Lock and Code

By Malwarebytes

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.... more

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The podcast currently has 139 episodes available.

Lock and Code episodes:

June 08, 2020 Securely working from home (WFH) with John Donovan and Adam Kujawa
With shelter-in-place orders now in full effect to prevent the spread of coronavirus, countless businesses find themselves this year in mandatory work-from-home situations. To break down today’s enterprise threats—and our own responses at Malwarebytes—we’re talking today to John Donovan, head of security for Malwarebytes, and Adam Kujawa, director for Malwarebytes Labs.
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May 26, 2020 Sounding the trumpet on web browser privacy with Pieter Arntz
This week, we speak with Pieter Arntz, malware intelligence researcher at Malwarebytes, about web browser privacy. The often neglected subcategory of data privacy deserves a closer look. Without theproper restrictions, browsers can allow web trackers to follow you around the Internet, resulting in that curious ad seeming to find you from website to website. But, there are ways to fight back.
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22min
May 11, 2020 Recognizing facial recognition's flaws with Chris Boyd
Increasingly popular for both consumer products and law enforcement agencies, facial recognition technology is facing severe pushback, with at least 40 groups demanding a moratorium in the United States. To better understand the privacy and security concerns with these tools—along with the problems of actual accuracy—we're talking today with Chris Boyd, lead malware intelligence analyst with Malwarebytes.
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33min
April 27, 2020 Mythbusting and evaluating VPNs with JP Taggart
VPNs surged in popularity in recent years, with at least 300 free mobile VPN apps available to the average user as of 2019. For many consumers, though, the rush of options can be confusing. To help us understand the how VPNs work—debunking their myths, explaining their actual capabilities, and providing some advice on what makes a strong VPN—we’re talking today to JP Taggart, senior security researcher with Malwarebytes.
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35min
April 13, 2020 Coronavirus and responding to computer viruses with Akshay Bhargava
Coronavirus has changed the face of the world. But what we've learned from how governments and medical experts respond to the spread of the virus bears similarities to how we in the cybersecurity industry respond to computer viruses. We talk to Malwarebytes Chief Product Officer Akshay Bhargava about computer virus prevention, detection, and response, along with the simple steps that consumers and businesses can take today to better protect themselves from a spreading cyber attack.
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22min
March 30, 2020 Data privacy with Adam Kujawa
Today, our data can leave our hands and end up in the databases of countless companies, many of which we've never heard of, packaging and selling our data for reasons we could never imagine. To better understand how to protect ourselves online, we're talking to Adam Kujawa, a director of Malwarebytes Labs.
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32min
March 16, 2020 On the challenges of managed service providers
We talk to two representatives from an Atlanta-based managed service provider—a manager of engineering services and a data center architect whose last names we are protecting to avoid a sudden influx of threats to their business—about the daily challenges of managing thousands of nodes and about the future of the industry.
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32min
March 02, 2020 RSA Conference with Britta Glade
To help us understand RSA Conference’s theme “The Human Element,” and to dive deeper into how the conference itself takes shape, we’re talking today to our guest Britta Glade, Director of Content and Curation for RSA Conference.
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31min
February 21, 2020 Introducing Lock and Code, a Malwarebytes podcast on cybersecurity
Lock and Code is the flagship podcast from the cybersecurity experts at Malwarebytes. Hosted by online privacy advocate and senior threat content writer David Ruiz, Lock and Code not only offers listeners an update on recent cybersecurity news, but it also features in-depth conversations about technology, privacy, cybersecurity, and hacking.
Listen every other week as we talk to a variety of internal and external guests. We've featured Director of Malwarebytes Labs Adam Kujawa, 1Password Chief Operations Optimist Matt Davey, Mozilla Chief Security Officer Marshall Erwin, Open Path co-founder Samy Kamkar, cybersecurity journalists Alfred Ng and Seth Rosenblatt, and far more.
Stay tuned, and stay safe.

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How many episodes does Lock and Code have?

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