Lock and Code
114 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago -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.
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Donut breach: Lessons from pen-tester Mike Miller
August 15, 2022 03:00 - 36 minutes - 84.5 MBWhen 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 enough to partially obscure his face, Miller said), Miller walked briskly into a side-door of his client's offices, tailing another employee and asking them to hold the door open. Once inside, he cheerfully asked where the break room was located, dropped off the donuts, and made small talk. Then h...
Have we lost the fight for data privacy?
July 31, 2022 22:05 - 43 minutes - 100 MBAt 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 prior. Today, we’re bringing those same guests back to discuss the other, biggest topic in this space and on this show: Data privacy. You see, in 2021, a lot has happened. Most recently, with the US Supreme Court’s decision to remove the national right to choose to have an abortion, individual st...
Roe v. Wade: How the cops can use your data
July 17, 2022 17:00 - 40 minutes - 75 MBOn 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 themselves: What surrounding activity is allowed? Should Google be used to find abortion providers out of state? Can people write on Facebook or Instagram that they will pay for people to travel to their own states, where abortion is protected? Should people continue texting friends about their th...
When good-faith hacking gets people arrested, with Harley Geiger
July 04, 2022 03:40 - 39 minutes - 90.7 MBWhen 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 specific law in hushed tones of fear: the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, is a decades-old hacking law in the United States whose reputation in the hacker community is dim. To hear hackers tell it, the CFAA is responsible not only for equipping law enforcement...
Securing the software supply chain, with Kim Lewandowski
June 20, 2022 03:30 - 39 minutes - 90.6 MBAt the start of the global coronavirus pandemic, nearly everyone was forced to learn about the "supply chain." Immediate stockpiling by an alarmed (and from a smaller share, opportunistic) public led to an almost overnight disappearance of hand sanitizer, bottled water, toilet paper, and face masks. In time, those items returned to stores. But then a big ship got stuck in the Suez, and once again, we learned even more about the vulnerability of supply chains. They can handle little stress. ...
Tor’s (security) role in the future of the Internet, with Alec Muffett
June 06, 2022 03:30 - 39 minutes - 89.9 MBTor, which stands for "The Onion Router," has a storied reputation in the world of online privacy, but on today's episode of Lock and Code with host David Ruiz, we speak with security researcher Alec Muffett about the often-undiscussed security benefits of so-called "onion networking." The value proposition to organizations interested in using Tor goes beyond just anonymity, Muffett explains, and its a value prop that has at least persuaded the engineers at Facebook, Twitter, The New York ...
Hunting down your data with Whitney Merrill
May 23, 2022 03:30 - 49 minutes - 113 MBLast year, Whitney Merrill wanted to know just how much information the company Clubhouse had on her, even though she wasn't a user. After many weeks of, at first, non-responses, she learned that her phone number had been shared with Clubhouse more than 80 times—the byproduct of her friends joining the platform. Today on Lock and Code with host David Ruiz, we speak with Merrill about why hunting down your data can be so difficult today, even though some regions have laws that specifically ...
Recovering from romance scams with Cindy Liebes
May 09, 2022 03:30 - 48 minutes - 110 MBEarlier this year, a flashy documentary premiered on Netflix that shed light onto on often-ignored cybercrime—a romance scam. In this documentary, called The Tinder Swindler, the central scam artist relied on modern technologies, like Tinder, and he employed an entire team, which included actors posing as his bodyguard and potentially even his separated wife. After months of getting close to several women, the scam artist pounced, asking for money because he was supposedly in danger. The p...
Why software has so many vulnerabilities, with Tanya Janca
April 25, 2022 14:11 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBEvery few months, a basic but damaging flaw is revealed in a common piece of software, or a common tool used in many types of programs, and the public will be left asking: What is going on with how our applications are developed? Today on the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we speak to returning guest Tanya Janca to understand the many stages of software development and how security trainers can better work with developers to build safe, secure products.
