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Welcome! Election and Voting and the use of Technology, Poorly written apps and Bad Chrome Extension and more on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson on WGAN
02/22/2020
Welcome! Election and Voting and the use of Technology, Poorly written apps and Bad Chrome Extension and more on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson on WGAN
Welcome! We are going to hit a number of topics today from the world of Technology. Primaries and Caucuses are underway and with that always comes the topic of technology and security and it is no different this year. Apps are being developed and brought to market without being fully tested. Extensions are being created that have ulterior purposes and are being downloaded by thousands and even more, on Tech Talk With Craig Peterson today on WGAN. It is a busy show -- so stay tuned. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Hey, welcome, everybody. Craig Peterson here on WGAN. And we're live on Facebook. And we, of course, can be found over my website as well Craig Peterson, calm. We got a lot of topics for today's show. But we're going to start with the one that is really on everybody's minds right now is we see more of these primary elections beginning to come up, and we see problems. Well, I don't know, or are they problems or features? I guess they are problems with some of the election technology that has been used over in Iowa. New Hampshire's technology was rather straightforward as the Secretary of State in New Hampshire says, and it's hard to hack a pencil, although they're not using pencils. In New Hampshire. They are using felt pens, which are hard to hack as well. And these cards can like the cardboard that you would have in the back of a shirt when you purchase it. It's that type of cardboard that is not shiny or glossy, and then it goes through an optical reader that scans the ballot and places it in the bottom of that machine. An election official stands there to make sure that the balance legitimate. That you are not trying to stuff the ballot box, and that machine counts your vote. Now the unfortunate thing is those machines are kind of old in most states, some of them, I think maybe all of them are still running Windows XP, but there's no easy way to get it the operating system. It's never connected to a network. Even though some of these machines that have been examined and have patch levels zero or in other words, no patches of Windows XP, which is quite surprising when you get down to it. That is a big problem in many many cases. In New Hampshire, the primary went pretty well. Of course this weekend, the next one coming up, which is in Nevada. The Nevada caucuses. I don't know what to believe anymore because I've heard both sides of this. One that voting in Nevada is using the same technology that was used over in Iowa, which to me would be just a shocker and a whole big dismayed because it was just so terrible. As I've said on the radio before, in fact, this week when I was on with Ken and Matt, I think it was, might have been with Jim, I'm trying to remember who it was, which show. I pointed out how in when we're looking at some of this technology, we all well, not all of us, but some of us love the latest greatest technology. I'm one of those guys that like to stick with something that I know works and explore current technologies and newer things. But so many times we get just bamboozled as taxpayers because the people that are in control of the purse strings, they like the latest coolest stuff. They buy equipment from people they know hence the app and iOS. Former Hillary Clinton staffers ran the company chosen for use in Iowa, and I don't know how much vetting they did. We do know that the code wasn't checked. Homeland Security had offered. We also had offers coming in from Federal Investigation Bureaus and from several security companies saying, Hey, listen, we'd be glad to have a look at this. It was all closed source. It wasn't open-source where you can have a look at that software and say, yes, indeed, everything's legit. That is excellent software. People can find bugs in it. If they find a bug, they can report it, and it can get fixed, right? There are so many different things that they could have done when we're talking about trying to make this secure. I see Mary just joined us here on the Facebook Live and which is cool. She and I have worked several elections in the pas,t and we've been monitoring them. I have a son that's been one of these election officials. You know, part-time people that get pulled in to watch the voter checklist and things in New Hampshire, you have to have an ID to vote, which is weird, you know. I liked the way we did it here, Maine's doing the same thing. Most New England states are in fact as northern New England are doing the same thing where we have a felt pen, we have a piece of paper, we mark it down on that piece of paper, and we can then count it later on. If there's a problem, right? You can just go to that paper that sits in the closet, pull out the stack, bring it with you. And once you've done that, you can have a bunch of people sit around and think about Florida 20 years ago and what happened there with the hanging chads. They at least had a physical card they could look at although you know pregnant chats, hanging chads got to be quite the mess. So now we're getting concerned because of this new voting app that's out there. It's called Votz. V-O-T-Z is how they spell it. It's not the same one that was used the caucuses in Iowa. The app that the Democratic Party was using was trying to take the tabulations that were made by the people who were at all of these different precincts and figure out what the vote tallies were and then supposedly put it into the app and it gets sent up. This vote app that we're talking about right now goes a few steps beyond that. They want military personnel, and people are overseas to use it when they can't necessarily vote when they want to vote. It's, you know, panacea, maybe it's something we can get to in someday, but four states are going to use it this year. It has not undergone the trials that really should have gone down. And it's using a buzzword that I think got people's attention. And they're saying, Oh yeah, this is going to be safe because it's using this buzzword called blockchain technology. Blockchain technology is what used behind various cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin and some of the others, to help secure the transaction. So the whole log is it signed each record inside the register is signed. Just because it has blockchain doesn't mean it's secure and doesn't make it properly designed. I've got a quote here in this article from MIT, is computer science artificial intelligence lab saying the whole thing is sloppy. It looks sloppy. It's in Georgetown Law. It's awe-inspiring. They were able to find such a pervasive set of vulnerabilities, said Matt Blaze and election security expert and computer science professor at Georgetown Law School. But we should also remember it's ultimately unsurprising that they would be able to do so because of every expert has warned against Internet voting as being vulnerable to flaws exactly like this goes on. The University of Michigan here Alex Halderman, saying that it makes vote seemed like a sham. So it is a sham. I think I think it's a real problem. But we're going to do it anyways and four states, including West Virginia, this year is going to be a mass. We've already seen what happened in Iowa. We saw excellent voting happen in New Hampshire. We're not sure what's happening this weekend in Nevada, then Super Tuesday is right on the heels. Some of these states are using these voting apps. Some of them are using the apps used in caucuses. I think thank goodness there aren't very many caucuses in the country. And we'll see, but one thing is guaranteed, and that is it will be quite the debacle. It is going to end up being a problem for everybody involved because they didn't vet this technology. Now, I reported on this a couple of weeks ago, this $10 million grant set aside by the Department of Defense grant, ultimately, and it was to design a voting machine that would be secure. A voting machine that we could trust. I think that's just wonderful. It hasn't really been tested yet. They brought it last year to one of these conferences like Black Hat and Defcon. They brought it out there. Every year there is a voting machine village where they have all kinds of voting machines there. They are asking people to go ahead and try and hack into the voting machines. We had a 15-year old that was able to hack a voting machine right there, and they compromised every voting machine except for the device under development on this $10 million contract. Now, that might seem impressive, and that might be kind of encouraging to some of us. I think it kind of is in some ways. However, the reason they did not hack it was it didn't work. They were not able to get it online and did not get it online until Sunday, which was the last day of the conference. And so no one got to test it out. But that was last year. Let's get them a little real a little bit under their belt, a little water under that bridge sometime, and they will be able to do it. And you know, I think they'll be able to do it ultimately, but I still will be the biggest proponent of a pencil and a piece of paper or a felt tip pen. The software, By the way, those votes VOATz software is being used in Denver, parts of Oregon, Utah and Washington State, we'll see what happens. West Virginia, as I said, is going to use it. But for disabled voters, the federal government requires all states to have electronic voting machines that can be used by disabled voters. I know here where I live in New Hampshire, we have a thing I don't know they might have passed. Now they're kind of getting old. Twins, twin women, and one of them was pretty much deaf, and the other one was pretty much blind. So they were able to help each other out in a massive way, which is kind of cool and get right down to it. But what they did is they kind of both helped each other to vote, but we all have in every precinct people who are there who can help people with disabilities. I don't like this requirement to have electronic voting machines. But the MIT researchers, these other researchers all agree with me. I'm very concerned about the Android phone and Android as a platform for people to use. I don't know if you are if you're using Android, you know, I'm always saying use iPhones much, much more secure. But I also am not looking at an iOS as being the problem. Cure-all for some of the voting machines. Anyhow, we are live on Facebook, as I'm putting the show together and shout out to everybody who is on there and asking questions. I appreciate it. And I will go back in and answer questions for anybody a little bit later on who has them, and I want you to stick around. I will be back here after the commercial break. We're going to be talking more about the latest in technology. We're going to be getting into these Iranian hackers that have been hacking VPN. If you think your VPN is safe. We've got another thing coming. So we're going to shut this one down. And we will be right back. Thanks for joining us, of course, Craig Peterson dot com. Hello, everybody. Welcome back. Craig Peterson here on WGAN and affiliates. You'll find me online at Craig peterson.com. And, of course, online at Facebook. I'm doing this Live on Facebook, and also out at YouTube. And we're going to talk right now about VPN. So hopefully, you have some understanding of them. But some exciting statistics came up this week from our friends in government. The FBI has been warning us a lot lately about what's been happening over in Iran what they've been doing, and we don't have kinetic war. In other words, we're not shooting at each other, which is a good thing, right? But Iranian hackers have been right at the forefront of trying to hack into our systems, and they've been relatively successful. I have a few clients that are in the defense industry, because we do, of course, the higher security stuff, right. And they have been under constant attack from Iran for about six, eight weeks now ever since the last little tussle with Iran might have been longer than that. And we're seeing sustained efforts to hack into them. Well, now we're getting a report from our friends over at ZD net here about Iranian hackers targeting these VPN services. So I thought I'd start by kind of explaining to everybody a little bit more about VPN services, what they are, what they offer. And because I'm hearing ads about this all the time, and frankly, it's driving me crazy, because the ads are telling me that Yeah, Craig you need a VPN because it's the only way you're going to be safe. It's the only way you're going to be secure in your day. You've got companies out there that used to be known for anti-virus, which of course nowadays we know antivirus software is zero percent effective against the latest hacks that are out there. So antivirus software companies are trying to figure out what's another way that we can make some money because people are starting to realize that this is a scam. And it's been a scam for a lot of years. You know, antivirus worked pretty well 15 years ago. It doesn't work at all today, as I just mentioned for the latest now malware nastiness that's out there. So some of these companies one that comes to mind. It was purchased not too long ago by another anti-malware company is running a lot of ads. They're saying this we need our VPN you need our credit watch. They've tied in, with one of these companies that watch your credit looking for transactions, it might be a bad guy, and I'm a little concerned because here's what usually is going on in the VPN industry. Running a good VPN is expensive. When you are using a VPN, all of your data, depending on what type of a VPN, how it's employed is encrypted from point to point. We're talking about the right ones and not those that you hear the ads for when you're using those types of VPNs. Your data is transmitted up to the VPN service provider. Then once it gets there, it is sent out to the internet. So let's say you're trying to go to my site, Craig Peterson, dot com. If you're using a VPN, your web browser is going to ask the VPN server Hey, can I get the Craig Peterson dot com? What's the best way to do it? How can I get there, and the VPN server will say Hold on a second. I'll get that page for you. Then the VPN server goes out to Craig Peterson dot com gets the page and sends it back to you. Now, that would be a caching or proxy VPN server. And some of them will just pass packets through. But the big concern I have is twofold. One of them is this whole Iran thing, and we'll get into that in just a minute. Because it isn't only Iran. But the other one remembers if something is free, or if it's inexpensive, who's the product? You the product! And since you're the product, what do you think they're making money off of selling your personal information, that's how they make their money. And that is a big problem as far as I'm concerned. So what some of these VPN services are doing is they are tracking you online. Some of them go the next step, and they're actually acting as full proxies, and they are sometimes acting as a man in the middle attacks. They're injecting things into your data stream that you weren't expecting. So where you think you're getting the VPN to have some security, and to have some privacy. Some of these VPN services are the exact opposite. They are reducing your privacy because what they're doing now is taking your data and selling it to the highest bidder that's out there, right. So I think that's a problem. And if you think it's a problem, maybe you shouldn't use some of these cheap VPN services. And I haven't gotten any I actually like, okay, I've heard advertisements on these radio stations, my shows airing on and I've checked them out, and I'm not comfortable with any of them. And the only VPNs I use or VPNs that I run, but remember, your data still has to hit the internet at some point. Remember, you're using one of these VPN services. versus your data is going to the VPN service provider. And at that point, it hits the internet. So it's now out on the internet. Well, if you're trying to make sure your data doesn't get on the internet, and people aren't hacking you, you've lost because your information does have to get to the internet. How are Internet Service Providers supposed to get to your bank? How are they supposed to get to my website? How did they suppose to get to Facebook or Google or YouTube? They have to go over the whole internet as well. If you're using one of these services, and they're going out to the internet. What do you think is a bigger target you at home, using the internet via your cable company or your telco or maybe your smart device. Is that one device a big target, or do you think that perhaps its the VPN service providers that are the bigger target, right? I'm not sure I need an answer because it's kind of a rhetorical question. The most significant marks out there when it comes to VPNs are these VPN service providers. And we're seeing warnings out there right now that Iranian hackers have targeted pulse secure, which has VPN software that they sell to businesses, shown to be insecure. Pulse Secure for the net. Another example of one of these security companies, right that has a VPN service, Palo Alto Networks, a company I have never used and never recommended either. I haven't recommended any of these companies to anybody ever. We've gone up against Palo Alto Networks in some proposals and contracts and, and they won them because of all the whiz-bang, not because they were the best of the safest, and so So there you go, Paul secure Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Citrix VPN are now being used to provide a back door into larger companies. So if you're a business person, I'm going to put these right now into this channel so that you can look it up for you or business and seeing and write this in as a comment over here in the Facebook Live that you can find online. Yes, go to Craig Peterson, calm slash Facebook. It'll take you to my Facebook channel. But there's the list of them. It is from an article that's out there on ZDnet. I think they have been publishing some great information lately. I've been using them in a number of my alerts that I send out as part of my Saturday morning emails. But some of these attacks have happened according to this firm called clear sky that Iranian hackers have targeted companies. From the IT telecommunications, oil, gas, aviation government and security sectors, why because that's where all the real money is. The particular report is dispelling frankly, the notion that it's their Russian and Chinese hackers or maybe North Korean because the Iranian hackers don't know what they're doing right. I've heard that before all Iran, don't worry about it. They know what they're doing. When in fact, yes, within hours of being disclosed, the Iranian hackers were right in there. It's terrifying. So keep an eye out. I look. Again, online at Craig Peterson, calm you'll find this article, and a whole lot more. Make sure you ask your IT department if you're using any of these VPN services or software. And by the way, in most of these cases, you can get patches to fix it. When we come back. We're going to be talking about Coronavirus and the new challenges right here on WGAN. Hey, welcome back Craig Peterson here WGAN and online at Craig Peterson dot com, of course, on Facebook as well. I am live on Facebook, and you can ask questions there you can watch this whole show as it unfurls, and you will find me there. You can ask questions almost anytime. We try and keep you up to date on what is happening out there in the world of technology. Well, you might not have thought of coronavirus as anything more than just a piece of nastiness, right. The virus I know some people are saying well you know we haven't had as many deaths from the...
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AS HEARD ON: WGAN Mornings with Ken and Matt: Election and Voting Technology, Phishing and Coronavirus Covid-19
02/21/2020
AS HEARD ON: WGAN Mornings with Ken and Matt: Election and Voting Technology, Phishing and Coronavirus Covid-19
Good morning everybody! I was on with Ken and Matt. We had a good discussion about the upcoming Nevada Caucus and if they will experience some of the same issues as in Iowa. We also discussed the cybercriminal phishing emails being sent out with the warnings about the Coronavirus that if clicked on will infect your machine and network and also why you should delete apps that you do not use to protect your privacy. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig saying, Wow, cool new technology is going to be great. Hey, I have a buddy that worked for Hillary Clinton and ran this, and he's got this company, and he's got this voting software. That's what tends to happen. And they're looking for the latest the greatest the coolest the neatest and yeah, we can brag about how wonderful this all is. When in reality, it ain't there. Craig Hi everybody Craig Peterson here, of course, and I got into this thing. I don't know, and maybe it was too much this morning about technology. I was comparing what's been happening with some of the technology for voting to laserdiscs and Betamax, etc. But we went this morning with canon Matt talked about that couple of other things, including the Coronavirus. So here we go. Ken Back again 738 on the WGAN morning news with Ken and Matt. It's time now, ladies and gentlemen, to talk to Craig Peterson. Craig Is your phone working now? Ken Did that last-minute somebody was a tech expert series tell me how to fix his phone of a manufacturer.?We have a tech guru, and I would like to ask about that. But I am going to ask you a quick question. You know, we've had some primaries and the Nevada primaries coming up or the caucus, and it's looking like it's going to go smoothly, but there may be some security flaws. Can you tell us as a tech guru, what the hell is going on? Craig Well, you know, this whole thing with the voting and technology and what to do you know, we talked last week about you know, where the governor here in Maine and of course Secretary of State and John Richardson was on and on, I had said, you know, the, I think the smartest thing I think it was brilliant. Stick with an unhackable felt tip pen, Right? I still say that. I also get concerned when the government gets involved with consumer technology, and when they get involved with almost anything. But indeed what technology because the government ends up trying to pick winners or losers, right? And when I'm talking about tech, what's the best tech? And so the government gets involved and says, Oh, this is the best tech, or that's the best tech, and then you dig into it. And you find out that Hillary Clinton's former staffers are the people who founded and we're running the company that came up with a software that just thoroughly discredited the Iowa caucuses. This coming Saturday, as Matt was kind of jumping in there, looks like it's going to be a mess as well. How do we secure our elections because it's not like we can have the normal process of the best technology wins? Well, maybe that's not always the case because I'm sure Ken, you must have bought a Betamax video recorders Ken Betamax? Craig I don't know why anybody would buy a VHS Betamax was so superior to VHS. Ken I have had here this brand new mike 700 Matt Am I correct? Betamax was better technology. There's no question, are we talking about the LaserDisc while we're at it? Oh yeah, that was even better. That was amazing that the laserdiscs amazing size CD that I had, you know, I had to put like seven of them just to watch a movie. Don't touch the surface. I remember for some reason, even though the school was crumbling, and a cockroach once fell from the ceiling and landed on my book. Okay, even with all that, they somehow found a way to buy a LaserDisc player, and I remember the occasional like, you know, Friday, you know, day, where you weren't, going to do anything. Where they would play a movie in class or whatever. They had to, like, take that thing out, and then put a new disk in like five times before the movie was over because it didn't have any sort of capacity to put a film on it. But I'm glad we spent all that money. It was worth it. Craig That's my point. Why did they buy the LaserDisc player? Because it was cool? Yeah, exactly. So now here we are looking at our Super Tuesday coming up. We're looking at all of these other elections that are happening. All of these people, these people, what do you mean, these people are out there saying, Wow, cool. New technology is going to be great. Hey, I have a buddy that worked for Hillary Clinton and ran this. And he's got this company, and he's got this voting software. That's what tends to happen. And they're looking for the latest, the greatest, the coolest, the neatest. And yeah, we can brag about how wonderful this all is. When in reality it ain't there. And now we're looking at another mobile voting app yet another one. It is being used in four different states this year, including West Virginia. What could possibly go wrong here? And this new voting mobile app, it's called Votez V-O-T-E-z. Isn't that cute? And it is just full of some of the most basic flaws ever. But you know what, guys? It's using blockchain technology, which is going to solve all of the world's security problems. This is sloppy. We need to stick with the standard. We need to have a government and a voting system people are confident in. The people say, yeah, our votes were counted. If there was a question about the tabulation or the ballots properly-being cast, you pull the silly things out of a closet, and you have a look at them. Let's not run headfirst. Over the cliff into some cool technology, and then with a whole bunch of Betamax tapes in our closet. Matt Do you know how many beta tapes I have in my closet? Ken I would say probably 500. Craig Yeah, yeah. And you know what those the quality of those is not quite DVD quality. It's still good, but you just can't find anything that well. Ken The other thing I don't have, I don't know where my Betamax is. Anymore. By the way, I don't want you to know I did not. I will bet every FBI instruction. I did not steal any movies. I just want you to know. Craig You know, you've got those things sitting there, Ken, and it was great technology for today, but it's gotten so much easier nowadays. Anyhow, that's my stance on voting. Stick with a piece of paper and unhackable pencil or felt tip pen. Keep the silly things after people have voted those wonderful little cards, keep those for at least a couple of years. Do spot audits, a lot of these states are their secretaries of state are not doing spot audits. I think that they have to do those just again to keep confidence in the system. And Matt, you're probably there with me. I am probably there with you, sir. We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us every once a while. Usually, Wednesdays, to talk about what's happening in the world of technology. Speaking of security, I have a lot of Chrome extensions on Chrome, and clearly, I am now surrendering all of my information to everyone. Tell me why. Craig Okay, my here's my general advice to everybody. I gave this out a little earlier in the week as well. The primary recommendation is not to have too many apps on your phones and other devices. Over the last couple of years, we have found that a lot of those apps are leaking data. And last weekend on my show, I talked about how the Department of Homeland Security is buying that data to track people say, Okay, so now we can find out where you are where you have been. It was about six, eight weeks ago, that the New York Times was able to track President Trump's whereabouts as he was moving around, because they were able to follow one of the phones of Secret Service personnel, according to the article that they wrote. This is a real problem. Now we've found that there are more than 500 browser extensions that have been secretly uploading our personal and private data to websites that are then selling it. The number one most evil thing to put onto your browser is one of those browser extensions, and it's a tab type thing. That gives you quicker searches and tells you there's a deal on this page on this site right now. A lot of people have installed those things. Well, if you have and I have seen so many people with this, get rid of them now. Delete your browser extensions, these Chrome extensions that you're not using, or that you don't need. Now, I've got some tutorials coming out in a couple of weeks about three Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, browser extensions that I absolutely love, that are not stealing your data. I've got some training on how to know what's what. You know if that if you guys have one of these Chrome browsers, it is just overloaded with extensions. You got to delete these things, because some of them are evil. Some of them are even mining Bitcoin for bad guys in Eastern Europe, and you don't even know it. You know, here we are talking about having the privatization. I shouldn't say, of the two major electric companies in Maine, to save Maine taxpayers are ratepayers, in this case, some money, which is always great to save money. Still, we got to have an in-depth look at some of these things. And we have some of the highest electric rates in the country. Analyze things up. Why do we want to allow the browser extensions that will show us a cute little cat video every day? What do we want to have that browser extension burning our electricity to make Bitcoin money for somebody else? We've got to stop doing this sort of thing. Just delete any apps you're using. Remove the browser extensions you don't absolutely need and be a little safer online. Matt We are talking to our tech guru Craig joins us every Wednesday at 730 dot com. Get the information firsthand or to listen to him on w ga and in the afternoon on Saturday at one o'clock. Before we let you go, Craig, I don't know if you've heard about the Coronavirus, and please do not play the Mexican hat dance. Craig Whatever I do, I will not play the Mexican hat dance. Ken I was the last thing I will do. I will not play it. I don't want to trigger. Any technological issues for Mr. Peterson Craig One of my sons is a teetotaler. There was a joke going around about something about lime and salt being the cure. But anyway. Yeah, be very, very careful, everybody. I'm glad you brought this up. Ken, we're out of time. So really, really quickly. The bad guys always Take advantage of things in the news. And one of the big things in the news now, and I'll be talking about this more on my show on Saturday at one, is the Coronavirus, Of course, you know it is called now called covid-19. Don't open emails saying hey, here's a tracker for the Coronavirus. Don't do any of this stuff. There are so many fake emails and now fake text messages coming out from these people. It helped us to get overwhelmed. That's a really really bad thing. Don't do it. People the bad guys are saying Coronaviruses that trying to get your open stuff. If you want to g, the Coronavirus goes online to cdc.gov simple site to remember cdc.gov, not CDC dash org.gov. There are so many fake sites out there, just cdc.gov right at the top they've got stuff on covid-19 this respiratory disease, and they have trackers. Still, you know what right now you're more likely to die from the flu, and we are at the height of regular flu season, and they're even tracking that@cdc.gov so there you can keep an eye on everybody. Ken All right, that's Greg Peterson ladies and gentlemen. I appreciate it as always, Craig, and we will talk to you again very soon. Craig Take care, guys. Bye. Thanks, all right. Why don't we take a quick break quick Craig 13:27 A Shout out to all of you guys out there listening to me, of course, every week it kind of goes up, which is terrific, and it's so so appreciated. I had contact by the way from one of our listeners, a longtime listener, and a bit of a friend frankly always enjoy chatting with him. He's a little bit older kind of like me, and he has been out there freaking out about what to do now with his career. He went to a small school that taught cybersecurity stuff for a few months and put some money into that. Now he's out looking for a job. Is anybody else in that kind of a boat, because I think this might make a fascinating series or segment or segments or however it turns out for the listeners here, what if you are a little bit older in life? You are looking to change careers, maybe, perhaps you've always been interested in the whole security side of things. And you want to get involved with that. Let me know just send an email to me at Craig peterson.com. And we'll kind of go from there and see where this takes us. But I find this fascinating I I want to help you guys and gals out there with, you know, making your life a little bit better and helping you to make other people's lives a little bit better too because I suspect you're a lot like me, frankly. And that's why you're such great and regular listeners. Anyhow, take care and everybody. We're getting closer and closer to having some of those tutorials ready. I got another one edited yesterday, he says making a sigh, Oh my gosh this has been so painful I've had to learn a different video editor because I when I was using just can't handle the type of content that I'm generating here for these tutorials. It is on some of the best things you can do for cybersecurity for your family, for your business all free, even the tools tutoring alone are free. So this is going to be a huge one I think for pretty much everybody anyways, me at Greg Peterson calm or sign up for my mailing list just at Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. Take care, everybody. We'll be back with a weekend show again this week. Bye-bye. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553
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AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: Apps, tracking, selling info and election security
02/18/2020
AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: Apps, tracking, selling info and election security
Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning and as you know today is Primary Day in New Hampshire it is the Big Day for our State Sport - Politics. That means it is the day to address voter manipulation, voter fraud, low tech solutions and why apps are not the answer. So, here we go with Mr. Polito. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig You've got this free little cute little game, isn't this fun to play? Well, that game is tracking you everywhere you're going. They sell that information to Marketers. Now the Department of Homeland Security is even buying that data of where you are which apps you're using. Just because you have these apps installed on your phone. Craig Good morning, Craig Peterson, here. That's me with Danny, and it was pretty much all about voting technologies, the new stuff that's coming out the problems we have right now. And my predictions for not just this election, but frankly for the next two or three presidential cycles. Danny Yes, it is Tuesday. 840 You know what time that is? It is time for tech talk guru Craig Peterson. Hi Craig. Craig Hey, good morning, Danny. Craig I've got a little clarification about info from one of your former guests this morning. An earlier guest, I should say this morning. He was talking quite rightly by the about all of these apps and what's been in the news, in fact, just this week about apps and how dangerous they can be how they've been tracking, Google just removed a whole bunch of extensions from the Google Chrome Store. I want to go into slightly more detail if you want it to be secure. Don't download an app you don't need. Another thing I've said forever, Danny, is that you should go through your phone, at least every month, and delete apps you're not using. You know, most of us have a lot of apps. I think the last stat I SAW said that about 95% of the apps that we've downloaded only get used once. It's like we're never using them. Delete them off of your phone, off of your tablet, whatever it is you have. I want to add one more thing from a safety standpoint. Even if you are using an app fairly regularly, go ahead and delete it anyway, and then reinstall it. When you reinstall it now, it's going to ask for permission. You're going to be able to have a closer look at that app that again. It may be one you use every day like Google Maps. Believe that when you reinstall it and pay close attention to the permissions that it wants to access. By the way, just because it doesn't ask for permission to share some of your information doesn't mean it's not going to, all right. But as a general rule, those permissions are correct. It's more confusing on Android than it is iOS. Android kind of pushes you on to you the decision about whether or not you should be installing that app. On the iOS side, it's a lot more straightforward than Apple's a little bit better about it. He had some super points. But I go one step further. Just delete the silly things, mainly if you're not using them, as you mentioned, bringing up the app and permitting it. Danny So what kind of permission should people be looking for Craig to allow it not to? Craig Yeah, there you go. Well, let's have a look at the most costly divorce in history, which we talked about a couple of weeks ago. Right. So you have Bezos. Yeah, exactly. Billions of dollars in a divorce settlement. How did that all start? Well, that started because he was using WhatsApp, which is an app that is now part of Facebook's family. What WhatsApp had done here is accepted a video, and Jeff Bezos had allowed WhatsApp access to his photos and his videos. Even though you might think, oh, what's the harm and giving it access to my pictures or videos, maybe you're not going to get the virus the Jeff Besos got, but the app has access to your photos, your videos or other things. If there's a bug in the app, if there's something malicious going on, you're going to lose that data. What should you give an app permission to do? That? I think one of the worse things you can do is to permit access to know your location. That data is used and sold. You know, you've got this free little cute little game. Isn't this fun to play? And that game is tracking you everywhere you're going it's been sold to Marketers. Now the Department of Homeland Security is even buying that data of where you are which apps you're using, just because you have these apps installed on your phone. In answer directly to your question, do not give them access to your location unless you absolutely want to. I'm even reluctant to give Google Maps access to my location. Right? But slightly paranoid on that front. As far as photos and videos and things, again, just don't give them access. I think we're at the point now, where the bottom line is, you should only have a half a dozen apps on your phone on your tablet. And they should be apps from the big guys. You know Apple's apps, Microsoft apps, Google's apps, they are moderately trustworthy. And pretty much everything else. I think you shouldn't say bye-bye to them. ya know, Danny Ya know, that's kind of it sounds like a good plan. We are talking with Tech Talk Guru Craig Peterson, all about apps, and the security behind apps and then allowing permissions and them using your data to sell, and basically, you become the client. Correct. So these free apps not necessarily free, buddy. Craig No, they're not. And here's another trick, right? If you want to use something, and the app is available, most of the time, there's a website you can go to instead. So, for instance, you might download The let's use Iheart as an example. All right, so IHeart Radio has an app. I use it all the time, right? I'm, I listened to it to listen to my favorite radio shows listen to the gym in the morning. Iheart also has a website that you can visit. Okay, so rather than having the app, just use the browser that comes with your phone, use Safari, which is a good browser on iOS, use one of the Firefox browsers from Mozilla, those are all very good. If someone's twisting your arm with a gun to your head, use Google Chrome. Use the browser to get the data you want to you can stream music from your browser, you can listen to it hard from your browser, you can do all of the reading of news that you might want to do from your browser and avoid the cute apps. Aren't they wonderful? Aren't they fun? But you know what? There are so many Very few apps that can be classified as safe, that it's just not worth it. Danny Speaking of Google Chrome, speaking of extensions, speaking of people, basically using your uploading your private information, the Google Chrome extension, Craig. There were some issues there aren't there. Craig Yeah, absolutely. Now I've got some tutorials coming out starting next week, and about some extensions that you might want to use, and they will improve your browsing experience will improve your security, etc. What I think they're talking about here is a problem, Danny, where 500 Chrome extensions, Google Chrome extensions, were identified as secretly uploading people's data, millions of times. These things get downloaded. It's incredible what's happened, more than 1.7 million installations. So again, I still know people who are downloading browser bar extensions for Google Chrome for all of their different browsers, right. And it's a little browser bar extension that gives you a feature to search quickly or watch the stock market, etc. Those are the evilest things and prone to guys. Don't install, never install these little browser extensions that are just going to show you one or two things, because so many of them are sketchy. Many are fraudulent. Some of them are advertising as a service. Some of them will automatically, just from your browser, be clicking on ads on other websites you are not even visiting. Yes, they can click on an advertisement on a site you're not visiting just to increase their revenue. The estimate is that 40 to 60% of all paid advertising Non the internet pay per click advertising 20 60% of that is fraudulent. It's these. Yeah, these extensions, Danny, that we're installing that is supposedly giving us some sort of advantage or some neat little thing. Don't install those. Make sure if you're on my email list, you'll find out about this next week. But make sure you are on that list, which is just a Craig Peterson dot com. You can attend these tutorials for free. I'm not selling anything, right. It's all about the extensions that are going to make you safe. Not these 500 identified as making you less safe. You know what, Danny, some of them are even doing Bitcoin mining using your computer and slowing down your computer. They're making your browsing experience horrible because it's so slow. Things are happening in the background that you don't know are being done. They're using your electricity. We have some of the highest electric rates in the nation here in the northeast. And it's all for their benefit and gain and nothing for you. I'm glad you brought it up. Danny, don't install an extension unless you have to. It's kind of like the app thing. Danny Yeah, we try to keep yourself as safe as possible. But something you have to do is make sure it's something that isn't going to come and backfire on you ultimately. Because we are talking with our tech expert Craig Peterson. Craig, we only have a few minutes left. But the one story I did want to get into here, the mobile voting app. Who would have thought this is ever a good idea? Craig heard off and on about what's going to happen Saturday in Nevada with their caucuses. They paid I think it was $60,000 to the same company that completely messed up the Iowa caucuses and they're saying yeah, we're going to do it. No, we're not going to do it. You're going to do it with the latest I heard yesterday was there not going to do it again. But there is an app called a vote to VOA t z. And this is something that supposedly allows you to vote from home vote from overseas. They've been trying to sell this to the military, for our military personnel stationed overseas. And this is crazy. The election is promoting its use of blockchain technology, which is like a vast buzzword nowadays. And people associate blockchain technology with absolutely safe, nothing could go wrong. They ignore the man behind the curtain. It is not secure. There are four states right now that are still planning on using this votes app that is being used in West Virginia. And it has some of the most basic security flaws in it. It allows other people to Steve votes intercept votes change votes, as they're being transmitted from the mobile phones to the company's voting server. If you can This is absolutely crazy. MIT put together a research paper that was released last Thursday. We're not there yet. Don't use these things. You know, the only thing that's really safe is a pencil or maybe a felt tip pen. Because you can't hack, a felt tip pen and a piece of paper. Right, much harder to do, obviously, this imbalance studying before, but you can do it on a wholesale basis like you can with some of these voting apps. Danny Yeah, what's this one right here? Just say someone to be able just to change votes like that. It seems as though the security and some of the features and noted have a voting type app. They have far away from Craig. Craig Oh, yeah, end up partner of Homeland Security's warning against it New York Times, even covered on it. They were the first ones to report this research out of MIT. We're going to see a lot of problems of voting over the next few cycles, maybe ten plus years, frankly, as you know, You know, the idiocy tends to tie down in the money, right? Who owns the company, for instance, with the backhoe debacle that happened overnight Iowa, the disaster that was going to happen this weekend in Nevada and still may have been that company that made that software to tally the votes was owned and operated by Hillary Clinton staffers. Okay. So, yeah, accurately. And now the democratic Democratic Party says, Oh, it's great. We know you, Hey, buddy. Yeah, we're going to do it for you, right? Until we can get rid of this phony crony capitalism stuff, which exists all over the place, and we make real decisions. This voting stuff just isn't going to work. Right. And you know, Danny, I hold a zero trust. The government's going to be able to get this right. But you know, another five to 10 years, I think, maybe we will have a reasonably smooth roll road ahead of us. There's a $10 million funding project that came out of the Department of Defense to make an unhackable voting system. So I got my fingers crossed because I know these guys are on the right track. Danny Well, I'm sure when they come up with something, you'll have a forest Craig Craig is always some great stuff, unfortunately, to get to everything. If somebody wants to hear more, how do they do so? Craig Well, you can go to Craig Peterson, dot com or they can text Danny, to me at 855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553. Danny As always, data rates do apply. Craig, thank you so much for the time. We'll talk to you next week. Craig Take care, Danny, bye-bye. Danny It's Craig, always with some great stuff can be scary. But Craig gets us through it. As he said, watch out for your extensions. Watch out for the app to clean up the apps, and yeah, what's the make you think that Hillary Clinton can get a voting app? Right? But yeah, our servers were secured in New York. Yeah, okay. Everyone believes that one. Anyways, I'll take one last time out. Well. Craig We've been working on this now for six weeks, eight weeks, we've got some fantastic free tutorials coming up. Frankly, these are going to improve your security posture. By what at least 90%. I'm serious about that when you are online, so it's going to help with security transformation plus a course and everything else. So free stuff, and some paid material, but you are going to love it all. I guarantee it. I've never been so excited about something before. Anyhow, keep an eye out. Make sure you're signed up. 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Welcome! Rampant Intellectual Property Theft by China, Scams - Airbnb, VRBO and CoronaVirus Phishing, ACLU and DHS and more on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson on WGAN
