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Malicious Life

Malicious Life by Cybereason tells the unknown stories of the history of cybersecurity, with comment

Episodes

Total: 265

The Y2K Bug, Part 1

2024/3/31

In the 1950s and 60s - even leading into the 1990s - the cost of storage was so high, that using a 2

Can You Bomb a Hacker?

2024/3/19

The 2008 Russo-Georgian War marked a turning point: the first time cyberattacks were used alongside 

Kevin Mitnick, Part 2

2024/3/4

In 1991, Kevin Mitnick was bouncing back from what was probably the lowest point of his life. He beg

Kevin Mitnick, Part 1

2024/2/19

For Kevin Mitnick - perhaps the greatest social engineer who ever lived - hacking was an obsession:

Right now, hundreds of thousands of people in the southern African country of Namibia are faced with

The Mariposa Botnet

2024/1/22

In 2008, The 12 million PCs strong Mariposa Botnet infected almost half of Furture 100 companey - bu

Valdimir Levin is often presented as "the first online bank robber," and appeares on many li

How to Hack Into Satellites

2023/12/27

About a year ago, six academics from Ruhr University Bochum and the CISPA  Helmholtz Center for Info

Moonlight Maze

2023/12/11

When investigators discovered in 1996 that US military networks were being extensively hacked, they

Volt Typhoon

2023/11/28

In August 2021, a port in Houston, Texas, was attacked. Over the following months, a series of attac

Is NSO Evil? Part 2

2023/11/13

By the time Forbidden Stories published its “Pegasus Project” in 2021, NSO was already knee deep in

Is NSO Evil? Part 1

2023/10/30

NSO Group, creator of the infamous Pegasus spyware, is widely regarded as a vile, immoral company: a

The FBI explicitly advises companies against paying ransomware attackers - but itself payed 4.4 mill

In the vast landscape of STEM, women constitute a mere 28% of the workforce. Yet, when we zoom into

Operation Kudo

2023/9/20

In 1981, during the G7 Summit in Quebec, French president Francois Mitterand handen President Raegan

Much of the cybersecurity software in use today utilizes AI, especially things like spam filters and

Every so often, the entire landscape of cybersecurity shifts, all at once: The latest seismic shift

On the face of it, there's an obvious economic incentive for both vendors and security researche

The Voynich Manuscript

2023/7/25

The constant battle between those who wish to encrypt data and those who wish to break these ciphers

In 2019, Roman Seleznev, a 34 years-old Russian national, was sentenced to 27 years in prison: A sen