Who is Anonymous?
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jul 5, 2016
Host Ben Makuch investigates the notorious hacktivist collective Anonymous and who is still involved after a string of arrests.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jul 5, 2016
Host Ben Makuch investigates the notorious hacktivist collective Anonymous and who is still involved after a string of arrests.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jul 12, 2016
Sony Pictures was hacked and the U.S. blamed North Korea. But the government's evidence wasn't all that convincing.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jul 19, 2016
Authoritarian regimes are using spyware tools bought from private companies in the West. Hacker PhineasFisher targeted these companies to reveal their deals.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jul 26, 2016
From Google to the government, China has hacked many American networks. But there's a difference between spying and stealing intellectual property.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Aug 2, 2016
On the frontlines of one of the world's bloodiest conflicts, a parallel war is being fought in cyberspace.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Aug 9, 2016
Stuxnet was a sophisticated cyber attack on an Iranian nuclear plant that may have changed the nature of warfare forever.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Aug 16, 2016
An examination of American critical infrastructure's increasing vulnerability to cyber attacks from Iran.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Aug 23, 2016
Investigating TAO, the NSA's elite hacking force.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Oct 25, 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.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Nov 1, 2016
Anonymous declares war on ISIS. But when Anonymous members share intel with the government it fractures the hacktivist collective.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Nov 15, 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.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Nov 22, 2016
Exploring how Israel grew into one of the world's cyber super powers and who it is targeting.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Nov 29, 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.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Dec 6, 2016
Russian cybercrime is big business – and some say hackers get a pass when they work double duty for Putin and his geopolitical ambitions.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Dec 13, 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.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Dec 20, 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.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Oct 3, 2017
Ben Makuch shows how memes are the Alt-Right's most powerful weapon in America's online culture war – reshaping the political and ideological landscape.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 10, 2017
We know Russia hacked the DNC to try to influence the election. Ben Makuch travels from D.C. to Moscow to track down the hackers who actually pulled it off.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 17, 2017
NATO troops amass along Russia's borders as U.S. officials grapple with Putin's election meddling. How will a battle that started in cyberspace play out on the ground?
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 24, 2017
Intelligence agencies partner with companies to spy on American citizens. But a few brave activists are risking it all to fight this growing cyber-surveillance industrial complex.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 31, 2017
5 million new gadgets are connected to the net daily. Each one on your network is a potential doorway for hackers. Are the new smart devices worth the risk?
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Nov 7, 2017
The world's most powerful government vs. the internet's most influential whistleblower site. Is America's war on Wikileaks an attack on journalism and free speech?
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 14, 2017
America builds a global killing machine, using data to identify and take out suspected terrorists. Ben heads to Pakistan to see how the CIA and NSA put together the kill list.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 21, 2017
The government of Mexico buys hacking tools in its fight against cartels. So why is their spyware showing up on the phones of journalists exposing government corruption?