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  • An Israeli High School That Trains Future Cyber Warriors

    Ben Makuch meets high schoolers in Israel who are being groomed as future cyber warriors for the military.

  • The Only Reporter to Interview the Ashley Madison Hackers

    Ben speaks with journalist and Motherboard contributor Joseph Cox, who published the only interview with the Impact Team who hacked Ashley Madison.​​

  • The Ashley Madison Hack

    After Ashley Madison, a hook-up site for married people, got hacked, its users weren’t the only ones exposed. Turns out the cheating site may have been cheating its own customers.

  • An Interview with Discordian of Anonymous

    Ben interviews Discordian, one of the most influential voices among hacktivist collective Anonymous.​

  • How Anti-ISIS Hacktivists Are Helping the Government

    Ben speaks with anti-ISIS activist and GhostSec operative Sneaker as well as Michael S. Smith II, a counterterrorism advisor to Congress.​

  • Anonymous vs. ISIS

    Anonymous declares war on ISIS. But when Anonymous members share intel with the government it fractures the hacktivist collective.

  • The Zero Day Market

    “Zero days” are bugs in software that hackers use to break into systems. Some are valued at up to a million dollars, with both buyers and sellers shrouded in secrecy.​​

  • America’s Elite Hacking Force

    Tailored Access Operations, or TAO, is the NSA’s elite hacking force. TAO employs some of America’s best hackers–so who are their targets?​​

  • Hacking the Infrastructure

    As Iran ramps up its offensive cyber operations, American critical infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to attacks.

  • Stuxnet the Digital Weapon

    Stuxnet was a sophisticated cyber attack on an Iranian nuclear plant that may have changed the nature of warfare forever.

  • Syria’s Cyber Battlefields

    On the frontlines of one of the world’s bloodiest conflicts, a parallel war is being fought in cyberspace. Is Syria’s cyber battlefield creating a model for the wars of the future?

  • Hacked by China

    From Google to the government, China has hacked many American networks. But there’s a difference between spying and stealing intellectual property.

  • Cyber Mercenaries

    Authoritarian regimes are using spyware tools bought from private companies in the West. Hacker PhineasFisher targeted these companies to reveal their deals to suppress dissent.

  • Former Sony Employee Discusses Being Hacked

    Former Sony employee Celina Chavanette tells host Ben Makuch about how she found out the security breach of employee data affected her, and what happened afterwards.

  • Who is Anonymous?

    The notorious hacktivist collective Anonymous has targeted everyone from PayPal to the FBI. But a string of arrests have crippled the group. So who is Anonymous now?