Cyberwar
7.8
July 5, 2016
2 Seasons • 24 Episodes
CanceledOverview
Ben Makuch travels the world to meet with hackers, government officials, and dissidents to investigate the ecosystem of cyberwarfare.
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Ben Makuch travels the world to meet with hackers, government officials, and dissidents to investigate the ecosystem of cyberwarfare.
July 5, 2016 • 24m
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?
July 12, 2016 • 24m
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.
July 19, 2016 • 24m
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.
July 26, 2016 • 24m
From Google to the government, China has hacked many American networks. But there’s a difference between spying and stealing intellectual property.
August 2, 2016 • 24m
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?
August 9, 2016 • 24m
Stuxnet was a sophisticated cyber attack on an Iranian nuclear plant that may have changed the nature of warfare forever.
August 16, 2016 • 24m
As Iran ramps up its offensive cyber operations, American critical infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to attacks.
August 23, 2016 • 24m
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?
October 25, 2016 • 24m
“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.
November 1, 2016 • 24m
In a war with ISIS online, is Anonymous working with the U.S. government?
November 15, 2016 • 24m
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.
November 22, 2016 • 24m
Israel is one of the world’s cyber super powers. So how did this tiny nation grow so strong – and who is it targeting?
November 29, 2016 • 24m
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.
December 6, 2016 • 24m
Russian cybercrime is big business – and some say hackers get a pass when they work double duty for Putin and his geopolitical ambitions.
December 13, 2016 • 24m
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.
December 20, 2016 • 24m
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.
