Click Here
EVERY TUESDAY
Every Tuesday, Click Here tells stories about the people and ideas shaping our digital world. We go beyond the headlines, taking listeners on a journey behind-the-scenes of some of today’s biggest cyber and intelligence news. Hosted by former NPR Investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston, Click Here pulls back the curtain on the shadowy world of ransomware, disinformation campaigns, and cyber operations and helps listeners protect themselves from our adversaries in cyberspace.
Click Here is a production of The Record by Recorded Future
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GILMAN LOUIE AND THE DANCE WITH WOLF WARRIORS
Available Tuesday June 14
In a wide-ranging conversation on the fringes of this month’s RSA Conference, we sat down with Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board member Gilman Louie. We talked about the Chinese cyber threat, the growth of superpower competition, and the importance of bringing high-tech manufacturing back to America.
GENSHIN IMPACT’S MASS APPEAL WITH BEIJING’S BLESSING
Available Tuesday June 7
Genshin Impact put the Chinese video gaming industry on the map. But while the game has delighted players, it begs the question: Can China’s Communist Party and a massively popular video game peacefully co-exist? Plus, we hit the ground at this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco.
ENCORE: R-EVIL AND THE TEXAS HACK THAT CHANGED RANSOMWARE AS WE KNOW IT
Available Tuesday May 31
An encore performance of the Click Here pilot episode on REvil and how it landed on a new business model. It happened in an unlikely place: Texas.
ROE V. WADE IN A WORLD OF DIGITAL DUST
Available Tuesday May 24
Five years ago, a Mississippi woman named Latice Fisher was charged with murdering her stillborn child. The evidence against her: a controversial 400-year-old test and the search history on her cellphone. We explain how in a post-Roe world, pattern data will be an even greater threat. Plus, the DOJ tweaks its use of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
AT WAR WITH FACIAL RECOGNITION: CLEARVIEW AI IN UKRAINE
Available Tuesday May 17
Facial recognition technology is changing the war in Ukraine. It is finding infiltrators, providing evidence for war crimes and, more darkly, providing fodder for propaganda. We talk to Clearview AI’s CEO about its role in the conflict and what it means for the future.
‘CREAM OF THE CREAM’: RUSSIA’S HIGH-TECH BRAIN DRAIN
Available Tuesday May 10
Tech entrepreneurs and developers are fleeing Putin’s Russia in droves. Meet three members of the exodus: a young successful entrepreneur… a corporate manager… and a high-school computer whiz who can’t wait to leave. Plus, DHS’ Rob Silvers on how ransomware ends.
SPYWARE AND ‘A WORLD OF BOND VILLAINS’
Available Tuesday May 3
Ron Deibert founded The Citizen Lab, a high-tech human rights watchdog at the University of Toronto. He’s concerned the Internet could unleash our darkest angels. Now, he has an even bigger worry: spyware. It’s become so normalized even democratic nations are using it as high-tech oppo research. Plus, a pause in open source mapping in Ukraine.
LAPSUS$: THE SCRIPT KIDDIES ARE ALRIGHT
Available Tuesday April 26
How a new cyber extortion team called Lapsu$ managed to convince the world that it had turned low-tech hacking operations into high impact heists. And two high-schoolers who tinkered with a punch card and almost brought down the IBM computer center in Manhattan.
THE ENTREPRENEUR AND THE JIHADIST
Available Tuesday April 19
A Los Angeles tech entrepreneur reveals for the first time the role he played in bringing one of the world’s deadliest hackers to justice. And the founder of Craigslist talks about his effort to build a cyber civil defense force.
ARE AMERICA’S NUCLEAR SYSTEMS SO OLD THEY’RE UN-HACKABLE?
Available Tuesday April 12
In its latest defense budget, the Biden Administration has asked Congress to fund the modernization of America’s nuclear weapons systems.The current system – that until recently was still using eight inch floppies – is seen as so old that it’s virtually un-hackable. So if you modernize, now what? Plus, cyber hits from Nigeria’s music scene.
THE RISE OF HIGH-TECH DESPOTISM
Available Tuesday April 5
Noura Al-Jizawi thought she’d left the repression of the Assad regime behind her when she left Syria with her sister. Instead she became the target of an online subversion campaign. Plus, we meet the founder of a retro computer museum in Mariupol, Ukraine.
WAR, SANCTIONS AND CRYPTO’S BIG MOMENT
Available Tuesday March 29
As sanctions squeeze the Russian economy, ordinary Russians are having to navigate a financial system in mid-collapse. For some, the solution has been cryptocurrencies. We talk to a small businessman in St. Petersburg who explains. Plus, the hack heard ‘round the indie music world.
FIGHTING RUSSIA WITH COMPUTERS, NOT RIFLES
Available Tuesday March 22
A volunteer army made up of thousands of IT professionals from around the world is seeking to fight Russia in cyberspace. We talk to some of its members and discover new limits to Russia’s hacking efforts.
BAGGAGE FROM A SEVERELY HARMED RELATIONSHIP
Available Tuesday March 15
INSIDE CONTI LEAKS: THE PANAMA PAPERS OF RANSOMWARE
Available Tuesday March 8
THEY ARE FIGHTING LIKE LIONS
Available Tuesday March 1
IN TOUCH WITH REALITY
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A PLACE CALLED DARKODE
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A NEW FRANCHISING OPPORTUNITY
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