CYBER

At its height, the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous was the bane of Scientologists, the FBI, CIA, Mastercard, Paypal, Middle Eastern dictatorships, and in its latest effective iterations, even ISIS.

But in recent years, Anonymous has all but disappeared. It leaves a legacy: It single-handedly brought back the Guy Fawkes mask as a true symbol of civil disobedience, was the obvious inspiration for the hit TV show Mr. Robot, and is also associated with all sorts of more nefarious and negative aspects of trolling culture. In its wake, hacktivism hasn’t dried up altogether, either, with entities like Phineas Fisher still making headlines and taking up its mantle as an online vigilante force challenging the powerful.

This week on CYBER we have Biella Coleman, a professor of anthropology at McGill University in Montreal who wrote the comprehensive book on the group—Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous—to talk about what became of the infamous collective. 

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If you’re at all plugged into the global news cycle, you’ll know the U.S. assassinated Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani, a commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and leader of the secretive Quds Force.

Since that night, experts have been wondering what the blowback from Tehran will be. Naturally, in the age of cyberwarfare, people are getting pretty worried about the threat of Iranian hackers, who, if you were to believe some newscasts, are practically hiding in your modem.

There are some real and some overblown threats from Iranian hackers now facing the U.S. In fact, the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning that it was logging increased cyberattacks emanating from the Iranian regime on American networks.

But how worried should we be?

On this week’s CYBER we have Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox who is already tracking alleged Iranian hackers defacing American websites, to discuss what Tehran’s hackers are actually capable of hacking.

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Cyberworks - Cyber Show January 2020

Track Listing:

1. Kings of Forbidden Lands - Web Web - Oracle

2. Sure out Here - Marc Mac - Red Tape Instrumentals

3. As You Are - Taylor McFerrin, Elena Pinderhughes - Love's Last Chance

4. Golden Axe - Flying Lotus - Maida Vale Session

5. Downtown - Moodymann - Sinner

6. Mjuvi - Kaidi Tatham - You Find That I Got It / Mjuvi

7. Let Me In - Robert Glasper Feat.Mick Jenkins - Fuck Yo Feelings

8. Duck & Cover - The Uhssentials - Everything You Need

9. Peace Peace - G&D - Black Love & War

10. Blufunk - Frag Maddin - Street Tracks: Summer Daze

11. Jetsettin - Shigeto - Shigeto

12. Arse Conference - Luke Vibert - Valvable

13. Jail (Waajeed's Funkytown Remix) - Phenomenal Handclap Band - Jail

14. Echoes (Neue Grafik Remix) - Brandt Brauer Frick Feat.Friedberg - Echo (Remixes)

15. Jazzville (Blend & Soul Remix) - Habibi Grooves - Jazzville

16. New For U (Live) - Andres - ANDRES IV

17. What You Gonna Ask For (Dego Mix) - Theo Parrish - What You Gonna Ask For

18. I Want Your Body - Keita Sano - Come Into My Life EP

19. Radical Sience - Gus Nobel - Secret Bunch Vol. 3

20. Special Shoutout - Hodini - The Untitled

21. Around The Sun - Nu Era - EVOLVE

22. Dry Mango Pt.2 - K15 & SMBD - Earth State EP

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Denz - 9th Wonder Mix

Track Listing:

1. Speed

2. Bobby's Check Me Out

3. Stand It

4. Floe Almighty

5. For You

6. Mr.Dream Merchant

7. Afro Blue Remix

8. Whatever You Say

9. Nautiluschop!!!!!

10. The Animal

11. Hey Young World Pt.2

12. The Listening

13. Special

14. Violent

15. Bobby's Prove Ya Love

16. So Fabulous

17. Stop Fooling Yourself

18. Bobby's Things

19. Brooklyn In My Mind

20. Band Practice Pt.2

21. 3:16 Pt.2

22. Intro Of A Dream

23. The Torch

24. Rear View Mirror

25. Honey

26. Lovin' It

27. Last Real Nigga Alive

28. For The Record

29. Good Ol' Love

30. Yo Yo Remix

31. Getaway

32. Rain

33. Power

34. FindingDeo!!!

35. Big Boy Music

36. That's Us

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It occurred to us at Motherboard that for this final episode of CYBER in the 2010s we could recount the year in stories that we’ve done. The real scoops, traffic hogs, and think pieces. But then again, this is the decade that changed infosec. This was the decade that made hackers critical players on the world stage, our personal digital information sacred, and our political systems fixed into some strange, social media hellscape. 

Since its founding in 2009, Motherboard has seen it all with you.

So on this episode of CYBER, our dear editor-in-chief Jason Koebler and host Ben Makuch will take you through from the beginning of the decade to its end: from Guy Fawkes masks, strings of weaponized code to your brain being manipulated by a Facebook ad.

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Imagine installing security cameras in your house to protect your family. Then one day those cameras start talking to you. Trolling you, in fact.

After last week when the news broke that Amazon’s super sketchy security camera company Ring, had its products compromised, Motherboard got even more scoop: There’s a livestream-podcast over a Discord channel where hackers take over people's Ring cameras and use their speakers to troll its owners in the comfort of their own homes.

Then Motherboard tested the security of Ring and found, well, Ring accounts are lacking basic security measures.

On this week’s CYBER we have our reporter Joseph Cox, who broke the stories, to tell us more. 

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Denz - World Of Hip-Hop Show December 2019

Track Listing:

1. It's All Good - Skyzoo & Pete Rock - Retropolitan

2. Creep Wit Me - Black Moon - Rise Of Da Moon

3. 12welve - Flip.Gawd.Dre - The Sleep Tape.

4. Abu Enzo - Brother Ali - Secrets & Escapes

5. Hey, Judas - ScienZe - ScienZe Was Here

6. Celestial - staHHr - Celestial

7. Steve Holt - Von Pea Feat.Moses Rockwell - City For Sale

8. Kick'n It - Sareem Poems & Newselph - 88 To Now

9. Daniel Fast - Kill em All Feat.Tha God Fahim - Kill Em All

10. 7:30 - Smoke DZA & Benny The Butcher Feat.Westside Gunn - Statue Of Limitations

11. How Itz Done - Ruste Juxx & Tone Spliff Feat.King Magnetic & Ill Conscious - Magma

12. Bless The Mic - Gang Starr - One Of The Best Yet

13. Can't Lose - Apollo Brown Feat.Phat Kat, Royce Da 5'9" & DJ Los - Sincerely, Detroit

14. My Song - Marc Mac - Red Tape Instrumentals

15. Everything I Want - Planet Asia Feat.Styliztik Jones - A.G.E

16. Still Big - Big Shug - The Diamond Report

17. Me + Myka - Blu & Fat Jack Feat.Myka 9 - Underground Makes The World Go Round EP

18. Kitchen Talk - Flee Lord & 38 Spesh - Loyalty & Trust

19. Phantom Knights - DJ Muggs x Tha God Fahim - Dump Assassins

20. Ground & Water - Blu & Damu The Fudgemunk - Ground & Water

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