Cyberwar — Season 1

Aired 5 July 2016 • 24 min

The notorious hacktivist collective Anonymous has targeted everyone from PayPal to the FBI. But a string of arrests have crippled the group. So who is Anonymous now?

Aired 12 July 2016 • 24 min

Sony Pictures was hacked and the U.S. blamed North Korea. But the government's evidence wasn't all that convincing, and many hackers and computer experts still have doubts.

Aired 19 July 2016 • 24 min

Authoritarian regimes are using spyware tools bought from private companies in the West. Hacker PhineasFisher targeted these companies to reveal their deals to suppress dissent.

Aired 26 July 2016 • 24 min

From Google to the government, China has hacked many American networks. But there’s a difference between spying and stealing intellectual property.

Aired 2 August 2016 • 24 min

On the frontlines of one of the world's bloodiest conflicts, a parallel war is being fought in cyberspace. Is Syria's cyber battlefield creating a model for the wars of the future?

Aired 9 August 2016 • 24 min

Stuxnet was a sophisticated cyber attack on an Iranian nuclear plant that may have changed the nature of warfare forever.

Aired 16 August 2016 • 24 min

As Iran ramps up its offensive cyber operations, American critical infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to attacks.

Aired 23 August 2016 • 24 min

Tailored Access Operations, or TAO, is the NSA's elite hacking force. TAO employs some of America's best hackers--so who are their targets?​​

Aired 25 October 2016 • 24 min

“Zero days” are bugs in software that hackers use to break into systems. Some are valued at up to a million dollars, with both buyers and sellers shrouded in secrecy.

Aired 1 November 2016 • 24 min

In a war with ISIS online, is Anonymous working with the U.S. government?

Aired 15 November 2016 • 24 min

After Ashley Madison, a hook-up site for married people, got hacked, its users weren't the only ones exposed - turns out the cheating site may have been cheating its own customers.

Aired 22 November 2016 • 24 min

Israel is one of the world’s cyber super powers. So how did this tiny nation grow so strong – and who is it targeting?

Aired 29 November 2016 • 24 min

A cyber attack on Ukraine's power grid leaves thousands of people in the dark as a military conflict involving Russia rages in the east.

Aired 6 December 2016 • 24 min

Russian cybercrime is big business – and some say hackers get a pass when they work double duty for Putin and his geopolitical ambitions.

Aired 13 December 2016 • 24 min

Exploring how wars of the future might be fought with autonomous machines, drones and weapons that can act on their own and whether it's ever OK to write code that can kill.

Aired 20 December 2016 • 24 min

From self-driving cars to Siri, a race is on to build more powerful AI, but some warn we could be programming our own extinction.