Cyberwar

Season 1 2016
TV-14

  • 2016-07-06T02:00:00Z on Viceland
  • 24m
  • 6h 24m (16 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, Crime
Ben Makuch travels the world to meet with hackers, government officials, and dissidents to investigate the ecosystem of cyberwarfare.

16 episodes

Series Premiere

2016-07-06T02:00:00Z

1x01 Who is Anonymous?

Series Premiere

1x01 Who is Anonymous?

  • 2016-07-06T02:00:00Z24m

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?

2016-07-13T02:00:00Z

1x02 The Sony Hack

1x02 The Sony Hack

  • 2016-07-13T02:00:00Z24m

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.

2016-07-20T02:00:00Z

1x03 Cyber Mercenaries

1x03 Cyber Mercenaries

  • 2016-07-20T02:00:00Z24m

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.

2016-07-27T02:00:00Z

1x04 Hacked by China

1x04 Hacked by China

  • 2016-07-27T02:00:00Z24m

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

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?

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

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

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?​​

2016-10-26T02:00:00Z

1x09 The Zero Day Market

1x09 The Zero Day Market

  • 2016-10-26T02:00:00Z24m

“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.

2016-11-02T02:00:00Z

1x10 Anonymous vs. ISIS

1x10 Anonymous vs. ISIS

  • 2016-11-02T02:00:00Z24m

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

2016-11-16T03:00:00Z

1x11 The Ashley Madison Hack

1x11 The Ashley Madison Hack

  • 2016-11-16T03:00:00Z24m

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.

2016-11-23T03:00:00Z

1x12 Israel: Cyber Nation

1x12 Israel: Cyber Nation

  • 2016-11-23T03:00:00Z24m

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

2016-11-30T03:00:00Z

1x13 Lights Out in Ukraine

1x13 Lights Out in Ukraine

  • 2016-11-30T03:00:00Z24m

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.

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

2016-12-14T03:00:00Z

1x15 The Future of War

1x15 The Future of War

  • 2016-12-14T03:00:00Z24m

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.

Season Finale

2016-12-21T03:00:00Z

1x16 The Race for Artificial Intelligence

Season Finale

1x16 The Race for Artificial Intelligence

  • 2016-12-21T03:00:00Z24m

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.

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