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16 episodes

Cyberwar - Season 1

First aired Jul 5, 2016Season 1

Browse all 16 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Who is Anonymous?

9.0
Jul 5, 201624 min1 votes

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?

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Episode 2

The Sony Hack

8.0
Jul 12, 201624 min1 votes

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.

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Episode 3

Cyber Mercenaries

NR
Jul 19, 201624 min

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.

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Episode 4

Hacked by China

NR
Jul 26, 201624 min

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

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Episode 5

Syria's Cyber Battlefields

10.0
Aug 2, 201624 min1 votes

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?

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Episode 6

Stuxnet the Digital Weapon

10.0
Aug 9, 201624 min1 votes

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

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Episode 7

Hacking the Infrastructure

NR
Aug 16, 201624 min

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

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Episode 8

America's Elite Hacking Force

NR
Aug 23, 201624 min

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?​​

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Episode 9

The Zero Day Market

NR
Oct 25, 201624 min

“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.

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Episode 10

Anonymous vs. ISIS

NR
Nov 1, 201624 min

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

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Episode 11

The Ashley Madison Hack

1.0
Nov 15, 201624 min2 votes

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.

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Episode 12

Israel: Cyber Nation

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Nov 22, 201624 min

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

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Episode 13

Lights Out in Ukraine

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Nov 29, 201624 min

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.

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Episode 14

Crime & Government: Russia's Hackers

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Dec 6, 201624 min

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

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Episode 15

The Future of War

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Dec 13, 201624 min

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.

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Episode 16

The Race for Artificial Intelligence

NR
Dec 20, 201624 min

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.