Digital Crime - Auf digitaler Spurensuche Archiv

Läuft die Technik nicht so wie sie soll, ist das ärgerlich. Frust staut sich an. Oft entlädt er sich an der Kundenhotline oder in Hilfe-Foren im Netz. Auch bei der Telekom werden Kundenberater*innen persönlich angegriffen, beleidigt und bedroht. Aber warum wird der Übergang von Wut zu Hass immer schmaler und warum gilt gerade das Netz oft als rechtsfreier Raum?

Josef ist Coach im eSports. Professionellen Spielern hilft er sich zu verbessern. Doch nicht jeder seiner Spieler nimmt die Kritik gut auf. Es kommt zu einem rassistischen Zwischenfall und Josef muss das Team verlassen. In der heutigen Folge von Digital Crime beleuchten Mag und unsere Expert*innen, wie schnell und leichtfertig Hass im Gaming Einzug halten kann und was man dagegen tun kann.

Julia ist Journalistin und deckt online sogenannte Fake News auf. Doch das finden nicht alle gut. Es dauert nicht lange, bis Julia unglaublicher Hass entgegenschlägt, der sie bis heute begleitet. In der 2. Folge der neuen Digital Crime Staffel erzählt Julia ihre Geschichte. Expert*innen ordnen ein, wo juristische Grenzen überschritten werden und wie man sich selbst schützen kann.

In den nächsten sechs Folgen beleuchtet unserer Podcast das Thema Hass im Netz! Mit unserer Moderatorin Mag, persönlich Betroffenen und Expert*innen gehen wir den unterschiedlichsten Fragen nach. In welcher Form treten Hasskommentare auf? Wie gehen die Betroffenen damit um? Was raten Fachleuten im Umgang mit dem Thema und wie kann ich mich dagegen zur Wehr setzen?

“Please reset your password!” – with this mail a 17-year-old boy started the biggest Twitter hack in history! In this episode we find out how the hacker managed to infiltrate Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Joe Biden and others in order to steal bitcoins.

In our newest episode we discover the case of Ahmed Mansoor, a now imprisoned, prominent human rights activist from the UAE, that recieved messages from his phone containing the pegasus spyware. Our experts Yuval Elovici, Director of Telekom Innovation Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University & Head of Ben-Gurion University Cyber Security Research Center, Zahra Asif, a research assistant at Amnesty Tech who leads their campaigning on targeted surveillance and Prof. Dr. Thorsten Holz, head of chair for system security at Ruhr University Bochum discuss the case of Ahmed Mansoor and if Pegasus is a bless or a curse. You want to hear more? Check out telekom.com/podcast and get the full “podcast dosis”.

“Congratulations! You’ve won 5 million dollars in lottery.” Sounds familiar? That’s not a surprise. We all have received a classic scamming mail, which actually causes hundreds of million dollars in damage per year. But who is behind those attacks and what happens, when you hit the reply button? In this episode, we get to look “behind the scenes” with IT-forensics and cyber security expert Alexander Schinner, as he describes in a thrilling story how he exposes the criminals behind the tempting but dangerous scamming mails. You want to hear more? Check out telekom.com/podcast and get the full “podcast dosis”.

Alexander Schinner works as an IT forensics expert. He and his team manage the Incident Response Service at Telekom Security, where one of their tasks is to identify and analyze malicious software. In this episode, we explore a case where a confiscated device revealed more than malware - images of naked children. Together with Alexander Schinner, we explore the background of the story and discuss what IT forensics experts are required to do in such extreme cases. Still curious? For more stories and insights, check out the Deutsche Telekom’s official podcast page.

Ever heard of “Operation Olympic Games” in terms of a cyber attack? Behind this rather friendly name lurks one of the most complex, dangerous and targeted piece of malware ever discovered, causing noticeable harm in real life: Stuxnet. Because not only criminals hack themselves into computers – also nation states attack each other via software: The worm strategically sabotaged the centrifuges of the Iranian uranium enrichment facility and is the reason why nations today are challenged to not only protect their physical borders, but also their cyber information space. In this episode our experts Rüdiger Peusquens, Head of Cyber Defense at Deutsche Telekom Security and Lando Pietsch, former Chief of the German Cyber and Information Domain Service, discuss how Stuxnet became the first cyber weapon the world has seen, the circumstances behind the attack and what consequences followed. You want to hear more? Check out the Telekom-Podcast-Page and get the full “podcast dosis”.

In our second episode, we are talking about one of the most notable ransomware attacks in history, hitting 200.000 computers across 150 countries and around 8 billion dollars in damages, to be precise. We are talking about Wannacry. The self-propagating code is famous in the cyber world because it showed that if you start something on the worldwide Internet, it will affect everybody. WannaCry is the reason we learned to keep our systems updated and have backups. Rüdiger Peusquens, Head of Cyber Defense at Deutsche Telekom Security, talks about how WannaCry works, what made it so special and how you can protect yourself. You want to hear more? Check out the [Telekom-Podcast-Page](https://www.telekom.com/de/medien/podcasts) and get the full “podcast dosis”.

The first episode of the new “Digital Crime” podcast revolves around the most well developed malware, or damaging software, that ever existed: Emotet. Since 2014 the “Emotet Gang” has made millions of dollars by hacking computers through Spam Mails, being the perfect example of how cybercrime gangs run their operations like professional businesses. Nobody knows who is behind those attacks – but Cyber Security experts are sure, that we haven’t seen the last of Emotet. You want to hear more? Check out the Telekom-Podcast-Page and get the full “podcast dosis”.