Why data protection and privacy are not the same, and why that matters
April 11, 2022 03:05 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBData protection, believe it or not, is not synonymous with privacy, or even data privacy. But around the world, countless members of the public often innocently misconstrue these three topics with one another, swapping the terms and the concepts behind them. Typically, that wouldn't be a problem—not every person needs to know the minute details of every data-related concept, law, and practice. But when the public is unaware of its rights under data protection, it might be unaware of how to...
Telling important stories securely, with Runa Sandvik
March 28, 2022 15:30 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBIn 2017, a former NSA contractor was arrested for allegedly leaking an internal report to the online news outlet The Intercept. To verify the report itself, a journalist for The Intercept sent an image of the report to the NSA, but upon further inspection, it was revealed that the image was actually a scan of a physical document. This difference—between an entirely digital, perhaps only-emailed document, and a physical piece of paper—spurred several suspicions that the news outlet had play...
De-Googling Carey Parker’s (and your) life
March 14, 2022 20:24 - 49 minutes - 44.8 MBThree years ago, a journalist for Gizmodo removed five of the biggest tech companies from her life—restricting her from using services and hardware developed or owned by Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft. The experiment, according to the reporter, was "hell." But in 2022, cybersecurity evangelist Carey Parker, who also hosts the podcast Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons, wanted to do something similar, just on a smaller scale, and with a focus on privacy. Today, on Lock and Code w...
How Crisis Text Line crossed the line in the public’s mind
February 28, 2022 15:46 - 41 minutes - 37.5 MBHow would you feel if the words you wrote to someone while in a crisis—maybe you were suicidal, maybe you were newly homeless, maybe you were suffering from emotional abuse at home—were later used to train a customer support tool? Those emotions you might behaving right now were directed last month at Crisis Text Line, after the news outlet Politico reported that the nonprofit organization had been sharing anonymized conversational data with a for-profit venture that Crisis Text Line had ...
The world’s most coveted spyware, Pegasus
February 14, 2022 05:46 - 44 minutes - 41 MBTwo years ago, the FBI reportedly purchased a copy of the world's most coveted spyware, a tool that can remotely and silently crack into Androids and iPhones without leaving a trace, spilling device contents onto a console possibly thousands of miles away, with little more effort than entering a phone number. This tool is Pegasus, and, though the FBI claimed it never used the spyware in investigations, the use of Pegasus abroad has led to surveillance abuses the world over. On Lock and C...
How a few PhD students revealed that phishing trainings might just not work
January 31, 2022 15:54 - 39 minutes - 90.3 MBYou've likely fallen for it before—a simulated test sent by your own company to determine whether its employees are vulnerable to one of the most pernicious online threats today: Phishing. Those simulated phishing tests often come with a voluntary or mandatory training afterwards, with questions and lessons about what mistakes you made, right after you made them. But this extremely popular phishing defense practice might not work. In fact, it might make you worse at recognizing phishing a...
Why we don’t patch, with Jess Dodson
January 18, 2022 16:36 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBIn 2017, the largest ransomware attack ever recorded hit the world, infecting more than 230,000 computers across more than 150 countries in just 24 hours. And it could have been solved with a patch that was released nearly two months prior. This was the WannaCry ransomware attack, and its final, economic impact—in ransoms paid but also in downtime and recovery efforts—has been estimated at about $4 billion. All of it could have been avoided if every organization running a vulnerable versio...
What angered us most about cybersecurity in 2021
January 03, 2022 02:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBWe are only days into 2022, which means what better time for a 2021 retrospective? But rather than looking at the biggest cyberattacks of last year—which we already did—or the most surprising—like we did a couple of years ago—we wanted to offer something different for readers and listeners. On today's episode of Lock and Code, with host David Ruiz, we spoke with Malwarebytes Labs' editor-in-chief Anna Brading and Labs' writer Mark Stockley about what upset them the most about cybersecurity...
