Horizon · SEASON 51
Defeating the Hackers
Episode 2 · 2013-08-19

- Documentary
Episode overview
Exploring the murky and fast-paced world of the 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.
60 minutes
Season 51 episodes
1. Monitor Me2013-08-12
2. Defeating the Hackers2013-08-19
3. Dinosaurs: The Hunt for Life2013-08-26
4. Sugar v Fat2014-01-29
5. Swallowed by a Sink Hole2014-02-03
6. Man on Mars - Mission to the Red Planet2014-02-10
7. The Power of the Placebo2014-02-17
8. How You Really Make Decisions2014-02-24
9. Living with Autism2014-04-01
10. Where is Flight MH370?2014-06-17
12. What's Wrong with Our Weather?2014-07-17