Andy Greenberg (https://twitter.com/a_greenberg) brings us a gut wrenching story of how criminal investigators used bitcoin tracing techniques to try to find out who was at the center of a child sexual abuse darkweb website.
This story is part of Andy’s new book “Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency”. An affiliate lin ... Show More
Feb 2021
The War with Algorithms: Why Your Next Security Strategy Includes A.I. and Machine Learning
<p>The image of a hooded individual illuminated by the glare of a computer screen hacking into a company’s network is the classic picture of what a cyber attack looks like. The reality, though, is these attackers are almost never a one-man band, but rather a sophisticated team ar ... Show More
40m 57s
Mar 2023
Crypto hacker hijinks, government spyware, and Utah social media shocker
A cryptocurrency hack leads us down a maze of twisty little passages, Joe Biden's commercial spyware bill, and Utah gets tough on social media sites.All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Gra ... Show More
47m 33s
Jan 2024
The Growing Ransomware Threat: Targets, Insights, and Strategies with Halcyon's Jon Miller | E1877
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55m 53s
May 2020
The Dark Secrets of a Hacking Hero
<p>In May of 2017, Marcus Hutchins saved the internet. A vicious ransomware attack known as WannaCry had infected computer systems across dozens of countries. It was the worst cyberattack in history at the time, and it seemed unstoppable. But Hutchins, a 23-year-old-hacker in Ilf ... Show More
30m 39s