Everything you always wanted to know about NFTs (but were too afraid to ask)
December 20, 2021 15:21 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBIn August, the NFT for a cartoon rock sold for $1.3 million, and ever since then, much of the world has been asking: What the heck is going on? On today's episode of Lock and Code, with host David Ruiz, we speak with Malwarebytes' Mark Stockley, TechCrunch's Lucas Matney, and Pilot 44's Mike Maizels about the basics of NFTs and the cryptocurrency-related technology behind them, the implied value of NFTs and why people are paying so much money for them, and the future of NFT's both within th...
Why Macs are the best, according to Mac expert Thomas Reed
December 06, 2021 18:05 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBIn 2021, the war for computer superiority has a clear winner, and it is the Macintosh, by Apple. The company's Pro laptops are finally, belatedly equipped with ports that have been standard in other computers for years. The company's beleaguered "butterfly" keyboard has seemingly been erased from history. And the base model of company's powerhouse desktop tower could set you back a hefty $6,000. What's not to love? On Lock and Code this week, we talk to Mac security expert Thomas Reed abou...
The Internet is not safe enough for women, and Sue Krautbauer has some ideas about why
November 22, 2021 02:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBCyberstalking. Harassment. Stalkerware. Nonconsensual pornography, real and digitally altered. The Internet can be a particularly ugly place for women. On Lock and Code this week, we ask why. Join a conversation with with Digitunity's Sue Krautbauer about what has gone wrong with the Internet, and what we can do to fix it.
Why we fail at getting the cybersecurity basics right, with Jess Dodson
November 08, 2021 15:37 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBThe cybersecurity basics should be just that—basic. Easy to do, agreed-upon, and adopted at a near 100 percent rate by companies and organizations everywhere, right? You'd hope. But the reality is that basic cybersecurity blunders have led to easy-to-discover vulnerabilities in companies including John Deere, Clubhouse, and Kaseya VSA (which we've all talked about on this show), and at least for Kaseya VSA, those vulnerabilities led to one of the worst ransomware attacks in recent history....
Beyond the VPN: Ultimate online privacy, with The Tor Project’s Isabela Bagueros
October 25, 2021 17:20 - 52 minutes - 47.5 MBWhat does online privacy mean to you? Maybe it's securing your online messages away from prying eyes. Maybe it's keeping your browsing behavior hidden from advertisers. Or maybe it's, like for many people today, using a VPN to hide your activity from your Internet Service Provider. But because online privacy can mean so many things, that also means it includes so much more than just using a VPN. Today, we speak to The Tor Project Executive Director Isabella Bagueros about what other types...
ExpressVPN made a choice, and so have I
October 12, 2021 15:01 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBOn September 14, the US Department of Justice announced that it had resolved an earlier investigation into an international cyber hacking campaign coming from the United Arab Emirates, called Project Raven, that has reportedly impacted hundreds of journalists, activists, and human rights defenders in Yemen, Iran, Turkey, and Qatar. But in a bizarre twist, this tale of surveillance abroad tapered inwards into a tale of privacy at home, as one of the three men named by the DOJ is Daniel Geri...
Teaching cybersecurity skills to special needs children with Alana Robinson
September 27, 2021 03:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBInternet 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 creation for children with learning disabilities? How do you teach children how to separate fact from fiction when they have a different grasp of social cues? And how do you make sure these lessons are not only remembered for years to come, but also rewarding for the children themselves? Today on Lock and Code, we speak with Alana Robinson, a sp...
Backups are not a simple ransomware defense, with Matt Crape
September 13, 2021 14:09 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBA recent spate of ransomware attacks have derailed major corporations, spurring a fuel shortage on the US East Coast, shuttering grocery stores in Sweden, and sending students home from grade schools. The solution, so many cybersecurity experts say, is to implement backups. But if backups are so useful, why aren't they visibly working? Companies with backups have found them misconfigured, or they've ended up paying a ransom anyways. On Lock and Code this week, we speak with VMware technica...