02/14/2020
Welcome! Rampant Intellectual Property Theft by China, Scams - Airbnb, VRBO and CoronaVirus Phishing, ACLU and DHS and more on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson on WGAN
Welcome! Today there is a ton of stuff going on in the world of Technology and we are going to hit a number of topics today. There are some scams that are getting more and more prevalent with Airbnb and VRBO that we will talk about. Also, phishing scams using the Coronavirus as a way to trick you into clicking. The ACLU is filing suit against DHS. China is stealing our Intellectual Property. Shadow IT becoming more and more of a problem and even more on Tech Talk With Craig Peterson today on WGAN. It is a busy show -- so stay tuned. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: --- Machine Automated Transcript: Hey everybody, welcome, welcome. Craig Peterson here on WGIR, you can also hear me every Monday morning at 737 with Jack Heath, where we discuss some of the latest topics in technology. Of course, nowadays, you can't talk about technology without security, which is what I've been doing in my business now for about 30 years. I was coerced into it. Maybe one of these days, I'll share that whole story with you. It can get to be kind of a long one. But today we are going through some of the problems that I've seen out there lately. I have on my podcast this week that you can get at Craig peterson.com slash Iheart, Craig peterson.com slash Iheart. I spent quite a bit of time talking about recent problems people have been finding with Airbnb with VRBO, and I go through some of the problems I recently have had with both of those services. And I think it's well worth listening to because I've gotten to the point right now where I will not use either Airbnb or VRBO, I don't think ever again. My experiences with them have just been so overwhelmingly negative, anyhow you'll find that online, and you can subscribe there as well at Craig peterson.com slash I heart. That like is going to take you to the I heart app. You might be listening to me right now, in fact, on Iheart streaming on these AM and FM stations. If you are, kudos to you, but you can also get all of my content by going and subscribing, Craig peterson.com slash I heart, and I'm also on every other major podcast streaming platform that's out there. But first, I just want to make mention of this other article that came out last month in January. It's talking about computer literate millennials and Generation Z. These are the people that grew up with the internet. They've had the internet pretty much their whole lives. They've found meaning the Federal Trade Commission found that people ages 39 and under are more likely to report fraud than the 40 plus crowd. Now, here's the thinking here. It isn't that the younger kids millennials and Generation Z, it isn't as though they are less afraid to report that money stolen from them. It appears that they are more likely to fall victim to fraud. 25% more likely. Now the millennials are less likely to fall for a scam over the phone and people over 40, but 77% More likely, Millennials are 77% more likely to get duped by email scams and 90% more likely to lose money on a fake check scam. Now, the thinking behind this is that those of us who are a little bit older, we hold the whole internet thing with a little bit more skepticism than our children and grandchildren do. Because we know that there are scammers out there and we've heard all the horror stories, whereas the younger kids are looking at it as well. It's the internet, and they just give their stuff away. We already know that there are studies that show that the millennials will give their email address or weigh in trade for a single donut. Okay. They don't value a lot of this stuff. And, you know, to me, well, it's a little bit concerning, and it should be to you. But let's get into the latest scam that's out there right now. It isn't the Airbnb scam, which has been out there for a few years now. As I said, hey, I've been burned, what, four or five times by this overall personally. I am jaded, and I just don't use it anymore period. It's a real shame because there are some good people out there. But this has to do with what's been happening with the Coronavirus. It is a huge deal. We had one day this week, where 15,000 new cases were reported. The Chinese changed how they tracked and diagnosed cases. So they're saying hey, listen, it's you know, it's Change. Don't expect this to indicate that more viruses are spreading out there. And frankly, I look at it and say, Well, maybe there are there aren't. But what we're seeing are some rather sophisticated phishing scams going on. Phishing, of course, this is the one spelled with a Ph. It is where an attacker tricks you into doing something. It might be clicking a link. It might be responding to an email. It might also be a phishing scam over the phone or, you know, SMS a text one which is called smishing. A whole new type of phishing this going on right now. Well, last week, IBM and Kaspersky now Kaspersky is an anti-virus company. They are also trying to stop the general spread of malware. They are a Russian firm, and the State Department and FBI have warned us about using their software, but they do have good information. When I see Kaspersky combined with IBM, a company I do respect, then that does kind of make my ears stand up, if you will. IBM and Kaspersky caught hackers in Japan, trying to spread malware through emails. And the emails had links about the coronavirus outbreak that started Of course and won China last month in January. And now adding cell phones to the list. Of course, Cisco, to the list, they have found phishing emails from cybercriminals, purporting to be from the Center for Disease Control, as well as the World Health Organization and what they're trying to do the bad guys his deal your email credentials and other information. The emails are coming from several domains, including CDC dash gov.org, which, of course, is not the real CDC website. So be very careful if you are trying to find out information about the CDC, or about the spread of Coronavirus about flu in general. For instance, in my home state of New Hampshire, we have I think it's seven deaths so far this year reported g attributed to the flu in general, not the Coronavirus. Every year about 12 to 16,000 people in the United States die from the flu. So far we've only got 14 cases reported of Coronavirus So, at this stage everybody, this is nothing to get all freaky worried about. Okay, so calm down. If you want more, go to CDC.gov. CDC Centers for Disease Control cdc.gov. And it tells you what to do now this Coronavirus has an official name now it's called Covin-19, co vi d dash 19 because there are multiple versions of Coronaviruses and viruses. And we have had a report in the past about Coronaviruses, and they have killed people previously. So you'll see right at the top of the CDC, gov website, information about the Coronavirus and it spread. It is a respiratory disease. It is potentially fatal. It doesn't seem to be any more fatal than some of the other viruses that we've had. So let's put all of this in context. And when you get an email from someone saying hey, Look at this, click on this link, it's going to get you information about the Coronavirus, it's going to let you track the spread of, etc. don't respond. And you, if you get a text message, don't respond. I got one because I'm a member of the Great and Powerful media, right. I got one last week that was sent out to members of the media saying, Hey, we got this new tracking site. You just can't be cautious enough when it comes to this. So if you go to CDC Gov at the top, you'll see the description here about the Covin-19. And you can click on that, and it'll show you a global map about where it has been reported what is happening. I'm looking at one. It's about one day behind it looks like right now for Covin-19. But you can see all of the countries that have been reporting it and then you can also So look at the hard statistics. People under investigation in the United States exactly how many 14 positives you'll see that there. Of course, it changes daily. How many negative how many pending? The people are under investigation. Remember, the airplane full of workers from the State Department that came back from China. They have now been under quarantine for more than 14 days. They released them all from quarantine because it turns out that nobody had that virus, so just because you have the flow doesn't mean it's Coronavirus. More cases over on the left coast and the Midwest, which is kind of surprising to me than there are on the East Coast or the Mid Atlantic, etc., etc. So have a look there. Do not respond to emails or texts or phone calls. Okay. Just be very, very careful. Hackers are imitating this sort of thing. Then the other side of this is they are sending out messages, seeking donations, and they're asking for Bitcoin donations to the World Health Organization. I can tell you right now, the World Health Organization, the CDC, they are not taking Bitcoin donations, okay? Don't go and donate, right. Again the CDC gov.org is the bad guys cdc.gov is the good guys. The scam page is elementary. it might have taken the scammers just a few minutes to put together. It's very effective. It looks legit. And the FBI and, of course, also Homeland Security are taking down these pages as soon as they can, but they can't always get rid of them right away. And companies we got to be proud. We've got a chain, train our employees not to follow up on these scams. So again, that's part of why I publish my newsletters. I report on the biggest scams that are going on. I try and keep it down to just a few a week. You can share them with your employees, share them with your family, but you have to get them to share them. Go to Craig peterson.com slash subscribe. Now, we're going to talk a little bit about this whole thing with the ACLU and their current fight. I spoke about something similar to this a couple of years ago, man, maybe actually the first time was probably about ten years ago. There are companies out there, and they gather information about us. They're called Data brokers. And I have visited some of these data brokers sites themselves. I mean physical site, where the company operates where they have their data collections, to help them with security problems that they have. And to help prevent problems from occurring, right. That's what I do for a living full time. And it was probably ten years ago, the radio show that I talked with some of these companies. But what they do is they take what's called open source information that's used a lot by government or investigations. And you can use open-source information yourself. All you do is go to Google, for instance, and do a search. That's the open-source information. It's anything that anyone can gain access to, without having to be a police officer without having to go and really kind of, you know, get a court order kind of be surreptitious and how you gather that's open source. So the data break brokers will take all of that, and that can include depending on States your living driver's license information. It can include information about the mortgage for your home. It can include you know the ownership of your home, and it can include just all kinds of stuff. And that becomes very, very difficult to control. Because all of your information is out there. It's available for free or for cheap on the internet. So these data brokers, they might buy it from the county, they might get it an open-source. Some of these documents are going to contain like your mortgage is going to contain your signature. The deed to your home is going to contain the signature, the automobiles that you own. There's going to be UCC filings with the Secretary of State's office, detailing what cars you own, who the lien holders are, and how much money is involved, all of this stuff. So it all gets pulled into these days. databases I mentioned on the show a few months ago, a couple of months ago that we were out in Las Vegas at a wedding. And of course, you know, doing work while I'm out there sitting on the couch, doing work for some of our Las Vegas clients when there was a knock at the door. Who's there? Well, it's an insurance investigator investigating an accident that had a fatality. And of course, the insurance company had been asked to payout. They came to this home because they had information that the person involved had contact with someone at this address, which indeed she did. It was her sister, and the driver had been responsible for this fake fatal death. The driver listed was one of my sisters in law, who had died six months before the accident. It was all fake. The insurance investigator showed my wife all of this information she had that they had purchased from one of these data brokers. It had listed my deceased sister in law's relatives, everybody every address she had ever had. It had names and contact information for some of my kids as well. Now, it was not all correct or organized. When I've looked at the data brokers' information about me, only about half of it is right, but the other half is entirely incorrect. That's still the case because they had a lot of utterly false information. People that they said were relatives that weren't. People we'd never heard of before, they identified as direct relatives of hers. The insurance company purchased all of this information from a Data Broker, in collections, this is called a skip trace. It's called a skip trace for people who jumped bail, etc. Man, we should talk about this whole bail thing, and the idiocy and New York state that is spreading countrywide dog, the bounty hunter and his wife Beth had been fighting this for a long time because it's making us much, much less safe. But anyhow, that's not a topic for today's show. It's not a political topic, because it's undeniable what's already happening with the increase in the crime rate, New York anyways. What the government is doing now and this is part of what I was warning about a decade ago, is the federal government, the FBI, the NSA, the CIA, of the IRS, you name it. They are limited in how they can collect information, we kind of already knew that, right? They knew that they had to get a search warrant for certain things, right? They can follow you around if you do not expect privacy, etc., etc. So obviously, federal government agencies can use open-source information to see what you're doing online. But how about the closed source stuff? How about this information that the data brokers are collecting? Some of it comes from the people who lent you money. Some of it they're getting from places where you have to pay to get that information. What's happened here now is that the ACLU has filed a suit, according to The Wall Street Journal, against Homeland Security and Homeland Security through its Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. As well as Customs and Border Protection, is buying Gilo geolocation data from these data brokers. It's using it to investigate suspects who have allegedly committed immigration violations. So let me boil all that down into plain English. You might be using games on your smartphone, and you might be using all kinds of apps on your smartphone. If you have a smartphone, you probably are, frankly, not using 90-95% of those apps that you have downloaded. But many of those apps are tracking you. And that information is being sold to data brokers. So think about that for a minute. Remember that free app and how you've heard me and many others for so many years. Say, hey, you're not the customer. You are the product. But what's happening here now is that the ACLU is saying to the federal government, hey, you cannot, you cannot buy this information that you are not allowed to collect yourself. You cannot buy it from data brokers or these app developers who are selling it. Interesting question, interesting problem, isn't it? What should they do? What should you do? What can you do? It is going to play out in court. I suspect it's going to come down on the side of the Department of Homeland Security because this information is generally available to anyone willing to pay for it. So now the government stepped forward, saying we are will pay for it. By the way, it's down to local law enforcement as well, who, in many cases, are also buying information from the data brokers. Have you ever set up a company Amazon account? Have you ever set up an account for a company account for Uber? Maybe it's not a company account. Perhaps it's your account that you're using for Uber or something else? How about using something like Constant Contact to send out emails to your customers? How about salesforce.com, where we've seen a shift over the years from what used to be kind of the glass castle, where you had a central computer room in that computer room was a mainframe. And those mainframes were astounding. They still are. And that mainframe in that glass room was controlled by professional Information Technology people, people that knew what they were doing at least at the time, right? Then we started seeing some changes. You remember the apple two and VisiCalc Visicalc was kind of the killer application. And if you wanted to do numbers, then you bought an apple, you purchased a little apple two. And you then pulled data and people were asking that glass house, they were asking it, Hey, can you give us data because we want to put together some spreadsheet. People put together spreadsheets without really understanding the implications of the numbers they were using without understanding how to audit a spreadsheet to make sure that the figures included were correct. They didn't understand the double journaling. They didn't understand the cross-referencing of the information. They started a bit of a movement away from that glass house from that glass castle from it. They said hey, we could figure this out, why are we going to pay it all of this fake budget money to do something for us and we can do it for ourselves and do it cheaper. Frankly, that's a problem I still face with many organizations, if you can believe it, who think they can do security themselves, which is impossible for almost any organization. In this day and age, any small-medium business must have full-time external professionals who are helping your internal IT people. The internal IT should be doing what they do best, which is helping your business use information technology, to its best use, assisting people to be more efficient, finding new ways of doing things, etc. Instead of that, what most businesses do is they have these various silos, like sales and marketing and accounting. And each one of those silos, those lines company does things their way. So the sales guys, they're out, and they said, Hey, we're going to use Salesforce. And we're going to tie that into Constant Contact. And then you have your accounting people saying, well, we're going to use QuickBooks Online. Or maybe they're going to use one of Oracle's accounting systems. And then the manufacturing people say, Well, we are going to use this particular era p program, which is going to be great for manufacturing. And we've decided that we're going to use Survey Monkey to collect information from our customers from our vendors. You see where I'm going, each one of these lines of business is going out there and making what are in actuality, information technology decisions. They're making decisions about what type of technology to use, which is one level, but then the next Next Level is they're using it. And they're putting the business's information at risk. It is a huge, huge problem. It's something that I'm going to be addressing with some of this training that I have coming up with a couple of these tutorials correctly tackle these problems. And so if you're on my email list at Craig...
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AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: First in the Nation New Hampshire Primary Day and Election Hacking
02/11/2020
AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: First in the Nation New Hampshire Primary Day and Election Hacking
Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning and as you know today is Primary Day in New Hampshire it is the Big Day for our State Sport - Politics. That means it is the day to address voter manipulation, voter fraud, low tech solutions and why apps are not the answer. So, here we go with Mr. Polito. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig You know, they don't release their source code, they hold everything close to the chest. They say, Well, you know, it's obscure people don't know what we're doing or how we're doing it; therefore, it's safe. That is never the case, and things are starting to turn around. So there are so many mistakes we could put a whole quarter together and how that poor people about it. Here's how not to do a deployment of software. Craig Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, of course, on with Mr. Jim Polito. How could we be here on New Hampshire voting day without talking about politics and whether or not voting machines are hackable? So let's get into it. Jim Polito There are multiple levels to this one in New Hampshire. But this is important because We're going to Iowa. And we're going to the polls, the technical and have an election joining us now, our tech talk guru and good friend, Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir. Craig Good morning. It sounds like you're going to hit for that Bernie screen there. Yeah. Jim Yeah, yeah. You were not going to do one of those. Hey, can we talk about election technology? I mean, what the heck happened in Iowa? I mean, really? Yeah, I know. We talked about it before, but what the heck happened? Craig Yeah, this is an excellent example of everything you should not do when it comes to launching an app when it comes to rolling out new software, whatever it is. The Iowa Democratic Party man, everybody in there. Should be Jeff can there's no question about it. You know, I work with the FBI, and I'm part of the FBI infragard program. And the FBI is excellent about trying to make sure that everybody's safe. Did you know that Homeland Security, the FBI reached out to the Iowa Democratic Party saying, "Hey, guys, we know you have an app, we know that you're looking to use this for all of the results and we are here to help." What you had in Iowa was a bunch of people that have never rolled out an app before. They built it quickly. Jim, I am talking about hastily built, it wasn't load tested. We already talked about the fact that it was made entirely by insiders of Democratic Party higher-ups inside. It's everything you wouldn't want. You know, if I were them, I would have had a completely dry run on this thing, which they kind of did. They had little test logins for people. And the way they did their dry run was minimal. And this is a dry run, use different account different ways of logging in a different place to log in than the real one. It was just a total disaster. Jim I'll tell you, you know, this is the second time that the Democrats have had a problem with something it refused the help of the FBI. Remember, you know, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the hacking of the DNC and John Podesta's emails being leaked, okay. They didn't want any help with that, either. Then we have this happening. Now the first one, I think, might have been Russian hackers (phishers). This one, they hacked it up all by themselves and still didn't ask for help from the FBI. And here's the question, Could someone, a bad player from another country, have hacked into that app screwed the whole thing up? I mean, we don't have any evidence yet that it did happen. But the question is, could it have happened? Craig Well, and the answer to that is obviously, yes. One of the big things that we've been doing for years here in the application development business remember, I built some of the most prominent internet properties that ever existed. Jim You helped to invent the internet. That's not a joke, people. He wrote code that is still in use. Craig Yeah, exactly. And some of the big ones like the Big Yellow Super Pages, you've probably heard about that. Yeah. You know that these important things and one of the things that we do to help make sure The safe software systems are secure are we use something called open-source software. And open-source software is software where everyone can look at the code. So, for instance, the best application out there, if you want an end to end security is called signal app. It's free. The source code for this thing is available freely on the internet for anyone to inspect. And that's the opposite of what again, the Democratic Party did in Iowa, which is the used what would be called closed source, something in the industry we call security through obscurity. Jim And look at how well that's worked for Microsoft. Right. Craig You know, they, they don't release their source code but hold everything close. They say, Well, you know, it's obscure. People don't know what we're doing or how we're doing it. Therefore it says that is Never the case, and things are starting to turn around. So there are so many mistakes that we could put a whole course together at Harvard, for people about here's how not to do deploy software. Jim We're talking with our good friend Tech Talk Guru Craig Peterson. At the end of the segment, we're going to tell you how you can get your hands on some of his stuff. Craig will not bother you, so don't worry. So, Craig, that could have happened. They didn't use open source stuff. What about the rest of our election? I mean, they're, they're going to the polls in New Hampshire right now. I mean, can our election be hacked? Craig Yeah, that's a great question. And I think everybody's minds right now. I'm going to be on a TV station up in Burlington, Vermont. Speaking of obscure Jim Very good. Very good. Craig I wonder if the Soviet flag is still on the wall? I doubt it. Jim I wouldn't doubt it. Oh. Craig That's what we're going delve into because I think it's a question everybody's mind. There are multiple levels of hacks or numerous targets for hacks when it comes to our systems in the election. Now, I have to say, New Hampshire is what many people would call a Luddite. New Hampshire says, Hey, listen, we're going to go low tech. And you know what, that's my answer. They have resisted all these fancy computer systems, all of these new-fangled machines. In New Hampshire, when you vote, you use a pencil or a felt tip pen on a piece of paper. Yeah. And that's the only thing that they could hack. Then those ballots are kept so they a manual count can be done if needed. Back in 2000, New Hampshire had the option of using the the the hanging chads technique that used in Florida and New Hampshire avoided that. And now so here are the different levels you could hack the voting machines themselves and New Hampshire, again, is doing a great job. The not connected networked, let alone the internet. So that's step one. The FBI has been warning about is how Secretary of State's offices, websites, because what's been happening is a that is just crazy here. But those websites are being compromised by places like Ukraine, Russia. And others over the years and obviously, China. How are those used? For the ultimate reporting in some states, the local county chairs performing the counts, upload them directly to the website. The data goes on there. That is another place for hacks to occur. And then here's yet another opportunity for hacking, and that is those websites show faults resolved because nationally, their parties are going to the website to the sector state offices and pulling the final results. Then they can also be hacked up on the federal level because, again, they're also using computers. There are so many ways for hacking to happen, but I can feel comfortable in saying that the FBI is keeping a very close eye on this, Homeland Security is keeping a very close eye on this. And, you know, I think we can be moderately comfortable. Those types of hacks aren't happening. But then there's the non-hack hack, which is they buy advertising and try and get people to change their minds. Now, that happened last time around, but the Russians managed to buy ads to try and get your change your vote after the election occurred. Right. So it's right left and center in this day and age, Jim. Jim It is just crazy that the people, the democrats, in this case, won't take the help of the FBI. In protecting these things. I agree with you low tech is the best. Low tech is the best. Sure. You could have some person working in a clerk's office stuff the ballot box, okay, but you couldn't have a political hack that would overturn a question. The Presidential election it would be more difficult to coordinate that many people to do it. Craig Yes. And it's way more difficult today than it was just two years ago or four years ago because they're starting to figure it out. And many states are ditching those completely electronic voting machines. By the way, here, here's something we got to get changed. We have a federal law that requires every state to have electronic voting machines that can be used by the, you know, hearing impaired, sight impaired, etc. I agree we have to provide something that allows these people to vote, but again why not a low tech solution. We should assign a poll worker to help them fill out the ballot, as opposed to having a machine that essentially has a touchpad, which is hackable. Just last year, we had our black hat conference in Vegas. There they had a bunch of voting machines sitting there for hackers to try their skills. Within minutes, they were able to hack into every one of them, and even a high schooler was able to hack them. Jim Well, that's what you get, you know? I mean, there's, there are people like you who get it, you know, when they're very talented, but then we've got these kids who are growing up in a world where they can figure this out. Craig Yes, yeah. And, and it's a feather in their cap to their career. You know, we just had a bill passed in the Senate. That was, I think it's started in the Senate and then sent to the house. It called for white hat hackers. Good guys to try and hack federal government systems. Well, where do you get your chomps to be a white hat hacker? A lot of these kids will look at it and say all I was just a kid. Yeah, I was hacking businesses and government websites and, and I was able to do all of this. Now all of a sudden they get a job in the federal government that's well paid because they were bad guys when they were, you know, young. I get it. Jim All right. So, where can folks get more information from you? I take it that they text my name, Jim, to this number. Craig Absolutely. Couple of ways to do it. You can just go to Craig Peterson calm, or you can text Jim to 855-385-5553. That's just text, Jim to 855-385-5553, standard data and text rates apply. Jim Craig will not try to hack you. And Craig, we love having you every Tuesday at this time. Craig Hey, thanks, Jim. Jim All right. Have a good one, buddy. When we return a fight Word. You're listening, Craig Thanks for being with us. I have been so busy along with my team. You know, I've been saying this for about a month and, and it's right. We have some fantastic free training coming up. We have a course also coming up. It is going to be a killer month. Yes, indeed. That's kind of a hint, a killer month. All right, anyway, take care, everybody. We will be back. Just don't expect as much output from me this week with lives and everything else. Take care. Bye-bye. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553
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AS HEARD ON: WGAN Mornings with Ken and Matt: Hacks, Deep Fakes, CEO, Business Email Compromise, IOWA caucuses and more
02/06/2020
AS HEARD ON: WGAN Mornings with Ken and Matt: Hacks, Deep Fakes, CEO, Business Email Compromise, IOWA caucuses and more
Good morning everybody! I was on with Ken and Matt. We had a good discussion about The Iowa Caucus app fiasco, Business Email Compromise, and Deep Fakes what it is, who is at risk and what we can do about it. I went into detail about Passwords and Password Managers and even two-factor authentication and why you need to use them. So here we go with Ken and Matt. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig The problem we see this daily when I get notices from the FBI. It all boils down to personal hygiene, just keeping your data reasonably safe on your part. Craig Hi, everybody, Craig Peterson here. It is Wednesday morning, and that means I was, of course, on with Ken and Matt. We had quite a little discussion because I had provided them with eight different articles. All of them were about major security problems this week. That's why we got into precisely what you can do to get yourself to the 95 percentile when it comes to keeping your account safe online. So here we go with Ken and Matt. Ken It's time to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us now. As always, at this time, to talk about what's happening in the world of technology. Craig, How are you this morning? Craig Hi gentlemen, good morning. How about those Iowa caucuses? Did they try out the app beforehand? Ken Of course, that is an app that I think Hillary controlled. Craig Yes, the rumors are flying because in fact and ex-staffers of Hillary Clinton, Matt yes, yes. Craig So um, you have, I mean, story after story after story about this thing about Pegasus, and then you have this travel act coming online in the gap. Microsoft Excel security alert. Matt, Should we just stop using computers completely? Craig Oh, man. Well, good. You know it. I have thought about this a lot. What do we do? I think we've got an enormous problem. Here because it's almost like overload, right? Where every week there's new, there are new hits on us. Got Evil Corp. I don't know, did you watch it? Where's it called with Malik Mr. Robot? With one Malik, right or Yeah, that's the guy's name, an actor. Ken Anyways, or do you know? Matt What is it? Rami Malik's Craig Rami. Oh, Robbie, man, I thought the first name was Malik. Oh, yeah. Rami Oh, yes, yes. Joe, he's in this. He's a hacker right. He's all in his head. Weird things are happening, but he's battling Evil Corp., And there's an evil corporation in the news. And it's using Microsoft Excel to deliver this payload this nasty thing. So what are people supposed to do can and it's, are we getting burned out? Just like Nancy Pelosi rips up the speech and you just roll your eyes because it's yet another partisan thing. It is, however, another week with more hacks. But what I think it boils down to isn't just not using computers first of all use them safely. You know the stuff I would say your mother told you, but of course, she did. Because this is this has been many years in the coming. But the stuff you know, to use different passwords on different websites. Use a password manager like one password or LastPass the necessary things, and it's like you don't want to get coronavirus while swash your hands and don't cut your face and conference knees into your elbow. Basic stuff, and you know what the problem can we see real, and I see this every day I'm getting notices from the FBI, but it all boils down to personal Hi Jean, just keeping your data reasonably safe on your part. You know, use a few different email addresses. Don't always use the same learn, have a Google address, but have a couple of others as well. Don't use your business computer for personal things. Don't think of VPN is going to save you because of VPN does minimal things and can make your business network even less safe. Yes, I said it less reliable using the VPN. And what we see this week too, is a vast right. You know, my opinion about antivirus software? Yeah, it is zero percent effective against modern attacks zero percent. And a vast came out this week. And it turns out, and they were selling arrows. Everything you were doing online everything to the highest bidder millions of dollars, so you searched on Google thoroughly, Avast sold it to whoever wanted to pay for it. You went to a porn site Avast told them, anybody, who pays for it all about it. You did anything on your web browser, anything on your computer because remember your antivirus software has access to everything on your computer, have vastly sold that information. So I've said forever. And Matt, I heard you chime in there. But how many times have you even said we are the product when it comes to sites like Facebook? Correct? Ken Yes. Anytime is the answer to your question. Craig Yeah, exactly. And what we're talking about here is free VPN. And free. Free websites aren't free Avast. Where's anti-malware software is not free. So This is stuff I, you know, can I think we've mentioned a million times, and I keep, I hate to flog a dead horse, right. Matt We like horses. Craig But we just have to be more careful. And I bring these things up every week to try and just try and drive the point home. We got to be more cautious because now we're seeing warnings coming out again from the FBI about these deep fakes, which we've talked about before. And I don't remember I know I had this in my stack of stuff last year, last quarter last year. Still, there was a company that had been bought by a German company. The CFO got a call from his boss over in the German company, telling him to wire funds over to the German company, right? He provided him all the information. He'd met this guy in Germany before he talked to him on the phone. He got the instructions, and he did it. It is a form of deep fakes that get used in these business scams. Where it sounds like the CEO. It is not just an email that comes from the CEO's hacked mailbox. It sounds like the CEO in the video, and now we see where it looks like it too. They can't do that live yet, but it's coming. So everybody listening takes a few of just a few minutes a day and start going in changing your account password just the simplest thing you can do it are either you guys using password managers right now. Matt Frankly, No, I'm not. Ken I don't know I like to discount all the advice given to me by Craig Peterson. I have not really no. Okay, right now, go online, sorry, something comes up on my computer say do you want me to save this password? I suppose that's not a password manager, right? You're right, man, because it's your browser giving your password to Google. I trust them. Craig Go to one password dot com right now. The digit one password.com. Check it out. I want you to do this. What does it do? What it does is it ties into your browser, so it can fill out the form for you when that browser is asking you to log in. It provides the latest newest technology that's coming out that's replacing passwords slowly but surely. And it will generate passwords for you to share passwords, multi-word passwords, so one password calm now what I love about it is it works for me. It works for my family, and it works for my business, so it has multiple vaults that you can share. Because here's your next problem. What do I do? In the past, my problem was remembering the password, and once I remember it, then it changes. Craig Yes, you remember one password, and that's the one password. Now you can I have before you go any further corrections? Ken Can I ask one question, though, using a service like that the one password, if you will, what is protecting those institutions from hacking and all of your passwords getting stolen? I mean, how does that not occur at some point when some enterprise with hacker decides that they'd like to have your access to everything you own? Craig Well, one password does not keep any of your passwords unencrypted. And it uses a high level like Pentagon plus level security for all your passwords, so they never leave your computer in what's called cleartext. So there is no way for one password to get Adam last passes the other one to look at Last pass, they have a cheaper version. That's quite good as well. But hopefully, that answers your question. They never get your passwords. They're only on your local computer. You can share them between all of your computers using like iCloud or Dropbox or many other things. But they are always heavily encrypted, which is phenomenal. It is one of the simplest and best things you can do. Because having a complex password that's different on every site number by complex, I don't mean upper-lower digits, special characters, or anything I mean like a 20-30 character long password which LastPass will generate for you so well one password. Having a password like that makes it almost impossible for the bad guys to break into your town. They're not even going to bother while they might be Try, right, but it'll take some more than 100 years to crack your passwords. And they're only stored in your machine, and encrypted, it is easy to use. And with your MacBook Pro that you have can, you can use one password. And when you go to a website, you can say, Okay, give me give him to give that site my login to one password. And with your MacBook Pro, it'll do the fingerprint if you wanted to, instead of you having to type in your one password. There are some helpful integrations, and it's going to work on your smartphones. It's available for Android and Windows as well as Macs and iOS. But guys, you know, this is something you have to do. So I'm going to next week. I'm going to ask you whether or not you had it, and you got it done. Matt So what's the name of this thing again? Craig The one I like best is one password is just the digit one password pa ss w or d dot com Ken Come on, you don't use that one point, to be honest with you. Craig The other one, I like his last pass, you'll find it lastpass.com. But I prefer one password personally. So get it done to change one or two passwords. The way I started doing this years ago when I started using password managers as to when I went to a site to type in my password, I type it in, and I'd immediately go into one password and create a new password for that site. And then, once you've done that, start using two-factor authentication. And one password has that built-in as well. Where it generates a code. Have you seen these little things before where every 30 seconds the code changes, you know? So it'll let you do that, if you o do those two things, you're almost wholly guaranteed never get hacked. It's that simple. Two-factor authentication, one password with a different password for Every site and I only have to remember one password. Ken Yes, exactly. Okay, peace. Matt So Well, I think I'd add that one, check. Ken Anyway, that is your update, ladies gentlemen from Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us every Wednesday at this time to go over what's happening in the world of technology. We appreciate it. As always, Craig and we will talk to you again next week. Craig Gentlemen, take care. Bye-bye. Matt Excellent. All right. Well, why don't we go back into the newsroom? Transcribed by --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553
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AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: The problems with the Iowa Caucuses
02/05/2020
AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: The problems with the Iowa Caucuses
Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning and we discussed the debacle that was the Iowa Caucuses and what it means to you as the election season moves forward. In short, test, test, test. So, here we go with Mr. Polito. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Tied into Hillary's campaign staffers that were paid 10s of thousands of dollars by the Iowa Democratic Party. $60,000 was paid to them by the Nevada Democratic Party, who was caucusing in a couple of weeks as well. Craig Morning everybody, Craig Peterson here on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning heard throughout New England, every state New England can listen to and does listen to his show. Amazing guy. I love this guy. We spent time discussing the Iowa caucuses and the software they were using as well as the people behind that software. I will give you some advice about what can you do? It turns out that there are some significant allegations about some Anti-Virus software that was spying on you. So here we go. Jim Well, here we have Craig Peterson on the roster. It's just incredible because we've got a complete meltdown of the Democrat Party in Iowa. Now I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe it's, well, like Hillary behind the scenes trying to destroy Bernie Sander's chances again, like she did last time. I just think it's general and competence. Let's get in the most competent person when it comes to the internet. This on safer internet day in the US. It's just baffling to me. And so today, the rumors are flying. You know, they're taking pictures of the forms, and they had filled out these caucus chairs of them. They're scorers, and they're texting them, and they had phone line shut up in case there was a problem and the phone line, they had three different numbers people could call, they can't get through the phone lines aren't working, right. It's just a total disaster just like Obamacare was it would But doesn't that invite you to know, now I'm going to ask you to step out of your tech talk Guru shoes and stepping into the ones of you know, being a commentator. Doesn't that invite people saying, Is this a conspiracy? I mean, like we were joking about Hillary and there are connections to Hillary, basically anything in democratic politics is somehow connected to her. But isn't this just inviting the crazy claims of you know, Bernie's people who I've already seen on social media, you know, saying this is another attempt to get Bernie knocked out? Craig Yeah, well, I have. I've had a slogan for four decades now. And that is to "Never attribute to malice that which can easily be attributed to incompetence." So if you see incompetence, just say, okay, you know, this is incompetence. Negligent incompetence, but you know incompetence. Jim Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm not saying that this point anything that says this is a Hillary thing or even that indicates it is. Craig Still, the rumors are flying because, again, we have this company tied into Hillary's campaign staffers that were paid 10s of thousands of dollars by the Iowa Democratic Party. By the way, the Nevada Democratic Party also paid $60,000 was paid to them, and they are caucusing in a couple of weeks as well. So it's just total incompetence, frankly, Jim We're talking with Tech Talk guru, Craig Peters, on gave us a great explanation. To the mess in Iowa. Now Craig, Let's move on to sup today's safer internet day in the US, and I know that's something you support because your feelings are, hey, passwords, security, things like that. You should always, always be mindful of it not just today, every day, but I want to ask you about something else. The secretive market, the little secret market that is selling my web browsing history. Somebody's making an awful lot of money off of what I searched for our day. Craig Yeah, this is I think kind of interesting because it goes back to you know, you know, I'm always talking about, you know, how to set your passwords what to do, etc. This ties into something else that I've been saying forever. And that is nothing free on the internet. Yes. Nothing right, and so what's come out right now? Is this anti-virus giant called Avast who makes anti-virus software now I'm inserting something here I am pausing discussion business second? And the virus software is zero percent effective against two days attacks on the internet. Wow, zero percent. Okay. So well, let's just say that okay, but antibonding this giant Avast has had a product. They've since canceled it since news Lee doubt was, again, one of these free anti-virus pieces of software out there. And they've got four has 435 million active users and JumpShot, which is this product she has it has data from 100 million places. Allegedly there is what's been going on, reported by motherboard and PC mag. But your Google searches, look upon locations, GPS coordinates, Google Maps, LinkedIn pages, different companies, where did you go? Which specific YouTube videos? Have you watched people visiting porn websites, all of that was tracked by them? That data was uploaded from your computer and sold to advertisers and anybody willing to pay ultimately, collectively, millions of dollars. And it was called an all click feed to track everything users were doing from this free software. Jim Wow. So they then take that information, probably explains why, you know, I get all of these ads for things I've either looked at or had somewhat of an interest in in the past week. I mean, you know, it's crazy. The kind of stuff that comes my way in terms of ads. It's like they know me ultimately. Craig Yeah, it's shocking. And I can tell you how many times I think one of the most common questions is how many times I've had people ask Craig, and he's my phone listening to me. Yeah, and believe me, Facebook, etc., etc. But we're using some computer technology. Now the Colin and artificial intelligence, that term has morphed, I would not call it that. I'd call it machine learning, but they're calling it AI. And now we know they have been harvesting all of this. Those people that have the free or even the cheap VPN services that have a free or cheap anti-virus service. All of that data is getting collected, being put together be mixed in a pot with this machine learning software that says Well, people that watch this video, go to the websites that are looking for a job, etc., etc. are likely to be looking for this pair of shoes. And now you get an act an ad for a couple of shoes, and you wonder why you got it because you weren't looking for shoes. But you know what, those are pretty cool shoes. Yeah, that is it. Jim Craig, quickly, we have just about a minute left. What can people do to protect themselves from this? Craig Man, I am worried that people have just kind of given up because we hear every day about this sort of thing happening. But the bottom line is Be very careful when you're online free is not free. You're the product. Use a web browser like Firefox that's quite well secure. Chrome and never use Chrome again, unless you are forced to -- do not use Microsoft Edge browser. Stick with Firefox and Safari. Right now. Those are the two big ones Safari is an apple Yeah, and those are the two big ones that we know are not tracking you. Jim We are talking to Craig Peterson. You hear that information, folks, what a great day to have him here. But you can have him with you all the time. If you text My name, Jim, to this number 855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553 standard data, and text rates apply. That will get you information from Craig Peterson and Craig Peterson. Will not bother you will not hack; you will not try to sell you anything. Craig, fantastic segment. I look forward to talking with you next week. Craig Take care, Jim, Jim Take care. All right, a crucial final word. When we return. You're listening to the Jim Pulido show your safe space. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553
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AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: The problems with the Iowa Caucuses
02/05/2020
AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: The problems with the Iowa Caucuses
Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning and we discussed the debacle that was the Iowa Caucuses and what it means to you as the election season moves forward. In short, test, test, test. So, here we go with Mr. Polito. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Tied into Hillary's campaign staffers that were paid 10s of thousands of dollars by the Iowa Democratic Party. $60,000 was paid to them by the Nevada Democratic Party, who was caucusing in a couple of weeks as well. Craig Morning everybody, Craig Peterson here on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning heard throughout New England, every state New England can listen to and does listen to his show. Amazing guy. I love this guy. We spent time discussing the Iowa caucuses and the software they were using as well as the people behind that software. I will give you some advice about what can you do? It turns out that there are some significant allegations about some Anti-Virus software that was spying on you. So here we go. Jim Well, here we have Craig Peterson on the roster. It's just incredible because we've got a complete meltdown of the Democrat Party in Iowa. Now I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe it's, well, like Hillary behind the scenes trying to destroy Bernie Sander's chances again, like she did last time. I just think it's general and competence. Let's get in the most competent person when it comes to the internet. This on safer internet day in the US. It's just baffling to me. And so today, the rumors are flying. You know, they're taking pictures of the forms, and they had filled out these caucus chairs of them. They're scorers, and they're texting them, and they had phone line shut up in case there was a problem and the phone line, they had three different numbers people could call, they can't get through the phone lines aren't working, right. It's just a total disaster just like Obamacare was it would But doesn't that invite you to know, now I'm going to ask you to step out of your tech talk Guru shoes and stepping into the ones of you know, being a commentator. Doesn't that invite people saying, Is this a conspiracy? I mean, like we were joking about Hillary and there are connections to Hillary, basically anything in democratic politics is somehow connected to her. But isn't this just inviting the crazy claims of you know, Bernie's people who I've already seen on social media, you know, saying this is another attempt to get Bernie knocked out? Craig Yeah, well, I have. I've had a slogan for four decades now. And that is to "Never attribute to malice that which can easily be attributed to incompetence." So if you see incompetence, just say, okay, you know, this is incompetence. Negligent incompetence, but you know incompetence. Jim Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm not saying that this point anything that says this is a Hillary thing or even that indicates it is. Craig Still, the rumors are flying because, again, we have this company tied into Hillary's campaign staffers that were paid 10s of thousands of dollars by the Iowa Democratic Party. By the way, the Nevada Democratic Party also paid $60,000 was paid to them, and they are caucusing in a couple of weeks as well. So it's just total incompetence, frankly, Jim We're talking with Tech Talk guru, Craig Peters, on gave us a great explanation. To the mess in Iowa. Now Craig, Let's move on to sup today's safer internet day in the US, and I know that's something you support because your feelings are, hey, passwords, security, things like that. You should always, always be mindful of it not just today, every day, but I want to ask you about something else. The secretive market, the little secret market that is selling my web browsing history. Somebody's making an awful lot of money off of what I searched for our day. Craig Yeah, this is I think kind of interesting because it goes back to you know, you know, I'm always talking about, you know, how to set your passwords what to do, etc. This ties into something else that I've been saying forever. And that is nothing free on the internet. Yes. Nothing right, and so what's come out right now? Is this anti-virus giant called Avast who makes anti-virus software now I'm inserting something here I am pausing discussion business second? And the virus software is zero percent effective against two days attacks on the internet. Wow, zero percent. Okay. So well, let's just say that okay, but antibonding this giant Avast has had a product. They've since canceled it since news Lee doubt was, again, one of these free anti-virus pieces of software out there. And they've got four has 435 million active users and JumpShot, which is this product she has it has data from 100 million places. Allegedly there is what's been going on, reported by motherboard and PC mag. But your Google searches, look upon locations, GPS coordinates, Google Maps, LinkedIn pages, different companies, where did you go? Which specific YouTube videos? Have you watched people visiting porn websites, all of that was tracked by them? That data was uploaded from your computer and sold to advertisers and anybody willing to pay ultimately, collectively, millions of dollars. And it was called an all click feed to track everything users were doing from this free software. Jim Wow. So they then take that information, probably explains why, you know, I get all of these ads for things I've either looked at or had somewhat of an interest in in the past week. I mean, you know, it's crazy. The kind of stuff that comes my way in terms of ads. It's like they know me ultimately. Craig Yeah, it's shocking. And I can tell you how many times I think one of the most common questions is how many times I've had people ask Craig, and he's my phone listening to me. Yeah, and believe me, Facebook, etc., etc. But we're using some computer technology. Now the Colin and artificial intelligence, that term has morphed, I would not call it that. I'd call it machine learning, but they're calling it AI. And now we know they have been harvesting all of this. Those people that have the free or even the cheap VPN services that have a free or cheap anti-virus service. All of that data is getting collected, being put together be mixed in a pot with this machine learning software that says Well, people that watch this video, go to the websites that are looking for a job, etc., etc. are likely to be looking for this pair of shoes. And now you get an act an ad for a couple of shoes, and you wonder why you got it because you weren't looking for shoes. But you know what, those are pretty cool shoes. Yeah, that is it. Jim Craig, quickly, we have just about a minute left. What can people do to protect themselves from this? Craig Man, I am worried that people have just kind of given up because we hear every day about this sort of thing happening. But the bottom line is Be very careful when you're online free is not free. You're the product. Use a web browser like Firefox that's quite well secure. Chrome and never use Chrome again, unless you are forced to -- do not use Microsoft Edge browser. Stick with Firefox and Safari. Right now. Those are the two big ones Safari is an apple Yeah, and those are the two big ones that we know are not tracking you. Jim We are talking to Craig Peterson. You hear that information, folks, what a great day to have him here. But you can have him with you all the time. If you text My name, Jim, to this number 855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553 standard data, and text rates apply. That will get you information from Craig Peterson and Craig Peterson. 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AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: The problems with the Iowa Caucuses
02/05/2020
AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: The problems with the Iowa Caucuses
Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning and we discussed the debacle that was the Iowa Caucuses and what it means to you as the election season moves forward. In short, test, test, test. So, here we go with Mr. Polito. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Tied into Hillary's campaign staffers that were paid 10s of thousands of dollars by the Iowa Democratic Party. $60,000 was paid to them by the Nevada Democratic Party, who was caucusing in a couple of weeks as well. Craig Morning everybody, Craig Peterson here on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning heard throughout New England, every state New England can listen to and does listen to his show. Amazing guy. I love this guy. We spent time discussing the Iowa caucuses and the software they were using as well as the people behind that software. I will give you some advice about what can you do? It turns out that there are some significant allegations about some Anti-Virus software that was spying on you. So here we go. Jim Well, here we have Craig Peterson on the roster. It's just incredible because we've got a complete meltdown of the Democrat Party in Iowa. Now I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe it's, well, like Hillary behind the scenes trying to destroy Bernie Sander's chances again, like she did last time. I just think it's general and competence. Let's get in the most competent person when it comes to the internet. This on safer internet day in the US. It's just baffling to me. And so today, the rumors are flying. You know, they're taking pictures of the forms, and they had filled out these caucus chairs of them. They're scorers, and they're texting them, and they had phone line shut up in case there was a problem and the phone line, they had three different numbers people could call, they can't get through the phone lines aren't working, right. It's just a total disaster just like Obamacare was it would But doesn't that invite you to know, now I'm going to ask you to step out of your tech talk Guru shoes and stepping into the ones of you know, being a commentator. Doesn't that invite people saying, Is this a conspiracy? I mean, like we were joking about Hillary and there are connections to Hillary, basically anything in democratic politics is somehow connected to her. But isn't this just inviting the crazy claims of you know, Bernie's people who I've already seen on social media, you know, saying this is another attempt to get Bernie knocked out? Craig Yeah, well, I have. I've had a slogan for four decades now. And that is to "Never attribute to malice that which can easily be attributed to incompetence." So if you see incompetence, just say, okay, you know, this is incompetence. Negligent incompetence, but you know incompetence. Jim Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm not saying that this point anything that says this is a Hillary thing or even that indicates it is. Craig Still, the rumors are flying because, again, we have this company tied into Hillary's campaign staffers that were paid 10s of thousands of dollars by the Iowa Democratic Party. By the way, the Nevada Democratic Party also paid $60,000 was paid to them, and they are caucusing in a couple of weeks as well. So it's just total incompetence, frankly, Jim We're talking with Tech Talk guru, Craig Peters, on gave us a great explanation. To the mess in Iowa. Now Craig, Let's move on to sup today's safer internet day in the US, and I know that's something you support because your feelings are, hey, passwords, security, things like that. You should always, always be mindful of it not just today, every day, but I want to ask you about something else. The secretive market, the little secret market that is selling my web browsing history. Somebody's making an awful lot of money off of what I searched for our day. Craig Yeah, this is I think kind of interesting because it goes back to you know, you know, I'm always talking about, you know, how to set your passwords what to do, etc. This ties into something else that I've been saying forever. And that is nothing free on the internet. Yes. Nothing right, and so what's come out right now? Is this anti-virus giant called Avast who makes anti-virus software now I'm inserting something here I am pausing discussion business second? And the virus software is zero percent effective against two days attacks on the internet. Wow, zero percent. Okay. So well, let's just say that okay, but antibonding this giant Avast has had a product. They've since canceled it since news Lee doubt was, again, one of these free anti-virus pieces of software out there. And they've got four has 435 million active users and JumpShot, which is this product she has it has data from 100 million places. Allegedly there is what's been going on, reported by motherboard and PC mag. But your Google searches, look upon locations, GPS coordinates, Google Maps, LinkedIn pages, different companies, where did you go? Which specific YouTube videos? Have you watched people visiting porn websites, all of that was tracked by them? That data was uploaded from your computer and sold to advertisers and anybody willing to pay ultimately, collectively, millions of dollars. And it was called an all click feed to track everything users were doing from this free software. Jim Wow. So they then take that information, probably explains why, you know, I get all of these ads for things I've either looked at or had somewhat of an interest in in the past week. I mean, you know, it's crazy. The kind of stuff that comes my way in terms of ads. It's like they know me ultimately. Craig Yeah, it's shocking. And I can tell you how many times I think one of the most common questions is how many times I've had people ask Craig, and he's my phone listening to me. Yeah, and believe me, Facebook, etc., etc. But we're using some computer technology. Now the Colin and artificial intelligence, that term has morphed, I would not call it that. I'd call it machine learning, but they're calling it AI. And now we know they have been harvesting all of this. Those people that have the free or even the cheap VPN services that have a free or cheap anti-virus service. All of that data is getting collected, being put together be mixed in a pot with this machine learning software that says Well, people that watch this video, go to the websites that are looking for a job, etc., etc. are likely to be looking for this pair of shoes. And now you get an act an ad for a couple of shoes, and you wonder why you got it because you weren't looking for shoes. But you know what, those are pretty cool shoes. Yeah, that is it. Jim Craig, quickly, we have just about a minute left. What can people do to protect themselves from this? Craig Man, I am worried that people have just kind of given up because we hear every day about this sort of thing happening. But the bottom line is Be very careful when you're online free is not free. You're the product. Use a web browser like Firefox that's quite well secure. Chrome and never use Chrome again, unless you are forced to -- do not use Microsoft Edge browser. Stick with Firefox and Safari. Right now. Those are the two big ones Safari is an apple Yeah, and those are the two big ones that we know are not tracking you. Jim We are talking to Craig Peterson. You hear that information, folks, what a great day to have him here. But you can have him with you all the time. If you text My name, Jim, to this number 855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553 standard data, and text rates apply. That will get you information from Craig Peterson and Craig Peterson. 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AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: Chinese Nationals Exfiltrating Our Intellectual Property and Data and More
02/03/2020
AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: Chinese Nationals Exfiltrating Our Intellectual Property and Data and More
Welcome, Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning. We talked about an article that Jack posted on Facebook about a Chinese National working for an American Military Contractor who gave our Military Secrets to China. Here we go with Jack. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Transcript: Craig Taking a laptop, even if you are not a Chinese spy, to China is has a high probability that information on that laptop disappears while you're over there. Craig Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. This morning Jack wrote about an article on Facebook about what's been happening here in New England with Chinese infiltration and spying on military companies and contractors. We got into it this morning. Here we go. Jack Heath On top of the lack of social technology, getting US pictures out of places like you know where the host city you have China, basically muscling technology and stealing it allegedly from us. You look at this 10-year engineer, Chinese born American who was just picked up over the weekend by the FBI for allegedly taking his secure Raytheon laptop to China on a trip last year. It is a federal offense for someone with high-security clearance to take technology capable of accessing things like our weapon system technology out of the country. Then the Harvard story. Last week, which you haven't heard much more about the professor, one or two professors charged with getting $50,000 a month from a bogus Chinese University, from the Chinese government to recruit and steal intellectual capital from Harvard. Those are big stories, and it shows the dichotomy between the people having access and the government using it to get more technology for the government and stealing our intellectual capital. Some interest there, and maybe a comment on that Craig Peterson joins us live in the author listener lines, our Tech Talk guy, Good morning, Craig. Craig Hey, good morning, jack. Yeah, and the last few months we've got this Chinese Harvard affiliated cancer researcher caught in December with 21 vials Cells stolen from a lab at a Boston hospital. We've got a Chinese Professor conducting surveillance Research at the University of Kansas indicted in August on charges for his ties to Chinese University. We've got a Chinese PLA Lieutenant posing as a student here at Boston University. The fact that she was a lieutenant in the Chinese military. She was a spy and a Chinese scholar. Another at the University of California. The list goes on and on. You talked a little bit, and you posted on Facebook about the Raytheon employee taking a laptop to China. The company told him not only was it against company policy to travel with a company computer that might have some proprietary information on it but was against federal law. And we see this a lot. There's a lot of ignorance out there amongst people who do take laptops with them to China. I've been warning about that for the last ten years because taking a portable computer, even if you are not a Chinese spy, to China presents a high probability of exfiltration of that data from that laptop while you're over there. Now the infiltration of soft targets in the last few years, our universities where Chinese students are coming over. As I mentioned earlier, Chinese military Lieutenants are coming over to universities posing as students and being assigned to research projects and stealing stuff. The federal ITAR requirements are ones we are dealing with all the time with some of our clients. We have military sub-subcontractors that are making things as simple as screws, Jack, and their products ultimately get used in some military system. Many of these companies are not being careful with our data, and it gets stolen. They have no clue that they're exposing all of us to these dangers. Jack Craig, I think you may know, I'm not sure, but I had the benefit of some of the knowledge learned when I was the US Army War College. I'll keep that quiet. One of the things I did learn is when you look at the global threats to our security in a lot of different things, and we're seeing differences right now with China. Everything in the last year or two or four years politically speaking has been Russia, Russia, the Russians, Russia, Russia, you know, you know, Vladimir Putin. However, the real threat is China. When you look at Russia, I'm not saying Russia did not try to metal. I'm not saying they won't try and metal, and they will try and battle and mess up in our elections. But China's looks like a real threat. They are from a technology stealing point of view, one of the businesses but penetrating universities. Raytheon is a pretty secure fourth-largest defense giant, the real stuff, real concern. Craig It is a considerable concern, and you know, we were talking about the military and You know, the, obviously the contractors and what China's doing. But you see what jacks are doing this to our regular businesses. I have a client that came to me, became a client who came to me because, as it turns out, something was weird with his email. When we started looking into it, and I had one of my fire jumper certified guys get into it more, we found Chinese backdoors in their systems that were actively exfiltrating data out. His designs, the ones he developed over his whole lifetime, he was getting ready to retire. Now the Chinese had all of his intellectual property, all the research methods used to make the products, his customer lists, his pricing. That means he gets to compete against his very own designs made by Chinese manufacturers and sold worldwide. His business is out of business, and we're not even talking about the military here. Jack All right Craig Peterson on this Monday morning. Appreciate it. Craig All right everybody, hopefully, you've been able to check it out online let me know what you think I've been posting these morning interviews over on YouTube and Facebook, doing them as audiograms. I do have all the camera gear, but it takes so much time, and I haven't had time to do it. Let me know what you think you do like these audiograms. By all means, subscribe to my YouTube channel or follow me over on Facebook and drop me a line - at me at Craig Peterson dot com. Take care of everybody. Be back tomorrow. 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Welcome! BEC, Legacy Software, Facial Recognition and more on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson on WGAN
02/01/2020
Welcome! BEC, Legacy Software, Facial Recognition and more on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson on WGAN
Welcome! What a busy busy week in the world of technology. We are going to hit several topics today. Business Email Compromise attacks are running rampant through business. Failure to update older technology is putting businesses at risk. Facial recognition technology is being used but the issue is privacy and how to protect it. Will hit Ransomware, Employee Training, Regulatory Compliance, Online job postings and what precipitated the most expensive divorce. It is going to be a busy show -- so stay tuned. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com I've got some free online privacy training coming up. I have been teaching courses on security for the FBI InfraGard's program. And now I'll share some of the step-by-step tips and tricks that we all can use to keep ourselves and our information safe online. And it won't cost you a dime. --- Related Articles: --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Hey, hello, everybody, Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining me, whether you are online listening to me on a streaming service, or listening on the radio on my website, kind of everywhere, we are going to be talking about most businesses now what's happening to them? How are they attacking to new statistics out, we'll be talking about how to keep some of your legacy software safe. If you're using Windows seven, or if you're using an older version of the software, because you haven't been keeping it up to date, which is like what all of us right? We're going to talk about what you can do some effectiveness, concerns about privacy, limited facial recognition, adoption, what's going on there. We talked a bit about that last weekend, downtime and costs. If they have gone up here. ransomware attacks are hitting businesses and individuals even harder than at any point in the past. So what's that all about? What are the simple things you can do to help protect yourself against it? We're going to talk about some employee training you need to do if you are a business person, regulatory compliance, what's the perception? What's the reality, we've seen a lot of businesses that are doing what we've been calling pencil whipping some of these forums that are trying to figure out whether or not they have complied with some of the laws, rules, and regulations. We're going to also talk about the Jeff Bezos phone hack today, and about a warning coming out from the FBI about job searches online. So a lot to talk about today. And we are going to start out with half of the organization's worldwide were successfully finished in 2019. But can't even talk right now. This is something that's very concerning. Now. It isn't as bad as it used to be phishing attacks used to be almost 100% effective. Of course, these are the types of attacks where someone sends an email. And the email is trying to get you to help this Prince in Nigeria, or whatever it might be. Those are phishing attacks, I've gotten a lot more sophisticated to the point where they are today, where we warn people to not even put information about who the employees are even physical access or addresses of the businesses, if they are not, obviously a walk-in type store because that is being used online by the bad guys. They go to your website, they figure out who the CEO is, who the CFO is, whatever information they might need. And then they use that now to go after you and go after you in a very bad way, frankly, because we are falling prey to it. And we're going to be talking more a little bit later on a couple more segments about what is the cost to businesses right now. Some of the phishing attacks, because you remember, they will use phishing for a number of different reasons, not the least of which is to get you to install malware on your computer. You know, unbeknownst to you, right? It's not as though you purposely are selling malware. But we're going to talk about that here in just a few minutes. There is a number of companies out there that do various types of simulated phishing attacks. And the idea behind these is that they will go ahead and send your employees emails that are based upon the latest phishing attacks, right, the type of phishing attacks that have been going on for the most part, and they will record whether or not each employee has clicked on a link that they shouldn't have clicked on. So obviously, when they click on it, it goes through the software that's tracking them and knows what they did. And you know, now they're in trouble, right? Because they did what they shouldn't have done and they will usually have some remedial training for these people to help to build awareness, help them understand what it is really what's going on what they should be doing what they maybe shouldn't be doing. All of that stuff pulled together. Well, one of the companies that does this fishing susceptibility testing along with the security awareness training is called proof point. And they take a look at all of their numbers and try and roll them together. So this report that I'm looking at right now is examining global data from nearly 50 million simulated phishing attacks that were sent by proof point customers over a one year period. And they also did third party survey responses for more than 600 information security professionals in all of the major countries out there, not some of the small ones. And they put this all together. So basically, it's 3500 working adults who are sitting paid for that part. Now, here's what they found. Here are the tips for you. If you are a business person if you're responsible for it within an organization number one here in the Help Desk security article is effective security awareness training, must focus on the issues and behaviors that matter most in organizations' mission. Obviously, that's kind of corporate-speak, right? But he's saying that really what we have to do is look at what our assets are, what our mission is, as a company, and you know, value those what is the value of those, what should we be doing, when it comes to our data, the things that we if we lost, we would go out of business or we might get fined, that might come after us, etc, etc. So he goes on to say we recommend taking a people-centric approach to cybersecurity by blending organizational-wide awareness training initiatives, targeted threat driven education. The goal is to empower users to recognize and report attacks again, oh my gosh, you know, this is the sort of thing that you get from a PR agency, right? I doubt the guy actually said that. But it really is about people. We have various types of automation. If you have the basic stuff like you've got antivirus, and you've been listening to my show for a while, you know, anti-virus is zero percent effective against the latest types of attacks. And it is not effective at all. antivirus software in this day and age is pretty much useless. Now, you should be using it as part of a bigger stack of security software and procedures and things. But bottom line, it's just not that useful. And they're also saying that end-user email reporting is critical. They're showing that the number of reported email messages jumped significantly last year. And that's a really big jump at about 67%. So make sure if anyone in your organization has any questions about an email, they're thinking it might be a fake, it might be, you know, a problem phishing, etc, that they forwarded to you. Now we'll go a step further because of my company mainstream, we go ahead and work with the FBI and state investigators. When there are serious problems. Obviously, we will work with the company to it's not as though we're going to squeal on them. But we haven't covered numerous foreign government and also organized crime hacks into businesses. So if you're not reporting it, nobody's going to know and nothing can be done about it. So here are the key takeaways from this last year. More than half it's 55%. I've surveyed organizations dealt with at least one successful phishing attack in 2019. That's a very big deal. That's a very scary thing, frankly. And info security professionals have reported a high frequency of social engineering attempts across all kinds of different methods. 88% reported spear-phishing attacks, 86 business email compromised attacks, those are the ones that are hurting our businesses most and those are the type of things where they're faking that they're a vendor or they're the owner and they're asking people to wire money around. So be very, very careful. smishing is fairly new, but 84% of the businesses are saying that they had SMS and text phishing attacks that's way up. 83% said fishing which is voice fishing, and 81% reported malicious USB drops isn't That's something 65% of the surveyed infosec professionals said that their organization experienced a ransomware infection in 2019. That is high, high high. Now, you know, the FBI advises to never pay a ransom. But a third of all organizations opted to pay the ransom. And we've seen that even in cities that have been attacked by ransom, or that they did pay ransoms. 32% did not have those who negotiated with attackers 9% were hit with follow up ransom demand, and 22% never got access to their data, even after paying the ransom. So keep that in mind. And the other statistic that I've seen before from the FBI says that even if you pay a ransom, the odds are only 50% that you'll get all of your data back. Remember, these guys aren't writing great software. In fact, most of them aren't even writing this software at all. And what that ultimately means is it buggy? What do they really care as long as they get some payments right? organizations are benefiting from the consequent model. 63% of organizations take corrective action with users who repeatedly make mistakes. So I think that's an important thing. Many working adults fail to follow cybersecurity best practices. 45% admit to password reuse, which is one of the biggest sins, frankly, that you can commit is reusing passwords on multiple sites, more than 50% do not password protect home networks. And 90% said they use employer-issued devices for personal activities. These are all things they shouldn't be doing. In addition, 32% of working adults were unfamiliar with VPN services. One of my pieces of training was about VPNs. You might find it I think it's still up on YouTube. But how VPN services are in some cases worse than not using a VPN at all, you've got to be careful because some of these VPN services that are out there, they're actually having new use their service so they can track you online, sell your information. So the VPN service is only charging a few bucks a month, or heaven forbid, free. You really have to wonder just how good is it. So follow those practices need to understand the common cybersecurity terms. I don't maybe I should do a little training on that one too so that people know what's up. And Millennials are continuing to underperform other age groups in fundamental fishing, and when ransomware awareness, so stick around when we come back, we're going to talk about keeping your legacy software safe. Are you still using Windows seven, eight or maybe something else? It's kind of old. Stick around. We'll be right back. You're listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN. Hey, welcome back, everybody, Craig Peterson here. If you have a computer that's been around for a few years, have you stopped and had a close look to see if it's reached its end of life. Now I'm not talking about the hardware is about to fail or fall apart. You know, that's something I think you can deal with and everybody knows to deal with. And more importantly, if the hardware falls apart and stops working, you have to deal with it. But what about the software that's on your computer? What about the software that is, has been installed and it has been there for who knows how long? When was the last time you actually updated it I walk into customers' new customers all of the time, and they are running really old software? And man, I can't tell you how many times I've walked into a place and they've got a database. It's Microsoft SQL Server, server, and they have just got a development version there. They're in. In fact, they bought the software. And the software vendor gave them a free development version of SQL Server. Even though it's in production, even though they're supposed to be paying for a full license, I see it all the time. And then because they don't have a full license, in fact, they don't even have a legal license to use it in the business environment. The next problem happens, which is they've never updated SQL Server. We used to see this all the time with Windows where people were using a hacked version of Microsoft Windows, versions of Windows that were never licensed, never licensed properly. We don't see that as much anymore. But what we are seeing is software that's passed the end of life including windows As of mid-January January 14, 2020, Windows seven Microsoft is no longer supported for security updates, at least unless you pay Microsoft a small boatload full of money. They are providing it, but they are charging money for it. And now the last subscription I saw for security updates for Windows seven was about $80,000 a year. Now, I don't know about you, but I think that's a little bit pricey. So now you end up with the problem of Okay, so I am running old software, maybe even Windows XP, we see that all the time in the manufacturing business, where they're controlling systems and control systems running XP. So what do you do now? Because if you upgrade your base operating system, that means there is software that you're running that may not work with the new version of Windows. And frankly, that's probably the number one reason we see from people who don't upgrade and don't want to upgrade because it's could end up being a very bad thing for them a lot of pain, right? Well, Windows seven is already past its support window. And we're Windows Server 2008 will officially be ended just this past week. So if you're running Windows Server, which a lot of businesses are, right, you're using Active Directory server as much as I don't like it. Most of our customers use it because there's not really a whole lot of other options for them. But it's really significant here that these older operating systems are no longer going to get routine security updates and patches going forward. Windows seven, believe it or not, is 10 years old now. And it's still in style. It still works. And according to StatCounter, Windows seven is still deployed on one out of every four Windows machines. So That means you are probably like everybody else out there and is still running Windows seven or some of your machines. And part of the reason for that may be because you're concerned about doing the upgrade, right, and update. So we're going to talk a little bit about that some things that you can do. But first of all, I want to give you a couple of warnings, because I think I might have to get you out of that feeling of invulnerability that you might have Windows 720 19, there were more than 1000 vulnerabilities that were found over 1000 in just 2019. ingest windows seven alone. So businesses are facing a very real security risk by using any of these products after their security updates pass. But you know, can you migrate? Yeah, obviously the answers. Yes. Can you do it quickly? Well, Not necessarily quickly, and certainly not immediately for most people. So most businesses are finding they're using the sound supported software for months, years or even decades later. And Kaspersky research, which is a Russian company that does all kinds of stuff when it comes to security, they got some pretty decent security software. But the problem you and I think you might find with their security software is it's from Russia, and the US, the federal government has come out and said, Don't use Kaspersky. So I can see that I can see why they're saying that but they're reporting that 40% of very small businesses, so 40% of businesses under about 10 employees, and about 48% of small and mid-sized businesses. So the bigger businesses that should have the ability to do upgrades are still using unsupported software and software that's approaching the end of support. So you got to be very, very careful, okay. And if you're a manufacturing company, or you have industrial control systems, you might have an H HVAC and an air conditioning system in your building that is hooked up to your network connection, so that the technicians can get in remotely to look for problems, maybe the systems call home, to let them know that, you know, your coolant pressures too low or whatever the problem might be. Those types of systems can be some of the worst to some of those, as I mentioned, before, we're finding we're still running Windows XP. And that is way, way out of date. So you know, have a look at all of those to man, we could go on for a long time about the problems that we've seen, and some of the problems that you need to take care of. But when we're talking about 24 seven operations, so we're moving on to the next level. Business kind of manufacturing or maybe you have a help desk where people call it 24/7. And those systems are up and online the whole time, it becomes even more important becomes even more critical. If a new vulnerability is discovered, I really have to emphasize here you have to take extra precautions. So what do you do in the meantime to protect yourself, here are some tips for those of us that are still running older software? And as I said, we're talking about what 50 60% of us frankly, our and a third of us are running unsupported versions of Windows. Number one you could do is buy extended support. Now, this is probably the least attractive option for companies that don't have a lot of cash lying around but it is the most secure. If you're an enterprise customer, you which means, by the way, you have to use any enterprise versions of Windows, not the stuff you got when you bought your laptop from staples or, or just from regular old Dell, okay? But enterprise customers can pay Microsoft for extended support through January 2023. Now, it's very expensive. Okay, so the price is going up every year. So be very careful with it. We're talking about million dollars worth of expensive, okay, so very, very big deal. If you're still running Windows XP, the cost for extended support for an organization with 10,000 plus machines leveled out at just under $2 million a year. real money. It's crazy money. So that's probably out of the question for most of us. So next up, here's what I've done for a lot of customers and I can help you with this if you need this as well. But there are ways to isolate both older machines from your regular network and I'm not just talking about going ahead and doing some network segmentation. I'm talking about having special internal firewalls to isolate these machines, okay, old decommissioned and non-supported operating systems and software that cannot be patched, have to be isolated. Obviously, you also would need to limit user access to the machines and limit what they are doing on those machines and try and keep them safe. And watch for what is called out of band fixes. Some vendors may still issue critical fixes, but you know, keep an eye on it. It could be dangerous. All right sticking around. We're going to talk about this new facial recognition technology that London is adopting. I talked about it this week, a little bit on my radio and TV appearances. But we're going to get into a little bit more because it is coming here to the US as well. Stick around you're listening to Craig Peterson WGAN Online. Welcome, everybody. Craig Peterson here and online at Craig Peterson dot com. If you haven't already, make sure you sign up for my email comes out every week on Saturday...
