Podcast Episodes

How a few PhD students revealed that phishing trainings might just not work

Season 3 Episode 3

You've likely fallen for it before—a simulated test sent by your own company to determine whether its employees are vulnerable to one of the most pernicious online threats today: Phishing.

Those simu…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Why we don’t patch, with Jess Dodson

Season 3 Episode 2

In 2017, the largest ransomware attack ever recorded hit the world, infecting more than 230,000 computers across more than 150 countries in just 24 hours. And it could have been solved with a patch …

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

What angered us most about cybersecurity in 2021

Season 3 Episode 1

We are only days into 2022, which means what better time for a 2021 retrospective? But rather than looking at the biggest cyberattacks of last year—which we already did—or the most surprising—like we…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Everything you always wanted to know about NFTs (but were too afraid to ask)

Season 2 Episode 24

In August, the NFT for a cartoon rock sold for $1.3 million, and ever since then, much of the world has been asking: What the heck is going on?

On today's episode of Lock and Code, with host David Ru…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

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

Season 2 Episode 23

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 …

Published on 4 years ago

The Internet is not safe enough for women, and Sue Krautbauer has some ideas about why

Season 2 Episode 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 …

Published on 4 years ago

Why we fail at getting the cybersecurity basics right, with Jess Dodson

Season 2 Episode 21

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 t…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Beyond the VPN: Ultimate online privacy, with The Tor Project’s Isabela Bagueros

Season 2 Episode 20

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…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

ExpressVPN made a choice, and so have I

Season 2 Episode 19

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…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Teaching cybersecurity skills to special needs children with Alana Robinson

Season 2 Episode 18

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…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago