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To Catch A Hacker

9 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 58 ratings

To Catch A Hacker is an audio series about cybercrime, what really happens, how we find the people behind the crimes, and how they are brought to justice. Each season follows the story of a cybercrime and tracks the case until it is solved. But these cases are the success stories. We know one in four American households are victimized by cybercrime. Most never report what happened to the police. Of the tiny fraction that ARE reported, only 3 in 1000 incidents ever see an arrest. This makes cybercrime the most prevalent form of crime in America, with the lowest enforcement rate. In looking at the solved cases, we’ll see where we’re falling short in addressing the realities of cybercrime and why catching the cyber criminal is so rare.


Host Mieke Eoyang is the former Senior Vice President for Third Way's National Security Program. She's committed to closing the credibility gap between Democrats and Republicans on security issues and crafting a national security strategy that is both tough and smart. Mieke has worked on every major national security issue—from foreign policy to cybercrime to impeachment—while still making time to mentor the next generation of women in national security.

 



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Episodes

RazzleCON, Part 3: Crypto Winter

May 04, 2023 21:31 - 28 minutes - 39.2 MB

Amid the speculation and ongoing development of this story, one point is clear: when crypto users become victims of theft, their recovery is dependent on the very exchange that failed them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

RazzleCON, Part 2: Sizeable Breadcrumbs

May 04, 2023 21:30 - 22 minutes - 30.4 MB

Federal agents arrived at 75 Wall Street, New York City on a cold Wednesday morning in January, a four-minute walk from the heart of Wall Street. Inside one of the luxury units, Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein live with their Bengal cat, Clarissa. Soon they would hear an unexpected knock at their door... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

RazzleCON, Part 1: Who is Heather Morgan

May 04, 2023 21:30 - 27 minutes - 37.2 MB

We find ourselves in a cozy salon with dark walls. In the front of the room is a projection of a PowerPoint, framed by black velvet drapes. The room is packed. We’re gathered for tonight’s talk, titled “How to Social Engineer Your Way into Anything.” The expert tonight is a woman named Heather Morgan.... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TRAILER: To Catch A Hacker Season 2, RazzleCON

March 29, 2023 21:12 - 1 minute - 16.2 MB

This season, we’re telling the story behind the largest financial seizure ever in history. $3.6 billion dollars’ worth of laundered Bitcoin.   This is the story about the crime, and the people behind it. It’s also a love story. A cringe rap music video. And, a map to the unregulated gray space of a new type of money. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Goat Rodeo Presents: Long Shadow

August 19, 2021 14:50 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MB

From Goat Rodeo, Long Lead, & Garrett Graff: Many Americans watched the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001 unfold right before our eyes. What happened on 9/11 and how it changed our world is the most important story of the modern age. It’s the hinge on which so much changed. But in the years since the history we've come to tell of that day is incomplete—and sometimes wrong. Hosted by journalist Garrett Graff, author of the bestselling book THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY: AN ORAL HISTORY ...

The Inauguration Hack, Part 3: The Arrest

January 19, 2021 04:48 - 20 minutes - 27.7 MB

The true culprits behind the hacking of the 2017 presidential inauguration have been identified by authorities, but they won’t know that until nearly a year later. For years, these criminals allegedly stole money here and there from people who never noticed, cared, or reported it. Now, they've poked the bear that's going to strike back. In 2018, they arrive at the international airport in Bucharest, Romania to catch a flight to London...but they never make it onto the plane. Hosted on Acast...

The Inauguration Hack, Part 2: Attribution

January 12, 2021 05:18 - 22 minutes - 30.4 MB

Just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol, the Metropolitan Police Department’s own headquarters has been turned into a crime scene. The 2017 presidential inauguration was just hacked and is being held for ransom. It has all markings of a nation state actor attempting a decapitation strike. But was it? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Inauguration Hack, Part 1: Ransom

January 05, 2021 06:00 - 19 minutes - 27.4 MB

On Sunday, January 12, 2017, an officer of the Metropolitan Police Department, the law enforcement agency of Washington, DC, made an urgent phone call to the U.S. Secret Service. The MPD officer had discovered that some of the public surveillance cameras used by MPD had been compromised and were no longer feeding surveillance video to the Command Center. This is the story of the hack of Donald Trump's Inauguration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trailer: To Catch A Hacker

December 22, 2020 19:23 - 3 minutes - 4.32 MB

The real world of crime is less likely to be in our neighborhoods but on the internet. It moves at speeds faster than any getaway car or smash and grab. It is millions of break-in attempts in a minute. It is the same brick that is thrown through thousands of windows with a single click. And largely, we are unprepared to do anything about it. Coming January 5th 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.