Hackers, tractors, and a few delayed actors. How hacker Sick Codes learned too much about John Deere
August 30, 2021 03:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBNo 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 on this week’s episode of Lock and Code, with host David Ruiz, when talking about his and fellow hackers’ efforts to peer into John Deere’s data operations center, where the company receives a near-endless stream of data from its Internet-connected tractors, combines, and other smart farming equipment.
Katie Moussouris hacked Clubhouse. Her emails went unanswered for weeks
August 16, 2021 14:54 - 45 minutes - 105 MBWhen Luta Security CEO and founder Katie Moussouris analyzed the popular social "listening" app Clubhouse, she found a way to eavesdrop on conversations without notifying other users. This was, Moussouris said, a serious and basic flaw, so, using her years of expertise, she documented the vulnerability and emailed some information to the company. Her emails went unanswered for weeks. Today, on Lock and Code with host David Ruiz, we speak to Moussouris about Clubhouse, vulnerability discl...
Disaster planning with Lesley Carhart, and the slim chance of a critical infrastructure “big one”
August 02, 2021 05:05 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBThe 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 distributor—could lead most people to believe that a critical infrastructure “big one” is coming. But, as Lesley Carhart, principal threat hunter with Dragos, tells us, the chances of such an event are remarkably slim. In fact, critical infrastructure’s regular disaster planning often leads to practices that can detect, limit, or prevent any wide-re...
“Seven or eight” zero-days: The failed race to fix Kaseya VSA, with Victor Gevers
July 19, 2021 05:05 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBOn April 1, a volunteer researcher for the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) began poking around into Kaseya VSA, a popular software tool used to remotely manage and monitor computers. Within minutes, he found a zero-day vulnerability that allowed remote code execution—a serious flaw. Within weeks, his team had found seven or eight more. In today's episode, DIVD Chair Victor Gevers describes the race to prevent one of the most devastating ransomware attacks in recent hist...
Racing against a real-life ransomware attack, with Ski Kacoroski
July 06, 2021 14:17 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBAt 11:37 pm on the night of September 20, 2019, cybercriminals launched a ransomware attack against Northshore School District in Washington state. Early the next morning, Northshore systems administrator Ski Kacoroski arrived on scene. As Kacoroski soon found out, he and his team were on a race against time—the ransomware actively spreading across servers holding data necessary for day-to-day operations. And importantly, in just four days, the school district needed—by law—to pay its staff....
Want to stop ransomware attacks? Send the cybercriminals to jail, says Brian Honan
June 21, 2021 05:05 - 44 minutes - 101 MBRansomware attacks are on a different scale this year, with major attacks not just dismantling the business and management of Colonial Pipeline in the US, the Health Service Executive in Ireland, and the meatpacker JBS in Australia, but also disrupting people's access to gasoline, healthcare, COVID-19 vaccinations, and more. So, what is it going to take to stop these attacks? Brian Honan, CEO of BH Consulting, said that the process will be long and complex, but the end goal in sight should ...
Can two VPN "wrongs" make a right?
June 07, 2021 14:21 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBIn 2016, a mid-20s man began an intense, prolonged harassment campaign against his new roommate. He emailed her from spoofed email accounts. He texted her and referenced sensitive information that was only stored in a private, online journal. He created new Instagram accounts, he repeatedly made friend requests through Facebook to her friends and family, he even started making bomb threats. And though he tried to sometimes mask his online activity, two of the VPNs he used while registering ...
Shining a light on dark patterns with Carey Parker
May 24, 2021 05:05 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBThis week on Lock and Code, we speak to cybersecurity advocate and author Carey Parker about "dark patterns," which are subtle tricks online to get you to make choices that might actually harm you. Maybe you'll be bilked out a couple dollars, maybe you'll find it nearly impossible to unsubscribe out of that newsletter, or maybe you'll see yourself signing away some of your data privacy controls just so a company can keep making more money off you. Tune in to learn about dark patterns—how t...
