CYBER
VICE
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. Host Matthew Gault talks every week to Motherboard reporters about the stories they're breaking and to the industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jun 7, 2019 • 25min
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 for commercial surveillance companies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 30, 2019 • 43min
The Grugq
Ben Makuch sits down with one of InfoSec’s only true celebrities: The Grugq (who recently added the name ‘Thaddeus’ to his Twitter account, which has over 100,000 followers.)For the uninformed, the Grugq is a South African hacker, security research, OPSEC expert and highly entertaining Twitter follow with a history of being an exploit broker that has a rolodex of government contacts (he once claimed in Forbes to be taking in over $1 million in a single year skimming a fee off of exploit sales as a middle-man to intelligence agencies).In this episode, the hacking and spy expert cuts through the media tailspinning around disinfo campaigns to tell us what 2020 election meddling might just look like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 21, 2019 • 30min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 14, 2019 • 26min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 7, 2019 • 33min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 30, 2019 • 22min
How a Hacker Tracked Thousands of Cars and Gained the Ability To Kill Their Engines
In this week’s CYBER podcast, we spoke about Motherboard’s scoop on a hacker who breached two GPS tracking companies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 22, 2019 • 1h 1min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 15, 2019 • 35min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 8, 2019 • 30min
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 1, 2019 • 21min
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 attacks, and why they’re so scary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
