetter walked us through this specific hack, and also told us about previous supply chain att... by CYBER

21 min listen

What Happens When a US Border Protection Contractor Gets Hacked?: On this week’s episode of CYBER, Joseph Cox and Motherboard EIC Jason Koebler discuss the breach of a Customs and Border Protection contractor that exposed pictures of drivers in Pennsylvania, and the implications for the future of data retention. This... by CYBER

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The Connection Between a Deadly Gunfight and Phone Location Data: In the span of six seconds and 20 gunshots and three dead bodies hit the ground of a Nissan dealership in Texas. And somebody was tracking one of their cell phones remotely. by CYBER

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Is Your Password Secure? Probably Not: For decades, experts have known that a simple alphanumeric password isn't enough to secure our identities online, but nothing has changed. In this episode, we’re talking to Wendy Nather, a veteran of the infosec world who knows a thing or two abou... by CYBER

20 min listen

Edward Snowden on Julian Assange, the Mueller Report, and Press Freedom: In this week's CYBER podcast, we sat down with Edward Snowden to talk about his life in Russia, WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and press freedom in the United States and beyond. by CYBER

61 min listen

How Google Tracks Hackers: Tracking hacking groups has become a booming business. Dozens of so-called “threat intelligence” companies keep tabs on them and sell subscriptions to feeds where they provide customers with up to date information on what the most advanced cyber crimin... by CYBER

26 min listen

How to Track Malware: We’ve all heard of high profile hacks, like Stuxnet which basically took out the Iranian nuclear program, or that time when Seth Rogen’s stoner comedy made North Korea really, really pissed off and they hacked Sony. And the key to all of these hacks ... by CYBER

29 min listen

The Politician Fighting The Spyware Industry: On this week’s CYBER host Ben Makuch sat down with Dutch politician Marietje Schaake to discuss the future of cyberweapons, how governmental regulation on spyware should mirror the conventional arms industry, and how Brexit might make Britain a haven f... by CYBER

25 min listen

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