Cybercrimes With Ben Hammersley
Cybercrimes With Ben Hammersley
Cybercrimes With Ben Hammersley
Documentary
Crime
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Overview
An examination of how criminals use Internet technology for their own ends.
Status: Ended
First Air Date: 2014-11-01
Runtime: 0h 25m
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
Episodes - Season 1
Darknets
Darknets
Episode 1
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".
Heists
Heists
Episode 2
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.
Scams
Scams
Episode 3
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.
Piracy
Piracy
Episode 4
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.
Cyber War
Cyber War
Episode 5
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.
Surveillance
Surveillance
Episode 6
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