Inside the FBI’s DDOS investigations with Special Agent Elliott Peterson

Safe Mode Podcast

Distributed denial of service attacks are one of the great nuisances of online life today, but they can also have more serious impact on the internet, disrupting access to crucial services and information at critical moments. FBI Special Agent Elliott Peterson is one of the bureau’s most seasoned investigators of the networks responsible for launching the DDOS attacks and joins the show to discuss his work investigating these criminal networks. CyberScoop reporter Christian Vasquez also joins the show to discuss a recent setback for the Biden administration in upping the cybersecurity of the water industry.