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AS HEARD ON: WGAN Mornings with Ken and Matt: Business Email Compromise, Phishing and Jeff Bezos Phone Hack and more
01/31/2020
AS HEARD ON: WGAN Mornings with Ken and Matt: Business Email Compromise, Phishing and Jeff Bezos Phone Hack and more
Good morning everybody! I was on with Ken and Matt. We had a good discussion about Business Email Compromise, what it is, who is at risk and what we can do about it. Then it was onto the Jeff Bezos Phone Hack. So here we go with Ken and Matt. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig They scraped every picture on the internet that they could get their hands on. That is against the usage of rules and agreements of all these websites. If you had a picture posted on Facebook that was publicly accessible or on Twitter Craig Good morning, everybody. Of course, this is Craig Peterson on WGAN, up in Maine, on their morning drive show. There is some very concerning stuff going on to news statistics out that we talked about this week about fishing and BEC type email attacks. We are going to get into it right now. Ken We are back ladies and gentlemen it is 738 on the WGAN morning news with Ken and Matt on Wednesday, which means it's time to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru, to go over all the things about technology that affect our daily lives here today. Craig, How are you this morning? Craig Good morning, doing well Ken Well, let's start talking about some techniques, shall we? How many organizations last year, got phished, successfully? Craig Yeah, this is a huge trend that's been going on. You know, we keep hearing these warnings FBI has issued an alert out, and we will talk about it here on the show. It is really getting down to the brass tacks because we're, we're all somehow making some money, right? Whether or not you are getting paid because you know nothing about an oil company, or perhaps you are getting paid because you're working hard and getting up at 3 am every day. Those organizations, every one of them, right now got phished. Of course, you know what phishing is those of those types of emails that encourage you to click on something, maybe download something, etc. There are some new statistics out right now. They are kind of a little scary. You know, I'm not even sure these are that accurate because they say that nearly 90% of organizations around the world are targets of this whole business email compromise, type of scam, fear, spear-phishing attacks, which is a very, very big deal. And I think it's probably closer to 100% of organizations. I don't know you guys probably both have gotten those emails, right, supposedly, from your bank, etc. Absolutely. Yeah. I don't see why it's only 90%. But it's, it's very, very bad. It's very high. They're looking at global data from 50 million simulated phishing attacks. They got sent out to the customers of one company by their security firm, Proofpoint. They sent them over the one year but the part that's most alarming to me because you know, 100% that's not news. But unfortunately, more than half of the people that got these simulated phishing attacks opened the email and clicked on a link, and they were convinced to do it. That's the scary part. Another big story this week is telling us a little bit about what the results of that are the cost of it, and it's happening more, we are getting better. Okay. It used to be that it was 90% of people would open these emails. So we are getting better, but the costs are even increasing. Matt We are talking to Craig Peterson, he is our tech guru, and he joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over what's happening in the world of technology. I am always fascinated by this evolving facial recognition technology. I'm thinking of a man walking into the Gap or whatever, like in Minority Report, and they scan your eyes, or they just know they know who you are. They say Welcome back to the store. How did you enjoy those jeans that you just bought? Would you like to look at something new, etc.? The real utility of it, at least right now, is in terms of security and things like that. So obviously London is now adopting its facial recognition technology for police to us. Europe is considering a ban on it. Talk to us about where we stand with the use of this technology for law enforcement, and I guess beyond. Craig Last weekend, on my show, of course, Saturdays at 1 pm here on the same station, but and my show last weekend, I went into quite a bit of detail about this one company that had been operating kind of underground. They did something that this is frankly illegal. They scraped every picture available on the internet they could grab. That's against the usage of rules and agreements of all these websites. If you had an image posted on Facebook that was publicly accessible or on Twitter or on these online photo album sites that you can share photos. They have it. They have over 3 billion social media pictures. What they're doing is selling subscriptions to police departments. These police departments pay as little as $10,000 a year, can take a picture from some security cameras somewhere, and run it through this software. It's an app that runs on your phone. And it will tell the police where it has seen you before online. The police have been hindered over the years by only having pictures in their database of people who had interactions with police. You know you get arrested, they take photos and fingerprints. Now they have been able to identify hundreds or thousands of people that were involved in crimes were unsolved crimes, which is kind of interesting. So what London's doing now is they're taking that same type of technique. By the way, there are lawsuits against this company. Right now, it's in use in New York City. A lot of police departments are using it. But London's taking that type of technology because it's one thing to have faces. London has been, it's the most surveilled city in the world outside of China. And that means there's a lot of cameras out there. For years the city of London has been taking all of that information and use it to track people as they moved around London. Now with this newer technology that we're starting to see where it's tying it into social media posts to pictures that can find almost anywhere. They're worried about what they're calling a breakthrough assault on our rights. And we're starting to see this here in the UK is where the US is well, and it's very, very scary in the facial recognition is 80 ish percent accurate in some cases, is in the worst cases it's about 80% inaccurate, which is terrible. I think this is dangerous technology in the wrong hands, and it can easily be misused. The wrong hands don't mean like the guys in the White House. The wrong hands imply someone who has access to this type of database, who wants to find the name and phone number of that person they saw in this coffee shop. So they can call them up and try and get a date. It could be that simple. So I'm getting very concerned about it. Our law enforcement here in the US has relaxed the established rules of evidence that have been around for a long time and retaining things like our photos. When should they be keeping it that many police departments have cameras, video cameras on the cars as they drive around? In some jurisdictions, it means taking pictures of your license plate or photos of all of the occupants. When it finds an active ticket against the owner of the vehicle or the vehicle itself, you will be pulled over all automatically. Frankly, this type of activity concerns me because it's there will be mismatches. There will be people accused that shouldn't be. And honestly, I think we should be secure in it and have that type of privacy. Matt We were talking to Craig Peterson. He is our tech guru. You hear him every Wednesday at 738. You can listen to him on Saturday at one o'clock as well. You can go to Craig Peterson dot com anytime you want, and hear what he has to say. You know, we said it earlier, Craig about Jeff Bezos and the hacking of his phone. What's the latest on that? Should we be concerned? Craig It presents an interesting problem because Jeff Bezos was using a piece of software on his smartphone that many people use has called WhatsApp. It was bought by Facebook some time ago. What happened is that the Saudi Crown Prince was upset with the stories in the Washington Post that were written by Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi had written articles, news stories for The Washington Post. The Saudi crown prince had met Jeff Bezos at a party, and they exchanged WhatsApp phone numbers. That's how you communicate, and WhatsApp, you have a phone number associated with your account. So now, they can talk to each other using WhatsApp, and WhatsApp is an app designed for secure communications that encrypted from end to end. Let's get into a little bit more meat of your question, which is what happened here behind the scenes? Well, it turned out the watch app had a bug in the way it has handled or maybe even still handles access to your photos and videos and other information contacts on your phone. And apparently, someone used the Saudi Crown Princes account WhatsApp account, sent a video to Jeff Bezos. That video had in it some malware that gave them full access to Jeff Bezos, and his phone and everything on it. Well, the phone numbers of probably the contacts, but videos and photographs. And Jeff Bezos notices his phone was slow, which by the way, is the number one reason I get phone calls for security. But the email slows the slow phone computers not working right. Jeff took his phone to one of these places that did some cyber forensic analysis on the phone. They discovered why yes, indeed, the amount of data that's being sent by your phone is 100 6,000,000% higher than usual. It is posting videos, etc. out to the Saudi Crown Prince. Guess what ended up happening? We ended up with the most expensive divorce in history with Jeff Bezos and his wife because those videos and photos leaked. So that's the basics of what happened here. Ken Craig Peterson joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over what's happening in the world of technology today being no exception to that, Craig, as always, we appreciate you joining us here, and we will talk to you again next week. Craig Hey, gentlemen, take care. I'm going to talk more about this weekend on my show at one o'clock on Saturday. I want to get into what can you do to prevent this sort of thing? What should you do? So we'll cover that in more detail on Saturday. Ken We'll be looking forward to that. Craig Okay, take care, guys. Craig Hey, everybody, make sure you are on my email list. So you get all of this and more. Just Go to Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. I keep pretty much everything up there on the site. Again, Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. We'll talk to you again on Saturday. Bye-bye Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553
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AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: Fake Jobs being advertised online, Jeff Bezos phone hack and what we can learn from both
01/28/2020
AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: Fake Jobs being advertised online, Jeff Bezos phone hack and what we can learn from both
Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning and we discussed these Fake Jobs that are being offered on-line, spoofed websites and ID theft. Then we got into who was responsible for hacking Jeff Bezos's phone and why we have to be careful who we hire. So, here we go with Mr. Polito. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig You know, Make America Great Again, that would not be a great password. Yeah, but some random words strung together are much harder to crack on a computer than anything else because of the way the cracking technologies work nowadays. The cracking technology is much different than it used to be. Craig Morning, everybody that was me with Mr. Jim Polito, and we broke down a couple of things today. First of all, a couple of security things, the truth about your passwords. We went into the whole hack here that led to the most expensive divorce in history, and also employment scams on the rise. Why is it happening? What should you be cautious of if you're looking for a new job? The FBI has a special warning out. So here we go with Jim. Jim Always ahead of the curve. Always bringing us the latest from the world of tech talk, our good friend, Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir. Craig A good morning. You know things are always changing out there in the industry. I'm going to bring something up. You mentioned earlier today. What they're trying to with this Data Privacy Day is to bring some visibility into the whole password problem, right? And you talked about some of the advice that they were giving and, and, what iHeart makes you guys do. What is it? Change your passwords every three months, Jim Yes, every three months. We have to change our password, and it can't be even close to the previous password. Craig That's a widespread thing out there in the industry, just in general. But I got to tell you that the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is the organization within the federal government that comes out with all of these security standards, change that about a year ago. So You now have something to use against them. Here's why. Here's what's going on. If they make you come up with a new password every three months, what are the odds that it's going to be an excellent password? Next, what are the chances that you're not going to write it down somewhere like where the cleaning lady can find it? Maybe in your drawer, taped to the bottom of your keyboard, or even worse, and I know people are listening that are going to go into the office today and immediately and take down their post-it notes. If you can believe it, people place post-it notes right on their computer. The current recommendations are, you come up with a great phrase. Yeah, you don't have to use special characters and numbers and all this other stuff. But come up with a few random words. Pick four or five words that you can remember that you can associate together. Oh, and you don't have to change it every three months. Once a year is probably enough and phrase with three or four words that are there aren't things like, you know, make America great again, that would not be a de password. Yeah, but some random words that are harder to crack on a computer than anything else because the way the crackers are working nowadays, the cracking technologies is much different than it used to be. So just a quick word of advice to people if you're worried oh my gosh, I don't change my password every three months, and I don't have special characters and digits in it. Best password according to nest is just four maybe five words. random ones strung together and that's your passwords more accessible cookie-cutter type two, Jim But I have a new one it is Could I please MooMoo face banana? No. Can I please use MooMoocen face banana face to the dog patch Craig That would work. I think Jim I think Steve Martin said that one. I'm stealing it from Steve Martin. But yeah, you don't want to use one like that. Then someone if they know that expression will say, Oh, yeah, I remember Steve Martin said that. If they just get a few words they'll say, they'll say, I'd like to guess at solving the puzzle. Especially if you say it on the radio. Craig All right. Well, it's data privacy day. And that's why I brought it up. So great day to have you with us. And a great day to warn people about a new scam. The FBI is talking about, so you think you're applying for a job online? And then maybe we even got the job. And the fact is, you're talking with a scammer online. Unknown Speaker 4:57 Yeah, that's something. Craig The trick behind that right now, the scammers, the bad guys. What are they doing? They always go after the latest stuff, maybe something that's in the news, etc., etc. And you know what, it turns out I don't know, I listened to some of the house hearings. It would seem as though the job markets terrific the economy is falling apart, and we've got the worst president in history. But I think readability is more along the lines of, Hey, you know, I've had this job for 234 years now. If you're a millennial, hey, I've had this job for six months now. I wonder if there's a better job of it. I keep hearing that people are getting paid more. So they're looking for jobs. So you have even though the job market is tight for employers, you have all these people looking for jobs. So the scammers have figured out. You know what, we can get a lot of information from somebody that applies for a job. Because people, people will fill out forms, right, Jim, and they'll give me their social security number, their employment history, their home address their phone number. So people are now going online, they're looking for new jobs to see if they can do a little bit of an upgrade, which makes a whole lot of sense to me. And they are getting the victims to not only give all of this information to them, but they're also even getting people to pay them. And we're talking about these criminals who are, you know, have these fake jobs averaging about $3,000 per person, according to the FBI advisory? Jim Hey $3,000, which also means, by the way, some people were out $100,000 Craig Yeah, exactly. So they're now using the spoof web page to harvest this personally identifiable information. And a spoof website, of course, isn't like instead of going to I heart, you go to I dash hearts calm. Yep. Right. And you don't notice that you went to the wrong website. And the criminals are also they're all putting advertising in legitimate ads from legitimate employers. So you go to the site, it looks real, right? These bad guys are stealing ads from legitimate employers. They're doing everything. But that's because now employees are busy looking for other jobs. Because what the heck, they might just find them. Jim We're talking with Craig Peterson, our good friend Tech Talk guru. I have to be careful. When applying online, make sure you know to whom you're talking. If it sounds too good, it probably is not real. Craig in the time we have left, I want to ask about this week john had the story. Last week, we learned that Jeff Bezos's phone hack that led to the exposure of his affair. It turns out the Saudi prince accused of masterminding the murder of a journalist is the same one charged with the hack on Jeff Bezos's phone, of course, the founder of Amazon. I'll be talking about this a lot more in my on my podcast this weekend, which you can also find on the iHeart as well. Jim There we go. Yeah, and the easiest way to find it is you just go to Craig Peterson dot com. Craig But here's what happened. Guys, man has a media been getting this report wrong. But let's start at a high level. First of all, remember Jeff Bezos bought this fish wrapper out of Washington DC, remember when that happened, right? It was the Washington Post. So he bought this newspaper down in Washington DC, and is, you know, it's been around for a very long time. Okay. It broke some national stories over the years, but it's just gone left. Well, Jeff hired a journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, and he began writing for the Washington Post had been criticizing the Saudi Crown Prince because of the murdering of this Jamal Khashoggi. And then they were saying a lot of nasty things about it. So what ended up happening now apparently, this is all allegations at this point. But apparently, the Saudi Crown Prince got pretty upset that the Washington Post was saying all these bad things about him and that they murdered this. I'll use the term journalist kind of loosely because I think that does apply here in the case of Khashoggi. Yeah, at any rate, he wanted the Crown Prince, apparently to have a little vengeance. So the owner of The Washington Post, ultimately, is Jeff Bezos. Yep, the richest man in the world. Yep. He, here's what he did. And this is kind of interesting because we use these apps all the time. And apps are, you know, they can be significant. They sometimes can be monitored. And there's something called an end to end encryption. And when people are looking at apps to communicate, you want an end to end encryption. In other words, you don't want it set up and in a way that somebody can intercept it. So apparently, Jeff Bezos exists. An App called WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook and does have an end to end encryption. But here's what happened. It looks like they used some of the hacker hacking software that's known as a zero-day attack against whats app. And apparently, there was a bug inside of the WhatsApp app. Now let's think about this for a minute from people that use WhatsApp or use any kind of a chatting or messenger program. If you're using your iPhone, it comes up and says, this half WhatsApp wants access to your photos and videos. And so you're sitting there thinking, Okay, what am I, you know, let's find I'm going to want to share videos and photos. So yeah, go ahead. Let's what WhatsApp has access to, and that's true, obviously on Android as well. A little more confused than Android, but it's right in both cases. So apparently what happened was, there was a bug that some people There's still allegations here, I'm not positive on the reality there is I'm not going to make any names or, or other allegations here. Researchers found a bug in WhatsApp that allowed them to send you a WhatsApp user a video. And that video broke into and took over WhatsApp. And almost immediately after Jeff Bezos received this video from the Saudi prince, you know whether or not it was him as a different story, but received it from the Saudi prince. His phone started exfiltrating data. In other words, all of a sudden, his phone started sending pretty much everything that was in his pictures and videos to Saudi Arabia. And then what do you have, you have the most expensive divorce in history. Jim It was the most expensive divorce in history, how many? Meaning she didn't even get half. It was still, what did she get, like 38,000,000,048 billion bunch of property. Craig Wow, it's tough. It's tough to live on that. So it's he noticed something has just started slowing down. It was sending video data out at a rate of 106,000,000%. Higher than previously. So he noticed something was wrong. And he took it to a forensics group who started having to look at the phone, but it was a bug in WhatsApp. And that kind of concerns me I'm sure it's going to be fixed if it hasn't been already. But you know, this has to do with again, having 100 200 apps on your phone. Think about it, all of those apps on your phone, what bugs do they have in them? How many apps to use. And as part of security awareness today, and I've said this for a long time, delete apps that you do not use frequently. If If you want real secure communications, if you're using iPhone messages is probably all you need messages and FaceTime, they both do a great job. And because Apple's paying close attention to it, bugs like this are likely to get fixed very, very quickly. And this is what happened to this is the new world that we're living in today. All of these application developers and these cool little apps that we have, you know the ones make it look like you're 20 years older or younger are stealing our data in some cases like this morphine app, the data is sent directly to Russia. You lose all rights to any pictures you uploaded. Worse yet, who knows what they're doing with those photos once they get there. So get rid of these apps that you're not using and don't trust them. 100% of you think something weird is happening that might be. And one real quick thing I have to say, and that is that when we get involved with an investigation for business on behalf of a company that thinks they might have been hacking, something might be going on 99% of the time, Jim, we get a call. Something's going on with our email. We're not sure what it is. And then when we dig into it more refined Chinese backdoors Russian hack, Jim yeah. Craig Right now, everyone's attacking our customers. It's just amazing what's happening out there. Jim All right. Now you know what's happening out there. He's told you about the latest security stuff you need to know during this segment. If you want more of this information, get on board with Craig Peterson. All you have to do is text my name, Jim, to this number 855-385-5553. That's just texting Jim to 855-385-5553. Standard data and text rates apply. And Craig Peterson will not annoy you bother you sell you something or hack you. Don't worry about it. Craig, thank you so much. Great segment. We'll talk with you next week. Craig Thanks, Jim. Bye-bye. Craig 16:31 All right. Hey, everybody, I want to let you know we have been working hard creating a new course for you. I will have exclusive giveaways for you as part of the course. It is going to be the best webinar ever, of course, all centered on transforming your security, your security posture, and more. So keep an eye out on your email, Greg peterson.com slash subscribes, but see the only one Didn't find out about it. Take care, everybody. Be back tomorrow. Bye-bye Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553
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AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: The Technology and Spread of the Coronavirus and More
01/28/2020
AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: The Technology and Spread of the Coronavirus and More
Welcome, Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning. We discussed Iran, The Broadcom chipset in cable modems that makes them vulnerable to attack, How Amazon is changing it's delivery model and most importantly if you use Firefox, the Patch that is available. Here we go with Jack. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Transcript: Craig We are going to have to be prepared for and expect this as it is not just an aberration, nor was the SARS concern or is any outbreak, right. Craig Peterson Good morning, everybody, Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining me. I don't know about you, but I'm concerned about the coronavirus. So let's get into it. I discussed it with Jack Heath this morning. Here we go. Jack Heath The coronavirus is traveling worldwide, and I'm going to ask our next guest just about it on the technology side of things. If technology can help speed up, for example, a vaccine for this coronavirus. Still, it's interesting that this has affected our financial markets so much. Is it due to the global implications on the spread of it or just a reaction to all the news reports recently? We haven't had spent a quiet period with the whole Iranian situation, whether it was a Qasem Soleimani twos weeks ago or all the impeachment stuff or that coronavirus is responsible for market impacts or could it be the markets are jittery after the announcement that a Massachusetts company is working among many on a possible vaccine. Here is Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy, and who has a show on Saturday on these iHeart news-talk stations. Craig, in this fast-moving era, coming out of China, the source but also as it spreads and mutates, I guess a few thousand people may have been affected by this virus. The question is, can technology help curb it? Craig Peterson Good morning. It is a very, very big problem they've got in China right now. Of course, one of the significant issues we've had over the years with China when it comes to these diseases is that they've been so tight-lipped about it. So there is a doctor who is working up in Toronto, and he did some fantastic stuff. He founded this company called Blue Dot and previously involved with the SARS outbreak. Now, you might remember that back in 2003, it was an epidemic, and it spread from China and, ultimately, all around the world. Yeah, it was a huge deal. And these types of flu can, of course, cripple hospitals. China is building a hospital right now. Another one. In fact, during the SARS epidemic, they constructed a 1000 bed hospital in six days total to help handle those people. So he was working as an epidemiologist during the SARS whole outbreak. He wanted a better way to figure out what was going on. And he did. That's what blue.is he got about $10 million worth of funding when he first launched a few years ago. And he and blue dot were able to predict on December 31, and they told their customers who are all major countries. So December 31, he said everybody, hey, we see the spread. Now what they do, Jack and it is rather interesting. There's they're looking at things like global airline ticketing data to help calculate the spread based on travel by residents. It monitors newspapers in 65 different languages. And it's using a form of artificial intelligence to figure it out. So he was able to correctly predicted the virus would jump from Juan to Bangkok to Seoul, Taipei, and Tokyo. And he got it 100%. Right. So that's one piece of technology that's an amazing blue dot. And then just for the regular stuff, if you're interested in watching what's happening with the usual slews, you can go ahead online and go to google.com or google.org slash Flu Trends. And Google's tracking it as well. But Google's paying a little more attention to some of the social media and some of the other things that are going on, but they've got the public Data Explorer, you'll find there and many other things. And we're using that we're also using some of these devices. Is that we wear the monitor our heart rates, but also can monitor our body temperature. They're also using the collected data at airports, watching people thermally for diseases, we've been doing that for quite a while. There's a lot of technology involved. Well, back up to December 31, he said his data showed -- hey, we've got an outbreak, it's going to spread. The US Centers for Disease Control warned us on January six, but they'd already gotten notification from Blue Dot, and the World Health Organization was January 9. So basically, right now, we had about a one week jump on everything else knowing what was going to be happening. Jack It's interesting because you mentioned the SARS epidemic, and I'm not sure if that, you know, it's a good thing if these things don't pan out. Justin did allude earlier with the traditional strains that are not the current strain right now of flu that is out there. Now is the height of the flu season. Due to the potency of this virus and the lack of a valid vaccine, this could get dangerous. We must be prepared for and expect that this is not just an aberration, nor was a SARS concern or nor is any outbreak. Craig Yeah, you're right. It is something that could kill a lot of people. You might remember the Spanish flu back in 1918. And that killed millions of people worldwide. And that's all it takes. So getting this little bit of early warning, knowing where it might be coming from in a country like China, of course, they just shut down all travel for the rest of us a little bit more complicated but knowing it's out there, being able to take the next step. There's also new technology when you talk about the shots for like the flu that we get. Right now. Its kind of against most of our seasonal flu, do come from Asia, and it seems to have to do with the handling of everything over there, poultry, pork products, etc. Were there live at the markets Not just mentioned just the sheer population. I mean, you know, you gotta look at how many people are in China. Jack Jack You make fun of me for being a vegetarian see, they're still going to make you sick Justin on the universal flu shot and showing a lot of promise, and it's already entered into the trial. So you know, who knows what we'll be talking about next year during flu season, Craig Peterson. Craig Hey, as always, I try and give you some tips and things to do the obvious stuff. Well, according to the officials right now would have slowed down or even stopped entirely the spread of this virus. and that is to wash your hands and don't touch your face with your hand, especially during flu season. You know, make sure if you have a cough, you cough into your elbow. Hopefully, you've got a long sleeve shirt on, and that'll help stop the spread. So basic. Things will help a whole lot. You don't need high tech for any of that stuff. All right, take care, guys. Have a great day. We'll be back tomorrow, Karen and I and the rest of the team. we're busy, busy getting everything ready for you guys. So we'll let you know when that's all set. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: Message Input: Message #techtalk Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553
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Welcome! Apple Stands Ground On Encryption, Dangers of Facial Recognition Databases and more on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson on WGAN
01/25/2020
Welcome! Apple Stands Ground On Encryption, Dangers of Facial Recognition Databases and more on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson on WGAN
Welcome! This has been a busy week in the world of technology. We are going to hit several topics today. From Employer device privacy, dangers of huge facial recognition databases, Marriott enters the home rental market, overblown results on dangers of screen technology, big tech stomping on small tech, smart home alarms, and cable companies, Apple stands ground on iPhone encryption, and Microsoft ends support of Windows 7. It is going to be a busy show -- so stay tuned. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com I've got some free online privacy training coming up. I have been teaching courses on security for the FBI InfraGard's program. And now I'll share some of the step-by-step tips and tricks that we all can use to keep ourselves and our information safe online. And it won't cost you a dime. --- Related Articles: --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Hey, it's my intro music. Hello, everybody, Craig Peterson here. Welcome, welcome. Hopefully, you've been able to join me before. We talk a lot about technology and of course a lot about privacy and security. Technology today is all about privacy and security. Isn't it? It just seems like every time we turn around, and there's some other business out there just trying to get our information or even worse, some hacker who's trying to get it from us. So I try and help everybody understand what is going on what is privacy? What's it all about? I give a lot of tips and tricks on things and recommendations. I do a whole lot of different pieces of training, free training, pop up stuff, Facebook, and YouTube lives. I'm trying to get the word out. So I appreciate everybody that shares this. We've had an increase every week, with people subscribing to the podcast, which is excellent! You're listening to me here on the radio, and who are spreading the word. You know, there again, there's so much information out there, it's hard to know what you should believe. There are all kinds of motivations behind it. So hey, what's my motivation? Well, I'm trying to get the word out, I know that probably 90% of you wouldn't ever be a client of mine. And that's just fine. Because hopefully, the 5% that would be a client of mine will become a client, and we can help them out. But I want to get this information out. Sorry, I don't hold anything back. You've probably noticed it if you're one of those people who learned about the show or the podcast so that you now know about it, and you heard it from a friend, and the friend said, Yeah, you have to listen to Craig. You probably had an earful from somebody telling you about how I am just giving away the store. And that's my Go, hey, if I'm not giving you the store, let me know if you have any questions, let me know. It is just "me" at Craig Peterson dot com. Now, many of you may have noticed if you're on my mailing list, that we changed the format of the newsletter starting this last week. Right? It was one of those January 1 promises that we had hoped to get it up by the first of the year, and it took us a couple of extra weeks is not always the case. But then here's the new format for the weekly newsletter, if there is any real critical security stuff, updates patches that you need to apply in your business or your home. Those are now going right at the top of the newsletter. This last week, I think we had about ten a dozen or so of these very high priority security patches that required immediate patching. And we went so far as to give you links right there in my newsletter, so you can click on the links to those CVEs we're giving you a link so that you know what the critical vulnerabilities are. It tells you even what to do what software it is everything right, step by step. That's the name of my game. You can use all of that now to stay one step ahead of the bad guys one step ahead of the crackers. That's the whole idea, right? The bad guys out there trying to crack into your computers. Now, we also had two other sections. I'm not going to be able to this week, I, you know, I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. But one of the sections was my weekly podcasts broadcast in the video. So I gave you links in the newsletter last week to the YouTube videos. So you can see articles that I'm talking about it has captions so you can read along if you wanted to watch it there. And I also posted them up on Facebook. The last one for last week's show would have gone out on Friday. So Yesterday, you should have gotten that one if you're a Facebook follower. So please do follow please do subscribe. I'm, I'm I don't know that I'll be able to get much help this week because we've got something huge happening. I am trying to help people here with some of the privacy stuff. So I am going to be we're putting together right now. And I'm going to be giving away a step by step guide for you to be able to protect your privacy online through tracking. Now you know about ads online, right. And ad revenue, I think, is essential for businesses. You need to be able to show ads to get attention, right? There are so many competitors out there and so many different spaces. So how can you get your message out if you can't advertise? So there was a trend for a while to have ad blockers. Ad-blockers are more than a bit of a problem now, because how does the publisher generate any revenue when they can't sell ads. And I saw a fascinating statistic that got me going this week. Have you seen where ads directed at users of iOS, which is Apple's mobile operating system that users of Apple's iOS are using Safari, advertising to them is worth less than it is to Android? Now think about that for a minute. Why is it cost more now to send to Android users than Apple users? Well, Apple integrated some new anti-tracking technology into Safari. That is a very, very big deal, because now with that anti-tracking, technology, and Safari, the advertisers Cannot track you and other sites that you're online. So the fact that can't track you means they don't know as much about you, which means you're not worth as much from an advertiser standpoint. Now, you could argue either way, right? In my business, we do some advertising. However, mostly it is word of mouth, and that's what we've done for decades now. And word of mouth works, right? Because people know me that I helped out their business and kind of, I'm, we need some help. We need some security stuff. We need a cyber assessment, you know, how good is this? Am I covering everything? Right? So that's how I usually do it. But most businesses are having to do it via advertising. I'm thinking about doing some advertising in the future for some of the products I've put together. Apple is stopping them from tracking you when you go to multiple sites. What would it be like, if I told you how to go about blocking advertisers from tracking you going to multiple sites on your computer as well. So that's what I'm putting together. Right now we're putting together a step by step guide that we're going to be giving away. It's part of a training webinar we're going to be doing as well, that is going to teach you a lot about some of the privacy stuff that you can do. And that's coming up here in a couple of weeks. So make sure you're on my email list at, Of course, Craig Peterson, calm slash subscribe, because you'll be able to get all of that and it's free. Again, I don't hold anything back to people. I'm not some guy who doesn't know what he's talking about and just has to market sell, sell, sell. I am trying to help out here. Okay, so make sure you are on that email list. Just go ahead and go to Craig Peterson, calm slash subscribe, and all it asks for is your name and email address. And then you're going to get this new newsletter I'm doing. So the second portion of the newsletter is the top four videos that I did that week. So these are the ones that people watch the most. And I know a lot of you don't watch the video. All of the articles I discuss are in the newsletter in the third section. So that's what we're doing now. And that's based on feedback that we've had from all you guys, and I appreciate it. We got some super fans out there that email me and pretty much every week. Some people send me Facebook stuff and LinkedIn stuff, which is cool as well to see some of that. I have to warn you I will answer or someone, not me, will answer as a member of my team. And it might take a little while okay because I get thousands of emails a day, and I have some very heavy mail filtration in place. Now the excellent news is that mail filter tends to work extremely well and tends not to block legitimate emails. But the operative word there is, usually. At any rate, I still get hundreds to have to go through every day of legitimate ones, and I try and respond so if you do send an email to me that's just me at Craig Peterson calm, make sure the chat a little bit of patience and we'll we will get back to you. If it's urgent, you can always try and text me as well because, you know, I had this contact from a law firm, and they had to get some briefs filed with the court by 4 pm. And it was like 1:30 in the afternoon, and they reached out to me, a Windows machine decided to die, and we can't get him to come back. So you know, I do get those types of emergency things, but email is probably not the best way to do that. The best way to do that is probably via texting Me? Well, that's the new newsletter. We also use the newsletter to announce special pieces of training. Karen, my wife, and I have been working on a special webinar for about a week or two. And we've got another week or so hours worth of work in it. So you know how this goes, right? I said I would have just said to myself, I didn't promise you, but I would have a new newsletter out the first of the year, and it took until the middle of a month. So I guess that's not too bad, right, two weeks-ish to get that out. So you know, we'll see what happens with this webinar. But it should be on time. But if you're on the mailing list, you'll know about it. Just Craig peterson.com slash subscribe. Something else important. I don't want people to use my mailing lists to spam other people. So what I do is I do something so that when you subscribe, it's going to send you an email, and I noticed there had been 100 people who subscribed, and I sent them an email. They have to click on the link. That's to confirm that this is their email that it's not somebody else who's messing around. That's trying to send them spam from the right. So I'm going to have to reach out to those hundred people individually. But if you subscribe, make sure you check your email box, he's I'll send it from my email address for me at Craig peterson.com. Look for that link, click on that link. Then you'll be able to get that that the weekly emails from me and notices about what's coming up. I typically remind you in advance about one of these pieces of training, and I'll remind you like a couple of days before, I just don't want you to miss them, but I don't get kind of asked him like some other people do no question. And we don't do these very often. My big courses and training are only really once a year. Hey, you're listening to Craig Peters on WGAN stick around because we're going to get right into it when we get back Hi, everybody, Craig Peterson here. Welcome back, WGAN and online, of course, over at Craig Peterson dot com. Hey, did you know that your employer monitors you? Well, you may have known that. We're going to get into a little about what some employers are doing and also why some businesses are tracking. And when it comes to employers, of course, and some of the trackings, we're talking about still legal stuff. And when it comes to some of the big box retailers, it's still legal as well. So I guess the big question is, should it be, and what are they looking into? What are they gleaning from it, and why would they be doing it? Let's get down to that, and I'll give you a couple of tips to help you protect yourself. The Wall Street Journal this week, had a great article That was talking about, well, it was illustrating that was a kind of a cool way they did this thing. But it was talking about this guy who they named Chet. And, you know, Chet, kind of an old name, which is kind of funny, because we're always talking about it this week on the radio. When was the last time you met somebody named Chet? And for me, it's probably been 30 years, maybe, maybe a little bit longer. And perhaps that's why they use the name chat, right? Just not that common a name. But this is a paywall Wall Street Journal article, and you get like one or two or three a month or whatever it is for free. And then other than that, they want you to pay for it. So you may or may not be able to see it, but what they're doing, I think, is fascinating, because this article is walking through the day. In the life of this fictional workers, names chat. And it starts by noting that the employer logs his time and his location when he first wakes up to check his email in the morning. So there's stage one. Most of us, according to statistics, check our email first thing in the day and the last thing at night. Now I am not like that. But most of us are. So if you are, hey, I get it. But you check your email, so your employer knows that and then from there, this guy chat, he goes on to the Guest Wi-Fi. Now, here's where it's a little bit interesting. And it's something that a lot of people might not be thinking of. But when you connect to a guest Wi-Fi somewhere that provides a method for someone else, to be able to monitor you and where you are and who you are. So, for instance, if you go to your local Walmart store, Target store, you name it, store, they have Wi-Fi provided for you and that Wi-Fi can then be used to identify you and track you through the store. Some of this technology set up in such a way that it's just so accurate. It knows that you're standing in front of a specific item within the store for a minute or 30 seconds, whatever it might be. And then they can use that data now to figure out more stuff, right, big data is what it's all about. So far, poor old chap, he logged Into the guest Wi-Fi connection at the coffee shop in the morning. And then he went over to the gym. And of course, at the gym, there's a guest Wi-Fi, and you're attracted the gym, your locations tracked, and if you're like most people, you've got your Email Setup, so that it is checking every one every five minutes, 15 minutes or automatically your emails push to you. Right? Isn't that how that works? So now your employer knows where you were, and probably knows you're at the gym and even which Coffee Shop you're at. It depends on whether or not the employer has tracking software on your phone. They may know the exact location of all of those things. Now, if you're connecting to the office, and let's say you get through the email system at the office and using a VPN, that is when a lot of stuff changes and they know even more. So now, Chet arrives at his building where he works. And I don't know if you've seen these and we talked about some significant security problems with this. I'll bring it up again here right now. But when you walk in and you have your phone, and you use your phone as your badge, you know, kind of like used to swipe a badge, or maybe you tapped a badge. Now it'll use Bluetooth on your phone to identify you. Some of the newer systems are even using your face, and some are using facial recognition. Now I have a massive problem with the facial recognition stuff because Now they've got a picture of you. That's on the computer. Right? They have to take that to have the initial validation to say, yeah, this is chat. He's allowed to come in after 6 am and leave after 6 pm or whatever it is, and how secure is their database? I think that's the big question. Do you know if they're keeping your biometric safe? See, it's one thing to have your card lost or stolen, that you might swipe, are easily replaced, it can be disabled. It's one thing to forget your password or have your password stolen? Because you can always change your password. But how about your face? Your face isn't something you can easily change unless you're what was it John Travolta and Nick Nolte's Face Off, the name of that movie. I can hear you all yelling at the radio right now. Anyways, that is not going to change now. The same thing is true of your fingerprint. The same things true of Iris scans are so many types of biometrics now that people are just giving up for free. I heard something great on Stuart Varney's show on TV here this week. And Stewart was talking about yet another breach. And in this particular case, it was the Saudi Prince who had broken into Jeff Bezos iPhone using some software from a company over in Israel. And what's changed? Well, it isn't that there was a hack or that it waJeff Bezos was hacked. You know, we've had so many celebrities hacked before, what he noted, and what I want to bring up here now is we don't seem to care anymore. There was a time when that would be a big deal. What do you mean, the Crown Prince hacked the Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world smartphone and stole all of his pictures. We just don't seem to care anymore. So when we're going into the office in the morning, and it's doing a facial scan, we don't think twice about giving our face information to them. Now the government forces us to if you want a passport, or if you want a driver's license, or if you're going to get on an airplane, you know, it's one thing to have it at the point of a gun. It's quite another just to give it up voluntarily if you ask me. So now, when chats walking around the office, that Bluetooth in his phone is trackable for Near Fields communications. Some of us use our phones to unlock our computers when we're in front of them, just using that Bluetooth. And then on the other side, we have the issue of well, you know, we got Wi-Fi, and we're using the company Wi-Fi, and they want us to use the company Wi-Fi. Tracking as you move around is supposedly utilizing a lot of this data is to see which teams are frequently collaborating make sure employees aren't accessing areas they're not authorized to be in, etc. So once chat set said, this desk is browsers tracked along with his email, there's new software now that are looking at the email, it's looking at things like slack or teams, whatever you might be using to collaborate. It's figuring out whether or not the workers that you're interacting with are responding quickly. See which employees are most productive. Some of the software in the company computers, even snap screenshots every 30 seconds to evaluate the productivity in the hour's work. Now, of course, that's not typically done for people who are who knowledge workers are. That's usually more for people who are, you know, taking dictation or doing some form of a repetitive task but, you know, Hawthorne effect, right? We've been doing this forever. I remember teaching that at Pepperdine as a professor there, ai artificial intelligence keyword scanning also been used and all of this, even chats, phone conversations on his work desk, phone and work cell phone can be recorded, transcribed and monitored. And they're using this to measure productivity, etc. So bottom line, your life is not yours. You are just not secure in almost anything. But I don't want you to give up. I want you to keep trying. I want you to make sure that you're using your iPhone, use Safari because it blocks some of this tracking. And I'm going to have some excellent information for your next couple of weeks. We're working on it now to help you stop the tracking. But check it out. It's on the Wall Street Journal site. You're listening to Craig Peterson right here on WGAN and online at Craig Peterson dot com. Hey everybody, Welcome back. Craig...
