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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.

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44:31

Why Macs are the best, according to Mac expert Thomas...

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2021/12/06

In 2021, the war for computer superiority has a clear winner, and it is the Macintosh, by Apple. The company's Pro laptops are finally, belatedly equipped with ports that have been standard in other computers for years. The company's beleaguered "butterfly" keyboard has seemingly been erased from history. And the base model of company's powerhouse desktop tower could set you back a hefty $6,000. What's not to love? On Lock and Code this week, we talk to Mac security expert Thomas Reed about why Macs

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42:41

The Internet is not safe enough for women, and Sue...

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2021/11/22

Cyberstalking. Harassment. Stalkerware. Nonconsensual pornography, real and digitally altered. The Internet can be a particularly ugly place for women. On Lock and Code this week, we ask why. Join a conversation with with Digitunity's Sue Krautbauer about what has gone wrong with the Internet, and what we can do to fix it.

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42:47

Why we fail at getting the cybersecurity basics...

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2021/11/08

The cybersecurity basics should be just that—basic. Easy to do, agreed-upon, and adopted at a near 100 percent rate by companies and organizations everywhere, right? You'd hope. But the reality is that basic cybersecurity blunders have led to easy-to-discover vulnerabilities in companies including John Deere, Clubhouse, and Kaseya VSA (which we've all talked about on this show), and at least for Kaseya VSA, those vulnerabilities led to one of the worst ransomware attacks in recent history. Today,

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52:00

Beyond the VPN: Ultimate online privacy, with The Tor...

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2021/10/25

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 people today, using a VPN to hide your activity from your Internet Service Provider. But because online privacy can mean so many things, that also means it includes so much more than just using a VPN. Today, we speak to The Tor Project Executive Director Isabella Bagueros about what other types of online

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38:57

ExpressVPN made a choice, and so have I

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2021/10/12

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 Raven, that has reportedly impacted hundreds of journalists, activists, and human rights defenders in Yemen, Iran, Turkey, and Qatar. But in a bizarre twist, this tale of surveillance abroad tapered inwards into a tale of privacy at home, as one of the three men named by the DOJ is Daniel Gericke, the

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47:59

Teaching cybersecurity skills to special needs...

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2021/09/27

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? How do you teach children how to separate fact from fiction when they have a different grasp of social cues? And how do you make sure these lessons are not only remembered for years to come, but also rewarding for the children themselves? Today on Lock and Code, we speak with Alana Robinson, a special

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40:41

Backups are not a simple ransomware defense, with...

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2021/09/13

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. The solution, so many cybersecurity experts say, is to implement backups. But if backups are so useful, why aren't they visibly working? Companies with backups have found them misconfigured, or they've ended up paying a ransom anyways. On Lock and Code this week, we speak with VMware technical account

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44:43

Hackers, tractors, and a few delayed actors. How...

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2021/08/30

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 host David Ruiz, when talking about his and fellow hackers’ efforts to peer into John Deere’s data operations center, where the company receives a near-endless stream of data from its Internet-connected tractors, combines, and other smart farming equipment.

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45:50

Katie Moussouris hacked Clubhouse. Her emails went...

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2021/08/16

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, Moussouris said, a serious and basic flaw, so, using her years of expertise, she documented the vulnerability and emailed some information to the company. Her emails went unanswered for weeks. Today, on Lock and Code with host David Ruiz, we speak to Moussouris about Clubhouse, vulnerability disclosure,

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41:11

Disaster planning with Lesley Carhart, and the slim...

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2021/08/02

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 critical infrastructure “big one” is coming. But, as Lesley Carhart, principal threat hunter with Dragos, tells us, the chances of such an event are remarkably slim. In fact, critical infrastructure’s regular disaster planning often leads to practices that can detect, limit, or prevent any wide-reaching

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43:55

“Seven or eight” zero-days: The failed race to fix...

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2021/07/19

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 computers. Within minutes, he found a zero-day vulnerability that allowed remote code execution—a serious flaw. Within weeks, his team had found seven or eight more. In today's episode, DIVD Chair Victor Gevers describes the race to prevent one of the most devastating ransomware attacks in recent history

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41:59

Racing against a real-life ransomware attack, with...

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2021/07/06

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 administrator Ski Kacoroski arrived on scene. As Kacoroski soon found out, he and his team were on a race against time—the ransomware actively spreading across servers holding data necessary for day-to-day operations. And importantly, in just four days, the school district needed—by law—to pay its staff. That

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44:20

Want to stop ransomware attacks? Send the...

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2021/06/21

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 the meatpacker JBS in Australia, but also disrupting people's access to gasoline, healthcare, COVID-19 vaccinations, and more. So, what is it going to take to stop these attacks? Brian Honan, CEO of BH Consulting, said that the process will be long and complex, but the end goal in sight should be

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26:58

Can two VPN "wrongs" make a right?

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2021/06/07

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 was only stored in a private, online journal. He created new Instagram accounts, he repeatedly made friend requests through Facebook to her friends and family, he even started making bomb threats. And though he tried to sometimes mask his online activity, two of the VPNs he used while registering a fake

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50:51

Shining a light on dark patterns with Carey Parker

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2021/05/24

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. Maybe you'll be bilked out a couple dollars, maybe you'll find it nearly impossible to unsubscribe out of that newsletter, or maybe you'll see yourself signing away some of your data privacy controls just so a company can keep making more money off you. Tune in to learn about dark patterns—how to spot

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39:14

Alleviating ransomware's legal headaches with Jake...

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2021/05/10

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 into potential legal peril. These are "double extortion" attacks, in which ransomware operators can hit the same target two times over—encrypting a victim's files and also threatening to publish sensitive data that was stolen in the attack. And in the US, whenever data is stolen and released, there are

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27:52

Breaking free from the VirusTotal silo

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2021/04/26

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 cybersecurity tool actually works. It's a practice that is surprisingly common among small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Tune in to learn about the smartest ways to test and implement endpoint protection into your SMB, and how to finally break free from the VirusTotal silo, on the latest episode of

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Beating security fatigue with Troy Hunt, Chloé...

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2021/04/12

This week on Lock and Code, we speak to Point3 Security chief strategist Chloé Messdaghi, HaveIBeenPwned founder Troy Hunt, and We Hack Purple founder and CEO Tanya Janca about security fatigue. Security fatigue is exactly what it sounds like. It's the limit we all reach when security best practices become overbearing. It's what prevents us from making a strong password for a new online account. It’s why we may not update our software despite repeated notifications. And, importantly, it probably

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38:00

Why you need to trust your VPN, with JP Taggart

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2021/03/29

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 TV shows restricted to certain countries, you can encrypt your web traffic on public WiFi networks, and, importantly, you can obscure your Internet activity from your Internet Service Provider, which may use that activity for advertising. But obscuring your Internet activity—including the websites you

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36:35

The Malwarebytes 2021 State of Malware report

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2021/03/15

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. If you just pay attention to the numbers from last year, you might get the wrong idea. After all, malware detections for both consumers and businesses decreased in 2020 compared to 2019. That sounds like good news, but it wasn't. Behind those lowered numbers were more skillful, more precise attacks

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