Target USA Podcast by WTOP

Target USA Podcast by WTOP


Latest Episodes

Target USA -- Episode 181: North Korea launches more missiles, warns US and South Korea
August 07, 2019

North Korea has launched more than a half-dozen missiles in the past few weeks. Many of them are new variants, which suggests that North Korea is continuing to march toward building nuclear weapons. At the same time, North Korea's leader...

Target USA -- Episode 180: A new generation of cyber warfare is here
July 31, 2019

Every country on the planet is thinking about one thing: the next step in the progression of cyber warfare and what the weapons of the future will look like. Tanel Sepp, cyber policy director for Estonia’s Ministry of Defense, tells us...

Target USA -- Episode 179: The dangers of FaceApp and others like it
July 24, 2019

Have you tried the new appearance-altering computer applications? Suddenly, the technology has become a national security concern. On this episode, we hear what people think and a warning from the former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence..

Target USA -- Episode 178: Cyber vulnerabilities may be world's No. 1 security threat
July 17, 2019

Leaders from NATO, the FBI, and cyber security firms Crowd Strike and Fire Eye all agree securing personal, government, military and corporate data is among the most daunting challenges of the modern era -- and it's high time all people...

Target USA -- Episode 177: The Huawei 5G dilemma -- why the US and its allies are so nervous
July 10, 2019

The next generation of cellular network technology is about to hit markets around the world. But there's a big problem: The main producer of the technology is Huawei, and the company allegedly has built backdoors into more than 50%...

Target USA -- Episode 176: Game changing development in Cyber crime
July 04, 2019

Criminals, terrorists and other bad actors now have a powerful new tool to help them. It’s the dark web’s cybercrime market place. Wil Van Gemert, Deputy Executive Director of Operations at Europol discusses how that new marketplace works....

Target USA -- Episode 175: An interview with Elizabeth Horst, chargé d’affaires, US Embassy Tallinn, Estonia
June 26, 2019

Elizabeth Horst has been posted to some of the toughest places on earth, including Pakistan, Afghanistan and Moscow. And speaking of Russia, Estonia is the frontline in the Western defense against Russian aggression. Horst tells Target...

Target USA -- Episode 174: There are more than 10,000 spies lurking in DC
June 19, 2019

Brian Dugan, assistant special agent in charge of counterintelligence at the Washington Field Office of the FBI, joins Target USA to put the problem into context and explain how they’re dealing with it.

Target USA -- Episode 173: Rules for war in cyberspace
June 12, 2019

The world has recently seen the devastation that can be caused by the amorphous realm that is cyber. Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, Estonia's ambassador at-large for cybersecurity, discusses how diplomats are going about putting rules in place,...

Target USA -- Episode 172: Jonna Mendez, former CIA chief of disguise talks about her book, 'The Moscow Rules'
June 05, 2019

The legendary woman, who created some of the CIA's most ingenious disguises, talks about the rules of the road for U.S. spies in Moscow, her career and her famous husband, the late Tony Mendez of "Argo" fame.