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AS HEARD ON: WGAN Mornings with Ken and Matt: Privacy, Monitoring, Kids and Screen time, and AG Barr vs Apple Encryption and more
01/24/2020
AS HEARD ON: WGAN Mornings with Ken and Matt: Privacy, Monitoring, Kids and Screen time, and AG Barr vs Apple Encryption and more
Good morning everybody! I was on with Ken and Matt. We had a good discussion about Privacy and Monitoring then we got into Kids and Smartphones and a study that says the issues are not as bad as we have been led to believe. Then it was onto the FBI and AG Barr vs Apple Encryption. So here we go with Ken and Matt. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig If you have a company phone, monitoring of it is likely because the company doesn't want it to be lost, and if it is, they want to be able to recover it. They want to keep their data safe, all reasonable things. But many companies are now tracking you when you are going outsourcing go to the coffee shop. Hello, everybody. Great Dieter song here. Glad you joined me. A lot of news in tech this week. You got to make sure you catch my show this weekend. We're going to get into smishing a lot more. We're going to be talking about some new research out there about this company that just came out of real secrecy that is ending our privacy. We're going to be talking about a significant change over in Marriott where they're trying to compete like so many brick and mortar businesses with the online world. So what is Marriott doing to compete? I don't think you'd get much more brick and mortar than when it comes to hotels and resorts that they own all over the world. All of that will be coming up this weekend. Make sure you subscribe to my podcast so that you get all of this and more. And let's get off to this morning's conversation with Ken and Matt up in Maine. Ken Welcome to the program, sir. As usual. Yeah. Cold weather. Well, we do live in New England. So you know, it's going to warm up before the snowstorm on Saturday. Craig I lived halfway out in Canada halfway up to the Arctic Circle, and more than halfway actually. And I remember days when the air temperature high was 2030 below zero. And so this isn't so bad. But you know, as you get older, you just don't tolerate it as well, I think. Ken So. You know, I'm looking at your website, which is collectivism.com. You have some exciting topics today, for example, chat. Let me see which ones do we care about? How about somebody named Chet, what do we care about Chet when we're mad and Ken? Matt That's true. It kind of sounds like an older man. Chet was a name from a long time ago. It's true. Craig 2:10 Yeah. A long time ago. I love this article from the Wall Street Journal. They've got a very, very cool illustration on it, where Chet wakes up in the morning, and he goes in and gets his coffee and does things throughout the day. And what the Wall Street Journal is showing is this fictional worker named Chet, as he's going through the day, his employer is tracking his activities. So for instance, when you get up in the morning, most people the first thing they do in the morning and the last thing they do at night is to check their email. Well, if you're checking your email, the business knows Hey, Chet, just checked his email at 635 in the morning, and then if you have a company phone, that phone is probably tracked as a company doesn't want it to be lost. I want to be able to recover it. They want to keep their data safe, all reasonable things. But many companies are now tracking you when you are going out. So say go to the coffee shop. And the local coffee shop has free Wi-Fi. And your phone connects to that free Wi-Fi network. While the business probably has a setup, so it makes a VPN call into them. They've got the GPS coordinates of your location. As you're walking around the office, your phone has Bluetooth on it, and it has Wi-Fi on it. And all of that can be tracked. The big-box retailers are pretty much all tracking us by our cell phones because we connect to their Wi-Fi networks. It is a warning to everybody from the Wall Street Journal, and the stuff we talk about almost every week, about our activities, travels, and the tracking they are doing. And when we're talking about the business side, Chet's phone conversations on his work desk phone, and potentially the cell phone can be recorded, transcribed, and monitored. They know who is calling, but it isn't necessarily looking for bad things from Chet but potentially looking to see to whom he speaks. Is he somebody that's a mover and shaker in the organization? Is he someone who's inspiring other people, helping other people, tutoring mentoring other people. So there is a lot that's going on in just our regular day to day lives. That I think frankly, Ken, a lot of people aren't paying enough attention to this monitoring. We've got to keep an eye on our privacy. I'm going to be talking more about that as well on my show. Matt We are talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over what's happening to excuse me, in the world of technology. A great one that caught my eye here was the discussion Kids phones, my 12-year-old who was about to be 13 got a phone this year against my wishes, but whatever, that's a different conversation. Anyway, he got one. A lot of parents, including myself, have a lot of apprehensions about their kids getting phones and the effect that it has on them and sort of whether or not it leads to, you know, obviously, either anti-social behavior or like depression and whatnot. And then, of course, there's the cyberbullying stuff and all the things that go along with that. So far, I've been rather pleasantly surprised by his level of maturity with the phone and how it has not dominated his life. So now, there's certainly more time for him to disappoint me, but he's done an excellent job with it so far. Nonetheless, the reason I'm bringing it up is you have something to talk about as it relates to research and what it has recently shown and found about sort of kids and cell phone usage. What do you think is essential to communicate about that now? Craig 5:52 Well, I think you're doing some of the right things because cyberbullying is a very, very big deal. I was bullied pretty heavily in As a kid, but back then, it was people you know, their kids using two by fours hit me up the side of the head and pull knives on me, you know, really, really nice school. Um, but nowadays, it's different because back then, yeah, kids usually get away from the bullies, I may be able to see them from a distance, and you know, I can getaway. But nowadays that cell phone goes into your home, and the kids just can't get away from it. Some of the comments that other kids might say can be very, very mean and nasty. So you're right to be worried about that. Another thing people have been worried about, I think legitimately, is, you know, when Ken and I were kids, we got in and got sat in front of the boob tube. And that was kind of our babysitter for part of the day. I know, and they were worried about whether or not it was going to cause problems with our brains. And in some cases, it's pretty apparent that it has right, Ken. Ken I use a TV all the time to babysit my six and a half-year-old twin grandchildren. It is a great babysitter. They have good shows like Mickey Mouse Clubhouse now. Craig Is DisneyPlus subscription? Yes, Ken Yes, all of that and all the Star Wars to my grandkids love Star Wars. Craig Do they? The generation Z's aren't into Star Wars. So what else doesn't work? Well, there was a study published last Friday here, Matt, by two psychology professors and, and they look through some other studies, they come through about 40 different studies, and this is according to the New York Times. They're looking at social media use depression and anxiety amongst adolescents. Is it tied is it related? And these two from one from the University of California, Irvine, who was the lead author published it in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry says, quote, there doesn't seem to be an evidence base that would explain the level of panic and consternation around these issues. So, from what they're saying, there is a right to be concerned here about kid's phones and some adverse effects from the social side. Social media and smartphones with the kids there, they still stand out there questions about their brain development, what by the time they're adolescents, it's nowhere near as big a deal with causing brain development issues as when they're under five years old. But the other thing to really worry about is is what Danny and I were talking about. And he, of course, he's got the smartphones. You guys both have that everybody has a smartphone. There are smishing campaigns. Matt What's Smishing? Craig Smishing is, you know what phishing is, right? Of course. Matt Of course. We have had to take not less than 650,000 online training here at the WGAN morning news about said phishing ploys and whatnot. So, yes, we know that well. Craig 9:12 You do understand the difference between using an ax to cut through the ice to do your fishing in the winter, and when to those screws, instead, Right? Oh, Nevermind. So with smishing, it is another version of phishing, and it's using SMS or text messages. There is a big smishing campaign going on right now. Danny has seen some of these things come through as a lot of people have. I've got an article about it up on my site this week. What's happening is they're pretending they're us. They're pretending they're Apple or pretending they're a lot of other people. So adults know that you don't respond to phishing campaigns. You don't answer these numbers that you don't recognize. You get a text message from Apple. Hey, Does Apple send you texts like this? And expect you to call back, so we don't call back, which is the right thing to do, by the way, all the time. Don't call numbers that you don't recognize and don't answer the phone. But man, how about your 12 or 13-year-old or have you trained him well enough. Do you think Matt Do you think he has run through the full rocky training montage yet? No. Ken Okay, so that's the other thing I'd be worried about. We are talking to Craig Peterson. He is our tech guru. He joins us every Wednesday at 738. You can also hear him on WGAN on Saturdays at one o'clock, and he has a website Craig Peterson dot com. Quickly why does the FBI need Apple to hack into my iPhone? Craig Oh, what a great question. Fantastic question, mate. Hold on, let's just give people, you do understand? Yeah. Matt Well, every once-in-a-while, you know, we leave no clock. Craig The FBI wants to hack into your phone because you've got an iPhone 11 right, Ken Yes. Ken No, no I kept the iPhone 10 because I don't need the 11 Craig Exactly and that's excellent advice. I think the job, okay. Nicely done. Toys Craig My advice right now is if you're going to get a new phone get an iPhone 10 the XR right now I mean I the XR is that the regulars. Ken I'm going to have a big size. Craig Okay. Yeah, yeah, it is. It's one of the big moments. So, don't upgrade until the 12 comes out or maybe the 13 until 2021. Maybe 22 because that's when 5g is going to stabilize. Okay, but back to it. Your iPhone 10 probably not the FBI cannot hack into your phone. But some of these other iPhones, the older ones, like the ones that were just used recently in Pensacola. He shot his phone, and phones of that age, they don't need Apple's help to crack into it. But even as probably the FBI is asking for help, perhaps because the phone was so severely damaged, it was shot, right, right in the face. But Apple is excellent about trying to make sure these phones are secure. And the big question here and it's been for a long time, should the FBI or other government agencies be able to break any encryption basically at will or with a court order? And I am torn on this subject. I think they should not be able to because I look at it as our private papers. And we do have a right to privacy in those papers in those records. And nowadays, we're talking about our iPhones, frankly. Matt All right, well, Craig Peterson tech guru extraordinaire, joins us at this time and every Wednesday to go over the world of technology, this being no exception to that. I appreciate you joining us, as always, Greg, and we'll talk to you again next week. Craig Hey, gentlemen, thanks. Take care. Bye. Bye. You bet. Matt All right, we are going to take a break. Craig All right, everybody, again, I usually release the Saturday morning. So keep an eye on your email, you're going to want to follow them along. And we're going to be having a unique series of a little podcast but also emails because I want you to have this stuff written so you can share with your friends and family. I know not everybody listens to podcasts, right. And I'm going to be starting to send those out over the next couple of weeks about some specific security things. Some things you can do, using the tools you already have, to make yourself your, your friends, your family's computers, smartphones, etc. more secure, so we'll be going over that, so keep an eye out. Make sure you subscribe if you haven't already. Please subscribe to the podcast I'd appreciate it if you think it's worthwhile. I love it because those are the numbers that I see. My email list is just Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe, and I send every week an email, and in that, if you scroll down a little bit, you'll see links to each one of my podcasts for the weeks, including my appearances on various shows. And so with that information, you can just click right on the link and listen to that specific podcast. So I appreciate it. Craig peterson.com slash subscribe. Take care, everybody. We'll be back on Saturday. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. 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AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: Dangers of Plugging In, Apple Encryption Protects Privacy Provides Security, Microsoft Ends Windows 7 Support With No More Security Patches.
01/21/2020
AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: Dangers of Plugging In, Apple Encryption Protects Privacy Provides Security, Microsoft Ends Windows 7 Support With No More Security Patches.
Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning and I told him about Windows 7 no longer being supported with security updates and why all his listeners should definitely upgrade to Windows 10 if they were using Windows 7 to protect themselves. We talked about Apple and the FBI and the privacy and security that Apple has and why it is a bad idea to ever have a backdoor in an iPhone. So, here we go with Mr. Polito. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig This USB drive into the computer. And what it does is it uses the power coming from the computers like USB drive usually does. And it stores it up in a capacitor, and then it releases it all at once back into the computer. Craig Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here had a great little discussion with Mr. Polito this morning. He let me do a bit of freewheeling, and we usually don't do this. I suspect he lost my email between us, but we'll see what ended up happening. I may never find out, which means you may never find out either. But we didn't talk this morning about a couple of different things. A warning is an old warning. Hey, have you been listening to me for a long time you already knew this about USB devices, but I went over it again. Because somebody else pitched Mr. Polito with a story, I released it. Why broke what, like three or four years ago. And we also talked a little bit about chat. And an article in the Wall Street Journal this week. So here we go with Mr. Polito. Jim Here he is, folks, our tech guru. I'll tell you what he told us a long time ago, I think, Hey, you know, those public charging stations where you can charge your smartphone, hey, you might want to be careful with them because that's the way the bad guys can get into your phone. And lo and behold, checking my email this morning. And there's an email from some other person who considers them a tech themselves a tech talk guru, saying, hey, you should watch out for that woman. Come on. You show. No, thank you. We've already got the Tech Talk guru Craig Peters on our good friend. Good morning, sir. Craig Hey, good morning. I think that was what about that, at least two, maybe three or four years ago. Jim It was a while ago because Danny and I were looking at it and said, Hey, Craig talked about this a long time ago, we knew this already. Yeah, you plug your phone in there, the bad guys can get into your phone. Craig Yeah, there. There's an article this week that I shared with everybody about the FBI hacking into iPhones. Of course, the FBI right now is trying to get into some iPhones. They've done this before with the murder that happened down in San Bernardino. And that that became very, very high profile about three or four years ago. And the way they do that is the way they're able to hack into the older iPhones. It appears that they cannot get into the newest ones, but the older iPhones are exactly that connecting to the USB port on the iPhone. Wow. That's how they do it. So yeah, here, let's just tell everybody so they know we'll keep them up to date. There are a few problems that can occur. First of all, they can purposely destroy your device. Yeah, nowadays, a lot of computers use USBs, right? If you plug it in, there is a particular type of device that's very, very cheap. You can get them online, sometimes about less than ten bucks. And you can get them as a USB thumb drive. So you plug this USB drive into the computer. And what it does is it uses the power coming from the computers like USB drive usually does, and it stores it up in a capacitor, and then it releases it all at once back into the computer. And the very least it destroys your USB port, but more often it ruins the whole machine. So that's one problem with plugging into the power plugs or USB plugs at the airport. The other is your device could get hacked, just like the way the FBI has been trying to do it. And apparently Can't do it right now. Jim Yeah. Interesting. I did see that. So what's on the top of your agenda today? Craig Oh, man, there are so many things to discuss. But the first very first thing is everybody. We've had major, significant patches released on almost everything. Windows had critical security patches out, including the announcement that Windows seven is no longer getting security updates. It's about $80,000 a year for security updates for Windows seven, so unless you pay that you will not be getting them. Okay. Yeah. So this is as of last week. So last week was on set no more windows seven support. And then the day after the National Security Agency came out and said, Hey, by the way, there's a specific type of encryption so that if you try and encrypt/decrypt this, it isn't going to work, and it's completely fine passable. So a huge, huge problem, and it is the day after standard support for Windows seven. So step one this week update upgrade, okay, if you're running Windows seven, upgrade to Windows 10, Toronto. Jim Toronto. Wow. Wow. Craig So Good to know, and if you're not running Windows 10, update right away. Windows 10 has the same patch. Now, couldn't it be that you have a piece of equipment a piece of hardware that is so old that it will only run seven? Could that be the case? Yeah, Jim Could that be the case? Yeah, Craig Yeah, that's entirely possible. Now, it's not like it used to be where there's a new release of Windows, and it needed a much faster process, much more memory that is kind of behind us. But yeah, you might I have to tell you off, and I think this may be where you're coming from, that a lot of people don't upgrade. They just buy a new computer. And that's not A terrible, terrible idea to do to get a new computer and then make sure you patch it up. But if you're running anything older than Windows eight upgrade and if you're running Windows eight upgrade to Windows 10. I say upgrade! Jim Spoken like a genuine Apple guy. We're talking with our good friend Tech Talk guru Craig Peters on and at the end of this segment, we're going to tell you how you can get all this information from Craig and other updates essential updates, and no, he won't bother you, and won't send something to you that will fry your motherboard. No, he's not that kind of a guy. He's a good guy. Yeah, of course. Update to Apple because you love apple. Well, most people in the know who are smart like you love Apple. It's just those of us who don't want to pay for it. Craig Yeah, when you know you get right down to it when you're talking about paying for the Apple equipment, the hardware itself, if you were to configure a Windows computer, this with the same type and quality of hardware that Apple uses. We're talking about the same cards, with the same types of GPUs, and the same type and size of memory. Remember, it's not; it's not the size that necessarily matters is the speed of the RAM. The same kinds of drives, you know, the SSDs, and the superior Wi-Fi chips and everything else. So if you look at it as apples to apples just on the hardware, not talking about the operating system, when I've done this before, and every breakdown I've ever seen shows, Mac hardware is cheaper than Windows hardware equivalent windows hardware. Think about that when you're considering buying when a Windows machine. If you're going to a big box retailer, and you're paying, you know, 400 to 500 bucks for that laptop, you can now see why the expected life cycle of the average Windows laptop lasts is seven months. It is due to these cost reductions. Okay, so it's more expensive. Yeah, it is undoubtedly upfront. But these things typically last for five to 10 years. And they will serve you well during that time. So if you're looking to update up from Windows seven, indeed anything earlier, you probably want to get a new piece of hardware and to be very careful, because the cheap stuff out of China is exactly that, cheap. It is not very good. And if you want to kind of do a bit of an upgrade, go to a commercial computer provider of some sort. You can even call some of these companies right now. I have to say Dell is probably the best. But don't get the consumer version, get the professional version that's going to last you way longer serve you a lot better. And you're going to have fewer problems, frankly. That's why I recommend going to the next level, don't, but even if you're a home user, don't buy just the basic big box consumer-grade, if you can afford not to. Jim All right. A good bit of advice. We've got time for another important update. What else? What do you think would be most important to share? Craig Any but I think the most right now important for people to be aware of is what the Wall Street Journal has this week. They have an article called Meet Chet. Now Chet, is this fictitious guy is going about doing the ordinary things we all do. And it's kind of a neat little graphic that they have. But they're pointing out shets employer knows everything about him during the day. Even if he's not using a company issued a smartphone, right, so he wakes up in the morning, and what does he do? He does email, so the business knows, okay, Chad at 631 this morning, check this email. It says Nick logs into the guest Wi-Fi connections at the coffee shop in the morning because they have software on his smartphone to help protect the company data. You must have the type of authentication that a lot of them are tracking Bluetooth, even the big box retailers, all of them. When you walk into the store, they're following your device. So does the office know because they're tracking him everywhere he goes in the building? They're using it to figure out if he is a critical employee because he's going into other people's offices and helping them and tracking his email. We got to remember that everything that we do nowadays unless you unplug entirely, and you're living in the middle of nowhere, writing these manifestos On an old provider, everything is tracked, including from your company. So check your company's policies on all of this. We have security policies that we can provide to companies that they can use. Many of the companies we work for doing this, and it is entirely legal, as long as they're telling you about some of this stuff that you don't want them to do. So it's not just the bad guys that are watching you they are. It's like President Trump, with the New York Times, was able to track President Trump's movements, and they through secret service and find out who the people were. And if your phone every night goes to the same place and stays there all night long. They can reasonably assume that you're at home. We've got to start being more conscious about stopping this stuff. Jim Fascinating. Alright, so you can get more conscious about this. You can do this by connecting with Craig Peterson, not only during this segment every Tuesday at this time, but connected so that he can send you up to the day, relevant information. That's easy for folks like us to understand. So what you do is you text my name, Jim J-I-M to this number Craig 855-385-5553. So text Jim, to 855-385-5553. Jim All right, standard data and text rates apply. And Craig won't bother you, and it's good to have him on your side. Craig. Excellent segment as usual, and we'll talk to you next week. Craig Hey, thanks, Jim. Take care Jim You too, Craig Peterson, everybody. Okay. When Return Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at:
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Welcome! Relying on Technology for Protection, Zero-Day Browser Vulnerabilities, Vulnerable Broadcom Chipsets, Social Engineering, Updates, Patches, and Cyber War and more on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson on WGAN
01/17/2020
Welcome! Relying on Technology for Protection, Zero-Day Browser Vulnerabilities, Vulnerable Broadcom Chipsets, Social Engineering, Updates, Patches, and Cyber War and more on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson on WGAN
Welcome! Today there is a ton of stuff going on in the world of Technology, and we are going to hit several topics today. From Technological Protection to tactics. Zero-Day Browser Vulnerabilities, Malware Infected Phones, Vulnerable Broadcom Chipsets in Cable Modems. Why connections always mean hacking. Social Engineering. The absolute need for Updates, Patches. The Coming Cyber War is already here, and more on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson on WGANand more on Tech Talk With Craig Peterson today on WGAN and even more. It is a busy show -- so stay tuned. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Hello, everybody, Craig Peterson here a big week when it comes to security updates, and I mean a massive weekend. Welcome to show number 1043. That's weeks people. I've been doing this for a very long time, glad you have joined us, and if you are watching over on YouTube, I'd love to hear from you. Just email me at Craig Peterson calm you know if you're on YouTube or, or Facebook, I've noticed a few people who have subscribed, and I love that thank you very, very much. I hope you get a lot out of the show. If you're listening on the radio, of course, you can also email me at Craig Peterson calm with any questions that you might have. And I always try and answer them now sometimes it takes me a little longer than others. As you can imagine, I am a busy guy. It is kind of a labor of love, but we do want to answer your questions and help You out with everything. Keep an eye on your mailbox this week. Because I am finishing the course of courses. I am so excited about this, so proud of what we're doing. And what I'm trying to do here is help you get to the point where you have all the information you need. If you're the Operations Manager now responsible for it in a company, or you're a smaller company, you know, doctors office, etc. It is going to be great. So keep an eye on your email. Because what I want from you here as I'm finishing this course up is your questions. I want to make sure they all get answered. As I've been going through putting the course together, I've even noticed that there are things that would help take that kind of extra mile if you will, you know there are these concepts that people just don't understand. And I'm going through this thinking oh my gosh, you know, to me, it's so obvious, but to so many people, it's just not because this isn't what they do every day, and they've done every day for years and years. So we're adding a bunch of different things to this course, different bonuses that are going to help. Of course, as we always do, I will still do free training, that's always part of one of these courses when we lead up to it. And there's a lot of people out there that say, Hey, listen, I can get everything I need just from the free training. And you know, between you and me, that's not true. But you can learn a lot from those. So I hope you will attend. And if you're not on my email list right now, even if you're a home user and not a business person, you're not an office manager. Let's say you're a small business owner, and you're wondering if this is something that you should do or not. I think the answer is yes. Because really, I've never been so excited about something ever. It is something I think you're going to love. I know I have put mine all into this and solos my wife. I've had a couple of other people here in our team helping out as well had a great meeting this week. And it's just man, this is exciting. So anyway, if you're not on my email list, sign up right now so that you can get on you can get not just this, but every week I send out videos, I send out a newsletter. I do Facebook Live training and YouTube Live, and we have pop-up training when there's something that's hit the news that you know you're trying to stay ahead of we do all of this stuff, and that's all for free, but you got to be on that particular email list. So subscribe by going to Craig Peterson comm slash subscribe, make sure you're there. I think you're like it. You know, you can always unsubscribe, which some people do, right? It's not for everybody, but most people have been on there for years now. I have people on there. That man, I'm trying And remember, but it's been probably 25 years on that list. So join now Craig Peterson, calm slash subscribe. Now I started by saying that we have some real security problems this week. So I want I'm going to mention this a couple of times during the show, I want to make sure you guys know first of all, huge, huge, huge windows problem out there. And this problem was reported by the National Security Agency. Now, I made mention of this on the radio this week when I was a guest on the morning drive show, but I think it's worth mentioning again, and that is The National Security Agency when they have found these types of bugs. What do they do? They keep them for themselves. They don't want other people to know about the virus, because then they use that bug now to go and grab onto other people's computers, you know, foreign agencies, bad Guys, good guys, people that they're not sure of right all of this stuff. They've been using it for years. We saw this from Edward Snowden and his leaks, right? He went out, saying everything they are monitoring, and that they are capturing and, and they're putting up on to their computers and their data storage over there in Utah and just terrible things. So we know they're doing this stuff. Well, this was amazing to me, because I realized that here under the Trump administration, this is the first administration where the National Security Agency has recognized a more significant responsibility. It isn't just hacking into other people. It's providing security to us, to you to me, right, and helping us to understand what we need to do which yea yea yea right. I've always been trying to help everybody. Get more secure. So I'm glad the NSA is doing that. Now. They didn't do it under the Obama administration or the Bush administration or the Clinton administration, right? They just haven't done this, and I don't think ever. So kudos to them if they're listening. And of course, we know they are. And kudos to the government agency. So this is a big, big deal here with Windows. And we need to understand kind of what it is it's going on. But basically, it has to do with encryption. It has to do with that part of the windows that we use to try and keep ourselves safe. Now, it's not all encryption. I don't want to get too technical. Everybody, you know, my show here is really to help you guys understand things and not get all cliquey and clinical and buzzwordy, although sometimes I am accused of doing that frequently, I try not to. So it has to do with encryption. And it turns out that in the cases of this time, encryption. Microsoft isn't even validating keys, which, as you can gas, if you don't know anything about encryption, is a huge deal. So update windows pronto. Now, there are no known attacks in the wild, but you can be sure those are coming. Also, a big update this week from Firefox because of a massive security hole. You probably know, I love the Firefox browser. I use that Firefox browser. And I hope you do too. It is important if you use Facebook, because of Firefox browser has a special thing where it's fencing Facebook in so that it can't read all these other sites visited. It's great for that, but there is a security bug. So that's news, I guess. We want to make sure we fix that main, and you can do that by updating Firefox. Now Firefox is one of those browsers that updates itself. So hopefully you've recognized it Firefox came up and said, Hey, I want to restart to install patches, and then let it restart, you have to let it restart. And Chrome started doing that as well. Again, never, ever use Microsoft Internet Explorer, it is the definition of a problem for you. Okay, security and otherwise, so don't use Internet Explorer. And also, of course, the Edge browser. I wouldn't use either. And I'm not fond of Google browser, Google Chrome unless you have to use it, right, because some applications only work well in Chrome. So let's get to our first article of the day here. We're talking about half protected is half empty, and you can see behind me, technology can only protect you and me so much. Many of these threat actors, these cyber guys that are out there, they are coming after you and me. And one of the easiest ways to come after us is using phishing smishing some of these other tactics, and we're going to come up here in another segment Today, I'll be talking about smishing. And how bad that has gotten and how you can avoid it six tips. I'll give you here to avoid smishing. But in reality, right now, we're talking about the human element. And what the wetware You and I, right versus hardware and software you and I are doing, and we're getting confused, and they are taking us to task on this. But we've got to be careful here with our security controls. We got to make sure that people only have as much access to data as they need to know so so many businesses will see this all the time. And I understand if you're doing this because it gets kind of complicated to do it the right way. But so many businesses are sharing their file server with everybody. They've got an Active Directory server or some sort of a network-attached storage device, etc. And all of their files are on it, and everybody has access, you don't want to do that. Because all it takes is one person to get fooled into clicking on a link, downloading some of the malware software. And once that malware loads onto their computer, start to spread. Where is it going to spread? Well, heck, it says Look at this, a network-attached file system a file share. I'll just try start to spread that way, and it does. So keep your security controls in place. Make sure you have the minimum necessary access. Make sure when it comes to your password management, be sure that you are using password vault at a very minimum. You can go all the way up to things like Thychotic, which is just phenomenal; it changes passwords and everything as used. But be very, very careful because this can go a long way towards helping your business to stay safe. Train your personnel and make sure they know what they should be doing. You Google has some free tools you can use. I have some tools. In my weekly newsletter, a lot of businesses use that as their training. They have people go through that read it and then answer some questions. So that's all free at Craig Peterson, calm slash subscribe. So stick around. We're going to come back, and we're going to talk more about this whole Firefox warning. And we'll talk a little bit about browsers. You're listening to Craig Peterson. I'm of course on the air on WGN radio and other stations online at correct Peterson dot com Hey, hello, everybody, Craig Petersson here. Welcome back. We're going to talk a little bit right now about browsers. You know, this is the biggest problem I think many of us have when it comes to being online. which browser should I choose? And where am I going to see the problems? Well, as I just talked about in the last segment, and we're going to talk a little bit about now, we have a security vulnerability out there for Firefox. Now, Firefox is a browser made by the group known as Mozilla. And they've been making this browser for quite a few years. Now. I love this browser. I used to use it almost exclusively. Now, I've changed my tune a little bit. And I have a few different browsers that I use, frankly, for different reasons. So let's go through those reasons pretty quickly. One, if I need the most compatibility in a browser. And this usually means I'm using some sort of software as a service online. So I might be trying to do something extraordinary with a Canva, for instance, which is an amazing tool when it comes to graphics. And it doesn't always work so well with other browsers. It refuses to run under the Opera browser. So if I need the highest level of compatibility, it's Google, Google Chrome. And Google Chrome browser is the most supported, and it's number one out there, the most supportive browser, bar none. It didn't use to be, but it sure is now, the second browser level browser that I use for everything except for Facebook. Lately, I've been using Opera O-P-E-R-A. Now opera has browsers for your desktop, whether it's a Mac or Windows machine. Has it for tablets, it has it for your smartphones. P-opera is great. It is Every fast. That's kind of its claim to fame. It's the fastest browser, but it also has the highest level of security. Well, almost right? But of the common browsers that are going to work with most websites opera. So that's number two. Number three is the Firefox browser. Now, remember, I said, I don't run Facebook, inside of opera. And that's because Firefox has an incredible feature. When it comes to running Facebook. It fences it in quite literally see what far what Facebook's trying to do is get all the information they can get about you. Now, that's not necessarily a terrible thing. Because Facebook is frankly, selling advertising and they Want to know? What are you most likely to buy? And you know what this world runs on advertising. We see ads all the time on TV. We hear ads all the time on the radio like right now, if you're listening to me on the radio, you're going to hear ads, right? That's how the lights get kept on at all of these businesses. Now, would you rather see an ad for cars, new cars, when you're looking to buy a new car? Or do you want to see ads for cars all the time? Personally, if I'm looking for a new car, that's what I want to see. ads for a new car. If I'm looking for shoes, that's what I want to see ads for shoes, right? you get the point here. So if Facebook's able to kind of track what you're interested in what your friends are talking about, then it can give you the ads, and it thinks you're going to be interested in I love that concept. And as somebody who owns a business, I particularly love that concept. So I'm not wasting time or money, not wasting the time of people who aren't my customers and would never become a customer by showing them an ad, right? It's like the Super Bowl ads coming up in a couple of weeks here. But those Super Bowl ads that are almost useless and cost millions of dollars, you know, those are almost useless. So from an advertising standpoint, I love the fact that Facebook keeps that information. As a consumer, I love the fact that pays Facebook keeps that information. However, What I don't like is Facebook's habit of doing what's called cross-site tracking. What that means is Facebook knows Hey, I went to this site I went to that site, and it can help them with selling stuff it knows Hey Greg just went to the Ford website Ford trucks he was looking at, etc. etc. And so now it says Hey, Mr. Chevy dealer Are you interested in maybe buying some advertising is handed off to good old Craig there. And that's how they're making money as well. And so the Chevy guys happy because his ad went to somebody who was potentially going to buy the competition, which by the way, I buy an F 150. Any day over so many of the other products on the market, let me say that we can talk about that some other time, or a rather lengthy discussion. But that's what they're doing. So in the faith in the Firefox browser, when you're running Facebook, what it's doing is it is blocking that cross-site tracking. Because when you like something on Facebook, you might not be aware of it, but it can use some of that information for the cross-site tracking stuff. And there's a lot of information that I just don't want Facebook to have any of their business. Remember, it ends up in the hands of who knows who. Everyone to the Obama campaign. Did you want all of your information given to a political party? Then when Trump ran, they sold some of the information through a third party over in the UK to the Trump campaign. Alright, and so I certainly get it What? Why weren't people upset that the record of literally billions of people was handed right over to the Obama campaign, and yet, few only 10s of millions went to the Trump campaign, and everybody freaks out. Well, I guess that's part of the Trump derangement syndrome, right? So that's why I don't like Facebook to do cross-site tracking. none of their business was out. I'm going online, frankly. And that's where I use the Firefox browser. It's got some excellent cross-site tracking features built-in Plus it has some other features about advertising. And one of the ways that the web sites can figure out who you are, even if you turn off tracking, is to look at what plugins you have installed in your browser, right? A little bit about the history, the cache, the memory in your browser and your computer, right? The operating system version, the computer, the version of the browser, all of that stuff gets pulled out together, come up with a unique picture of who you are. So even if they can't say cookies, they can get all of this information, figure out who you are. Blocking Facebook from doing that when you are on Firefox, and in fact, Firefox blocks that kind of information gathering, no matter which website you're going to, it isn't just Facebook, so check it out. But the Department of Homeland Security now has come out issued a notification encouraging People to upgrade the Firefox browser. It is because there are serious critical actions where they use a security problem with the version of the Firefox browser. So they're warning us, they're advising us, they are encouraging us to make sure we update our Firefox browser up to at least version 72. Now the beautiful thing about the Firefox browser is it always tries to keep itself up to date. And so if your browser, whether it's Chrome or Firefox or anything if your browser comes up and says, Hey, I want to do an update, just let it do the update. Okay? Which usually means you have to quit the browser and restart it. So that's a huge deal because it's likely unless you configured it differently. You can tell it hey, I want you to reopen all the tabs I had open before all of the windows I had open and I do that all the time. I have, by the way, a little browser plugin that I use that you might like, it is called the Great suspender. I figured I should mention this to you guys, the great suspender. And what the great despite suspender does is if you go to a web page in a tab, it will automatically be suspended after an hour, 15 minutes whenever you set it for saving your computer memory and saving your computer execution time. Alright, so if you're like me, and you have a ton of tabs open, check that out the great suspender. So, in summary, if you have to have absolute compatibility, Google Chrome, normal browsing, you probably want to use opera and then Firefox for one year using Facebook, and then you know banks and things. Facebook or excuse me, and Firefox is pretty good. You're listening to Craig Peterson WGAN stick around because I'll be right back Welcome back everybody Greg Peter song here on WGAN and, of course, online as well. If you are watching on YouTube, and you want to see the articles, I post my videos on YouTube. This week we posted a few on Facebook as well. Hopefully, we'll be able to get them all up this week on Facebook as well as YouTube. So how do you find them? simplest way? Go to Craig Peterson comm slash YouTube if your YouTube user or Craig Peterson comm slash Facebook if you are a Facebook user, you know some of us like Facebook some of us don't like Facebook, I use it because of business. 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AS HEARD ON: WGAN Mornings with Ken and Matt: Smishing, Firefox and Cable Modem Vulnerabilities and more
01/16/2020
AS HEARD ON: WGAN Mornings with Ken and Matt: Smishing, Firefox and Cable Modem Vulnerabilities and more
