Podcast Episodes

Backups are not a simple ransomware defense, with Matt Crape

Season 2 Episode 17

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…

Published on 4 years, 3 months ago

Hackers, tractors, and a few delayed actors. How hacker Sick Codes learned too much about John Deere

Season 2 Episode 16

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 hos…

Published on 4 years, 3 months ago

Katie Moussouris hacked Clubhouse. Her emails went unanswered for weeks

Season 2 Episode 15

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, Mouss…

Published on 4 years, 4 months ago

Disaster planning with Lesley Carhart, and the slim chance of a critical infrastructure “big one”

Season 2 Episode 14

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 cr…

Published on 4 years, 4 months ago

“Seven or eight” zero-days: The failed race to fix Kaseya VSA, with Victor Gevers

Season 2 Episode 13

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 compute…

Published on 4 years, 4 months ago

Racing against a real-life ransomware attack, with Ski Kacoroski

Season 2 Episode 12

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 administ…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Want to stop ransomware attacks? Send the cybercriminals to jail, says Brian Honan

Season 2 Episode 11

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…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Can two VPN "wrongs" make a right?

Season 2 Episode 10

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 w…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Shining a light on dark patterns with Carey Parker

Season 2 Episode 9

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. M…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Alleviating ransomware's legal headaches with Jake Bernstein

Season 2 Episode 8

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 …

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago