The Reason You Don’t Have Data Privacy
We’ve all experienced the creepiness of modern data trafficking, but that kind of daily annoyance is the surface of a much bigger issue: Big Tech comp...
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Malicious Life by Cybereason tells the unknown stories of the history of cybersecurity, with comments and reflections by real hackers, security experts, journalists, and politicians.
How Entire Countries Can Lose the Internet
Disruptions to the world’s internet cables happen more often than you think: Whether it be ship anchors or animals or saboteurs, cut a few wires in th...
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...
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 la...
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 ...
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 abo...
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 na...
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 ...
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 1...
SIM Swapping Follow Up [ML B-Side]
Today we’re bringing back Haseeb Awan, the founder of Efani Secure Mobile - a bespoke cybersecurity-focused phone service, protecting high-risk indivi...