Good morning everybody! I was on with Ken and Matt. We talked about StarTrek and then we got into Tech and what is going on with our Cable Modems. Then we discussed the big vulnerability with Firefox and why you must update it NOW! Also Smishing. So here we go with Ken and Matt. Microsoft is out with some Critical updates that must be applied. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: One of the most significant vulnerabilities in Windows ever was disposed at noon yesterday by the NSA. Craig Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson, here. I had a great little chat this morning with Ken and Matt about some of the things that are affecting us right now security-wise, including your cable modem, it is probably vulnerable. I gave some tips on what to do as I always try to do. We had a little bit of fun teasing each other about William Shatner. So here we go. Ken All right, we're back at 738 on the WGAN morning news with Ken and Matt. Happy Wednesday to you and Wednesdays at 738 means Craig Peterson joins us now, Craig. Craig Peterson Hey, good morning. Why would you guys insult my favorite over actor this morning? Matt Vince Vaughn Ken Are you referring to are you must be referring to Shattner Craig Yeah, I call him Bill. Yeah. Matt I'm sorry, but I believe the mystic name took us here because I have, for one, complimented his acting in the Wrath of Khan. I did not, yes I did in Star Trek Five. Although I mean, I liked Return Home. That's the fourth one with a little nuclear Wessels. Craig I don't know if you guys know it, but in upstate New York, a guy who is an Elvis impersonator, I forget his name. He bought all of these old Desi-Lu sets, and he rebuilt all the original sets from Star Trek, the whole thing. They examined the footage to see what they looked like, as some of the sets were destroyed or lost. But the entire thing is there, and I went on a tour. I've been there twice. They have these guided tours of the sets, and they talk about things, but it is the entire set. They reuse Kirk's tricorders for this, that and the other thing. There is cork running up and down the hallways. Now when I look at that original series, I tend to notice things like they run some of the footage backward, and that is because the entire enterprise, you know, where he's running between decks and up and down is maybe 50-75 feet long. There's one core door. And so you'll see, the names on some of the doorways are backward because they reversed it to make it look like he was running in a circle around the deck. Ken That is a great deal of detail that you're paying attention to Craig. Craig It is Yeah. I did notice that I watched Star Trek six a little while ago, and they used the warp core from Star Trek The Next Generation. Matt Anyway. While this is quite interesting, you are here to talk about tech topics, not Star Trek topics. So well kind of Craig So well kind of a lot of techs. I mean, let's face it Star Trek introduced a lot of tech issues. For example, the Motorola flip phone, right Matt from Motorola. Exactly right. Directly inspired. Yes. Dave. That's how we got came from going to the moon. So let's talk about technology, shall we? Many people use Firefox today. Now be worried about using Firefox? Craig You know, we've got a few major government warnings out right now. The biggest one is Microsoft Windows. Huge, huge, huge, one of the most significant vulnerabilities in Windows ever was disclosed at noon yesterday by the NSA. And so trick number one, although there's no evidence it's being used in the wild right now. What Microsoft There is a specific type of encryption that you can use in Windows. If you present Windows as an application saying, here's a file encrypted for me or decrypted for me, there is no validation at all of the key involved, it is a huge security problem. Now, why not something massive here, the difference between the Trump administration and prior administrations, and that is that previously, the NSA would find out about this and use it against people. They would use it against foreign governments, etc., who are using Windows and they'd say, Isn't this great? We have a way into computers, or we have a way to break encryption or to do whatever we want to make significant differences. Now, the NSA is telling us about some of these substantial security vulnerabilities. So tip one this morning patch Windows early and often patch it right now. Number two, we've also got the government warning. And this is Homeland Security about Firefox. Firefox is one of my favorite browsers. It is one of these privacy browsers made by Mozilla. It's very, very good, mainly if you are a Facebook user, because it has some special lockdown features and when it comes to Facebook. Still, Firefox also has critical security warning out, so make sure that gets updated with Firefox. All you have to do is exit Firefox started up again. And it will go ahead and patch itself all automatically but a vast and critical security warning for Firefox. Matt All right, we're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us for our tech update on what's happening in tech around the world. Now, Craig, I must admit, I've never heard of the word smishing. Could you educate me a little bit about it? Exactly what are some examples of this that people should understand? I guess as they continue to run around paranoid about all things in the world coming to get them. Craig It's like Australia, right? Everything's trying to kill you. Exactly. The Outback. Exactly. So here's what submission is you you've known what fishing is P-H-I-S-h-I-N-G where bad guys are trying to trick you into doing something. Some of the earliest examples of phishing is the Nigerian scams, where a poor Nigerian prince needed your help? Well, they have continued to evolve. And smishing is fishing on mobile devices when we're talking about texting messages. SMS messages, that's where it gets the name smishing. Right now, we're seeing an increase in messages being sent that looked like they are from a bank. In particular, right now, the US Bank is the biggest at a smishing message. I don't even know I should have looked this up if there is a bank called US Bank, but they're they come through is urgent messages. They pretend they are your bank or Amex or Visa or MasterCard. And they have a link that you can, and you can click on. So, for example, American Express dash message.com, which is not a legitimate domain. What will happen is once you get reported, and you can report almost anything to their email addresses. It is typically abuse at American Express, for instance, or abuse at the bank name. You can notify them once reported and the banks, etc. Find out about them. These sites like American Express dash message dot com get shut down. But be very careful nowadays, you unless the text is coming from me, click on mine, right. But unless a text is from someone you really know and trust, be careful, because they are sending out the text messages and you want to pry this is from your bank. And we're going to see a lot of this more and more. The new head of the FCC has been working very closely with the various telephone companies to try and put an end to this. However, because of the design of the systems, and that is without security in mind, it's going to take a while before they're ever going to be able to stop all of this. was speaking to Craig Pixar Ken We are speaking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us every Wednesday, 738. You can also catch him on WGAN on Saturday at 1 pm. What is this thing about cable modems and the attacks on them? I would think not true. One would be right. I would think so. Matt You would, right because of those cable modems? Craig Yeah, that's what I was. Yeah, it's a cable company, you might have the phone company depending on where you live providing your internet. And what's been happening historically, initially, we had cable modems, and we just hooked the cable modem up directly to a little switcher or a hub in our house right and used the internet from there. And then they got fancier, and the cable modem started having built into them little firewalls. They did this actually for the benefit of the cable companies because we're we are still running out of internet addresses. So they did a little trick called Nadeem gets kind of complicated, but right now, there are over 200 million affected modems over in Europe alone. There are estimated to be at least that many here in the United States. Here's the big problem. If you're using these cable modem firewalls in your homes, a lot of them are not up to date. Some of the ones that you bought yourself and those supplied by cable companies with names like Sagemcom, Netgear, Technicolor, and Compal models shipping to broadband subscribers, those are just some of the infected ones. We've got to be careful with all our equipment, just like we mentioned this morning, right already, we've got the NSA warning us about Windows and Firefox. It has issues our cable modems do too. So if you own your end device there, make sure it stays patched up. It's up to date. Don't buy the $80 router firewalls, and you have to spend at least 200 nowadays, to get a router firewall cable modem for your home. That is going to auto-update. However, we have pay attention to this as they are gaining direct access to our security cameras, our computers, all of our Internet of Things devices, in our homes, in our small businesses. So my general advice is to go and buy a suitable cable modem yourself put it in. And when I say I didn't have a modem, my main one that is has a built-in firewall and is going to update it shelf automatically for at least a few years. So that means get them from some of the more prominent manufacturers that are out there. And if you're interested, you can just email me at Craig Peterson calm. I'll send you a little list of the current ones out there that I've been recommending people just drop an email to me at Craig Peterson calm. Be glad to let you know. Matt All right, ladies, gentlemen, that is Craig Peterson. He's our tech guru. He joins us at this time every single Wednesday, and this Wednesday is, of course. I appreciate it as always, Craig, and we'll talk again next week. Craig Gentlemen, take care. Bye. Thanks a lot. All right. Craig 12:05 Hey everybody, I'm going to be sending out an email because I am working on a fantastic course right now. I would love your input. I want to make sure I cover everything. It is going to be the definitive course, and I am sure of it when it comes to protecting your computers. So keep an eye out for the email that's going to bet coming. If you're an office manager, if you're someone who has the responsibility of securing computers in a small company, this is for you. So keep an eye out. I'm more excited about this than anything I've done before. I've done these DIY or Do It Yourself cybersecurity courses before and several other courses. However, this is the course of courses when it comes to securing your computer but also administering your computers. I'm going to get some bonuses because I'm working on it thinking, you know, what else can I do that's going to help them understand the depth of maybe how far they need to go. There's a couple of times where I was doing this saying, and you know what they need to understand this too. So putting all of that in, this is going to be amazing. But I do want to make sure I'm covering everything you guys want to have included. So I don't hear I'm rambling on, but keep an eye on your email, because I'm going to be sending something out probably early next week about this as we're finishing up these modules, and then we'll use your input to polish it up. So thanks again, everybody, and we'll be back this weekend. Bye-bye. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553
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AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: Firefox Vulnerability, Ring Vulnerability, IoT and Segmenting Home Networks and More
01/14/2020
AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: Firefox Vulnerability, Ring Vulnerability, IoT and Segmenting Home Networks and More
Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning and we discussed all about Canada and some of the things going on there. We talked about the Ring doorbell vulnerabilities and the big vulnerability in the Firefox browser and why you must patch this. Then we talked about why it is important to segment your home network. So, here we go with Mr. Polito. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jim little this morning, and we got into Canada for some odd reason. It had to do with the death of that sports broadcaster who was from Canada. We talked a little bit about Canada, my family, and the problems with socialism up there. Isn't that always the case with socialism the problems are married. Then we got into the whole thing about ring doorbell safety, security, and privacy. So here we go with Mr. Polito. Jim Polito He has Canadian Heritage, but he denies all of the rumors that Harry and Megan will be staying with him, in Canada, or with his relatives in Canada. Joining us now is our tech talk guru, Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir. Craig Peterson Good Morning. Jim Polito Yeah, I told everybody he's an American now, there's no truth to the rumors. He was not part of the team that convinced Harry and Megan to come over to Canada and then eventually, you know, the United States, North America. I said, Now, Craig Peterson has nothing to do with that. I didn't even bother to call you to ask whether or not the rumors are true. Craig Peterson I don't get why people even care, right. When I lived in Canada. I had an aunt who was totally into the Royals. She tracked everything they were doing. If you've seen the show "The Crown", you know, she knew every little thing that every member of the family was doing. I know some people are really into it. Personally, not me. I prefer Doug and Bob McKenzie, but they haven't been performing for very long time. Jim Polito Hoser. One of your countrymen, just passed on and I'm not joking, it is sad Neil Peart died from brain cancer at 67 years old. He was an incredible drummer, whether you like Rush's music or not. He was just an incredible musician and lyricist, just an incredible guy. Craig Well, you know, in Canada, they require broadcasters, anyone, with a broadcast license or radio or television to play a certain amount of Canadian content? I think it's like 40%, at least usually. The reason they did that is to help build the Canadian industry. So if you wondered why so many musicians and bands come out of Canada, that is the reason. A lot of them are coming out of the US, too. Did you ever wonder why half of the news anchors are from Canada? It just goes on and on. It is because the Canadian federal government is forcing businesses to find people who are good, like me, I know, and then pushing the stations to play their stuff. Jim Polito You didn't catch it on this whole thing when you were Canadian. Craig Peterson Oh, man, that was so many years. Jim Polito I know, but you should have you should. I mean, if they had that kind of, first of all, I don't agree with those type of things, government involvement. However, if they had that down here, like, wow, I'd be trying to figure out a way to cash in on it. Craig Peterson Well, I had to leave Canada because of the creeping socialism. You know, in Canada, when I was in my teens, I was already in a 50% tax bracket. Jim Polito At 19 years old, half of what you earned was going to the government. Craig Peterson Exactly, and my driver's license again back in the 70s, in Quebec was $300 a year. Car registration for the family, for the family station wagon, was almost $3,000 a year. These are not adjusted numbers I've given you. It was 1970. Registration $3,000 a year! But you know what? Insurance was free. There was no-fault insurance. The province paid all the bills, and I've got horror stories of almost every member of my family dealing with the Canadian healthcare system. Yeah. It's terrible. My dad has a heart attack, and he's in the back of an ambulance in Toronto. He's in Toronto, big, big city. Jim Polito Toronto Craig Peterson Having a heart attack and they're driving around hospital to hospital for three hours before they find a hospital that will finally admit him. Then he's admitted, and they say they'd keep him overnight and do some blood work. They did a cardiac test and found sloping t-waves. Yes, you had a heart attack. Take aspirin. Now he's having mini-strokes, and they won't treat him. My mother had a pancreas attack - pancreatitis, which is quite painful, right. She found a hospital in Montreal that would take admit her. Well, if you call admission being put on a gurney in a hallway for three days where they don't feed her or anything. They just gave her water and told, she would feel better soon. Jim Polito Oh boy. You know, we should do get to this video doorbell thing, but we should do a segment one day just to give folks a good eye-opener from an actual Canadian. As to how things operate up there. That would be an exciting segment, but let's get to this. So you've got a video doorbell which technology I think is incredible. You know, it's great, except when used against you. So now what you're saying is that video doorbell that supposed to keep the bad guys away is inviting the cyber hackers into your home. Craig Peterson Yes, this is an exciting technology. The story behind Ring, this company, is fascinating. These guys that started it, they sold it for apparently a billion dollars to Amazon a couple of years ago. Yeah. And the whole idea initially was, "Hey, listen, you replace your doorbell with this little camera," and you can be in like you are all the time and Bermuda on the beach, right? Someone rings your doorbell, and you can answer the door from there right, and you know when there's good guys and bad guys. Well, it turns out rings been doing a couple of things. One is that they shared themes from these ring doorbells with specific police departments that have applied for this. Now again, it is a double-edged sword. Now the police can look through a neighborhood to see if an abduction occurred. If there is an amber alert, oh my gosh, having a camera accessible to the police on every door. Senator Markey came out and got upset about Amazon making deals with law enforcement agencies that could expose these customers' private personal information. Because it can also show that woman that you brought home a night that wasn't your wife? What's that about? Right? So it's very concerning. But the part that concerns me more than all of that, frankly, because as a tool for law enforcement, I think it can be good. But I'm I am not for a London style surveillance system or Chinese-style surveillance where they watch everything. But the thing that concerns me is that Ring got designed by a couple of kids and bright kids. They use building blocks, and the way you build things nowadays gem is different than it used to be. Nowadays. It's like let's say you want to make a car. You can buy an engine and a crate, right? You've seen these things before? Yeah, of course. You get a crate engine, you can buy a transmission, and that engine has all the parts in it as you're ready to go. That transmission has all the pieces in it. Ready to go? So you make the frame, or maybe you use an existing structure and put a body on it and slam that engine, and you slam that transmission on then add a few little parts, buy the seats, etc. Now you've got a car. Did you design that car? Did you make that car? Well, yes and no. Jim Polito Yeah. Craig Peterson Yeah, exactly. The same thing is happening with software development nowadays, and even hardware development because frankly, this is the same thing. That is, you are not writing all of the software to do everything right. You are going to write an internet protocol stack. You're just going to use an existing one. You're not going to design an operating system, you're going to grab Windows Embedded or Linux or something else and put that in, and then you're not going to create the camera module. You're just going to buy that one from China. And you're not getting design the website, software, etc., etc. So what happens is that guys like green, go ahead and say, hey, I've got this great idea for this camera, here's what we're going to do. And they go out, and they buy a crate engine. They buy a transmission and a great, then they purchase old, and they bolt them together. And they don't realize that Wait a minute. Now, this transmission doesn't quite fit. So we're just going to make this little adapter make it fit. Well, it turns out that those transmissions' were burning out after 10,000 miles because they were never designed to use the amount of power from that engine. However, these guys don't know that. And building something, they're prototyping something, and then they build up a significant market value, which they did a billion dollars in colossal market value. Then they sell this company and more often than not, the company that bought these little guys just goes ahead and puts a turbocharger on the engine and says, Okay, we're all set without really investigating. And that's what it looks like happened here again. It is happening all the time. These systems have not been designed with security in mind. Now, not only is the hardware in many systems not designed with security in mind, but the whole development process does not keep security front and center. So we now have surveillance videos of young kids in their rooms with their ring camera talking to them because of a hack, right? Yeah, we've got login credentials last month of more than 3600 ring account holders breached, reportedly. Their data is sitting up there in the cloud, and accessible by the bad guys. Devices like this, mainly, and over 90-95% of security cameras are built with backdoors by China and are used to lunch attacked out square. So So what do I do? Jim Polito So what do I do? What do I do? Craig Peterson Well, it's scarce to find a home security camera that is not insecure out of the box. In other words, all of them are insecure and kind of the bottom line on this thing, according to Krebs on Security, Brian Krebs. He is a security guy like me, but here's what you do. You have a second network for those devices. That's number one. A lot of the routers that we buy allow you to segment your network. The better routers have this capability, and you can send me an email if you have any questions about this. Now any of these Internet of Things devices, such as cameras, refrigerators, or any other gadget and appliances, can be on a separate network. That's what we do at our house. So we have multiple Wi-Fi networks. So that stops the bad guys from being able to attack or get information from your computer. Jim Polito You have given us advice on this before for other things, as you've said you must protect yourself from being hacked by the Internet of Things. Craig Peterson Exactly right. And then what can you do about the hacker getting into it? Well, then it gets a little bit more complicated. You have to use specialized software and things but bottom line, make sure your security cameras, your ring doorbells, etc., etc. Make sure they're updated when they say there's an update. Okay, no question about it up, and we got two big problems right now. Real quick. Firefox has a known zero-day vulnerability. Make sure you upgrade your Firefox browser. It has a horrible vulnerability. Here's more from good news department over 200 million cable modems are vulnerable to a new hack out there. The bottom line we've got to change the way the systems are designed, and we've got to change the way these systems are maintained. Even Samsung only supports their top model phones for two years, and that's why I keep saying use the never use Samsung, never use Google Home. By the way, it is the least secure. Jim Polito Danny has that. Craig Peterson The elections are a lot safer, at least at this point. But yeah, make sure everything is kept up to date as best you can update your modems (routers/firewalls) and update everything. Its the only way you're going to stay safe. You got to become a bit of an IT expert. All right, you heard it Jim Polito Now, if you want to know more from Craig Peterson, it's straightforward. All you have to do is text My name to this number. Go ahead, Craig 855-385-5553. That just Jim to 855-385-5553 standard data and text rates apply. Craig will not hack you try to sell you stuff. He only provides you with all the information you need. Craig, thank you so much. We'll talk with you next week. Craig Peterson 855-385-5553. That just Jim to 855-385-5553 standard data and text rates apply. Jim Polito Craig will not hack you try to sell you stuff. He just provides you with all the information you need. Craig, thank you so much. We'll talk with you next week. Craig Peterson All right. Thanks, Jim Bye-Bye. Jim Polito All right. We'll be back with a final word Craig Peterson Hey, everybody. I want to tell you something that's coming up. I am so excited about this. I have never seen anything like this before. We have the most incredible thing for you. I really can't tell you much about it right now as it is embargoed. About this, probably starting next week a little bit, but I have. Man, if you are kind of the de facto IT person, right? Maybe you got your Microsoft certification some years ago, and you're the person responsible for the computers in the business. I think I have something that's going to make your life a lot easier. You're now going to be able to sleep-at-night, you're going to be able to take vacation days. Oh, doggie. My wife and my team and I've been working on this now for months. We are getting close, so I got my fingers crossed. We'll do it next week. But keep an eye open and ear out. And also, of course, make sure on my email list, so you find out about it. Craig Peterson, calm slash subscribe. Hey, I also want to make sure that you guys know I am posting videos on The radio show my content online at both Facebook and YouTube. So you can find those, please watch them, please subscribe, please like them, please share them. A lot of work goes into this. It's it is a lot of great information that we're putting together that helps you know what's going on right now. So that when you're at the water cooler, you can be the expert at that water cooler and at the business to help everybody out. All right. So have a great day, and we'll be back tomorrow. Bye-bye. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at:
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AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: Iran, Amazon Delivery, Vulnerable Cable Modems and Urgent Firefox Patch and More
01/14/2020
AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: Iran, Amazon Delivery, Vulnerable Cable Modems and Urgent Firefox Patch and More
Welcome, Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning. We discussed Iran, The Broadcom chipset in cable modems that makes them vulnerable to attack, How Amazon is changing it's delivery model and most importantly if you use Firefox, the Patch that is available. Here we go with Jack. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Transcript: Craig Good morning, everybody. It's another week we got a lot of fun stuff we're going to be doing this week. Thanks for joining me this morning. Or we talked about the latest in security. Jack talked, a fair amount, about what's happening in Iran right now with some of the demonstrations anti-government demonstrations going on. And so we took a slightly different angle, but what is Iran doing? And what can you do about it? That was this morning with Mr. Heath. Jack Heath Our Tech Talk Guru, Craig Peterson, joins us live now. I had a chuckle over the weekend on Sundays. In the past, I saw a lot of US mail trucks delivering Amazon packages, but this past week, and I saw a lot of Amazon prime vans. Is Amazon going to try to take over their delivery? Craig Peterson Well, those vans are not Amazon-owned. We have all kinds of individual contractors now who have bought routes and that have their own equipment. I have a friend of mine who has done precisely that. He's bought a bunch of these sprinter vans. They're all branded Amazon now, and he's hiring guys to go out and make the deliveries. Amazon is getting to the point where they're using only contractors and are saving a lot of money in doing this. They've entirely severed ties with FedEx, which upset a few people. It did not hurt FedEx's bottom line. But this is a considerable change, Jack. Jack Heath Interesting. What else is catching your eye on the high tech side of things? Craig Peterson Some big news this morning, first of all, we know that Iran is attacking us and that Firefox is vulnerable. A very, very big deal right now, so make sure you patch Firefox if you use it as your browser. It's an excellent browser to use. I certainly recommend it over Internet Explorer, but with Firefox, it will self-update. Make sure it's updated, and the second Big thing is over 2 billion. Cable modems are known now to be vulnerable to a dangerous new attack. So I guess the bottom line this week, Jack is to make sure everything's patched up to date because Iran is after us. They've increased their attacks by more than 50% in one week. So this is a bad time to have unpatched computers because they're trying to destroy our machines. They are wiping them when they can get their hands on them. Jack Heath Listen, not to advise Iran, but if they were going to do something like that, can they start with the companies that hold my wife student loan debt, because that would be nice to have it all wiped out. Craig Peterson That would be a great idea. They are going after banking, businesses, and government, but they are trying to hurt the job makers in the United States. They are trying to nail small companies. So if your wife's loan is in a small business, maybe they'll get nailed, and they'll lose all the information. Who knows? Jack Heath All right, Craig. His Tech Talk show airs Saturday morning, or Saturday, midday, and I heard you are on some new stations, Craig making the good money. Thank you. Craig Peterson Take care. Bye. If any of you guys out there are having a little advice for me on this, I'd love to know. I was on the Oversight Board. I was the chairman of the board for a State Agency, and we're supposed to be providing oversight for it. I ended up not accepting the nomination for another term, I guess that is the right word, for my position on this oversight board because we could not investigate things. I'm the freakin Oversight Board Chairman. Why can't I look at records or look at individual cases that the State was investigating? The State got to pick the situations I would look at, which was infuriating to me because it's a federally mandated oversight board. And I just don't get it anyhow. Right now, it seems that there is some lawsuit activity going on concerning this board. I am not sure that what I have to say would be valuable or not. What do you guys think? Should I contact the lawyers involved? Contact my lawyer? I don't know if any of you guys have any opinions on this. What is the right way to go? I think there are some substantial abuses, and they indeed are alleged in this lawsuit. I did not see these abuses because they would not let me investigate. I don't know if it would muddy the waters or muddy my name. I have no idea. I don't know that I'd be of much use. But it upset me at the time, even though it was several years ago. But anyway, so like, I'd love to know. Hey, if you have any questions, comments, concerns, if there's some training, you'd like to make sure you email me at Craig Peterson calm. Sorry to put you guys into this. Maybe I shouldn't have, I don't know. We'll be back tomorrow more than likely with Mr. Pulido. Take care of your body and keep an eye out because I have some I think cool pieces of training coming up here. Some pop-up training and Morgan do some webinars in the next couple of weeks. Take care. Bye-bye. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: Message Input: Message #techtalk Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553
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Welcome! Iran Cyber retaliation, Automotive Automation and LIDAR Sensors, CCPA Takes Full Effect and more on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson on WGAN
01/11/2020
Welcome! Iran Cyber retaliation, Automotive Automation and LIDAR Sensors, CCPA Takes Full Effect and more on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson on WGAN
Welcome! Today there is a ton of stuff going on in the world of Technology and we are going to hit a number of topics today. How will Iran Retaliate - Kinetic or Cyber retaliation, Automotive Automation and LIDAR Sensors, CCPA Takes Full Effect, Updating Legacy Technology, Cloud Migration Considerations, Cybercrime Metrics, Industrial Control Systems under Fire from Hackers, Ramping up Insider Threat Intelligence, Budget and Security Decision Surrounding Cloud Adoption and more on Tech Talk With Craig Peterson today on WGAN and even more. It is a busy show -- so stay tuned. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: --- Machine Automated Transcript: Hello, Everybody, Welcome. Welcome. Of course, this is Craig Peterson. I'm live on the radio and WGAN and also heard on the Internet at Craig Peterson dot com. I'm on Facebook and YouTube. I did a couple of lives this week that hopefully, you were able to watch. If you didn't see them live, they're essential to know because I was talking specifically about attacks that were underway from Iran this week. And I'm going to be getting into that a little bit as well today. So continue to pay attention to today's show. Now, if you are a Facebook fan, I love it. If you would go ahead and like my page over on Facebook, Follow me just go to Craig Peterson dot com slash Facebook, Craig Peterson dot com slash Facebook now. You know that I'm continually warning people about Facebook and some of the things Facebook is doing some of the things that are well, perfectly legal, but maybe things you don't want to have done to you, like all of the tracking Facebook does. But that means you might want to use something else. So what else you're going to use? Well, Google YouTube, right? Oh, wait a minute. There are problems with YouTube too. Thus, the lesser of two evils for now, and that's where we're at for the time being. I'm thinking about trying to use WhatsApp for this as well. So we'll see how that goes. Let me know if you'd like to watch this on WhatsApp. But if you go to Craig Peterson comm slash YouTube, you will be able to watch those videos right there because I did them lives on in fact, and I can do simultaneously now on YouTube and Facebook. So make sure you check them out and learn a little bit about what you can do. I went through this article from this week here from the US Department of Homeland Security. And I, you know, I didn't go through all of the details because this is restricted distribution. And so there are some things in here that they don't want generally shared. But I am going to go into more detail and to do that, what I'm going to be doing is some specialized pieces of training now these have always 100% free. I give you great information, you should see all of the compliments I have from people, but it's coming up in a probably about a week from now. So you have to be on my email list if you are going to be able to be informed about this stuff. Okay. So on my email list, what does that mean? Go to Craig Peterson comm slash subscribe. Now when you do that, it's going to ask for your name and your email address. Make sure After you submit that Go to that email box, verify that you got the email the confirmation email, and click okay. What I don't want to have happen is for someone to go in and sign up 100,000 people who don't want to be on my email list. And so I send it out to all these people who don't want to be on my email list. And then I get a bad reputation right as a spammer because people say, why don't you send me this email. So what I've done to help protect my reputation online, is I make you do what's called a double opt-in. So you're going to fill out that form at Craig Peterson com slash subscribe. And then, once you fill out that form, it's going to send you an email to that email address, and you have to click that confirmation. So make sure you do that because if you don't click the confirmation, and I noticed there's like 100 people who have not clicked the confirmation. I want to make sure that you do click it so that you get the information that you need, including these pop-up training webinars that I'm going to be doing coming up here in another week. So Craig Peterson calm slash subscribe right now. You can do it on your mobile phone you can do it on your laptop on your computer. And man, I hate to say this, but I'm not sure if it's working right now, but I have a texting thing as well. Where you can text me directly at 855-385-5553, but as I said, I'm not sure it's working. So you know emails easiest way and sign up right there glad to have you on board, and I believe me I don't spam you. I'm not sitting there trying to sell you stuff all of the time my webinars on one of these Hey, hammer, hammer, hammer, bye, bye-bye, hammer, you know, that's not what I do. I want to get the information out. And you know, I do have things for sale, right? I have to keep the lights on. And so for that You know, I'll ask permission from you. Before I ever offer anything, I don't offer things very often. So I guess, I guess that's a good thing to consider. Alright, so let's get into our first article here. We've got a lot today. We're going to be covering your networks and why they need to be updated today. Many businesses are now doing something called unclouding. They're leaving the cloud. So we're going to talk about why they are leaving me why you might want to leave as well. Of course, we're going to get into Iran. It turns out that they are hacking us, and the hacks this week are up over 50%. And so we'll tell you a little bit about what you can do about that. They're also targeting the Trump campaign for 2020. Like that's a surprise, right. We're going to talk about what Iran is doing to our industrial control systems right now. And how that can affect all of us. Right, you don't have to have the kinetic war, you don't have to be sending bombs back and forth. To have an impact on us a little bit more about the cloud, we're going to talk about the decision to move to the cloud, not use the cloud, some of the things involved in that today. And I'm probably going to put together a course on cloud migration a little bit later on this year, and we'll see how that goes. major changes to our automobiles. But this is kind of cool. Because these LIDAR sensors, I did a scan online, I did a little search and now I'm able to find them for under 100 bucks. That's going to change the automobile industry. So we'll talk about what LIDAR is and why it's going to change. California man, if you are a business, you got to pay attention to this. We're going to talk about the new California Consumer Privacy Act, which is in full force now. And we're going to talk about these insider threat programs that businesses have been Frankly, how they need to grow up. So a lot to cover today. And if you miss anything, you're going to find it in the newsletter I send out every week. And again, where are you going to find that? How are you going to sign up? Craig Peterson comm slash subscribe, so make sure you sign up and sign up right there. Okay, so let's get into our first article of the day. This one's from dark reading. And it's talking about cybersecurity misery index. Now, you know a little bit about this whole misery index thing you hear about it when it's a hot, humid day outside. Oh, my gosh, what should I be doing? It's just too hot. I don't want to do anything. Right. And so you've got the wind chill effect. You've got the humidity effect, all of these things that can affect you. So what does this mean? cybersecurity misery. Well, we already know that about 10 to 20% of businesses. bump 20% will file for bankruptcy almost the next day if they get ransomware. Or if they get this wiper software that we'll talk about later from Iran. 20% of businesses Think about that. If you are responsible for the security for your business, how long is your job going to last when the business has filed for bankruptcy the very next day? Not long. How about you as a business owner, where is your retirement, all your money's tied up in your business? How long is that going to last again? pretty much never. So there is a lot of pain when it comes to cybersecurity breaches. that people don't think about it. It's not just dollars lost, like, you know, we get calls from businesses that say, Hey, listen, we just had our operating account emptied. In cases we have been involved with the amounts varied from about $80,000 up through almost a million dollars. One company had money stolen right out of their main operating bank account. Well, that's miserable because you can't make payroll, right? You can't pay your vendors back vendor payments as part of the way they get some of this information. But there is another side to this. You know, no records loss doesn't mean that there is not going to be any sort of a cost to your business. There are other metrics that matter, as well. So this is from Deloitte and Touche married Galligan. She says you would have to take into account the cost of whether there's going to be an increase in insurance premiums, a loss of customer relationships because right now, most businesses could lose 30 to 50% of their customers. If word of a breach got out, is it going to be last contract revenue is my company's name going to be of less value in the marketplace? I guess it goes back to retirement, right? Are you going to be able to retire by selling that business? What's your exit strategy? So there's a whole lot you have to consider here. They go into some stories here, but a small bank, their web-facing patient portal, was hit by a bot swarm. And they did the credential stuffing. And man, there's just so many things that that you have to consider. This week, we found one of our clients had been under attack, and we're trying to figure it out. It kind of looks like it spread in from someone else in an adjacent business. Their Bluetooth was compromised, and Bluetooth on a laptop and then tried to break into and compromise my client systems. So we caught it. We noticed it because we've got this more advanced threat protection, and that's what you have to have this ATP nowadays, Advanced Threat Protection, which is not Norton. Okay? Currently, there's only one product on the market that meets the requirements at Homeland Security for businesses. It turns out that it is the product that we've been selling for quite a while. I'm not trying to sell anything right now. But pain is inevitable, even if you don't get hacked. Because what ends up happening is your personnel have to track it all down. It's 24 seven, that pager goes off, the phone call comes in. They have to review thousands of log entries, and hopefully not make a mistake. So pull up your socks, and we'll be talking about that a little bit more when we get into Iran. All right, everybody, you listening to me on w GAN? You're watching me on YouTube on Facebook and Craig Peterson. com. Stick around because we'll be right back. Hi, Craig Peterson back here WGAN and online and Craig Peterson dot com. Hey, if you're a Facebook fan, you'll find me on Facebook. One of the easiest ways to get there is Craig Peterson com slash Facebook. And if your YouTube fan Craig Peterson com slash YouTube. Now this week, I did a couple of pieces of training that I hope you're were able to attend these live! The first one was rather short. It was like three, four minutes. The second one was in my book short, it was about 15 minutes, and I went through some of the things you should be doing. When it comes to the Iranian hacks, then I do those fairly frequently, and really, I should be sending out emails. I did send out some text alerts to people about them, and I may do that tomorrow as well. If you want to be on my text alert system, make sure you just email me Me at Craig Peterson calm, let me know you want to be on the text alerts, and I'll be more than glad to add you. I'll need your phone number, and I'll get you all set up for that. Many of us, I think, are a lot like me. Where I am just, you know, hunky-dory happy to have a computer that's ten years old. Because man has, it paid for itself over those ten years. I keep the hardware until it fails. My last laptop was probably the most short-lived I have ever had. It was about three-four years old. And it was an Apple MacBook Pro. And it ended up having like three problems in one year. Apple refunded me 100% of my original purchase price. If you can believe that. Can you believe that? They a three-year-old computer 100% the original purchase price now I had to Apple care on it, and It had been in the shop three times in the last 12 months. So they just gave me my money back. And then, of course, I use that turned around and bought another MacBook Pro. Right. So that's kind of cool. I guess this one will have the same problem in three years. But typically they last us seven to 10 years. Honestly, they do. They're just fantastic computers. I think my wife's Macbook Air is almost 11 years old. They work well while you're using them, plus you have the advantage of their longevity. But the problem is that not everything in that computer is patchable. You take a look at the hardware that's in its like your Bluetooth hardware. What we have found is that while Bluetooth is getting hacked and particularly the old stuff because the chipsets that are in the devices are running a full operating system. It's not like the old days where they only did one little thing. They have a full operating system because they have to handle the interrupt, they have to handle multiple different types of Bluetooth, you know, the new low power extreme low power. Bluetooth is used to control the amount of power that's being output as you walk away from your device, right? That 30-foot range that nowadays can be as far as a quarter-mile. All of that requires some real smart inside this little teeny tiny chip. That's the Bluetooth control chip for your computer. So what happens is like what happened, as I mentioned earlier this week to one of my clients, which is somebody else's Bluetooth, went ahead and kept it to their computer and tried to infect it. Now all of this was caught because of the Advanced Threat Protection that we have in place. That's what we're going to talk about right now. We are All have this old equipment, our operational technology as Derek command key puts it here. And it's not just our laptops, and it's not just the Bluetooth, it's all the devices we have. And those devices, when they become old, have a real drawback. Now it might be that the drawback is, hey, listen, it kind of kinds of a bummer. But you know, this Bluetooth chip has been deprecated and is known to be vulnerable. Okay, well, okay, I get that one. That's a bit of a problem, right? What happens to those computers in the vast majority of businesses? They don't do upgrades. They don't try and fix any problems with the software and the vulnerability in the computer. So what's happening here? what he's talking about is that the cybercriminals, instead of innovating, you know, don't get me wrong, they do innovate. But instead of innovating, they look at these older computers and say, Hey, why are we innovating? I can take you right now on to the dark web on to these websites that sell hacker tools. It includes ransomware, and you can buy some of the old tools for as little as 20 bucks online. That's cheap. Now 20 bucks, is cheap. But to that guy's selling it to are in Eastern Europe or somewhere else in the world, where 20 bucks is a lot of money. Well, to them. Well, as I just said, it's a lot of money, right? So why would hackers spend weeks hours months or a million dollars, which is what it costs for some of these newer zero-day attacks? Why would they try and do any of that when they can just spend 20 bucks? So what they do is they say, Well, I'm going to spend 20 bucks and go out, and they are going to scan systems for different vulnerabilities. We see them every day with our clients and, and our people have to get involved and look into the systems and trying to understand, you know, what's going on here. Is this legit? Is this an attack already protected against it is the system upgraded, right? But most businesses aren't doing any of this stuff. It's usually just the big guys, and we do it for small guys, as well as for ourselves. So we're seeing this all the time. So if your systems are older and not patched, what do you think is going to happen? The bad guys, rather than spending a lot of money or a lot of time, are just going to use old tools. So even though they can innovate, they just don't bother. So for doing that has a stat out right now. And saying that cybercriminals target vulnerabilities ten or more years old, more often than they focus on new attacks. Look at some of these significant breaches that have occurred? They involved vulnerabilities for which patches (fixes) have been available for months or sometimes years. But the organization's never bothered applying the patches, right. They target vulnerabilities from every year between 2007 and now at the same rate as they do vulnerabilities discovered in 2018 and 2019. So that's just huge. They're maximizing their opportunity. It is low hanging fruit to them. And we've got this convergence of operational technology environment with it with our information technology. So I want to make this even a little bit bigger. We're going to talk about this a little bit later on when we get into these control systems we have in our businesses. But when was the last time you patched your photocopier? I got two of them sitting right there. Printers. Okay, well, obviously, it's one in the same scanners. When was the last time you updated the software in your smart light bulbs in cameras? I've got a camera sitting right in front of me, right. Have you been updating all of the software in this operational technology side of things? As well as all of our computers to see, that's where we are falling short, because we got to be thinking about if you're a manufacturing customer, customer, and we have manufacturing customers, right? But if you're in the manufacturing business, how well protected are the valves that control systems, the automated systems that are running your lives, or the robots on the floor? Are those up to date? Think about that are operational technology. We got to learn new tricks. You've got to protect them, right? We got to make sure it all works. Alright, that's it. For right now. We're going to be back. So make sure you stick around. We're going to talk about unclouding. You've heard about cloud services. Have you heard about unclouding services? Right here on WGAN and Craig Peterson dot com. Hello, everybody, Craig Peter song here on WGAN radio and of course online at Craig Peterson dot com. We're going to talk right now about something you may have never heard about before. If you are using anything basically on the internet, you're using what's generically called "the cloud.". Now "the cloud" is used for email. It is for, and well come to think of it, everything, right, Facebook, etc. But in general, terms, when we're talking about the cloud, we're talking about a business process that is online that you have moved from your business, like the server room in the back, the computer closet, etc. You've taken that function, and you've moved it somewhere like to the Amazon Web Services or Maybe Microsoft Azure, or maybe IBM, all of these places have something that's generically known as the cloud. And frankly, the cloud is just another word for somebody else's computer. Now, why have businesses moved to the cloud? What is this whole unclouding thing, all about? There's a great article over on dark reading by Matt Middleton that got me thinking about this. What is "the...
