Podcast Episodes

How student surveillance fails everyone

Season 3 Episode 23

Last month, when Malwarebytes published joint research with 1Password about the online habits of parents and teenagers today, we spoke with a Bay Area high school graduate on the Lock and Code podcas…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

A gym heist in London goes cyber

Season 3 Episode 22

A thief has been stalking London. 

This past summer, multiple women reported similar crimes to the police: While working out at their local gyms, someone snuck into the locker rooms, busted open thei…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Teen talk: What it’s like to grow up online, and the role of parents

Season 3 Episode 21

Growing up is different for teens today. 

Issues with identity, self-expression, bullying, fitting in, and trusting your friends and family—while all those certainly existed decades ago, they were ne…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Calling in the ransomware negotiator, with Kurtis Minder

Season 3 Episode 20

Ransomware can send any company into crisis. 

Immediately following an attack, the notoriously disruptive malware can spread across networks and machines, locking up important files and rendering vita…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

The MSP playbook on deciphering tech promises and shaping security culture

Season 3 Episode 19

The in-person cybersecurity conference has returned.

More than two years after Covid-19 pushed nearly every in-person event online, cybersecurity has returned to the exhibition hall. In San Francisco…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Playing Doom on a John Deere tractor with Sick Codes

Season 3 Episode 18

In 1993, the video game developers at id Software released Doom, a first-person shooter that placed a nameless protagonist into the fiery depths of hell, equipped with an arsenal of weapons to mow do…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Donut breach: Lessons from pen-tester Mike Miller

Season 3 Episode 17

When Mike Miller was hired by a client to run a penetration test on one of their offices, he knew exactly where to start: Krispy Kreme. Equipped with five dozen donuts (the boxes stacked just high en…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Have we lost the fight for data privacy?

Season 3 Episode 16

At the end of 2021, Lock and Code invited the folks behind our news-driven cybersecurity and online privacy blog, Malwarebytes Labs, to discuss what upset them most about cybersecurity in the year pr…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Roe v. Wade: How the cops can use your data

Season 3 Episode 15

On June 24, that Constitutional right to choose to have an abortion was removed by the Supreme Court, and immediately, this legal story became one of data privacy. Today, countless individuals ask th…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

When good-faith hacking gets people arrested, with Harley Geiger

Season 3 Episode 14

When Lock and Code host David Ruiz talks to hackers—especially good-faith hackers who want to dutifully report any vulnerabilities they uncover in their day-to-day work—he often hears about one speci…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago