AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: Critical Patches and Some Good Economic News
Craig Peterson - America's Leading Technology News Commentator
Release Date: 09/21/2020
Learn how to protect yourself online - featuring tips on haveibeenpwned, AI demos and 2FA/MFA authentication.
Craig Peterson - America's Leading Technology News Commentator
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The Truth About ChatGPT and A.I. - Discover the Secrets of Internet Anonymity and Protect Your Privacy
Craig Peterson - America's Leading Technology News Commentator
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Craig Peterson - America's Leading Technology News Commentator
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Craig Peterson - America's Leading Technology News Commentator
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Clearing Your Browser History and Wipe Away Your Online Footprint - Generation Z is the least cyber secure - Security and the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Failing US
Craig Peterson - America's Leading Technology News Commentator
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Craig Peterson - America's Leading Technology News Commentator
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Google Ads Were Weaponized - Identifying Criminals Using Cell Phone Location Data - WhatsApp Was Hacked By an Israeli Company – US Supreme Court Allows WhatsApp to Sue NSO Group - Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports
Craig Peterson - America's Leading Technology News Commentator
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Craig Peterson - America's Leading Technology News Commentator
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Ring Cameras Hacked - LastPass finally admits crooks stole your info - How to use Password Managers - Which are the best for you?
Craig Peterson - America's Leading Technology News Commentator
Privacy… Ring Cameras Hacked in 'Swatting' Scheme Critics and researchers say the Ring cameras are used to surveil gig economy drivers and delivery people and that they give law enforcement too much power to survey everyday life. The pair would hack people's Yahoo email accounts, then their Ring accounts, find their addresses, call law enforcement to the home with a bogus story, and then stream police's response to the call. Often, they would harass the first responders at the same time using Ring device capabilities. ++++++++ LastPass finally admits: Those crooks who got in? They did steal...
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Slave Labor in China - Apple Moves Out - Spyware posing as VPN apps - Darknet markets generate millions in revenue by selling stolen personal data - Voice-scamming site “iSpoof” seized
Craig Peterson - America's Leading Technology News Commentator
Craig Peterson Insider Show NotesDecember 5 to December 11, 2022 China… Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China In recent weeks, Apple Inc. has accelerated plans to shift some of its production outside China, long the dominant country in the supply chain that built the world’s most valuable company, say people involved in the discussions. It is telling suppliers to plan more actively for assembling Apple products elsewhere in Asia, particularly India and Vietnam, they say and looking to reduce dependence on Taiwanese assemblers led by Foxconn Technology Group. After a year...
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Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath and we discussed a critical patch that was announced on Friday and is so dangerous that the Fed's gave their system administrators until today to get their servers patched up. Also, Microsoft announced 129 Critical patches on Tuesday -- Patch, Patch, Patch! Then we talked about some good economic news. Here we go with Jack.
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Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, had a quick hit with Jack this morning up on New Hampshire today. We did talk a little bit about well, politics, really. What is going on with e-commerce and why did the federal government only give its own administrators 24 hours, basically to get this done? Zero log-on. Man, what a problem?
Jack Heath: [00:00:23] We appreciate it earlier. He yielded because of all the talk of the Supreme court, Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy with a quick moment or two on a tech talk point, or maybe tell us what his thoughts are when it comes to tech. Good morning.
Craig Peterson: [00:00:36] Hey, good morning, Jack. There is a huge warning that just came out.
It's unprecedented. This is from Homeland security. I've got to make sure that our listeners understand this. This came out Friday and they gave the federal government system administrators until today to patch windows, there is what's called a zero log-in vulnerability in windows servers. You can ask your tech people what that means, but bottom line check with them today. Make sure they know about this.
Microsoft released a hundred patches for 129 vulnerabilities, last Tuesday. This particular patch has been out now for about a month. Jack, we've got to make sure that people are patching and patching quickly. Get it done.
Some good news on the eCommerce retail front. They are expecting a thirty percent year over year increase in shopping online this year.
Black Friday might end up being truly a great day to go into the black for retailers again this year. Even with all of the people sitting at home, but maybe that's what spurred it in the first place.
Jack Heath: [00:01:48] Yeah. Who knows what that's going to look like? Right? From a retail online, you'd have to think the scales are online.
Craig Peterson: [00:01:55] Yes, they absolutely are. And they are seeing right now I'm looking at numbers showing some really big deals out there, but this is going to continue. The trend is expected to hit six and a half-trillion dollars here in about two more years, online sales. It's just growing dramatically and I think this whole COVID thing, shopping from home, really gave it a big kick in the pants.
We've got Walmart out there now just really going head to head with Amazon.
Jack Heath: [00:02:24] Oh, it's huge. I mean, you know, it used to be, you only heard about this during the holiday season, multiple packages on the porch. Take a walk in your neighborhood, the driving, the delivery people have been some of the busiest people of all time. Between Amazon, the post office, private deliverers. I mean, people will deliver packages to one resident sometimes it's like six times a day. That porch has packages. All right, Craig. Thank you.
Craig Peterson: [00:02:46] Take care.
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Take care, everybody. Bye-bye.
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