Cybercrimes With Ben Hammersley

Delve into the dark web and the drug dealing market known as the Silk Road, as well as the now-famous BitCoin currency used on it. This episode overs how the FBI investigated and caught Ross Ulbricht who is believed to be the "Dread Pirate Roberts".

2013 was a very bad year for big business. In February, $45 million 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.

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.

Take a look at how The Pirate Bay trial affected our relationship with big media, copyright, and the notion of ownership online.

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.

Edward Snowden is a hero to some but an enemy to the US government. He famously exposed the NSA's unethical surveillance tactics. The agency claims that these measures are only in place to stop terror attacks and to protect the people.