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Ben Makuch travels the world to meet with hackers, government officials, and dissidents to investigate the ecosystem of cyberwarfare.
Viceland
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24 min
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?
Jul 5, 2016
Sony Pictures was hacked and the U.S. blamed North Korea. But the government's evidence wasn't all that convincing, and many hackers and computer experts still have doubts.
Jul 12, 2016
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.
Jul 19, 2016
From Google to the government, China has hacked many American networks. But there’s a difference between spying and stealing intellectual property.
Jul 26, 2016
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?
Aug 2, 2016
Stuxnet was a sophisticated cyber attack on an Iranian nuclear plant that may have changed the nature of warfare forever.
Aug 9, 2016
As Iran ramps up its offensive cyber operations, American critical infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to attacks.
Aug 16, 2016
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?
Aug 23, 2016
“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.
Oct 25, 2016
In a war with ISIS online, is Anonymous working with the U.S. government?
Nov 1, 2016
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.
Nov 15, 2016
Israel is one of the world’s cyber super powers. So how did this tiny nation grow so strong – and who is it targeting?
Nov 22, 2016
A cyber attack on Ukraine's power grid leaves thousands of people in the dark as a military conflict involving Russia rages in the east.
Nov 29, 2016
Russian cybercrime is big business – and some say hackers get a pass when they work double duty for Putin and his geopolitical ambitions.
Dec 6, 2016
Exploring how wars of the future might be fought with autonomous machines, drones and weapons that can act on their own and whether it's ever OK to write code that can kill.
Dec 13, 2016
From self-driving cars to Siri, a race is on to build more powerful AI, but some warn we could be programming our own extinction.
Dec 20, 2016
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