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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...

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...

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...

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...

Forget the runaway train thrillingly shot in Buster Keaton’s 1926 film “The General,” and never mind the charging locomotive rescued by acto...

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...

A funny thing happened on TikTok last month, and its brought allegations of censorship, manipulation, and control. It was the week of Januar...

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...

When you hear the words “data privacy,” what do you first imagine? Maybe you picture going into your social media apps and setting your prof...

There’s a bizarre thing happening online right now where everything is getting worse. Your Google results have become so bad that you’ve lik...

There’s an entire surveillance network popping up across the United States that has likely already captured your information, all for the no...

This is the story of the world’s worst scam and how it is being used to fuel entire underground economies that have the power to rival natio...

It’s often said online that if a product is free, you’re the product, but what if that bargain was no longer true? What if, depending on the...

Everything’s easier with AI… except having to correct it. In just the three years since OpenAI released ChatGPT, not only has onlife life ch...

In the final, cold winter months of the year, ChatGPT could be heating up. On October 14, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the “restrictions”...

Google is everywhere in our lives. It’s reach into our data extends just as far. After investigating how much data Facebook had collected ab...

“Connection” was the promise—and goal—of much of the early internet. No longer would people be separated from vital resources and news that...

There’s more about you online than you know. The company Acxiom, for example, has probably determined whether you’re a heavy drinker, or if...

In the late 2010s, a group of sheriffs out of Pasco County, Florida, believed they could predict crime. The Sheriff’s Department there had p...

If there’s one thing that scam hunter Julie-Anne Kearns wants everyone to know, it is that no one is immune from a scam. And she would know—...

The internet is cracking apart. It’s exactly what some politicians want. In June, a Texas law that requires age verification on certain webs...

For decades, digital rights activists, technologists, and cybersecurity experts have worried about what would happen if the US government se...

“Health” isn’t the first feature that most anyone thinks about when trying out a new technology, but a recent spate of news is forcing the i...

There’s a unique counter response to romance scammers. Her name is Becky Holmes. Holmes, an expert and author on romance scams, has spent ye...

Complex problems often assume complex solutions, but recent observations about increased levels of anxiety and depression, increased reports...

There’s an easy way to find out what Facebook knows about you—you just have to ask. In 2020, the social media giant launched an online porta...

There’s a problem in class today, and the second largest school district in the United States is trying to solve it. After looking at the gr...

“Heidi” is a 36-year-old, San Francisco-born, divorced activist who is lonely, outspoken, and active on social media. “Jason” is a shy, bili...

If you don’t know about the newly created US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), there’s a strong chance they already know about you...

It has probably happened to you before. You and a friend are talking —not texting, not DMing, not FaceTiming—but talking , physically face-t...

Google Chrome is, by far, the most popular web browser in the world. According to several metrics, Chrome accounts for anywhere between 52%...

Something’s not right in the world of location data. In January, a location data broker named Gravy Analytics was hacked, with the alleged c...

Insurance pricing in America makes a lot of sense so long as you’re one of the insurance companies. Drivers are charged more for traveling l...

In February 2024, a 14-year-old boy from Orlando, Florida, committed suicide after confessing his love to the one figure who absorbed nearly...

It’s Data Privacy Week right now, and that means, for the most part, that you’re going to see a lot of well-intentioned but clumsy informati...

The era of artificial intelligence everything is here, and with it, come everyday surprises into exactly where the next AI tools might pop u...

You can see it on X. You can see on Instagram. It’s flooding community pages on Facebook and filling up channels on YouTube. It’s called “AI...

Privacy is many things for many people. For the teenager suffering from a bad breakup, privacy is the ability to stop sharing her location a...

Two weeks ago, the Lock and Code podcast shared three stories about home products that requested, collected, or exposed sensitive data onlin...

The month, a consumer rights group out of the UK posed a question to the public that they’d likely never considered: Were their air fryers s...

The US presidential election is upon the American public, and with it come fears of “election interference.” But “election interference” is...

On the internet, you can be shown an online ad because of your age, your address, your purchase history, your politics, your religion, and e...

Online scammers were seen this August stooping to a new low—abusing local funerals to steal from bereaved family and friends. Cybercrime has...

On August 15, the city of San Francisco launched an entirely new fight against the world of deepfake porn—it sued the websites that make the...

On August 24, at an airport just outside of Paris, a man named Pavel Durov was detained for questioning by French investigators. Just days l...

Every age group uses the internet a little bit differently, and it turns out for at least one Gen Z teen in the Bay Area, the classic approa...

Somewhere out there is a romantic AI chatbot that wants to know everything about you. But in a revealing overlap, other AI tools—which are d...

In the world of business cybersecurity, the powerful technology known as “Security Information and Event Management” is sometimes thwarted b...

Full-time software engineer and part-time Twitch streamer Ali Diamond is used to seeing herself on screen, probably because she’s the one wh...

More than 20 years ago, a law that the United States would eventually use to justify the warrantless collection of Americans’ phone call rec...

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