Lock and Code
Lock and Code tells the human stories within cybersecurity, privacy, and technology. Rogue robot vacuums, hacked farm tractors, and catastrophic software vulnerabilities—it’s all here.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 142
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Beyond the VPN: Ultimate online privacy, with The Tor Project’s Isabela Bagueros
What does online privacy mean to you?
Maybe it's securing your online messages away from prying eyes. Maybe it's keeping your browsing behavior hidden from advertisers. Or maybe it's, like for many p…
ExpressVPN made a choice, and so have I
On September 14, the US Department of Justice announced that it had resolved an earlier investigation into an international cyber hacking campaign coming from the United Arab Emirates, called Project…
Teaching cybersecurity skills to special needs children with Alana Robinson
Internet safety for kids is hard enough as it is, but what about Internet safety for children with special needs?
How do you teach strong password creation for children with learning disabilities? Ho…
Backups are not a simple ransomware defense, with Matt Crape
A recent spate of ransomware attacks have derailed major corporations, spurring a fuel shortage on the US East Coast, shuttering grocery stores in Sweden, and sending students home from grade schools…
Hackers, tractors, and a few delayed actors. How hacker Sick Codes learned too much about John Deere
No one ever wants a group of hackers to say about their company: “We had the keys to the kingdom.”
But that’s exactly what the hacker Sick Codes said on this week’s episode of Lock and Code, with hos…
Katie Moussouris hacked Clubhouse. Her emails went unanswered for weeks
When Luta Security CEO and founder Katie Moussouris analyzed the popular social "listening" app Clubhouse, she found a way to eavesdrop on conversations without notifying other users. This was, Mouss…
Disaster planning with Lesley Carhart, and the slim chance of a critical infrastructure “big one”
The 2021 attacks on two water treatment facilities in the US—combined with ransomware attacks on an oil and gas supplier and a meat and poultry distributor—could lead most people to believe that a cr…
“Seven or eight” zero-days: The failed race to fix Kaseya VSA, with Victor Gevers
On April 1, a volunteer researcher for the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) began poking around into Kaseya VSA, a popular software tool used to remotely manage and monitor compute…
Racing against a real-life ransomware attack, with Ski Kacoroski
At 11:37 pm on the night of September 20, 2019, cybercriminals launched a ransomware attack against Northshore School District in Washington state. Early the next morning, Northshore systems administ…
Want to stop ransomware attacks? Send the cybercriminals to jail, says Brian Honan
Ransomware attacks are on a different scale this year, with major attacks not just dismantling the business and management of Colonial Pipeline in the US, the Health Service Executive in Ireland, and…
Can two VPN "wrongs" make a right?
In 2016, a mid-20s man began an intense, prolonged harassment campaign against his new roommate. He emailed her from spoofed email accounts. He texted her and referenced sensitive information that w…
Shining a light on dark patterns with Carey Parker
This week on Lock and Code, we speak to cybersecurity advocate and author Carey Parker about "dark patterns," which are subtle tricks online to get you to make choices that might actually harm you. M…
Alleviating ransomware's legal headaches with Jake Bernstein
This week on Lock and Code, we speak to cybersecurity and privacy attorney Jake Bernstein about ransomware attacks that don't just derail a company's reputation and productivity, but also throw them …
Breaking free from the VirusTotal silo
This week on Lock and Code, we speak to Malwarebytes Chief Information Security Officer John Donovan about the flaws in using VirusTotal as the one source of truth when evaluating whether or not a cy…
Beating security fatigue with Troy Hunt, Chloé Messdaghi, and Tanya Janca
Why you need to trust your VPN, with JP Taggart
This week on Lock and Code, we speak to Malwarebytes senior security researcher JP Taggart about the importance of trusting your VPN.
You've likely heard the benefits of using a VPN: You can watch …
The Malwarebytes 2021 State of Malware report
This week on Lock and Code, we tune in to a special presentation from Adam Kujawa about the 2021 State of Malware report, which analyzed the top cybercrime goals of 2020 amidst the global pandemic.
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Defending online anonymity and speech with Eva Galperin
Every few years, after the public learns about an ugly, online harassment campaign, a familiar response shoots forth: Change the way we talk to one another online, either by changing the law, or chan…
Talking Emotet's takedown with Adam Kujawa
On today's show, we discuss cybersecurity's public enemy number one: Emotet. This piece of malware started in 2014 as a simple banking Trojan, but it later evolved into a fully functional malware bus…
Celebrating Data Privacy Day with Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, and EFF
For Data Privacy Day this year, Lock and Code returns with a special episode featuring guests from Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, and EFF in a discussion on how to protect your online privacy.