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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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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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39:15

Defending online anonymity and speech with Eva Galperin

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2021/03/01

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 changing the rules for how we identify ourselves online. But these "solutions" could actually bring more problems, particularly for vulnerable communities. Today, we speak to Electronic Frontier Foundation's Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin about how removing online anonymity could harm the safety of

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44:07

Talking Emotet's takedown with Adam Kujawa

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2021/02/15

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 business, as its operators sold access to other threat actors and helped load separate malware for a price. The danger was real, but on January 27, Europol announced they'd taken Emotet down. Today, we talk to Malwarebytes security evangelist Adam Kujawa about Emotet's past, its takedown, and the power

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44:54

Celebrating Data Privacy Day with Mozilla,...

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2021/01/28

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.

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40:29

Lesson planning your school's cybersecurity with Doug...

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2020/12/07

Education faced a crisis in the US this year, as the coronavirus forced schools across the country to develop new strategies for teaching. At Malwarebytes, we wanted to discover how these shifts impacted education cybersecurity. Today on Lock and Code, we discuss the latest findings from our report, "Lessons in cybersecurity: How education coped in the shift to distance learning," and we speak with Doug Levin, founder of K12 cybersecurity resource center and advisor to K12 Security Information

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41:15

Tracking the charities that track you online with...

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2020/11/23

Today we look at two topics that, maybe surprisingly, intersect: charity organizations and online ad tracking. Ad tracking isn't new—luxury brands used to place their advertisements specifically in newspapers that delivered to high-income zip codes. But today's ad tracking supercharges that match-making game with a complex, opaque machinery that can track what you do online, what websites you visit, what browser you use, and even your gender, religion, and political bias. To help us better

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41:29

Forecasting IoT cybersecurity with John Donovan and...

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2020/11/10

Today, we’re offering Lock and Code listeners something different. We’re giving you a backstage pass to a training we held for employees during Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The topic? The future of cybersecurity for the Internet of Things. Will we ever run antivirus software on IoT devices? What predictions can we make for how the cybersecurity industry will respond to the next, possible big IoT attack? And what can we do today to stay safe? This episode was recorded live in front of our fellow

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30:58

Finding consumer value in Cybersecurity Awareness...

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2020/10/26

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is upon us, and while the value of the once-a-year awareness campaign may be obvious to the countless employees now enrolled in cybersecurity trainings, phishing quizzes, and multi-factor authentication webinars—likely mandated by their employers—the value of this awareness campaign may be a little less obvious to the everyday consumer. To help us better understand the value of Cybersecurity Awareness Month for the consumer, we’re talking today with Jamie Court,

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Discussing journalism's role in cybersecurity with...

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2020/10/12

We often learn about cybersecurity issues because of reporting. And as the years have progressed, the stories have only become more intertwined into our everyday lives. Tune in to hear about the role of journalism in cybersecurity—like what makes a vulnerability newsworthy and what coverage helps readers most—on the latest episode of Lock and Code, with guests Seth Rosenblatt of The Parallax and Alfred Ng of CNET.

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32:06

Investigating digital vulnerabilities in our physical...

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2020/09/28

A recent history of hacking shows the importance of experimentation. In 2015, security researchers hacked a Jeep Cherokee and took over its steering, transmission, and brakes. In 2019, researchers accessed medical scanning equipment to alter X-ray images, inserting fraudulent, visual signs of cancer in a hypothetical patient. Today, we're discussing one such experiment—a garage door opener called “Open Sesame.” Join us for a discussion with "Open Sesame"'s developer, who is also the chief security

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28:48

Safely using Google Chrome Extensions with Pieter Arntz

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2020/09/14

The world of Google Chrome extensions—the sometimes helpful tools that can work directly with the Google Chrome browser to provide a variety of features—is enormous. So, with a marketplace of more than 200,000 items, quality control gets tricky. On today's episode, we speak with Pieter Arntz, malware intelligence researcher for Malwarebytes, about safely downloading Google Chrome extensions and how to avoid some of the more malicious extensions that are meant to hijack searches or sneakily deliver

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34:28

Uncovering security hubris with Adam Kujawa

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2020/08/31

Ask yourself, right now, on a scale from one to ten, how cybersecure are you? Are you maybe inflating that answer? Our main story today concerns “security hubris,” the simple, yet difficult-to-measure phenomenon in which businesses, and the people inside them, are less secure than they actually believe. To better understand security hubris—how businesses can identify it and what they can do to protect against it—we’re talking today to Adam Kujawa, security evangelist and director for Malwarebytes

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35:35

Monitoring the safety of parental monitoring apps...

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2020/08/17

Parental monitoring apps give parents the capabilities to spot where their kids go, read what their kids read, and prevent them from, for instance, visiting websites deemed inappropriate. But where these apps begin to cause concern is just how powerful they can be. To help us better understand parental monitoring apps, their capabilities, and how parents can choose to safely use these with their children, we’re talking today with Emory Roane, policy counsel at Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

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29:43

Pinpointing identity and access management's future...

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2020/08/03

Identity and access management, or IAM, is the name we use for the set of technologies and policies that control who accesses what resources inside a system—from company files being locked away for only some employees, to even your online banking account being accessible only to you. With more individuals using more accounts to access more resources than ever before, threats have similarly emerged. To better understand identity and access management, its impacts on the digital and physical world

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37:42

Locating concerns of Bluetooth and beacon technology...

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2020/07/20

Last month, cybersecurity experts warned the public about the data collection embedded in the Donald Trump 2020 re-election campaign’s mobile app. Once downloaded, the app requests broad access to user information, including device contacts, rough location, device storage, ID, call information, Bluetooth pairing, and more. On today’s episode, we’re looking at just one of the apps’ requested permissions—Bluetooth. To help us better understand Bluetooth and beacon technology, how they are applied to

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