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 153 episodes available.

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August 03, 2020 Pinpointing identity and access management's future with Chuck Brooks
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 today, and who holds the responsibility to manage it, we’re talking today to Chuck Brooks, cybersecurity evangelist and adjunct professor for Georgetown University’s Applied Intelligence Program and graduate Cybersecurity Programs.
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30min
July 20, 2020 Locating concerns of Bluetooth and beacon technology with Chris Boyd
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 online advertising, and whether apps that request access to Bluetooth functionality are a big concern, we’re talking today with Chris Boyd, lead malware intelligence analyst for Malwarebytes.
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38min
July 07, 2020 Pulling apart the Internet of Things with JP Taggart
For years, Internet capabilities have crept into modern consumer products, providing sometimes convenient, sometimes extraneous Internet connectivity. This increase in IoT devices has an obvious outcome—a broader attack surface for threat actors. Not only that, but with more devices connecting to the Internet, there are also more devices collecting your data and analyzing it to send you more ads, more frequently, for more products.
To help us better understand the Internet of Things—including the cybersecurity and data privacy concerns of IoT devices, and what you can do to stay safe—we’re talking today to JP Taggart, senior security researcher with Malwarebytes.
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41min
June 21, 2020 Strengthening and forgetting passwords with Matt Davey and Kyle Swank
We may know it’s important to have a strong, non-guessable, lengthy password, and yet we still probably all know someone who writes their password on a post-it, which is then affixed literally onto their machine.

To help us better understand the future of passwords, and any potential pitfalls for the burgeoning alternatives, we’re talking today to Matt Davey, Chief Operations Optimist at 1Password, and Kyle Swank, a member of 1Password's security team.
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35min
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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40min
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

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