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AS HEARD ON: WGAN Mornings with Ken and Matt: Iran Wiper Attacks, Cyber Security and the California Consumer Privacy Act and more
01/09/2020
AS HEARD ON: WGAN Mornings with Ken and Matt: Iran Wiper Attacks, Cyber Security and the California Consumer Privacy Act and more
Good morning everybody! I was on with Ken and Matt. We talked about what is going on with Iran and how they are planning on damaging the US economy with a different type of malware that they have used successfully in the past. We talked about the teeth that have been added to the California Consumer Privacy Act and how it can affect companies nationwide. So here we go with Ken and Matt. I am doing Facebook Live today on this Iran threat so be sure to tune in. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson, here I was out with our friends Ken and Matt up in Maine. We went through some of the Iran controversy, some similar stuff to yesterday with our friend Jim Polito. Then we delved into what the California law is all about, and what you will have to do as a business owner. I mean, like last week, quite literally, this law got teeth on January 1. So I went into a fair amount, in fact, a lot of detail on that one as well. If you're involved in a business, have any information on any consumers that live in California, this new law has a lot of teeth. So here we go with Ken and Matt. Matt Gentlemen, but now it's time to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us now as he always does this time on Wednesdays. Craig. How are you? Craig Hey, doing well, speaking of issues, there are a few things in the news, aren't there? Matt Well, not anything major, except that goes out to have a new cookie that's coming out. But in terms of tech news, we certainly had some issues going out in Iran. And there's a lot of talk about how they would retaliate. But there may be ways that we can do it that are not necessarily militarily but probably more technological. Once you tell us you know about that. Craig I think this is kind of big news right now is that we are already under attack and we have been for a couple of years. Iran has been one of the major players when it comes to cyber hacking online. Most people already heard about China and Russia attacking us and North Korea, of course. Still, they have been at this for a very long time, as you know, the last 40 years. They have been going after the United States after Saudi Arabia after Iraq tried to get control of that region. And they did a massive hack back in 2012 on Saudi Arabia's largest oil company, and they were able to destroy an estimated 30,000 computers over at Saudi Aramco. Then just this last fall, we had another big problem. And our government came out of that point and said, Hey, listen, everybody, be careful. Make sure your computers are up to date or doing some serious work on trying to prevent hackers because they, at that point, we're going after our businesses. Now, here's the big difference between going after companies electronically to hack and going after the government. Most small, medium businesses don't have any extra money to spend on real security, and we look at some of the stats, for instance, Ars Technica, a great website with all kinds of excellent technical information. Ars Technica every year has what they call it Death Watch. This year on our on their Death Watch. They're saying, Symantec is going to die this year, they will be out of business, and Symantec, of course, those are the guys that make Norton Security. They have a lot of other security products, but they don't work anymore. In the small-medium business space, companies are using things like AVG and Norton and McAfee and many others to try and protect their systems. Still, they are not effective against the current types of malware attacks. You might ask, why would anyone care about my small business? Why would anyone care about my home account? My home computer? Iran is doing something known as a wiper attack. And those wiper attacks, destroy everything entirely on your computer. So unlike a ransomware attack where it's encrypted, and you have about a 50% chance if you pay the ransom of getting your data back with ransomware, Iran just wants to destroy our computers. Why? Well, because they are the lifeblood of the US economy. The majority of jobs created in the US are in the small-medium business space. So Iran has started attacking us. The government's warning us right now. The military is notifying us, the FBI, the NSA is telling us that we have to pull up our socks. So I advise companies right now to pull up their socks, on the security front. Hire a local expert on computer security, attend some of my free webinars, go to my website, watch some of the videos that I have up where I'm doing training. It is an easy way for a small country like Iran to attack to the United States without facing a lot of retribution. Now, I don't think they're going to go like full-bore and try and bring down every business in the country. They don't have the resources to do that. We have in the cyber space a concept known as mutually assured destruction, where they know better than to go full bore against the US, but in reality, they are going to cause damage. Looking at some recent statistics in the small and medium business space, if attacked, 20% declare bankruptcy within a week after being hacked like this. You've got to protect your business. I can't say this enough. It's your investment. It's your life savings. It's your job. It's your responsibility. Whatever the reason, we business owners must pull up our socks in this country. Ken We're talking to Craig Peterson. He's our tech guru. He joins us on Wednesdays at this time. Craig, California, is up to their old tricks. There's a new privacy law kicking off there. What do I need to know about that? Craig Yeah, this is a very, very interesting question. We've been approached about this a lot over the last week. California has a privacy law that has a couple of requirements that must be understood and for which you must pay attention. First of all, if you have any customers in California, this law might apply to you. And if you have more than 25 million dollars in revenue, or you make half of your money through selling things, selling mentalistic Cetera. So $25 million company basically with any customers in California, this law applies to you. It's been in effect for more than a year. But as of the first of this year, this new California law takes the European privacy regulations and adds more to it. So basically, Matt, to answer your question. If you do have more than $25 million in revenue, the law in California now requires you to be able to let people request their information from you. That means you must be able to tell them what information of theirs you have. Who has access to it and has seen it, including people within your organization. Who you may have shared it with and who you have sold their data to, and then there's a right to be forgotten clause. So if they say you have Have to erase all the information you have about me. You have to delete it. Now there's been significant pushback from banks and insurance companies because they say, Hey, listen, we track everybody. And we don't know who's looked at all of the records. We don't know any of this stuff. We sometimes get even tell you whose data we sold to third parties. Remember, banks and insurance companies are continually using these data aggregators, who are It seems that regularly losing data. So when it comes to the whole California situation with their new privacy law, we can't do what we did with Europe, and most companies just said well forget about it. We're not to get a compliant don't care if you're blocked us. Now you are going to have to comply, and compliance work is already underway in California. They're coming after companies all over the country. Which is why I've been receiving a lot of phone calls and a lot of emails. So by the way, expect a launch like this to come up and just yourself here in Massachusetts, they already have one kind of similar, and they're tightening it up. We now have three states that have these types of privacy laws, and the feds are looking into it. We expect by next year, half of the States will have these types of requirements and perhaps federal legislation. So make sure if you have any information on any consumers any information that you look into this, you talk to your attorney, you must speak to your IT people, we have to tighten up how we handle data. Ken Great data. Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us every Wednesday at 730. Thanks, Craig. We will talk to you next week. Craig Hey, take care, gentlemen. Bye Bye. Thanks. 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AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: Iran Threat, Economic Damage to US, Cyberwiping Attacks on Small Businesses and More
01/08/2020
AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: Iran Threat, Economic Damage to US, Cyberwiping Attacks on Small Businesses and More
Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning and we discussed what Iran is threatening and how likely they are to succeed and what small businesses need to do to protect themselves. So, here we go with Mr. Polito. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Hey, good morning, everybody. It's kind of a somber day today. Everything that Iran has threatened to do to the US and other countries along with those they have perpetrated, of course, for a long time. But the cyber attacks that started ramping up in 2012, we started having some warnings about this whole thing. Excuse me back in November of last year, 2019. And, man, I'm already your head. And we're right now we have even more warnings about so we got to understand this stuff, and that's what I talked to Jim Polito about this morning. It is essential if you think that you are not at risk you are, and I talked a lot about that with Jim this morning. Make sure you are on my email list as well and be doing more free pieces of training. And you'll find all of that just by going to Craig Peterson dot com, you should be able to sign up there, or Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe, so let's get into it right now. I talked with Jim exclusively about Iran, what are they capable of and what's going on over there? Here he is no time like the present to have a tech talk guru Craig at your side, you know, we've got a random threatening cyber attack. Or we've got an analyst saying that it's likely that Iran really can't do anything conventional in terms of warfare, but maybe they can carry out cyber attacks. Joining us right now is the man who is the armor of the United States when it comes to any cyber attacks, our good friend, and Tech Talk Guru Craig Peterson. Good morning, Craig. Hey, good morning, Jim. I'm doing well. And yeah, this is a little scary. Yeah, it is. So So why don't you lay it out for us? You know, there's a lot of other things we could have discussed on the consumer front things, there's always time for those. I think it's best to take your time today and get this analysis from you. What are they capable of doing? What do you think they'll do? If they are to attack? What are they interested in? What does it mean for the average person? I mean, I loaded up your plate there. I think it's time for us to dive in. Absolutely. Well, there there's a lot here to be worried about. It's a very legitimate worry. There are a lot of people out there right now who say that if this turns into a kinetic war, in other words, if shots are being fired, it would make the whole Iraq conflict look like a walk in the park. Because, of course, Iran does have a lot of military armaments. Let's talk about the cyber side because that's kind of where I come in. They have already fired a shot in that war. I've been saying for a long time that World War three shots have been fired, and it is in the online space. Tehran is widely considered to be one of the world's most malicious online actors. We have kind of a list. There's about four or five of them out there. You've got Iran, China, Russia, and North Korea, but one of Iran's specialties, and all of this is something that's called a wiper attack. Now you're familiar with ransomware and ransomware attacks. That is where some malware arrives onto your computer, it goes ahead and encrypts everything on the laptop so so that you can read it, they can use it anymore, and then it pops up a screen saying, hey, pay up. A wiper attack has a similar Our outcome gym, and a wiper attack gets onto your computer and erases everything. So you no longer have access to any of your data. But now what's happened is, there's no ransom to pay. There's no chance of getting your data back. There was a vast, massive hack against the Saudi Arabian oil. The Saudi Arabian oil companies called Saudi Aramco, was not only attacked but to had 30,000 of their Computers, wiped, It was a big deal there. Wow. 30,000 Wow. So, the Iranians are not interested in doing what the Eastern European hackers do, which is to get money out of us. Iranian hackers want mayhem, and that means wiping out all your data. Absolutely. And you remember Sheldon Adelson. And of course, he's the guy that owns Las Vegas Sands. Iran attacked him. And that attack was because he was supporting President Trump. He's a conservative, libertarian guy. So now we have the Defense Intelligence Agency warning late last year about what Tehran was trying to do and their military goals and intentions, including in cyberspace. So let's talk about why does it matter to me, Saudi Aramco huge companies lots of money, how would attacking them hurt the United States? Well, of course, they expected the price of oil to go way up. For that to hurt the US but because of President Trump allowing fracking encouraging drilling, of course, the cost of oil hardly went up at all. Right now, it's back down to the same prices this morning. It's like $52 a barrel that we saw before any of these conflicts going on. But let's talk about your business and my business. Yeah, a business, a small business here in the United States that has a wiper attack, 20% of them will file for bankruptcy the very next day. Wow. Those that don't file for bankruptcy the next day, 60% of small businesses that are the victims of ransomware attacks and wiper attacks, remember that's what Iran is doing. 8% of those small business small-medium companies will be out of business in six months. So what we're looking at here, Jim, is that if you want it successful in going after our companies in the United States. And nothing is suggesting they won't be successful. Because so many businesses aren't doing the right things for their security. They could have a significant impact on us here in the United States by shutting down our SMBs are small, medium businesses, who are the source number one creator of jobs here in the United States. I want to point out one other thing real quick here, Ars Technica, you know, and they publish a big website, online. Annually they release a Death Watch, where they list the businesses that are going to die this year. On this year's Death Watch is Symantec. Symantec, you know the guys that make Norton. Yeah, they're on the Deathwatch. Why? Because their stuff doesn't work. That's true of 99% of what you'll see in the stores. It doesn't work. My prediction Iran is going to be successful. The only thing that's going to hold them back from having massive wiper attacks, which the FBI and Homeland Security are warning us about, is that Iran doesn't have enough people working in cyber operations to shut down our whole economy. We're talking with our good friend, Craig Peterson Tech Talk Guru about the cyber threat from Iran. So, Craig, it appears to me that, you know, the big worry everyone has, What about our utilities? What about the, you know, our banking? What about all these big systems? It appears to me from what you're saying. Those are relatively well-armored. The problem is, the small business isn't. And if you can go after enough of them, it can be close to as devastating as shutting down, say, your electrical grid or our internet. It can be just as devastating. It may take longer, as you said, and more people are going after individual small businesses, but it can be just as devastating. You're right. These people have gone after the federal government. There was a website taken offline here on Sunday because it had a picture of an Iranian flag and a bloodied President Trump punched in the face. That was a small site, the federal depository library program. Okay, you're right. These banks that are here in the US are quite well protected. I helped them put together some of that protection many many years ago. Go protecting all of the credit card transactions here in the United States, the company that number one provider of credit card transactions. So I know these guys at the banks are well protected. Many of our, our government agencies are well protected. And you know that I, for two years, I did the webinar training for the infragard program, which are people who are responsible for private sector infrastructure security. So, I have some knowledge of this stuff. So they're well protected, and which isn't to say that they're not going to get somebody to click on something that they shouldn't click on, and then cause problems but they are well protected. It's a small-medium business space. It's the heartbeat of American business, the creator of jobs, that is really at risk here. Iran, as I said, I don't think they have the people that they need to devastate the United States and our industries our small-medium businesses. However, remember at the top I mentioned, other countries involved in this sort of thing over the years, those include China, Russia, and North Korea. North Korea has caused problems. China and Russia, if they were mad, could devastate our economy without firing a single shot. Yeah, I mean, the thing is, though, what's interesting is that, like the cold war between the Soviet Union, you know, the United States and China, there was mutually assured destruction. So, the Soviets knew, okay, if we launch missiles at them, they'll launch rockets at us. Don't the Chinese know now, okay. If we make a cyber attack against the United States, they're going to make a cyber attack back, and you have the deterrent, which is mutually assured destruction, even though the Chinese would say during the Cold War? Well, if you launch all your missiles at us, they'll still be 500 million of us left. You know we'll wipe out more of you, then you'll wipe out of us. But isn't there isn't they're kind of the mutually assured destruction right now that keeps the peace between US and China. You are dead-on as usual, Jim. Under President Obama, he started to beef up our cyber counter-attack force if you will. President Trump has taken that to the next level in a massive way. Where we now have in place offensive cyber attack capabilities. So that is the primary reason that no one has come after us in the cyber realm. Look at what we were able to do with our partner Israel to the Iranian nuclear program. That was all done through a cyber attack. We shut the silly thing down. And they know we will come after them. And if anything, I think Jim, you've hit the nail on the head again, that is the primary reason behind them not coming after us in a huge way, but they have been coming after us. And let since last fall, I have seen the results of some of these wiper attacks. And they've been kind of nipping at our heels. But if they are upset that, you know, when it comes to war, you throw everything you can, when you're down on the ground and beaten bloody. They're not there right now. But every business out there, man, you've got to pull up your socks. Make sure you are on my email list because I'm going to be doing some more free pieces of training, and these are real training, right? I'm not sitting there selling you. I'm in on for an hour, and I'm teaching you things you need to know and do and giving you actionable items. So get on my email list right now because this is free. Hey, if you wanted to hire me What the heck, right? But I want to get that message out just like I did for the FBI infragard program for two years. That's an entire volunteer position. But you must do that. You can do that just by visiting my website at Craig Peterson dot com. And of course, Jim, we went overtime again. No, but you can also text My name to Craig Peterson by texting the name Jim J-I-M to this number 855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553 standard data and text rates apply. You heard it right there. There's a lot of other things we could have discussed with Craig Peterson, but this was the most necessary for small businesses. They're the ones that need to worry, Craig, as usual, awesome segment. I love talking with you. We will catch up with you next Tuesday. All right. Thanks again, Jim. Take care. Thank you, Craig Peterson. Everybody. I encourage you to do that. Again, standard data and text rates apply. It's always great to be on his mailing list. Now I am because I do the show here. But I'm also part of that mailing list when there's an alert. He sends it out. He's not looking to sell you anything. He's not looking to sell your name. Craig does this out of the goodness of his heart. It's a great segment. Okay, when we return a final word. 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AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: Iran, CyberSecurity, New Innovations, Consumer Electronics Show and More
01/06/2020
AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: Iran, CyberSecurity, New Innovations, Consumer Electronics Show and More
Welcome, Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning. He's got a new producer helping out on the side. I think she said her name was Sam. And we did things a little bit differently today It's a new year so rather than go on and on I, I kept it short. I have to say one thing, Jack did not let me say he seemed to have lost interest in the topic of security, which is kind of Jack right? What but what the impact to all of this will be for small businesses. So I'll add that to the end. Here we go with Jack. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Transcript: Craig Peterson Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning. He's got a new producer helping out on the side. I think she said her name was Sam. And we did things a little bit differently today It's a new year so rather than go on and on I, I kept it short, and I have to say one thing that Jack did not let me say he seemed to have lost interest in the topic of security, which is kind of Jack right? What but what the impact to all of this will be for small businesses. So I'll add that to the end. Here we go with Jack. Jack Heath As we get going on the Tech Talk side or Technology side, Craig Peterson always gives us a check-in on Monday mornings. He joins us live on the Autofair listener lines. Good morning, Mr. Craig. Craig Peterson Hey, good morning, Jack. And you know, when it comes to the tech side, Iran should be involved in this as well with new warnings coming out from the FBI and other government agencies. Jack Heath Yeah, of course. They want to They've threatened is, you know, the whole cyber attack side of things, right? Craig Peterson That's exactly right. We have tracked Iran to a couple of significant problems that we've had over the last few years, and one of them was Iranian hackers who are being held responsible now for a cyber attack on GOP megadonor, Sheldon Adelson. He owns the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, brought them to their knees. They're also behind what are called wiper attacks where malicious software erases the hard drives of infected computers. They used those against Saudi Arabian oil companies, Saudi Aramco, where they were able to debilitate about 30,000 computers. Now we've got warnings out there to US corporations to pull up their socks on cybersecurity, and this goes all the way down to small companies. And you know, there are reasons they're doing this jack? Jack Heath Yes. Well, because they can, and they want to, of course, in anything they can throw into that wrinkle, they will. But we'll see where it goes. Craig is coming out of the holiday period, the whole consumer looking at the end of the year. Technology is undoubtedly a big part of people shopping, and we continue to see the impact of how people buy stuff and all that. But what's your takeaway as we begin this year, for coming into this year? What, what's the big, what's going to be the significant change in our lives? Is it going to be still the stuff that the handheld device? Is it going to be some? Well, what's up? What's the app world? Does that get stronger or diminished? What are you looking at this year for big themes in 2020? Craig Peterson Well, I think the big theme, some of which are coming up this week of the consumer like show in Vegas, but the significant issues are all revolving around these new 5g networks. T-Mobile already has one in place, which is kind of impressive, and autonomy is vehicles. Because both of those kinds of go hand in hand. These vehicles are uploading terabytes worth of data a day to the internet. So it has up to date forecasting is not forecast. But what's happening on this inch of the road right now. Vehicles are also getting something called LIDAR, which is a combination. You're just kind of a radar thing, but using lasers, and Bosh is getting into that business. So I think, Jack, that's what we're going to see this year massively. The autonomous vehicles are going to be coming online, like crazy. There is already, in fact, out in Vegas right now. Some Russian made and designed autonomous cars running around the city of Las Vegas as part of the Consumer Electronics Show that have no driver at all, not even a safety driver. So I think that's what we're going to see a lot in 2020. Jack Heath Interesting well we'll see what about the entertainment side of things we've seen such a change what people can do now at home, where they get their streaming. You know if the cable companies are still, you know, precariously holding on to their market share mean how much is going to change for consumers? Craig Peterson Oh, is this is also going to be a huge story coming later this year. We already know course about all the streaming services that are out there and all the competition amongst them. But what we're going to see with 5g coming in again, you know, factor 5g, right, the cable companies are going to get hurt something awful in the larger areas. In other words of the bigger cities, maybe Manchester natural, because you're going to be able to get data in your house for cheaper via the internet over 5g Then you can from the cable company or the telephone company. So what we're going to see here jack is that is going to start being noticed about mid-year this year for consumers, you will no longer have either cable coming into your house period because you're going to use 5g. You're going to use streaming services, and even WiFi in your homes is going to go away. Because again, you'll be using 5g, this new technology, but don't think of it just for cell phones, but for any device to connect to the internet. This new technology can handle billions and billions of devices that won't be more expensive. Jack Heath I was going to say, something going to get cheaper because the lobbyists are not going to like that. They've lobbied stop to that. Right right away, kind of like healthcare. Craig Peterson Healthcare to be a huge impact too. But yeah, that is excellent questions here. The isn't going to be cheap. Yes. It's going to be more affordable, especially initially because they want to get your hook, and they want to kill the cable companies. On the lobbyist's side, you have the cable companies going to do everything they can to protect their turf. But you might have noticed that as of January 1, even Comcast here and a couple of other cable companies lost upwards of 80 channels at local channels, because they could not agree. Because of these providers, WGN is an example of one of these superstitions. WGN wanted more money than Comcast, and these other guys were willing to pay because they're saying hey, listen, we can go direct to the consumer now why do we want to middleman it this is going to change everything and price-wise. Jack Heath Five-G is going to be very bandwagon. Listen to Craig Peterson Tech Talk Show Saturday as well and on this talk station. Thanks, Craig. We'll be right back. Craig Peterson So what I wanted to add in there was, why does Iran want to do this? Why are they going after small businesses? Because 20% of small companies that get hacked with this ransomware are out of business. They filed for bankruptcy 20% of them the next day. And when we're talking about this wiper software, it's just as bad or worse than ransomware. So it's a very, very big deal and we have to be careful, alright. Then, of course, we already know the statistic that about 60% of businesses that get hit by this are going to be out of business within six months. Anyhow, have a great day, and we'll be back tomorrow. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: Message Input: Message #techtalk Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553
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Welcome! Old Internet Properties, Russians, Hacking, Chinese Farmers, Pigs, Swine Flu, Airline Navigation, Drones, Biologicals, Intermittent Fasting, Spying on Students, Colleges, Dangerous Apps, and more on Tech Talk With Craig Peterson today on WGAN
01/04/2020
Welcome! Old Internet Properties, Russians, Hacking, Chinese Farmers, Pigs, Swine Flu, Airline Navigation, Drones, Biologicals, Intermittent Fasting, Spying on Students, Colleges, Dangerous Apps, and more on Tech Talk With Craig Peterson today on WGAN
Welcome! Today there is a ton of stuff going on in the world of Technology and we are going to hit a number of topics from how Colleges are using Social Credit Scores to change college students behavior, Social Media Influencers and why we need to pay attention to them, How the internet is changing, The insecurity of location tracking and why you may want to turn it off, Russian Hacking of Elections -- not really and even more. It is a busy show -- so stay tuned. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: How is your Social Credit Score? It turns out that some American Universities use them to track their students The New World Owners — Influencers Vulnerable Location data — It does not take an Expert to Spy on your Every Movement with Your Phone Biological Warfare Against Chinese Pig Farmers Pesky Apps That You Need To Delete ASAP Intermittent Fasting and its Perks Can fasting add years to your life in addition to helping you lose weight? Did the Russians get Anywhere close to Hacking our 2016 Election? The Internet we grew up with is Long Gone — What we lost, and what we can learn from the Experience. --- Machine Automated Transcript: Hello, everybody, Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining me spend a little bit of time with me most of the people listening on Saturdays, I have been, of course, on WGIR and a whole bunch of other radio stations now for many years, it turns out it's like 25 years, long time. So thanks for joining me today. We're also, of course, over on YouTube and Facebook, and online at Craig Peterson dot com is where you'll find me. You can go to Craig Peterson slash YouTube to see me there, and at Craig Peterson slash Facebook as well over on my site. Well, today we've got a lot of fun stuff. We are going to start by talking about the old dead internet and what does that may mean to you. You can see the headline behind me on the screen if you're watching us on video. We're also going to get into the Russian hacking of our elections. Was that real? How close did those guys get to us when it comes to the hacking. So we'll be talking about that. We've got a beginner's guide, we'll be talking about, and it is something I've been doing along with my wife for a few years now, Intermittent fasting. It is unbelievable the difference that can make. It's the diet that isn't a diet, and it is just so easy, at least for us. And we've tried everything. We're going to talk about the 27 plus apps you should probably delete from your smartphone here in early 2020. What is going on at our American universities? Did you know they are using social credit now to track students, we'll be talking about that? Don't scoff at influencers. Here is kind of a cool article from Kevin Roose. What are the Chinese farmers complaining about and why. Frankly, criminals are using drones. Then we'll talk about the New York Times and how they were able to track President Donald Trump, and what happened with him. What was that all about? So, we'll be getting to all of those articles and, of course, a whole lot more as we do every week. So thanks for joining me, everybody. So I am kind of running the entire show here today. It's funny when I look at some of these podcasts and videos and things that people are using, and how many multiple people are helping to run everything. In my case, it's not a lot of people; it's my wife and me. She helps prepare a lot of the stuff you see online, but she's not the one who is sitting here that is all me. So, if you're watching, it may be a little bit rough, so I apologize for that. So, let's get going here with our first article. We are doing a tiny screen in screen thing here. You can see me, and that article as well. If you're watching, let me know by the way me and Craig Peterson dot com. Let me know what it is you think about what I'm doing? Does it make sense to put the whole hour and a half in one video in one podcast? That is what I've been doing for a while now, my podcasts, but this is new for video. Should I break them all up as well? I'm starting to do some of the training videos and things beginning soon. Let's get to this article about the old internet you see here on my screen. I've got pictures of a bunch of the early internet properties Myspace and course you're familiar with Twitter, right? Well, some of these places have died. Snapchat, TikTok, Vine. We're all using them today. Will they be around in years to come? That little f logo that you see there? Friendster? Have you been using Friendster lately, if you uploaded videos, what happened to those MySpace, Flicker? Flicker is still around, but they kind of got shot in the head when they were purchased by our friends over at AOL slash Yahoo. Verizon bought that. Webshots, Photobucket. How about blogs? I certainly have a blog. I have over 3000 articles up on my blog at Craig Peterson, dot com. WordPress. wordpress.com. If you have a blog over there, Zynga, Tumblr, they lost all their adult content, AOL Instant Messenger. We signed up for all of these in the 2000s. Now it's 2020. What's happened to all of our data? What happened to all of the videos that we hit upload. All of our pictures? Some of them just went, poof, they were just totally gone. Today social media is on a roll and just keeps growing. But are we going to be able to get our data in the future? I think it's an excellent question. And it was one posed by Katie Notopoulos over on BuzzFeed news because she's lost a lot of her pictures. I lost a lot of my photos. I had put together a website using one of these pieces of website software that lets you go in and create your photo album. I had this beautiful vision, right, and I was going to have all my photos there, the kids were going to upload their photos for generations, you know, the grandkids and great-grandkids. And I was going to be able to go there. We make a beautiful calendar every year and have it printed and put that calendar up on everybody's refrigerator, right? Of course, it didn't happen as the software crashed, and the backup did not work, and I lost all of these photos, hundreds of them. And it was just such a disappointment. But what's going to happen to you when Facebook disappears in just a few years. It is not going to be around forever, right. Facebook today is not going to be what Facebook is five years from now. We already see with California is new privacy law, how it is affecting Facebook, and how it keeps your data. Where it puts the data. We've seen the privacy laws changing other sites as well. So, what are you going to do? Right? What are you going to do? How about those texts and emails? They say anything you put up on the internet is up forever. Now we're finding out that's not true. It's just this stuff. We don't want to be out there. That kind of gets kept up forever. Friendster, we want that. Friendster has been around early since early 2002. At least it was. It was a social network that was pretty popular for a while, and then it fell out of favor. It even got mentioned in some movies. I remember one Seth Green was talking about Friendster, back then back in the days, but it turned into a gaming company and wiped out all of the profiles. Then there was my space, and it didn't go away as quickly as Friendster did, it had a more painful death. But by 2013, it was completely music focused. What sites are music-focused anymore. He might have, you know, a couple, but really, you're going to Amazon or Apple or Spotify. Pandora. One of those right to get your music by the way, when it comes to music sites, I would recommend you stay away from Spotify. Okay. Then just last year 2019, there was a server migration that messed up and all of their pre-2015 profile content. There were hundreds of thousands of photos that were lost. They're gone forever. Flicker. Now flicker was being used by a lot of people, and I remember stories of people who had uploaded photos to flicker. were driving down a highway, and saw one of their photos on a billboard for an advertisement. Not a flicker advertisement but one for a third party company. And they were pretty upset. Then they read the terms flicker had. And any of these photos you uploaded could be used by flicker could be sold by flicker. Well, in late 2018, flicker was sold off by this AOL Yahoo conglomerate that was bought by Verizon. It was bought by Smugmug, which is a photo hosting printing site, mainly used by professional photographers. They only gave you a few months to download your photos if you didn't download them, or upgrade to a paid Smugmug account you were completely out of luck, which kind of is a bad thing, right? You lost all your photos except for the most recent 1000 photos. And how many of us only have 1000 photos in this day and age. It'll cost you almost nothing to take a picture. It's not like the days when we were using our Nikon camera. With 35 millimeter film, and he had to decide if I was going to use Fujifilm or Kodak film. Should I use a professional-grade, black and white, you know none of that anymore, right? So, we have hundreds of thousands, so they were all lost. Webshots founded in the mid-90s hit its stride in the mid-double OOts when digital cameras became affordable, CNET bought it. Then American Greetings bought it and then it got sold back to the original owner or owners, who in 2014, relaunched it as Smile by Webshots, became a site for desktop wallpapers. You only had two months' notice to download your photos, migrate them to a new paid account or guess what? They all got deleted permanently. Photobucket. They announced that they were hotlinking in 2017, would only be allowed for paid accounts costing 400 bucks a year. Hotlinks, of course, feel very archaic now. That's where you have a direct link to a photo as opposed to your album. But man, completely gone. The whole internet got pockmark. I love that word, by these missing photos, and we still see those today online. Blogs exist. But you know, the scrappy new medium to get your story out is a lot less useful. 2013 I can't believe it was that long ago GoogleReader went away. I used to use Google Reader from my blogroll. That's how it kept track of articles. So much harder to do nowadays, RSS is gone. Man, I loved RSS, and Google's RSS readers are gone. Pro tier blogs like Gawker video, all gone. Right Gawker writer, Alex Pyrene best described the changing economics of the media business. Plus freakishly bad luck as the death of the rude press. Isn't that true? Remember Gawker and the big lawsuit wrestlers pulled Minnesota into it big, big, mess, okay. Anyhow, remember all of these, and the many more that went the way of the world. Think about what you're using today. Will your data be around in the future? Think about the free sites you're using right now? Like free sites like what? Well, Facebook, among others? Is your data going to be around in the future? You know, very, very good questions we all have to ask ourselves. So keep a backup yourself on a medium that you control. And that you can read in another five or ten years. Your listening to Craig Peterson right here on WGAN and online at Craig Peterson dot com and Craig Peterson.com slash YouTube. You can see me, Oh no. We'll be right back. Hello, everybody, Welcome back. Craig Peterson here on WGAN and online at Craig Peterson dot com. If you want to join me, you can see the whole show as I recorded it at Craig Peterson slash YouTube. Well, now we're going to talk about Russian hacking. Right? Hasn't that been kind of all the rage over the last, what, two or three years? The Mueller report, and what did the Russians do? How could they have done that to us? Should we be worried about it more worried than we are have been? All frankly, outstanding questions. We need to know because we've got another election coming up soon. 2020 is an election year. We've got less than a month, from today, until we cast the first votes in the first in the nation primary. That is if you're in New Hampshire, which is the first primary. There is a caucus in IOWA, then the New Hampshire primary, and then I think it's Nevada followed by one of the Carolinas, and this just it accelerates from there, right? You got the Super Tuesday, which has got moved up and everything else. But how safe are our elections? I think it's a v good question. What did the Russians do? What did they know? How did they hack it? And can we do something about this in the future? Now we've got all kinds of voting machines. If you've been listening to me for a while, you know, I like the manual ones. Those have a sheet of paper, right, with all of the candidates with a circle you fill in. They give you a felt pen, a flare pen, right, a little felt pen to fill in to vote for the person. And that's as simple as it gets, isn't it? And then you put it in a machine, and the machine reads it the machine is pre-programmed to know that, that this circle filled in here means a vote for this person or these people or for that particular thing that's on the ballot, whatever it might be, right? The reason I like those is it gives us the best of both worlds. We have the world of, oh, wow, isn't this simple. I can go ahead and vote. Today wonderful times had by all, and you can vote quickly. The votes get tabulated, and we know by the end of the day, the results. But what if there's a problem? A contested vote. Well, with a paper ballot, again, that ballot can be sat in front of people who are ballot commissioners or whatever title your county or your state gives them. They look at those each ballot one by one and to see who was selected. They can take them and put them into literal stacks. These are the people who voted for this person, these voted for another person. And then they count them up. And now they've got the winners. And you can have a Republican, a Democrat and independent, whoever. Often police officers looking at these and counting them. But so many places have gone to these electronic voting machines. And the electronic voting machines are a nightmare and a half because of these electronic voting machines. Now, you're looking at the ballot trying to figure out okay, who voted for who. It gives you a screen, but you don't have a ballot. At best, some of these machines have a little paper audit tape that comes out, and they can go through and think of what you get from the receipts from buying something at the store. Right? So I've got one, let me pull one out here for you. Okay, so this is a receipt like you'd get at the store, right? This one particular one is from Walmart. And you know so there you go you can see what I bought at Walmart. Well, simple enough, but you've got sheets of these things that are affected by heat. They may get torn and, in my case, been sitting there my pocket right as I'm trying to keep track of them for the accountant, right. So I can do my taxes at the end of the year or the end of the quarter for businesses, so I'm just trying to keep track of all of it well how if the machine is just a tablet, how you are going to keep track of it. How are you going to know what the actual vote cast? People reported hitting a button for a zone on the part of the screen to vote for Candidate A, yet it registered their vote for a different candidate. At least they think it registered for someone else or might have registered properly, and it might be the right vote. For the right person who they wanted, but in reality, they don't know because it looked like it was registering the vote for the other guy. And now, after the end of the day, how are they getting audited? So with the paper ballots, you can go in, and you can look at them. And you can do a spot check. You can say, okay, is this make sure this machine was doing it? Right? Let's make sure we didn't mess up stuff when we sent it out to people. Well, when we're talking about this here with this whole Russian involvement with our election, we're not talking about these machines, although potentially could happen. What we're talking about as a couple of other things, first of all, meddling with our election where they're buying ads on Facebook, or they're buying ads somewhere out, and people get upset, you know, frankly, for a good reason. Because now it's a Russian ad saying vote for Hillary or Russian ad saying vote for Donald Both of which happened in the last election cycle model. Most of them happened to after the election, which is just totally bizarre for me. Anyhow, there was a technology company that got hacked in Florida according to some government reports. Now, here's what happened. They used a phishing attack against this company to gain access to their computer systems, and then get passwords and then get inside the machines. Now, that's where the problem comes up. Because it's not necessarily even the voting machines like what I'm showing on the screen here. What can happen, frankly, is that the voting machines' information gets sent ultimately to the state, right? Ultimately the whoever's in charge of you know, various new Hampshire, we have Bill Gardner and his Office of the Secretary of State's office, but it varies from state to state. So ultimately, these tallies go to our friends at the Secretary of State's office. And then they're posted on the website. And then what happens in the national elections is they go to the various individual Secretaries of State, and they say, who did your people vote for, and they add them all up. So the Russians could hack the Secretary of State's office, the Russians could hack the voting machines. And the Russians could influence us by buying a head-on Facebook or these other social media platforms on Google to try and get us to vote differently. Well, this is from Politico, which is, you know, political was a very left-wing leaning website out there. It's kind of a political organization that masquerades as news, But this is a pretty good article here. So they're saying that people were going to vote in North Carolina. In North Carolina, there had been a court ruling that said that people did not need to prove who they were, were to vote. You know, they have to prove who they are for everything else like to buy a glass of Beer to prove your age, right. Some places even you're 60 years old, they want to card you, and you say, Are you kidding me? No way. I'm going to do that. So in Jerome County, they were using laptops, and those laptops had the voter records on them. And those voter records were used to determine if they had already come and voted. Or if they had shown ID. Well, they had all kinds of problems with these. When they started digging in, they found that a company called VR systems had allegedly been targeted by Russian hackers using a phishing campaign three months before the election. and phishing is what Russians and others are using, not just to influence our elections, like what we see here. But to get into our bank accounts, our business account, it's just absolutely crazy. So this article goes on and going back to 2016. And what had happened, you might find it very interesting. But the bad news is things just haven't changed much. So expect similar problems with our 2020 election pay coming back, I'm going to tell you about something my wife and I did to lose one hundred pounds between the two of us, okay, I'm not selling anything. It is amazing, and I don't even consider this a diet. So we'll get to that when we get back. I got a couple of great articles on that that I think you will like, so stick around. We'll be right back. Hello everybody Craig Peterson, here. Thanks for joining me here on WGAN and online Craig Peterson dot com slash YouTube. You can watch me there. I record this live, but, of course, it's on YouTube so you can watch it anytime, right? And we're putting the whole show out there so if there's...
