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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 the authors that AI can imita

Sep 20
39 min

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. Biographical and personal detail

Sep 6
39 min

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 through are still just figurin

Aug 23
36 min

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 you used a Mac computer, lived

Aug 9
39 min

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 global economy: “Data is the ne

Jul 26
24 min

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 age verification laws requiri

Jul 12
39 min

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 something else: personalized. For

Jun 28
41 min

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 three people who use AI every day

Jun 14
21 min

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 number of crimes, like funding te

May 31
40 min

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 media, the museum warned about a

May 17
35 min

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 regulatory sense of the word, this new

May 3
40 min

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 cheated their victim out of money.

Apr 19
41 min

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 about killer robots. No, not th

Apr 5
42 min

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 actors Denzel Washington and Chris

Mar 22
35 min

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 wakeup call: Their Ring doorbel

Mar 8
31 min

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 January 22, and after a long legal

Feb 22
43 min

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 together, alleging that Googl

Feb 8
42 min

One privacy change for 2026

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

Jan 25
18 min

Enshittification is ruining everything online (feat. Cory Doctorow)

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

Jan 11
53 min

ALPRs are recording your daily drive (feat. Will Freeman)

There’s an entire surveillance network popping up across the United States that has likely already captured your information, all for the non-suspicion of driving a car.

Dec 28 2025
35 min

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Your shows are always so interesting. This one particularly hit. It wasn’t pig butchering specifically, but my husband got taken down by a group selling a trading platform for cryptos. Their method of getting your money was different. You login to their pretend crypto platform with impressive looking live charts. While your representative is on the line, you login to your bank to transfer money. They then have your bank login information. They login as you and drain your accounts. They nurture you for a while. Once you catch on and they have your money, they keep calling, trying to entice you back. It sounds like they have a full call center going in the background. On the face of it, they are London based. Where they actually are, who knows. Be careful who you trust! Breathe

Liveinyourbody · Jan 2026

I enjoy the malwarebytes podcast for its timely, focused, topical and easily understandable content. I think I enjoyed the pod about Express VPN the most. I switched from a commercial VPN to a non profit VPN the same day. the host is personable and enthusiastic. I love the interviews with major security players. Keep up the good work.

kshkval · Oct 2021

It’s no Darknet Diaries, but I really like this podcast. Malwarebytes researchers have always done an awesome job in their reports and communications.

J0hn-F. · Apr 2020

I was really intrigued by the questions that David introduced in the recent re-aired episode intro on the interview with Nitya. For context, I’m in my mid-twenties (cusp of gen Z and millennial) so I find the generational difference in online awareness really interesting. Thus, I found the interview with Nitya to be frustrating and boring. Her answers felt quite judgmental of others’ experiences with social media. No context was given on who she is - i understand her parents may want privacy but her answers were presented like a breakthrough understanding about gen Z as a whole, as opposed to acknowledging that she’s just an individual. Ex: “since Nitya is a minor, we won’t be sharing about her personal info, but she first used a computer in year X, and is not a frequent social media user, which our listeners may be surprised by…”. I’m a loyal Malwarebytes customer and really wanted to like this episode. But I guess I’ll have to try again or give up.

nicholasname · Oct 2023

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