We are just three days into 2022, which means what better time for a 2021 retrospective? But rather than looking at…
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The three most significant cyberattacks of 2021
People that predict tomorrow’s weather by looking at today’s are often right. Cloudy today? It’ll probably be cloudy tomorrow. The same…
Why Macs are the best, according to Mac expert Thomas Reed: Lock and Code S02E23
In the year 2021, the war for computer superiority has a clear winner, and it is the Macintosh, by Apple. The…
Why we fail at getting the cybersecurity basics right, with Jess Dodson: Lock and Code S02E21
The cybersecurity basics should be just that—basic. Easy to do, agreed-upon, and adopted at a near 100 percent rate by companies…
Lessons from a real-life ransomware attack
Ransomware attacks, despite dramatically increasing in frequency this summer, remain opaque for many potential victims. It isn’t anyone’s fault, necessarily, since…
Beyond the VPN: Ultimate online privacy, with The Tor Project’s Isabela Bagueros: Lock and Code S02E20
“What does online privacy mean to you?” This beguilingly simply question can produce dozens of overlapping and distinct answers, all depending…
ExpressVPN made a choice, and so did I: Lock and Code S02E19
On September 14, the US Department of Justice announced that it had resolved an earlier investigation into an international cyber hacking…
Why backups aren’t a “silver bullet” against ransomware, with Matt Crape: Lock and Code S02E17
A recent spate of ransomware attacks in the US and abroad have derailed major corporations, spurring a fuel shortage on the…
Hackers, tractors, and a few delayed actors. How hacker Sick Codes learned too much about John Deere: Lock and Code S02E16
No one ever wants a group of hackers to say about their company: “We had the keys to the kingdom.” But…
“Seven or eight” zero-days: The failed race to fix Kaseya VSA, with Victor Gevers, Lock and Code S02E13
Kaseya VSA included at least “seven or eight” privately known zero-day vulnerabilities before it suffered a widespread ransomware attack that impacted…