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AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: Some advice about SmartPhone Apps and the Information they collect and more
12/30/2019
AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: Some advice about SmartPhone Apps and the Information they collect and more
Welcome, Good morning, everybody. The New Year is almost here and it comes with a warning about the apps on your smartphone. Today I was on with Justin McIsaac who was sitting in for Jack Heath today and we discussed some advice about apps you may be using and what they are collecting and who has access to that information. Hint -- the people with access are not our friends. Here we go. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Transcript: Craig Good morning everybody. Happy New Year. Wow, I can't believe it is coming right up. It's hard to believe that another year, another decade, and another century. Oh my gosh, the time just flies by anyhow. I hope you had a great Christmas, Hanukkah, Festivus, whatever it is you celebrate this time of year and enjoy time together with a family. We are going to be probably going to sleep at around 1011 o'clock. Maybe I'll make it to midnight. Who knows if the kids are up on New Year's Eve? It's always a good time. You know, we had friends and family come in for the Christmas celebration this year. And that was neat to see another granddaughter haven't seen in a few months. We try and get out there to Kentucky a couple of times a year. And my daughter as well. So shout out to them if they're listening and shout out to everybody else. So this morning, I was on Jack's show, and it was Justin who was running it today because Jack is out. Then the guest host ended up being out, and that left Justin trying to juggle all of these balls. But we had a lot of fun talking about maybe some new year's resolutions when it comes to apps on your phones. So here we go with Mr. Justin McIsaac. Justin McIsaac And joining us on the auto fair listener lines Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy. You can visit his website Craig Peterson dot com his show airs on the weekend Saturday right, Craig and all across these IHeart stations. Everywhere, all right. Craig Peterson I am. I spent some time on Netflix over the holidays watching the new Lost in Space TV show brings back memories you know still it says or when Alan man it just flashback to the 60s. But it's kind of fun. It's a different way to do things now where they released the whole season that one. I liked it a lot better because you got all the context continuity and everything, and yeah, and I like Season Two better than season one. So, I know you're a little bit of a sci-fi fan, but I back I enjoyed it. Justin McIsaac I watched season one with my wife, and we dug it. Who was it? The woman that was in Deadwood was a Mrs. Garrett was plays one of the leading roles. So we dug season one. Craig Peterson Yeah. Well, you're going to like to let me tell you, great, Justin McIsaac Lost the space guy, Matt Simon. I've never really watched it know what the audience is. It was pretty good. It's action-packed. But so so Craig focuses on the tech sphere. As one might say in Craig, a lot of people got to launch a lot of gadgets for Christmas, including Matt Simon, who got a Roomba that's currently mapping his house. But you've got some things as we close it on the new year that you might want to be careful with, especially some apps you might have kicking around on your phone that you might want to delete what sort of apps are we looking at, we might want to get rid of Craig Peterson Yeah, here's what's going on right now. There are a ton of apps. However, most people are only using about five to 10 of the apps on their smartphones. That's a bit of an issue, frankly. But you know, we all have the hundreds, at least over the years of different apps. The average American checks their phone 52 times a day, it changes our brains physically changes our brains. By spending so much time on these small screens. And so we've got to be a lot more careful about that. And, and I've got some categories that I think you should avoid here. First of all, 2020 is, as you mentioned before the break just around the corner. It's hard to believe it's almost here. So get rid of those apps that depress you. And guess what the number one group of apps that is responsible for that depression is guys. What would you think? Justin McIsaac Social media? My banking app, Yeah. Craig Peterson Yeah, absolutely. Getting off Facebook ditching Instagram, Snapchat, deleting TikTok, all of those will help you because they all tend to be kind of depressing, especially for the younger generations and TikTok, okay, as well as ToToTok, are apps that you have to delete. Justin McIsaac What you said, right so I told me guys are brilliant, I don't know, though. I understand what TikTok is because my kids don't have TikTok, but a lot of their friends do. Craig Peterson I know like the US military is telling, you know, their soldiers to get off the TikTok because that's a Chinese program. So what's ToToTok is that he had a Saudi Arabian program that does much the same thing. And both of them are designed to collect data to send it back to Beijing, and they're able to track who you are where you are. All the location information, what you're doing the pictures you're taking. They're using it to map our faces. The Chinese are number one in the world for facial recognition. And so you're right. The military's not only warning about TikTok, but we've had the NSA, the National Security Agency out there now warning us about it. So that's number one category, get rid of those social media apps. Number two is apps that don't protect your privacy. Of course, we already mentioned one TikTok, but Facebook Messenger is one such app because it is not encrypted end to end. So be careful of that. In other words, Facebook sitting in the middle, watching what you're saying watching what you're doing. However, Facebook does have another messaging app called WhatsApp. That does keep it safe. If you have an iPhone or a Mac. Imessage does keep it secure. It protects your privacy, and to and of course The FBI has for the last 30 years been pretty upset about that type of software. But be careful of spy software, which leads us to the next category. Apps that are free, but aren't. Most of these apps are using our data. They're telling the app developers where you are. If you ever wondered why you walk into that hairstylist in the morning, Justin, and then you get to add about a week later from other hairstylists that say they can do a better job. Justin McIsaac It's more like a minute later. Yeah, it's like I've noticed this, like if you talk about, like, oh, I'm going to buy a new car, and then I go on Instagram like 20 minutes later, all of a sudden, ads are going to my feed. Mercedes Benz. I guess Mercedes Benz isn't checking my banking app because I'm not buying one of those. But the point is like, yeah, your phone's kind of spying on you listen to it, right. Craig Peterson Yeah. Well, if we could get into that and take another hour, but yeah, Free VPN app today. Here are the worst ones right now for spying on you, the so-called free VPN apps, because they track absolutely everything you're doing and where you're going. Menstruation apps are one of the worst. Bible apps, Flashlight apps, and face morphing apps like face app. Now, these are kind of cool apps. But you know, where you can put in your picture, and I'll show you what you'll look like in 20 years, 30 years. But again, it's using technology to map us and onto the banking. The next category apps that are making you spend the money want to get, and you might want to get rid of Amazon, eBay, and Walmart apps out there. But also look at right I know somebody who is addicted to Candy Crush, and she pays to play Candy Crush, okay. Justin McIsaac Yes, night wizard tonight. So you know, get rid of all some of those. Some of those games. Not so much now. But when my kids were little, they're basically like pay to win, like data. I spend three bucks I can get more More, more XP and I'm like, no, we're not doing that. Let's just buy a PlayStation. They'll be cheaper in the long run. So all right, Craig. Craig Peterson's calm is the website Tech Talk. You can hear it here on these IR news-talk stations. Have you got big, bad plans for New Year's Craig? Craig Peterson Well, oh, yeah, kind of like you. I will probably just sleep through it until I hear someone say the ball just drops, and then I'll be back up and then go back to sleep. But yeah, I'll probably binge-watch another sci-fi show on the First. Justin McIsaac The Mandalorian. That's my pick if you haven't watched it yet. It is on Disney plus, that's my recommendation. It was awesome. Craig Peterson It is. It's terrific. I haven't watched the latest episode yet. Justin McIsaac It's excellent. That's all I'll tell you. All right, Craig Peterson. Craig Happy New Year. Thanks for joining us this morning. And today. You guys to take care. Bye. Bye. All right. There is Craig Peterson. I got noses tech stuff, and I'd say so he didn't warn you about your Roomba. So I think you're all right, Matt. Craig Peterson I think so. There is an app that comes along with that, though. Might I might want to check into that a little more. All right, yeah. Justin McIsaac I have to basically what Christ is I have to throw my phone in the river. So I'm going to do that during the break. And we'll come back with more. Craig Peterson Yeah, that's because Justin has an Android phone. And I'm always warning him calling you guys to do about Android phones. Anyhow, I should mention that the map got one of these shark robots to do some vacuuming is mapping out the house. People are wondering about that, and are worried about that. In reality, it is something that you must be concerned about why it is sending those floorplans up to the internet. I'm not as worried as I'd be if it had like cameras on it and things. But it's still you know, it's part of that big illusion, I guess. Anyways, have a great day, everybody, and we'll be back, and we got a big year plan next year. Bye-bye. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: Message Input: Message #techtalk Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553
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AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: Some advice about buying 5G, Huawei, Spying and more
12/23/2019
AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: Some advice about buying 5G, Huawei, Spying and more
Welcome, Good morning, everybody. The Christmas Holiday season is underway, and it comes with a warning. Today I was on with Jeff Chidester who was sitting in for Jack Heath today and we discussed some advice about getting that 5G phone right now and other issues related to Chinese network manufacturer Huawei. Here we go. I will be doing some Facebook Lives, so keep an eye out. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Related Articles: --- Automated Machine Transcript: Craig Peterson Hey, good morning, everybody. It is an awesome week, Happy Hanukkah, to all of my Jewish friends Christmas, of course, this week coming up as well for all our Christian friends and everybody else out there. I hope you're having a great time of year. This morning. I was on Jackie's show, but it was a couple a little bit short because of some scheduling issues that they had. But we talked a bit of Huawei, and I'm going to plan on talking about that more with Jim Polito as well. So here we go. On Jack's show. Jeff Chidester So in the dark. Hey, up next, of course, America's leading network security expert. You hear more tech talk, of course, to find out more by going to Craig Peterson dot com. Craig, we don't get to talk a lot much anymore. Craig Peterson Hey, I'm doing great. I love that song too. By the way, I went to Apple Music, and I said play 1960s Christmas music, and then it played a bunch of stuff from the 50s and 60s. Jason, Dominic - the donkey, came up. It just brings back memories of my childhood. It's just it's great. I love it. Seeing the grandkids. Yeah, that's kind of cool, too. Jeff Chidester You don't seem old enough to have grandchildren? Of course, you know, once again, you probably like the 12 Days of Christmas from Bob and Doug McKenzie, too, right? Yeah. Craig Peterson Great White North heritage there. Jeff Chidester Excellent. Hey, Huawei, Don't get me going on this company. I'm glad it was on your list. What's going on with Huawei? Craig Peterson Let me tell you, you know, we're all excited about 5g and what 5g is going to bring for us. It's going to bring ultimately real fast wireless internet. Still, it is going to cause all kinds of disruption for the cable industry because you're not going to need cable TV anymore, you know, with the streaming and now cheap, fast data. And so there's been a lot of talk going on about well, you know, we got to keep Huawei out of our networks are 5g networks. Right now, we're working with the country over in Africa. Who has had their entire infrastructure built out by Huawei? And now, there are reports about Huawei spying on these countries and people and everything right. So I want to start with an answer to a question I'm hearing all the time now. And that is, is Huawei building our next generation of internet infrastructure when it comes to our cell phones, our cell data, and everything else? So here's the answer. In the United States, it's obvious, no, Huawei, this is these Chinese companies excluded from the US market by the US government. So we've got Ericsson, and we've got a Nokia and Samsung, are all working with our significant providers like Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, even Nokia is involved with T Mobile. Still, those are the guys that are building out our 5g networks, and that's an excellent thing because I want to do a flashback. You've been in tech for quite a while. Yep. And have you heard of Nortel? I assume Nortel. Yeah, yeah Nortel used to make all kinds of switching equipment that made central office equipment. They made some of the best networking equipment out there. And Nortel is no longer in business. So think about Christmas, Christmas this past year. Here's what happened. I remind people, and this is new information for many. But back in early 2004 Nortel was hacked by them unknown company from China called Huawei. And Nortel got into all of their major executives. IT systems, emails, accounts, including the CEOs. Frank has done, Brian McFadden. Oh yeah, it stole all of the documents that contain the future product and marketing plans of Nortel, and then two years later, all of a sudden, out of nowhere comes wow way. Absolutely. Jeff Chidester We're actually up against the wall. So no, I won't forget that. No, I want to give people your website before we do break Craig Peterson dot com. You got to find out why you do not buy Huawei TVs either. I'm sure I'm getting the Chinese medical right now. Craig Peterson Yeah, I tried to squeeze in our phones there, but we got cut off. Oh, well, that's like the top of the hour is always a tough one because it's a hard, hard, hard break, and I like the bottom of the hour. Anyways, have a great week. I'm kind of taking a little time off here over the next week or two. I'm going to be doing a few things, and so we'll be chatting them. By the way, if you want to have any questions answered, just email me at Craig Peterson, calm. Take care, everybody. Talk to you later. Bye-bye. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: Message Input: Message #techtalk Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553
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WGAN Tech Talk with Craig Peterson: Malware upends signature-based A/V, 5G not ready for Primetime, Data Asset Inventory and more today on WGAN
12/21/2019
WGAN Tech Talk with Craig Peterson: Malware upends signature-based A/V, 5G not ready for Primetime, Data Asset Inventory and more today on WGAN
Welcome! The Holidays are almost here -- Hannakah begins tonight and the middle of next week is Christmas - Boy this year has flown by. There is a lot of Tech in the News so let's get going! For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Related Articles: --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson Hey, hello everybody, Craig Peters on here on w GAM and online at Craig peterson.com. Hopefully, you're able to join me on Wednesday mornings as well as I am on live with Ken and Matt, we always talk about the latest in technology and news and of course in security since that's primarily what I've been doing for the last 20 plus years here in the online world, man, just thinking back, it's, you know, I first got on the internet. Of course, it wasn't called that. But way back in the early 1980s. And I remember in fact when I first started doing networking professionally back in 75, and there was no worry about anything with you know, yeah, okay, we didn't want people to hack into so you'd have leased lines for your business and I was doing a bunch of work. from banks way back when right, one of my first jobs, and I was really enjoying it, I just learned a whole lot up to today. And we're going to cover this here because my gosh, it's it has changed. The Internet used to be very libertarian, everybody on it was very libertarian or conservative. Of course, that's because there were a whole ton of government contractors on the ARPANET as well as some colleges and universities. And you look at it today, and you think that really it's changed dramatically which it has. But I think the ratio is probably still about the same. You've got the silent majority that just doesn't say much about anything, right. And then you've got this hugely vocal minority who's just yelling and screaming all of the time. And then some of these tech companies that are trying to straddle somehow in the middle and not get everybody all upset with them. It's really a Much different world. But when we're talking about security, it is nothing at all like it used to be. You used to go online, and you'd have some fun you, you know, exchange emails with people, you'd share some files and some fun things. I remember this one whole thread on chases. That was just absolutely amazing. I think I came up this time of years while it was all these puns about different cheeses. It was a lot of fun. Now today, we've got a whole different internet out there and a great article by Robert Limos and he is looking at WatchGuard Technologies' latest quarterly report that was published just last week. And this network security firm found that the percentage of malware that successfully bypassed anti-virus scanners IT companies network gateways has increased Significantly, watch guard technology is saying that the amount of malware that signature-based antivirus software catches, has plummeted to about 50%. Now, I think their numbers are high because I think it's more like 20%. But they're getting specific here. They're talking about the amount of malware that comes into a network via an external source. In other words, people are accidentally pulling it from a website they visit, or perhaps it's been injected into their systems through someone who's visiting their network and using another vulnerability. But they're saying that antivirus software This is signature-based stuff, that's what you get from Norton Antivirus. That's what you get from, you know, the Symantec people from McAfee from all of these different antivirus companies out there. It is just horrific what's happening because of what's known as zero-day now you might have heard of this before you might not have but basically what zero-day malware is, is malware is nasty software and malware includes things like viruses, worms, Trojans, etc. It is this type of malicious software that has not been seen in the wild before. And what it used to me is they would, you know, some brilliant person who as my mother would say, Why don't they do something useful with their time, some brilliant PR person would come up with a piece of software, no one had ever seen a way of attacking that no one had ever seen before. And they would attack us and they would get through because there was no signature for it or the engines in the antivirus software just could not manage to handle. You know malware like this new piece of malware that just came out the problem we're having today is that the majority of malware act just like zero-day. So here's what happens with a signature-based attack. You can think of it just like your body's anti-virus system night than what you have in your body. And your body looks at something that it sees and says, Have I seen this before. And if it has seen it before, it knows to attack it before. It grows really big and kind of starts to get out of control, and then the body has to attack it after it's already really, you know, it's taken the beachhead if you will use a military term. I've been watching a lot of world war two movies lately, but it's taken that beachhead and now has control of the beach and is starting to get in further and it's very difficult to get out versus it recognizes it almost right away as a nasty virus. And goes ahead and end the Jackson You know you have more cells in inside your body inside your skin there are more cells that are foreign to your body then there are body cells when you start counting all the bacteria and everything that's in your system and on your skin. It's just incredible. So our body relies on a lot of these things. In order to keep us healthy, if we had no bacteria, you be in trouble. It's like you know if you go on antibiotics, which is an anti-bacterial, what does the doctor tell you to do? Well, you know, start eating yogurt and, and other things. Maybe take some Kombucha or various other things in order to try and stay healthy. Get that good bacteria going in your gut again. Well, when your body is attacked by something that hasn't seen before. That's what we would call in the computer world as a zero-day virus has never been seen by Your body or in the case of a computer's never been seen by this signature-based antivirus software. So what the bad guys have been doing is they figured out how Yes, indeed we are trying to block them. And they figured out that the majority of us are using these signature-based antivirus software packages. So they've designed the viruses and the malware to change itself every time. So no longer can the antivirus software, just look for certain signatures. So for instance, if you were always attacked by blonde-haired blue-eyed Norwegians, you might be cautious next time you see a blonde-haired blue-eyed Norwegian approaching towards you maybe with a baseball bat or whatever it is, they might have in their hands, right? So you get worried about it. What's the old expression? Once burn shame on me. You twice burn shame on me. Right? So we learn we respond based on how we've been attacked before. And so does the antivirus software now it can take them days or weeks, even months to get a signature out and get it all dispersed. You know, I'm talking about the old software, not the newest stuff, not the enterprise stuff we use for our business client. But the stuff that you use as a consumer and Heaven forbid if your business and you're using stuff like Norton Symantec, or McAfee or any of these other a VG antivirus software packages that are based on signatures because they just don't work. So what happens is they change themselves constantly. So it might be a Norwegian, but they dyed their hair they put on colored contact lenses, and they change their clothing. That's effectively what's happening with our computers nowadays. It may be that Viking that's approaching you but you Don't know it because it just doesn't look like they change everything about themselves at least most everything except the malicious intent and what they end up doing once they've got control of you. So watch guard is saying that this is a major change here. Now I'm going to quote directly from them. The big change is that more and more malware is becoming evasive. So the signature-based protection is no longer sufficient. There's nothing wrong with having it because it will catch 50% to two-thirds of the traffic but you definitely need something more. And that's why I've been recommending you guys do a few things you can do the free stuff. If you are not a business, you can go to my favorite right now. Open DNS and sign up for an account. They have some paid stuff. I think it's $20 a month per computer, for business to get the basic business service. It's free. For a regular home user, but it does not allow you to do any customization. And then there are a few packages in between open DNS. Now we use a commercial version of is an enterprise version called brawler. That's where the calling it now, but it's the highest level where we can, you know, watch it and maintain it. So that's step number one of what you need to do get open DNS so that if you do get one of these pieces of nastiness like ransomware, and it tries to call home, it can't get the phone number, right. He can't call home because there's another phone number. And I think that's a very important thing to do. It's free if you're home user, you might want to pay for the family plan would block certain scary sites and certain things you probably don't want your kids to see pornography and other things open dns.com and then the other thing to do, I had it in my big course this last year and that was how to harden Windows machine. It's rather involved. And I'll probably do a course early next year on this. But make sure you harden your machine, you're going to want to turn off stuff you don't need, you're going to want to make sure your firewall is set up properly to do the types of blocks that you need. You're going to want to make sure that you've got Microsoft's new malware software installed properly and running properly. So I'll have a course on this early next year that you can get. Because when you're talking about 50%, and I've seen numbers as low as 20% effectiveness with anti-virus software, you have to do something. Hey, if you're looking to buy some gifts, I'm going to be talking about some of them in today's show, including five g should you get that phone, you're listening to Craig Peterson on w GAN and online. Greg peterson.com. Stick around. We'll be right back. Craig Peterson Hey, are you thinking about buying a mobile phone? We're going to talk about that right now. You're listening to Craig Peterson on WGN and online at Craig Peterson calm. Now you've heard about 5g. You're probably using 4g LTE right now, on your phone and maybe mobile devices you may be your iPad or a tablet that you might have. Amazon has its Kindles. They do not, by the way, have 4g LTE on them, at least, for the most part, they're using some of the much older technology because frankly, all they're doing is sending books right? Which are pretty small. But it is that time of year that we're buying presents and there are only a few days left here for that holiday season, purchasing time. And we've got a lot of competition in the 5g world. So let's talk about what this is. And I'll give you some tips. But what is going on? 5g holds a lot of promise. Now I don't know if you remember I remember how shocked I was at how fast 4g was. I bought a phone. And it had 4g LTE in on it. It was an Android phone. And I vowed never again for so many reasons. And you've heard them on the show here before, but I had bought an Android phone, and I didn't have 4g up where I lived. And I drove down. We were heading down. I think it was till Pennsylvania take one of the kids to camp. And I was going through Valley and I noticed Wait a minute. There's a big city right there. I got 4g so I immediately went to speed test.net and I ran the test to see just how fast is for G. And I was just shocked. I was getting like 20 megabits a second, which was absolutely amazing. Because I've been using cell phones since they first came out. And you know, back in the day it was 14 for right? Oh, cell phone so fast. And now just to see 20 megabits was absolutely mind-blowing. But there are some major limitations to the 4g LTE network that we are using today. And those limitations are speed for one. And then the other thing is the number of devices that can be supported. And then the cost of the data and the data transfers. So 5g has been under development for quite a while. And this is not we're not going to get into Huawei and how they stole all their technology. It really appears to be from our friends up at Nortel and put the whole company out of business because of the spine that they did. And thank goodness finally, we've got a president who's trying to do something about it. But five G's real promise for us right now is that we will get two things will get a gigabit worth of data bandwidth, which means by the way, that we may not even bother with Wi-Fi in our homes if you live in an area that has full 4g or 5g coverage because it's just going to be just as fast as your cable is right now. Now the cable companies are probably going to try and compensate by lowering their prices and giving you faster and faster and faster internet. But for a lot of people, it's going to make economic sense because the cost isn't going to be high. And then the second thing that 5g is going to give us is the ability to have billions of devices connected to the 5g network. That means that everything from our cars Which really the next generation of cars self-driving cars really do need 5g so they can talk to each other. So they can continually upload data to the cloud to let all of the routing computers know about local weather conditions and, and road and where the potholes are and everything is just, it's going to be amazing, right? On the one hand, on the other hand, well, there might be some data leakage that we might not want. So the cars are going to have it but so is pretty much every device that you have. A couple of years ago, I talked about the new jacket, the new trucker jacket that Levi's hat out. And that trucker jacket was designed specifically to connect your phone to your phone and allow you to control your phone. So it had Bluetooth in it. You could touch these little wires that were embedded into the sleeve with your hand and use that to control your cell phone. You know, listen to music and Suddenly things are just kind of cool. So our clothes are going to have the internet in them. Our computers, of course, everything you buy a laptop, it's going to have 5g built-in, you're not going to need to have an external device anymore. Just list goes on and on and on. I've everything that's going to happen is going to be phenomenal. But it is not there yet. And Apple did not include 5g with the iPhone 11 this year, it will include it with the iPhone 12. That's coming out next year. And I saw a very, very good summary of what's probably going to be coming out of Apple in September next year. The guy that published it has been spot on with most everything that Apple was coming up with. And they are he's saying that they are going to be having 5G on the phone and it would make a lot of sense. But right now you can put in orders for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 plus the one plus 70 that's There are other phones that are claimed to have 5g. But listen, everybody, it is still too early to buy a 5g phone. That is really my big tip when it comes to 5g right now, these networks have not fully standardized, they are not running, none of them are running full 5g anywhere except in a couple of major cities. The biggest problem with building out the 5g networks is that they need to have basically what we've come to know as cell towers everywhere. I mean, everywhere. These are little micro things that are not big towers like we have right now. You know, those fake trees that you see that are actually cell towers. Now, these are going to be small boxes and they're going to be on pretty much every street corner in the big cities. They'll be on the sides of buildings. They'll be on the sides of people's houses. Cell companies are going to pay us to put these on our homes so that we can now provide 5g to us and to our neighbors. And then there's going to be people who will be upset because of the radiation, even though it's non-ionizing, and it's not known to cause any harm, people will be upset about it. But these things are going to be everywhere. And that's because remember, I'm talking about one gigabit worth of bandwidth coming down to your device. Well, you cannot do gigabit service on lower frequency so they have moved to higher frequencies. The old UHF TV channels are pretty much I think they're all gone now throughout the country. And the FCC has bought back the bandwidth and has auctioned it off to all of these different companies that wanted to buy it. And it's just everything is going to change and with the high frequencies that they need in order to deliver these beads, they now have a problem and that is these higher frequencies do not penetrate glass. They don't penetrate walls very well at all. And they just don't penetrate metal at all basically, it's really bad. So it T Mobile has announced nationwide 5g available as of last Friday. That is pretty darn cool. It's got a 600 megahertz 5g network which is going to cover most of the country. That is pretty impressive. But the trade-off is it's using low band 5g which means it is good at providing slightly boosted speeds inside buildings and is available in a lot more places than what competitors offer 18 T and Verizon are offering the opposite. They have ultra-wideband networks right now superfast speeds, but very, very small footprints very small pocket, and you got to be standing near one of these towns This is kinda cool T Mobile is expecting with theirs. That actually is p mag is PC Magazine, you can expect a boost of about 15 megabits with their new 5g nationwide. And you might see 150 megabits if you have a new 5g phone or 700 megabits if you have 4g LTE. So not a huge right now, but just wait. Okay, wait until next summer next fall, when things are really going to start happening. All right, stick around. We got a lot to cover still we're going to be talking about some guests who will talk about some of the big hacks of the year. What does it mean to us? What can we do? I'm going to give you some tips and some tricks, what not to do on your work computer third party security risks and some lessons from the National Security Agency. You're getting it right here from Craig Peterson on WGA and Craig Peterson Hello, welcome back. Greg Peterson here on w GAN will be enjoying the show today. We got a lot to cover here. Awesome. Good news, some gift ideas. I've got a very cool article from Ars Technica, about nine gift ideas for the tech enthusiasts in your life. And frankly, I am totally into this. It gave me a couple of ideas in fact of things that I'm going to be getting for people. So you might want to stick around and listen to that for the enthusiast in your life. And we're going to start right now with something that I think pretty much everyone's can be interested in. If you are, you know an employee, if you work at a company, and you use computers, there is a couple of words of caution here. In this segment, Now, first of all, the business computers are owned by the business. And that's kind of where this Bring Your Own Device thing has gotten everything a little bit fuzzy, you know, so if you are using your phone, for instance, your smartphone, and you're using it for work purposes, it's not the businesses phone. So there's not a whole lot that they can say about your phone and how you use your phone. However, the business has an...
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AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: Cellular Connectivity, 5G and Why you should wait to buy a 5G phone
12/17/2019
AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: Cellular Connectivity, 5G and Why you should wait to buy a 5G phone
Welcome! Morning everybody. Hopefully, you're having a great day. It's a great week. Today we got snow and freezing rain coming in the northeast. My anyways, today I was on with Jim Polito. And we talked about five G and a couple of other technologies. So here we go with Jim. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson Morning everybody. Hopefully, you're having a great day. It's a great week. Today we got snow and freezing rain coming in the northeast. My anyways, today I was on with Jim Polito. And we talked about five G and a couple of other technologies. So here we go with Jim. Jim Polito This guy. He's like the Santa Claus of the tech world. I'm talking about my good friend and yours. He's our Tech Talk guru, Craig Peterson. Good morning, Sir. How are you today? Craig Peterson Hey, good morning. I am doing so well. It's been fun. I was at a family wedding last week. My sister in law got married. It was lovely. Today, I'm heading down to the swamp. So we'll see how that goes. Jim Polito Yeah. Have fun. It is a busy time of year, and we hopefully will have a white Christmas. Soon we will have Christmas, Hanukkah, and on Monday, it is Festivus Monday. Hanukkah begins Saturday, and then we've got Christmas Wednesday. That is the trifecta of the Big Three religions in the world. I can't believe that Christmas Eve is a week from today. Isn't Canadian Christmas tomorrow? Craig Peterson It was a couple of weeks ago because that's what I told my kids and so they gave me my present then. Okay. In honor. You know, my dad used to tell me that Christmas Eve was a Norwegians holiday, of course, that is why it is Peterson, right? Yeah. Norwegians would open a gift on Christmas Eve, and I'm not sure I'm going to have to ask him if that was yet another made-up holiday to keep us quiet. Jim Polito No, but we used to. I mean, I know a lot of families did that. Have the kids opened a gift on Christmas Eve? And then keep them quiet. My family did. We were Italian. Everything was Christmas Eve. Christmas Day was a big meal. But that was it. All the gifts for Christmas Eve. Craig Peterson That's a great idea. Jim Polito That's it. Craig Peterson We've got one of our daughter's, you know, speaking of trifectas. She's working over in Kentucky. She's one of the managers on the farm that won the Triple Crown last year. She and her daughter are coming up. my granddaughter and she's bringing a boyfriend with her, and I'm sitting here wondering what that is all about. Jim Polito You better get ready for that. Hey, If you are looking to upgrade your phone - should I get one with the latest in connectivity. So should I buy a 5g phone or not. Craig Peterson Today, there are some manufacturers with 5G phones. You know, we've talked about how it's going to be the big wave, it is going to change everything. You look at how we have these autonomous vehicles, more or less starting to hit the roads. Now, 5g is going to let them talk to each other, talk to the cloud, and get really up to date information. With 5G, even your Levi's trucker jacket to talk to it. Everything is going to be connected. You're going to buy a laptop, and it will come all of them with 5G built into it. It's going to be everywhere. However, the question now for those of you don't know you've got 4g on your phone. Now. 5g is the latest bit of wireless communication now. Jim Polito I understand. I read an article that there's an experiment Going on the closest 5g to us right now in Massachusetts isn't there an experiment going on in Providence, Rhode Island? Aren't they getting 5g right now? Craig Peterson Well, yeah, but here's the problem. It is kind of like when 4g LTE came out, and this is the data standard for your phones. It was 4g, somewhat. Now what we're seeing is in a minimal area, we're talking about a few blocks of a few downtown areas, New York City, being one of them. I do think something is going on in Providence right now. Yeah, where you're getting 5g, but you're getting what's called the wideband ultra wideband. So here's what we see right now. The Big Boy right now on the block with 5g is T Mobile. Jim Polito Yeah, I think that's who's experimenting Providence. Yeah. Craig Peterson Yeah. Friday, they turned on their 600 megahertz 5g network. Now, this is 5g, but it's not as fast as the ultra-wideband 5g is. It's, but it's like 100 megabits a second. That's crazy, quick. But whining, but ultimately 5g is going to be one gigabit so so here's the trick for Christmas for gift giving. Yeah, for your self. Right. Samsung has announced a couple of phones out there, the Galaxy Note 10 plus and the one plus 70. Both of those phones are on pre-order. But don't buy a 5g phone unless you have to buy a new phone right now. Jim Polito That's a good piece of advice. Craig Peterson Yeah. AT&T and Verizon both have some ultra wideband networks that are about a 50 megabits faster right now than T-mobile's. But they only cover a few blocks of a few downtown Areas versus t mobile's that's more or less nationwide wait into the summer of 2020. I would advise you to wait till the fall because that's when our friends at Apple are going to have their new iPhone 12. But at that point, everything will be solidified. And that's why Apple didn't come up with 5g and the iPhone 11. We're not ready yet. It is going to roll out. We're going to see upwards of a gigabit with the bandwidth, and then everything's going to change, and I'm going to be taking a much different tune. Jim Polito Isn't this great. So folks, all that Fast Five G that you've heard about you just heard from Craig wants you to wait, maybe the summer maybe the fall. Now, Craig. The other question is, Why are people so upset with 5g towers? What's the is this kind of like the anti-vaccination movement? I mean, what's the problem with 5g towers, I've had 4g, 3g, all of it. Craig Peterson Yeah, exactly. And it's not as though you're a dumber than you were a few years ago. Jim Polito I wouldn't use that analogy. I mean, it depends upon the tool you're using to measure intelligence. But go ahead. Craig Peterson Now, you know, I have an advanced class ham license from the FCC. Yes, yes. I can. I can transmit 1500 watts. Myself. Yeah. Yeah. With this fair amount of power. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And unlimited power when you get up into the light range. So doing Earthbound moon bounces and stuff. But anyway, here's the problem. People hear the word radiation, and they freak out. Yeah. When we're talking about cell towers, they radiate. They have radiation, but there is a big difference. Okay, we're talking about two different types of radiation. You have ionizing radiation, which is the dangerous stuff. That's what you get from nuclear power plants to the core of the reactor in Chernobyl. And then you have non-ionizing radiation, which is what you get from cell phones and cell phone towers. Now, the reason people are kind of getting upset about this gym is unlike 4g and prior where you have these big trees that look artificial. I know there is one on the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut. It's kind of my landmark like, oh, I'm almost at the New York line. It's one of those trees. Yeah. So I'm like that, with 5g because of the frequencies involved. There have to be upwards of 100 times as many of these transmissions right. And so there will be a lot of them. They'll be mounting them on the sides of buildings. They're much much, much smaller. But there are many, many more of them. And depending on where you live, etc., you may or may not see these bills pay you to have one on the side of your house, because it'll cover your neighbors, it'll cover your neighborhood. And this is going to be a massive blow to the cable TV companies. Because if you can get gigabit for cheap, right, you know, from whomever your provider is, it's going to make a big difference. But they've got to get out of these towers, if you will, are these really what they are 5g cell sites all over the place. So people are worried there's going to be so many of them they're going to be right next to I see that going to cause harm? And the reality is there's no real science, and I'll just kind of leave it there. But there's no real scientist that says that any of this is harmful to humans. It is non-ionizing radiation. Jim Polito Yeah, exactly. Okay. Craig, this was fascinating now. Folks, you heard that. How would you like to have access to this man all the time? Here's what you do. You text him my name, Jim, to this number 855-385-5553. Just text Jim to 855-385-5553 standard data and text rates apply, Craig will provide you with information regularly the same information he gives to me. Plus, if there's a crisis, a data breach, or theft, he will update you with all the information you need to know he's not going to try to sell you anything, and he's not going to charge you anything. Craig, fantastic segment, and we look forward to talking with you on Christmas Eve. Craig Peterson All right. Take care, gentlemen. Jim Polito All right. We'll be right back that was a great segment, Danny. Now I understand. 5g and everything else. And I don't need it right now. But man, that's going to be great when you have that kind of signal and power that's going to be great. And just to see the difference that we went from even 3g to 4g yeah difference from 4g to 5g is even bigger than that. What a leap. All right, don't go anywhere. We have a final word. When we return. You're listening to the Jim Pulido show your safe space. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: Don't miss an episode from Craig. 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