Alleviating ransomware's legal headaches with Jake Bernstein
May 10, 2021 13:56 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBThis week on Lock and Code, we speak to cybersecurity and privacy attorney Jake Bernstein about ransomware attacks that don't just derail a company's reputation and productivity, but also throw them into potential legal peril. These are "double extortion" attacks, in which ransomware operators can hit the same target two times over—encrypting a victim's files and also threatening to publish sensitive data that was stolen in the attack. And in the US, whenever data is stolen and released,...
Breaking free from the VirusTotal silo
April 26, 2021 14:42 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBThis week on Lock and Code, we speak to Malwarebytes Chief Information Security Officer John Donovan about the flaws in using VirusTotal as the one source of truth when evaluating whether or not a cybersecurity tool actually works. It's a practice that is surprisingly common among small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Tune in to learn about the smartest ways to test and implement endpoint protection into your SMB, and how to finally break free from the VirusTotal silo, on the latest epi...
Beating security fatigue with Troy Hunt, Chloé Messdaghi, and Tanya Janca
April 12, 2021 05:01 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBThis week on Lock and Code, we speak to Point3 Security chief strategist Chloé Messdaghi, HaveIBeenPwned founder Troy Hunt, and We Hack Purple founder and CEO Tanya Janca about security fatigue. Security fatigue is exactly what it sounds like. It's the limit we all reach when security best practices become overbearing. It's what prevents us from making a strong password for a new online account. It’s why we may not update our software despite repeated notifications. And, importantly, it pr...
Why you need to trust your VPN, with JP Taggart
March 29, 2021 05:01 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBThis week on Lock and Code, we speak to Malwarebytes senior security researcher JP Taggart about the importance of trusting your VPN. You've likely heard the benefits of using a VPN: You can watch TV shows restricted to certain countries, you can encrypt your web traffic on public WiFi networks, and, importantly, you can obscure your Internet activity from your Internet Service Provider, which may use that activity for advertising. But obscuring your Internet activity—including the w...
The Malwarebytes 2021 State of Malware report
March 15, 2021 16:37 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBThis week on Lock and Code, we tune in to a special presentation from Adam Kujawa about the 2021 State of Malware report, which analyzed the top cybercrime goals of 2020 amidst the global pandemic. If you just pay attention to the numbers from last year, you might get the wrong idea. After all, malware detections for both consumers and businesses decreased in 2020 compared to 2019. That sounds like good news, but it wasn't. Behind those lowered numbers were more skillful, more precise atta...
Defending online anonymity and speech with Eva Galperin
March 01, 2021 04:01 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBEvery few years, after the public learns about an ugly, online harassment campaign, a familiar response shoots forth: Change the way we talk to one another online, either by changing the law, or changing the rules for how we identify ourselves online. But these "solutions" could actually bring more problems, particularly for vulnerable communities. Today, we speak to Electronic Frontier Foundation's Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin about how removing online anonymity could harm the s...
Talking Emotet's takedown with Adam Kujawa
February 15, 2021 14:34 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBOn today's show, we discuss cybersecurity's public enemy number one: Emotet. This piece of malware started in 2014 as a simple banking Trojan, but it later evolved into a fully functional malware business, as its operators sold access to other threat actors and helped load separate malware for a price. The danger was real, but on January 27, Europol announced they'd taken Emotet down. Today, we talk to Malwarebytes security evangelist Adam Kujawa about Emotet's past, its takedown, and the p...
Celebrating Data Privacy Day with Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, and EFF
January 28, 2021 03:45 - 44 minutes - 41 MBFor Data Privacy Day this year, Lock and Code returns with a special episode featuring guests from Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, and EFF in a discussion on how to protect your online privacy.
Lesson planning your school's cybersecurity with Doug Levin
December 07, 2020 04:37 - 40 minutes - 37 MBEducation faced a crisis in the US this year, as the coronavirus forced schools across the country to develop new strategies for teaching. At Malwarebytes, we wanted to discover how these shifts impacted education cybersecurity. Today on Lock and Code, we discuss the latest findings from our report, "Lessons in cybersecurity: How education coped in the shift to distance learning," and we speak with Doug Levin, founder of K12 cybersecurity resource center and advisor to K12 Security Informat...
