Under Attack

Graphene is a super-strong and super-conductive material. Gerry Northam looks at its move from the laboratory to the commercial world. 

The US Federal Reserve, America's central bank, is one hundred years old. Simon Jack tells its surprising story. 

Brazil's anti-slavery hit-squads are unique. Linda Pressly joins a raid with a committed band of labour inspectors on an alleged slave labour operation in deepest rural Brazil. 

<p>A deadly plot threatens the New York Subway and Dean is on a mission to thwart it. But when his British spymasters decide to alert the U.S. to the threat, Dean’s deception begins to unravel.</p><p><br></p><p>Have you got a spy story you’d like us to tell? Email your ideas to t ... Show More

NCSC and CISA issue a joint warning on cyber threats during the COVID-19 pandemic. India’s government seeks to limit disinformation in social media. Zoom works on privacy issues, and government contact-tracking apps face their own problems. A new DDoS botnet, “dark_nexus,” is out ... Show More

The existential threat caused by Artificial Intelligence is a popular theme in science fiction. But more recently it’s started to be taken seriously by governments around the world and the companies developing the technology. Where did this idea come from, and why is so much mone ... Show More

The existential threat caused by Artificial Intelligence is a popular theme in science fiction. But more recently it’s started to be taken seriously by governments around the world and the companies developing the technology. Where did this idea come from, and why is so much mone ... Show More

In this episode of Threat Vector, host David Moulton speaks with Assaf Dahan, Director of Threat Research at Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex team, about the rising cyber threat from North Korea. Dahan, a cybersecurity expert with over 18 years of experience, discusses the nation's str ... Show More

In today’s podcast, we hear that Emergency Directive 19-01 has told US Federal civilian agencies to take steps to stop an ongoing DNS-hijacking campaign. The US National Intelligence Strategy is out, and it prominently features cyber as a “topical mission objective.” France says ... Show More

<p>MI5 is on its knees at the dawn of the 1970s: Soviet spies are running free around the country and the government won’t boot them out for fear of upsetting Moscow. But the danger from inaction is growing because a spy from the KGB’s most-secret department has just been posted ... Show More

During the Trump administration, Chris Krebs was the top cybersecurity official at the Department of Homeland Security. He spoke with WSJ’s Rolfe Winkler at WSJ Tech Live about the upcoming U.S. election and growing cyber threats from foreign governments. Further Listening: ... Show More