Lock and Code
by Malwarebytes
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What do your apps know about you? (re-air, feat. Tim Shott)
What do your apps know about you? (re-air, feat. Tim Shott)
About this podcast
Lock and Code tells the human stories within cybersecurity, privacy, and technology. Rogue robot vacuums, hacked farm tractors, and catastrophic software vulnerabilities—it’s all here.
Episodes
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- What do your apps know about you? (re-air, feat. Tim Shott) · 44 min · Season 7 Episode 22Something’s not right in the world of location data. In January 2025, a location data broker named Gravy Analytics was hacked, with the alleged cybercriminal behind the attack…
- A sextortion conspiracy killed his son (feat. John DeMay) · 48 min · Season 7 Episode 21At just 17 years old, Jordan DeMay was murdered by strangers online. That’s how Jordan’s father, John DeMay, described what happened to his son four years ago. At home in…
- A true tale of virtual kidnapping (re-air) · 19 min · Season 7 Episode 20On Thursday, December 28, 2023, at 8:30 pm in the Utah town of Riverdale, the city police began investigating what they believed was a kidnapping. 17-year-old foreign exchange…
- The AI plot to scan and destroy books (feat. Emanuel Maiberg) · 39 min · Season 7 Episode 19If 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 the authors that AI can imitate, you…
- Loyalty points fraud is funding hacker holidays (feat. Kim Sutherland) · 40 min · Season 7 Episode 18Crooks are taking a holiday. They’re counting on you to fund it. For decades, cybercriminals have stolen roughly the same types of data. Biographical and personal details—like…
- What happens to your data when you die? (feat. Tamara Kneese) · 37 min · Season 7 Episode 17You 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 through are still just figuring it out…
- How to fake a data trail (and maybe lower prices) (feat. Chris Parr) · 40 min · Season 7 Episode 16It may sound entirely bizarre but the prices you once paid for hotels, educational classes, or staplers could have all been higher because you used a Mac computer, lived in a…
- What's your data worth on the dark web? · 25 min · Season 7 Episode 15Twenty years ago, a British mathematician named Clive Humby popularized a phrase that came to describe data’s relationship with the entire global economy: “Data is the new oil.”…
- Trusting your kids online isn't enough · 39 min · Season 7 Episode 14There is a lot going on right now regarding the safety of kids online. In the United States, the majority of state legislatures have passed age verification laws requiring a…
- This pay gap is programmed (feat. Veena Dubal) · 42 min · Season 7 Episode 13Pay is personal for plenty of Americans, but a new distribution model that consumes vast quantities of worker data is turning pay into something else: personalized. For an…
- Deepfake porn sites are going offline (re-air) (feat. David Chiu) · 21 min · Season 7 Episode 12If you weren’t taking deepfakes seriously before, it’s too late now to ignore them. According to new research from Malwarebytes, one in three people who use AI every day said…
- Payment apps are watching what you say (feat. Rainey Reitman) · 40 min · Season 7 Episode 11In the United States today, you can have your bank account closed, your credit cards cancelled, and your online payments revoked for any number of crimes, like funding terrorism…
- AI is distorting the Holocaust (feat. Clara Mansfeld) · 35 min · Season 7 Episode 10In May of last year, a warning about AI came from somewhere unexpected: The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Posting publicly on social media, the museum warned about a Facebook…
- Cyberattacks are raising your prices (feat. Eva Velasquez) · 41 min · Season 7 Episode 9Your prices could be going up because of a little something that one group has started calling the “cyber tax.” Not a “tax” in any regulatory sense of the word, this newly named…
- Big Tech can stop scams. They just don’t (feat. Marti DeLiema) · 41 min · Season 7 Episode 8A 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 cheated their victim out of money. Not law…
- Killer robots are here. Now what? (feat. Peter Asaro) · 43 min · Season 7 Episode 7Big 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 about killer robots. No, not the…
- This is all it takes to stop a train (feat. Rachel Swan) · 36 min · Season 7 Episode 6Forget the runaway train thrillingly shot in Buster Keaton’s 1926 film “The General,” and never mind the charging locomotive rescued by actors Denzel Washington and Chris Pine in…
- Won't you see my neighbor? (feat. Matt Guariglia) · 32 min · Season 7 Episode 5On 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 wakeup call: Their Ring doorbells could…
- What can't you say on TikTok? · 43 min · Season 7 Episode 4A funny thing happened on TikTok last month, and its brought allegations of censorship, manipulation, and control. It was the week of January 22, and after a long legal battle…
- Is your phone listening to you? (feat. Lena Cohen) (re-air) · 42 min · Season 7 Episode 3In 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 together, alleging that Google’s…
