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Cybercrimes With Ben Hammersley: Season 1
November 1, 2014
6 Episodes
~25 min per episode
Overview
No overview available for this season.
Episodes
6
1
Darknets
Nov 1, 2014
25 min
Delves into the dark web/Tor and the drug dealing market known as the Silk Road, as well as the BitCoin currency used on it. Covers how the FBI investigated and caught Ross Ulbricht, who is believed to be the "Dread Pirate Roberts".
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2
Heists
Nov 8, 2014
25 min
2013 was a very bad year for big business. In February $45m was stolen from ATMs around the world after cybercriminals hacked credit cards and gave them unlimited withdrawal limits. Ben Hammersley travels to New York and Washington DC to look at how crime has evolved, forensically examining the many ranks and roles of a modern criminal organization.
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3
Scams
Nov 15, 2014
25 min
It's been estimated that almost 70% of all email traffic is spam. And, online, it is Nigeria that is often seen as the biggest culprit. Ben Hammersley travels to Lagos to meet online scammers and the police tasked with tracking them down. But in a country of 168 million and the largest economy in Africa, Ben asks if labeling Nigeria as the worst offender is just another lazy stereotype.
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4
Piracy
Nov 22, 2014
25 min
The Pirate Bay is one of the largest file sharing sites in the world, founded in Sweden in 2003 by Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, and Peter Sunde. The founders were tried for copyright infringement in 2009. Ben visits Stockholm to tell the story of the internet trial of the century and looks at how it affected our relationship with Big Media, copyright, and the notion of ownership online.
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5
Cyber War
Nov 29, 2014
25 min
It has been described as the Hiroshima of cyberwar, the moment where the fevered imaginations of science fiction finally came true. A computer worm called Stuxnet disrupted what the west claimed to be Iran's top-secret plans to build a nuclear bomb. Ben Hammersley travels to LA, Berlin, and London to find out what impact Stuxnet has had on the future of warfare.
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6
Surveillance
Dec 6, 2014
25 min
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