Podcast Overview (from podcast’s website)
In every crime there are two main protagonists: the criminal and the victim. And yet in our storytelling about cybercrime, these two important roles are largely absent from the conversation as we focus on the technical deficiency over the human threat.
All too often in conversations amongst the cybersecurity community, we focus solely on technological defense: building walls, setting up filters, and/or blocking spam. As a result, our cybersecurity conversations are technical, rather than personal, and we can lose sight of the very real people behind these very real crimes.
We believe that if we are to be effective with enacting real policy solutions, we must shift the focus onto the human — and we must do it in an accessible and compelling way.
In season one of “To Catch A Hacker,” Mieke Eoyang—former Senior Vice President for Third Way’s National Security Program—talked to the US Secret Service, reporters, and experts to dive deep into the story of the 2017 hack of the DC police camera system just days before Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The season covers how law enforcement regained control of the system, tracked the hackers in real-time, and finally arrested them overseas. And it highlights how catching hackers, while extremely difficult, is not impossible.
