In the 21st century, "we are all becoming visible...in that other, parallel world of electronic records, databases, video films, and computer memories," says Professor David Canter. "Criminals who would've been hidden in the past are also becoming visible in this virtual world-provided we know how to look for them." In this program, Canter addresses the use of data mining to track the virtual and real-world movements of criminals. Case studies include...

Thanks in part to the documents released by Edward Snowden, the true scale of the National Security Agency's scope and power is coming to light. Besides spending billions to ingest and analyze the worlds' electronic communications, the NSA has set out to dominate a new battlefield - cyberspace. NOVA examines the science and technology behind cyber warfare and asks if we are already in the midst of a deadly new arms race.

We'd like to think they're invincible, but America's power stations, water supplies, financial systems, and military communications are all vulnerable to attack. And the most pressing threat isn't from bombs or other physical dangers-it's from computer hacking. What can be done to protect our infrastructure and prevent a devastating digital assault? To find out, this CNBC Original documentary goes to the frontlines of the war on cybercrime and cyber-terrorism....

The year 2013 was very bad for big business. In February $45 million was stolen from ATMs around the world after cyber criminals hacked credit cards and gave them unlimited withdrawal limits. Then, in November, 40 million credit card numbers were removed from the point-of-sale terminals of U.S. retailer Target. Ben Hammersley travels to New York and Washington D.C. to look at how crime has evolved, forensically examining the many ranks and roles of...

This film investigates one of the world’s biggest and most audacious cyberheists where hackers managed to compromise two of the most respected names in international banking, the SWIFT messaging system and the New York Federal Reserve, taking {20}81 million in the process. Following the trail of the stolen money from Dhaka, to Manila and New York, journalist Andrew Wilson is on a mission to uncover how the hackers did it and ultimately who they...

Bouncing between Canada and the U.S., Sc@mmed exposes an urgent problem of global proportions: phishing, the illegal gathering of others' personal information online in order to steal all their money-and even their identities. Through the cautionary stories of two people who got burned, this program shows how cybercriminals use scam spam and spoof Web sites to trick people into willingly giving up their most sensitive financial and personal information....

Though the internet was created by a defense agency, it was embraced by the public as a tool for global communication. This video explains how, using a carrot-and-stick approach, the National Security Agency developed alliances with big tech companies to gain access to their customers' data. FISA court orders, top-secret information, and lucrative contracts lured corporations in, but public reaction in the wake of the Snowden revelations has caused...

With the advent of the Internet, data has become available worldwide at the click of a button-including sensitive personal data. What is the potential for misuse of this information, and can users be sure that sites visited for online shopping, banking, and social networking are storing it safely? This program examines the transmission, storage, and use of electronic information, with the Australian Web site Seek serving as a case study. Seek's security...

Alex Winter, director of the documentary Deep Web, talks with Reason TV's Zach Weissmueller about Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht and anonymity and privacy in cyberspace. A Reason TV production.

This film explores the murky and fast-paced world of hackers out to steal money and identities and wreak havoc with people's online lives, and the scientists who are joining forces to help defeat them. Horizon meets the two men who uncovered the world's first cyber weapon, the pioneers of what is called ultra paranoid computing, and the computer expert who worked out how to hack into cash machines.