Today, we’ll begin with Step 1: Long before you step into the voting both, your vote can be hacked. It’s already happened. I’ve written about state-sponsored trolling before, and I think it might be the greatest threat to democracy, and maybe even intelligence itself. Here’s a partial transcript from this part [Keep reading]
You’ve been hacked, and now you have a mess to clean up. Maybe an imposter rampaged through your bank accounts, so you have to make dozens of calls. Maybe you have to play email tag with huge firms like Facebook or Google to reclaim your accounts. You probably have to [Keep reading]
A young Canadian hacker hired by Russian FSB agents to help with the biggest hack in history will spend five years for his role in the crime, a U.S. federal just ruled today. Karim Baratov, one of the key figures in my podcast about the Yahoo hack, Breach, was spared [Keep reading]
I appeared on WTOP radio in Washington D.C. to talk about the $35 million fine that Yahoo’s successor will have to pay over failing to disclose hacking incidents to investors. The fine affirms some of the reporting we did in our Breach podcast. Click there to learn hear Breach. Or [Keep reading]
In this final episode of Breach (for now), we learn the fate of the Russian hackers allegedly behind the biggest hack in history. This episode takes you from the infamous Lefortovo prison in Moscow to a kindergarten classroom. And hopefully, lays the groundwork for a sensible discussion about how consumers [Keep reading]
On episode 4 of Breach, our podcast about the massive Yahoo hack, investigative journalist Michael Isikoff appears to provide a much deeper view of Russian attacks on critical U.S. systems during the past decade. Isikoff is one of the most important journalists of our generation, and he becomes part of the [Keep reading]
What’s really going on inside Center 18 — the cybersecurity office of the Russian FSB? And who exactly were the Russians behind the hack of Yahoo. For Episode 3 of our Breach podcast, we dig deep inside Russia’s cyber-hacking machine with the help of Moscow-based journalist Andrei Soldatov . He’s co-author of [Keep reading]
Was the massive hack on Yahoo — the largest hack in history — related in any way to the Russian “hacking” of the U.S. election? I’ve been asking quietly myself that question, and asking sources that question, for many months. Now, it’s time to ask the question out loud. Events [Keep reading]
Breach, Epiosde 2, sets the scene at Yahoo when Marissa Meyer took over, and very quickly became the one of the world’s most famous CEOs. But underneath the glamour and bold decisions, Yahoo soon had a massive problem. How did she handle it? Yelling at a New York Times reporter [Keep reading]
Breach is a new podcast I am hosting with producer Alia Tavakolian of Spoke Media. It’s an investigation into the Yahoo hack, which was the biggest hack ever. You can listen to episode 1 by clicking on the play button here, or by going to Stitcher or iTunes. There’s a [Keep reading]
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