Cybercrime
How can social media users be protected from hackers?
| Al Jazeera | It may seem safe enough to post your phone number and date of birth on social media. But that information could end up being shared all over the web. The personal details of more than half…
- 2021
- Cybercrime
Spy Merchants
| Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit enters the secretive world of the surveillance industry. Spy Merchants reveals for the first time how highly-invasive spyware, which can capture the electronic communications of a town, can be purchased in a…
- 2017
- Espionage, Cybercrime
The Spy in Your Phone
| Al Jazeera | In mid-2020, a mobile phone belonging to an Al Jazeera Arabic investigative team was hacked. Over the next few months, reporter Tamer Almisshal and the Canadian research group Citizen Lab investigated Pegasus, the sophisticated spyware used….
- 2021
- Espionage, Cybercrime
Cyber Censors. What’s the future of the internet?
| RT Documentary | What’s the future of the internet? Digital reality will soon face a tough challenge. A war of platforms is breaking out in the virtual world, and it seems to be beyond the reach of any government….
- 2021
- Cybercrime
WannaCry, the Marcus Hutchins Story
| Tomorrow Unlocked | One day in May 2017, computers all around the world suddenly shut down. A malware called WannaCry asks for a ransom. The epidemic suddenly stops, because a young, British researcher finds a killswitch, by accident.
- 2019
- Cybercrime
The Fantasy Sports Gamble
| Frontline | An investigation with The New York Times into fantasy sports and online sports betting. With law enforcement cracking down, the film traces the growth of these booming businesses and goes inside their operations at home and abroad.
- 2016
- Cybercrime, Illegal betting