July 15, 2020

AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: The Latest Hacks Hitting Us All

6 minutes

Welcome,

Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning discussing the latest hacks that are hitting us all. Here we go with Jack.

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[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: So, what I do with my credit cards is I have it set up with apps on my phone from the actual banks. Be careful about that, especially if you're on Android, there's a lot of fake banking apps out there we have to worry about out there. And that's just a little bit about what we talked about this morning with Mr. Jack Heath.

Jack Heath: Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy. How are you, Craig? Good morning.

Craig Peterson: Hey, good morning. Finally, over that bug I had, whatever it was Flu or I am not sure what. Man, I missed you last week.

Jack Heath: Have you been? What'd you have? What kind of a? Have you been sick? You've been tested?

Craig Peterson: No, I haven't been tested. Yeah was just a general malaise, not feeling well, no energy. So who knows, right? But the list of COVID-19 symptoms covers almost everything under the sun. I

[00:01:00] Jack Heath: You know they could check the box. Hey, I hope you feel better, Craig. I want to get right to it. I'd noticed. And we've noticed we had a friend that I'm with the credit union in New Hampshire. Recently, there are so many, I noticed a whole new batch of email scams that are coming to people's email servers and it says things like, and a stay with me. It's pretty clever. It will put in like the subject Craig Peterson, to someone who knows you. And all it says is like a name, you know, like Justin McIsaac click here, and there's a link. And then you look at them, a return email, and it's, not from Craig Peterson, but they somehow get a common name and they just send you an email with a link, making it look like it's from someone, you know, and don't open that link or what happened.

Craig Peterson: Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. It really looks like right now, like the Russian hackers are on a big spree here when it comes to the emails and there was this group called like, Cosmic link.

[00:02:00] And they've been getting more and more sophisticated to doing some of the things you just mentioned. What they're using to do this is basically 15 billion stolen, exposed credentials that are out there right now in the criminal markets. So they know a lot about you, they know websites that you've been to your usernames, your passwords.

So we're using this also to try and extort money out of people saying, Oh, we caught on some bad websites and here's your user name? Here's your password. What this boils down to obviously be careful what you click on. But on the other side is that we're still using the same usernames and same passwords on all these different websites that are out there.

They're able to trick us more and more. Now we've got the NSA warning us. That was something that started happening here again over the whole COVID thing is that many of us are working from home. We don't have the ability to just pop over to the IT people or ask someone else, Hey, Clara, did you get this email?

[00:03:00] Does this look fishy to you? Many people are starting to click on stuff they never would have clicked on just a few months ago.

Jack Heath: Yeah. And again, what happens if you do open one of those links? What happens?

Craig Peterson: Well, what'll happen is typically they'll try and get you to enter in some login information.

So they'll try and be something like an Amazon is a very, very big right now, but as a target by the threshing group. So it looks like it's a notice from Amazon saying that your, your subscription has expired, and you need a new credit card. So you'll go. Click on that link. It'll take you to a website that looks like Amazon and is asking you for new credit card information.

So people go ahead and put it in because they don't want their stuff to expire. And before you know it, the bad guys have your credit card and they'll typically run it up to its credit limit within a day,

Jack Heath: Within a day of just like random purchases before you get contacted from your bank or whatever credit union, you know, say, Hey, is this you in San Diego buying gas right now?

Craig Peterson: Yeah, [00:04:00] exactly. So what I do with my credit cards is I have it set up with apps on my phone from the actual banks. Be careful about that, especially if you're on Android there's a lot of fake banking apps out there, but I have it set up so that if there are purchases that are more than $50, it immediately informs me.

So I can say, okay, wait a minute. Something's going on? And now with the modern credit cards with the modern banking app, You can disable that credit card. So something else you might want to consider, and with visa cards, you can generate a one-time single-use credit card number and it can't take it. So who cares?

Jack Heath: All right, Craig. Well, glad you feel better. We have to run. Craig Peterson.com Thanks, Craig

Craig Peterson: Those drive time shows. I noticed on my audio was a little, I think I overdrove the telephone. I have a new, A to D to A converter. [00:05:00] And, it is I not quite configured. Right. So I'm going to work on that a little bit, hopefully for tomorrow.

Will sound a little bit better when it comes to .R. Polito. All right, everybody, take care. We are setting up our studio here for more and more content. So keep an eye out for that. We've been cleaning up our email lists. You might've gotten an email from me asking, why you haven't been opening my emails and we get some really good followup stuff too.

For those people that do click through, I am really kind of excited about what we have in store for you. We're going to do a whole. On of training. We're going to be helping you guys out when it comes to even the hardware, we're going to help get you into some good prosumer hardware. We did that for a few people, already.

This is from a much earlier this year and they, they kind of Guinea pigged it a little bit here with some new hardware from Cisco. And I am [00:06:00] happy to report that everybody is very happy with that as well. So everybody, take care and make sure you are on that email list. So you can find out about what I am doing when I'm doing it.

Craig peterson.com/subscribe. Take care of everybody.

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