Cybercrimes With Ben Hammersley

Delves into the dark web/Tor and the drug dealing market known as the Silk Road, as well as the BitCoin currency used on it. Covers how the FBI investigated and caught Ross Ulbricht, who is believed to be the "Dread Pirate Roberts".

Its 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.

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 Irans 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.