Malicious Life

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, long time critics of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,... more

Much like Aaron Swartz did, Andrew "weev" Auernheimer fought against the Computer ... more

APT-10 is a Chinese nation-state threat actor that in recent years has been targeting Japa... more

Aaron Barr was en-signals intelligence officer specializing in analytics. As part of HBGar... more

On 17 and 18 of September 2024, thousands of pagers and hand held radio devices used by He... more

Could thousands of people keep a secret? Common sense says no—secrets spread, and people t... more

Scientology spies were trained in all covert operations techniques: surveillance, recruiti... more

In 1963, the FDA raided the headquaters of a budding new and esoteric religion - The Churc... more

On Dec. 5, 2016, two senior Russian Intelligence officers and two civilians were arrested ... more

SNAP - better known as food stamps - goes back to the Great Depression. ,The physical stam... more

Nicole Kotsianas, an investigator with K2 Intelligence, made it her personal mission to hu... more

In 2015, two aspiring script writers flew to Indonesia to meet with executives of a large ... more

In the pre-internet era, encryption was a matter of life and death, and the motives behind... more

Why did people write malware in the pre-internet days? Back then, there was no way to make... more

Section 230 is the pivotal law that has enabled the rise of social media -while sparking h... more

In 2016, Joe Sullivan, former CISO of Facebook, was at the peak of his career. As Uber&#39... more

In this episode of ML, we're exploring the history of the well-known Nigerian Prince s... more

Dive into the world of open-source intelligence (OSINT) in this episode, where we uncover ... more

A few weeks ago we had a listener’s meetup in New York, and as part of that meetup, I gave... more

In the waning years of the 20th century, amid growing anxieties about the turn of the mill... more

In the 1950s and 60s - even leading into the 1990s - the cost of storage was so high, that... more

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

In 1991, Kevin Mitnick was bouncing back from what was probably the lowest point of his li... more

For Kevin Mitnick - perhaps the greatest social engineer who ever lived - hacking was an o... more

Right now, hundreds of thousands of people in the southern African country of Namibia are ... more