Tracking the charities that track you online with Chris Boyd
November 23, 2020 04:43 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBToday we look at two topics that, maybe surprisingly, intersect: charity organizations and online ad tracking. Ad tracking isn't new—luxury brands used to place their advertisements specifically in newspapers that delivered to high-income zip codes. But today's ad tracking supercharges that match-making game with a complex, opaque machinery that can track what you do online, what websites you visit, what browser you use, and even your gender, religion, and political bias. To help us better...
Forecasting IoT cybersecurity with John Donovan and Adam Kujawa
November 10, 2020 16:44 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBToday, we’re offering Lock and Code listeners something different. We’re giving you a backstage pass to a training we held for employees during Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The topic? The future of cybersecurity for the Internet of Things. Will we ever run antivirus software on IoT devices? What predictions can we make for how the cybersecurity industry will respond to the next, possible big IoT attack? And what can we do today to stay safe? This episode was recorded live in front of our...
Finding consumer value in Cybersecurity Awareness Month with Jamie Court
October 26, 2020 13:19 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBCybersecurity Awareness Month is upon us, and while the value of the once-a-year awareness campaign may be obvious to the countless employees now enrolled in cybersecurity trainings, phishing quizzes, and multi-factor authentication webinars—likely mandated by their employers—the value of this awareness campaign may be a little less obvious to the everyday consumer. To help us better understand the value of Cybersecurity Awareness Month for the consumer, we’re talking today with Jamie Court...
Discussing journalism's role in cybersecurity with Seth Rosenblatt and Alfred Ng
October 12, 2020 04:59 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBWe often learn about cybersecurity issues because of reporting. And as the years have progressed, the stories have only become more intertwined into our everyday lives. Tune in to hear about the role of journalism in cybersecurity—like what makes a vulnerability newsworthy and what coverage helps readers most—on the latest episode of Lock and Code, with guests Seth Rosenblatt of The Parallax and Alfred Ng of CNET.
Investigating digital vulnerabilities in our physical world with Samy Kamkar
September 28, 2020 14:45 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBA recent history of hacking shows the importance of experimentation. In 2015, security researchers hacked a Jeep Cherokee and took over its steering, transmission, and brakes. In 2019, researchers accessed medical scanning equipment to alter X-ray images, inserting fraudulent, visual signs of cancer in a hypothetical patient. Today, we're discussing one such experiment—a garage door opener called “Open Sesame.” Join us for a discussion with "Open Sesame"'s developer, who is also the chief ...
Safely using Google Chrome Extensions with Pieter Arntz
September 14, 2020 14:46 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBThe world of Google Chrome extensions—the sometimes helpful tools that can work directly with the Google Chrome browser to provide a variety of features—is enormous. So, with a marketplace of more than 200,000 items, quality control gets tricky. On today's episode, we speak with Pieter Arntz, malware intelligence researcher for Malwarebytes, about safely downloading Google Chrome extensions and how to avoid some of the more malicious extensions that are meant to hijack searches or sneakily ...
Uncovering security hubris with Adam Kujawa
August 31, 2020 15:23 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBAsk yourself, right now, on a scale from one to ten, how cybersecure are you? Are you maybe inflating that answer? Our main story today concerns “security hubris,” the simple, yet difficult-to-measure phenomenon in which businesses, and the people inside them, are less secure than they actually believe. To better understand security hubris—how businesses can identify it and what they can do to protect against it—we’re talking today to Adam Kujawa, security evangelist and director for Malwa...
Monitoring the safety of parental monitoring apps with Emory Roane
August 17, 2020 13:48 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBParental monitoring apps give parents the capabilities to spot where their kids go, read what their kids read, and prevent them from, for instance, visiting websites deemed inappropriate. But where these apps begin to cause concern is just how powerful they can be. To help us better understand parental monitoring apps, their capabilities, and how parents can choose to safely use these with their children, we’re talking today with Emory Roane, policy counsel at Privacy Rights Clearinghouse