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Is Big Tech Imploding? Cybersecurity and Content Moderation

Nov 30th, 2022 46m 1s

Big Tech, honey, are you doing okay? Whether we like it or not, large technology platforms and the for-profit institutions that make them are here to stay in our society and economy. Governments are starting to craft often-overlapping regulatio

Cybersecurity in a National Digital Transformation Effort: An Interview with Minister Cina Lawson of Togo

Nov 11th, 2022 35m 49s

Minister Cina Lawson, Togo's Minister of Digital Economy and Transformation, joins Cyber.RaR for a special episode. In her role leading Togo's digital transformation, Minister Lawson oversaw rapid digital service penetration within Togo, the f

Sharks & Tubes: Submarine Cables and Cybersecurity

Nov 3rd, 2022 44m 11s

Worried about a nuclear war with Russia? Maybe you SHOULD be worried about beluga whales. Let’s dive in (pun intended) on why. This week on Cyber.RAR, we discuss global infrastructure in the form of undersea cables transmitting data through lig

Your Data is Oozing: How the US Government Accesses Citizens' Data Using Consumer AdTech

Oct 6th, 2022 35m 48s

Bloomberg - FTC Sues Mobile Data Broker Over Abortion Location Data Sale https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-29/ftc-sues-mobile-data-broker-over-abortion-location-data-sales?sref=P6Q0mxvj&leadSource=uverify%20wallVice - Data Broker

Are Turtles War Machines? AI-Enabled Cybersecurity Has an Answer

Sep 21st, 2022 44m 27s

AI-enabled security can process data faster and more accurately than humans, but can it tell the difference between turtles and rifles? We answer this question and more as we cover AI-enabled cybersecurity for network defense, insider threat, a

Crypto & Lowrise Jeans: Cybersecurity on the Blockchain

Sep 7th, 2022 48m 11s

What do Cryptocurrency and the 90's have in common? Easily exploitable bugs and also Paris Hilton, apparently.We cover the state of regulation and cybersecurity within the blockchain and cryptocurrency space - covering environmental, democratiz

State of the Practice - The Chips & Science Act

Aug 24th, 2022 41m 28s

Good WashPo article: A new era of industrial policy kicks off with signing of the Chips ActGeneral relationship between semiconductors/cyber: Cybersecurity and Semiconductors: How are they related? Helpful article for context: How the 'chips-pl

Expert Interview: Protecting Vulnerable Populations in Cyberspace

Jul 13th, 2022 46m 33s

Michaela dives deeper into the nexus of cyber and vulnerable populations through an interview with Eva Galperin, the Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Listen in on our conversation about stalkerware, privacy

Protecting Vulnerable Populations in Cyberspace

Jul 13th, 2022 35m 2s

How do we better protect our most vulnerable populations from cyber incidents? Michaela leads the conversation and posits that instead of thinking about it as a domain of war, we should use a climate analogy to think about the increasing vulner

Expert Interview: Defense Innovation? Walk Before You Run

Jul 6th, 2022 30m 25s

Eric Rosenbach, Co-Director of the Belfer Center and Former Chief of Staff of the Pentagon, joins Cyber.RAR to talk about the major roadblocks facing innovation within the Department of Defense. Eric, Bethan, and Sophie dive into the challenges

Defense Innovation? Walk Before You Run

Jul 6th, 2022 32m 1s

Bethan and Sophie explore why it's so hard to get innovative digital technologies into the Defese Department. The discussion starts with JEDI (and no, not from Star Wars) and covers the challenges facing the defense innovation ecosystem and how

Expert Interviews: Hacktivism

Jun 29th, 2022 26m 42s

Grace continues the conversation on so-called hacktivism and the future landscape of cyber activism with Bruce Schneier, author of the book 'Data and Goliath,' and fellow and lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School.Bruce Schneier website and bio: ht

The Chaos of Political Hacking

Jun 29th, 2022 33m 46s

Grace asks the question: Political Hacktivism (Hacking + Activism), chaotic good or chaotic evil? What even counts as activism versus terrorism in cyberspace? Is it simply ideological or is it normative? And looking forward, what does the secon

Expert Interviews: Cyber Mercenaries

Jun 22nd, 2022 50m 47s

Winnona continues her exploration of cyber mercenaries by interviewing three experts: Sophia D'Antoine & Dave Aitel, two professionals in the offensive security industry, and Sean McFate - an expert on private military contractors.Cyber policy

A Tangled Web: Cyber Mercenaries

Jun 22nd, 2022 31m 18s

Winnona asks: how does one regulate an industry that operates so far in the shadows? This is a major problem in the hack for hire industry, and something we’re going to try and tackle on our podcast episode today on Cyber.RAR. We will be lookin

Rose/Bud/Thorn: Cyberwar in Ukraine

Jun 15th, 2022 28m 19s

Dani asks: how does cyber fit into modern warfare strategies? How have cyber strategies evolved in the last two decades, what can we learn from the uses of cyber capabilities in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and how should the U.S. evolve its c

Expert Interviews: Cyberwar

Jun 15th, 2022 44m 40s

Dani explores the cyber escalation fallacy and the evolution of cyberwarfare strategies with Erica Lonergan, Assistant Professor in the Army Cyber Institute, Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and former Senior

Welcome to Cyber.RAR!

Jun 14th, 2022 6m 21s

Meet Michaela, Grace, Winnona, Bethan, Sophie, and Danielle and hear why they came together to record a limited podcast series on cyber policy issues. They dive into some nuances and laugh with each other throughout the process. Hope you enjoy!

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