What do your apps know about you? (re-air, feat. Tim Shott)
Something’s not right in the world of location data. In January 2025, a location data broker named Gravy Analytics was hacked, with the alle...
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Welcome to Lock and Code, a Malwarebytes cybersecurity podcast. Every two weeks, we dig deep into cybersecurity’s most vexing topics, speaking to the researchers and engineers at Malwarebyte...
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20 of 172 episodesA sextortion conspiracy killed his son (feat. John DeMay)
At just 17 years old, Jordan DeMay was murdered by strangers online. That’s how Jordan’s father, John DeMay, described what happened to his...
A true tale of virtual kidnapping (re-air)
On Thursday, December 28, 2023, at 8:30 pm in the Utah town of Riverdale, the city police began investigating what they believed was a kidna...
The AI plot to scan and destroy books (feat. Emanuel Maiberg)
If you want AI to tell you a story, it will. If you want that story to sound like one of your favorite authors, it can. And if you’re one of...
Loyalty points fraud is funding hacker holidays (feat. Kim Sutherland)
Crooks are taking a holiday. They’re counting on you to fund it. For decades, cybercriminals have stolen roughly the same types of data. Bio...
What happens to your data when you die? (feat. Tamara Kneese)
You will die. Your data will not. The afterlife of our information is a recent phenomenon, and some of the companies with the most to sort t...
How to fake a data trail (and maybe lower prices) (feat. Chris Parr)
It may sound entirely bizarre but the prices you once paid for hotels, educational classes, or staplers could have all been higher because y...
What's your data worth on the dark web?
Twenty years ago, a British mathematician named Clive Humby popularized a phrase that came to describe data’s relationship with the entire g...
Trusting your kids online isn't enough
There is a lot going on right now regarding the safety of kids online. In the United States, the majority of state legislatures have passed...
This pay gap is programmed (feat. Veena Dubal)
Pay is personal for plenty of Americans, but a new distribution model that consumes vast quantities of worker data is turning pay into somet...
Deepfake porn sites are going offline (re-air) (feat. David Chiu)
If you weren’t taking deepfakes seriously before, it’s too late now to ignore them. According to new research from Malwarebytes , one in thr...
Payment apps are watching what you say (feat. Rainey Reitman)
In the United States today, you can have your bank account closed, your credit cards cancelled, and your online payments revoked for any num...
AI is distorting the Holocaust (feat. Clara Mansfeld)
In May of last year, a warning about AI came from somewhere unexpected: The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Posting publicly on social medi...
Cyberattacks are raising your prices (feat. Eva Velasquez)
Your prices could be going up because of a little something that one group has started calling the “cyber tax.” Not a “tax” in any regulator...
Big Tech can stop scams. They just don’t (feat. Marti DeLiema)
A dreadful thing happens far too often whenever an older adult falls for a scam: They get blamed for it. Not the scammers who lied and cheat...
Killer robots are here. Now what? (feat. Peter Asaro)
Big news : Lock and Code is nominated for a Webby Award! You can help us win the People’s Voice Award by voting here . --- We have to talk a...
This is all it takes to stop a train (feat. Rachel Swan)
Forget the runaway train thrillingly shot in Buster Keaton’s 1926 film “The General,” and never mind the charging locomotive rescued by acto...
Won't you see my neighbor? (feat. Matt Guariglia)
On February 8, during the Super Bowl in the United States, countless owners of one of the most popular smart products today got a bit of a w...
What can't you say on TikTok?
A funny thing happened on TikTok last month, and its brought allegations of censorship, manipulation, and control. It was the week of Januar...
Is your phone listening to you? (feat. Lena Cohen) (re-air)
In January, Google settled a lawsuit that pricked up a few ears: It agreed to pay $68 million to a wide array of people who sued the company...