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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 cr…
5 years ago
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 Sw…
5 years 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…
5 years, 1 month 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 conversati…
5 years, 1 month 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 distr…
5 years, 2 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 softwar…
5 years, 2 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. E…
5 years, 2 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 th…
5 years, 3 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 text…
5 years, 3 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 y…
5 years, 4 months ago