CYBER

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 Ben Makuch talks every week to Motherboard reporters Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Joseph Cox about the stories they're breaking and to the industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity. 159 Episodes

What's Behind the Biggest U.S. Strikewave in a Generation ・22.10.2021

Hello out there in cyber land. It’s striketober in America.

From the John Deere factory floor to the cereal crunching halls of Kellogg's, workers are telling management they’ve had enough. It’s labor unrest the U.S. hasn’t seen in my lifetime.

Thankfully today I’m joined by Motherbo... Read More

A Brief History of Twitch Getting Hacked ・21.10.2021

On October 6, a massive leak of Twitch data revealed how much cash its biggest streamers made. The leak isn’t the first time Twitch’s security has been called into question and as the fallout from the leak spiraled, Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai went looking for an ... Read More

The Anti-Trafficking Movement and Afghanistan ・14.10.2021

When America withdrew from Afghanistan it left people behind. Interpreters, aid workers, allies, and even some U.S. citizens remained in the country as the Taliban took over. Since the official U.S. military exit, dozens of groups have sprung up to try to help people safely flee the cou... Read More

Darknet Diaries Presents: The Pentagon's Online War Against ISIS ・07.10.2021

On Cyber this week we bring you an episode from the podcast Darknet Diaries by Jack Rhysider. In 2016, America went to war against ISIS at the head of an international coalition. The U.S. sent ships, soldiers, and material to the Middle East to fight off the Islamic State. It also sent ... Read More

Twitch Hacked! ・06.10.2021

An anonymous poster on 4Chan published 135 gigabytes of what appears to be internal data stolen from Twitch, including exactly how much money the platform’s biggest streamers make on Twitch. 
On Wednesday, the poster published a link to a torrent of 135 GB, calling it "an extremely pogg... Read More

Company That Handles Billions of Text Messages Was Hacked (and WTF is going on at Facebook?) ・04.10.2021

Syniverse, a company that is a critical part of the global telecommunications infrastructure used by AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and several others around the world such as Vodafone and China Mobile, quietly disclosed that hackers were inside its systems for years, impacting more than 200 o... Read More

Facebook's Content Moderators Are Leaving Their Jobs With PTSD ・30.09.2021

If you’re on Facebook then there’s a company you’ve probably never heard of that makes it bearable. Accenture. The little-known consulting firm is one of the biggest companies in the booming market of content moderation. But you’ll probably never hear its name come out of the lips of Ma... Read More

How Amazon's Astro Robot Will Track Everything You Do ・28.09.2021

Amazon's new robot called Astro is designed to track the behavior of everyone in your home to help it perform its surveillance and helper duties, according to leaked internal development documents and video recordings of Astro software development meetings obtained by Motherboard. The s... Read More

My First Hack: My Teacher’s Computer ・23.09.2021

This is Rob Graham, an independent security researcher who is also known as ErrataRob on Twitter. What if you could go back in time and make sure you made the deadline on a college assignment? That’s basically what Rob did by hacking his professor. Rob is very well known in the communit... Read More

How To Not Get Scammed In The Crypto Market ・16.09.2021

A strange press release went out on September 13th. Retail giant Walmart, it seemed, would soon be accepting crypto currency. “The eCommerce giant intends to give its millions of shoppers across the world an opportunity to seamlessly make payments with cryptocurrencies,” the press relea... Read More

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