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It is time to talk about Jailbreaking or Rooting your iPhone.  Generally it is not a good idea -- listen in an I will explain more and how some people were caught off guard.

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Craig
Hello, everybody Craig Peterson here. Welcome back. If you have any questions, by the way on some of these things, you can always email me at Craig Peterson dot com. I do try and get back to you. And I have talked with some of these people who were into cryptocurrencies, I mean big time teaching courses on them trying to get all of their friends involved. They even had some of their own coin launches. And you know, I've talked to them and told them about, hey, here are the problems I see with this. You know, it all has to do with trust, who's going to buy it? Who can you trust with it? And, you know, frankly, I don't think many of them actually believed me. Which is, which is in my mind anyway is a bit of a problem. Because they should, believe me, this is a real, real problem. Hani I'm not going to get into any more right now let's get into iOS. iOS, of course, is Apple's operating system. It runs on In fact, this phone sitting right here that's getting charged. It is on iPads. It's everywhere. Apple has one of the most popular devices out there and its operating system is part of the reason for that. It has been known to be very safe and very secure. Well, I don't know how long maybe five years ago I think it was. I decided I would try and jailbreak or root. There's another term people use to jailbreak my iPhone because I wanted to see what it was like and it was really, really cool because I'm a Unix guy. I've been a Unix guy since like 1981 really 82 and I love the shell. I'm used to it and it was really, really cool to be there on my iPhone and drop into a shell see what was running to what was going on since that time, Apple has really closed the door on so many of these jailbreaks and they've made it so that it's almost impossible nowadays to jailbreak the devices now. There is a jailbreak that's out right now that affects almost every iPhone ever made. But it's all you can only use it in certain conditions. It's

a month some security researchers are starting to use it, but people have heard about it. So what are they doing? They're going online and they're doing searches for iOS jailbreak and they are finding jailbreak sites and they're getting excited. Oh, isn't that exciting? I am going to be able to jailbreak my phone. Right. I said in a very staccato voice. Well, what's really happening is they're going to a site and what's happening on that site click fraud because they don't have real jailbreak stuff. This is an article from a threat post that you'll find up on my site at Craig peterson.com. But these fake websites are centering around a vulnerability called check em aid, which affects hundreds of millions of iPhones and gives the attackers potentially system-level access to the handsets via an unlockable hack. It's kind of complicated and it's not something most of us have to worry about. But, man, you've got to be very careful there. The fake website for the jailbreak is called check rain calm. It was registered within 24 hours of the jailbreaks official website which is checked RA one and.com But unlike the real website This doesn't download the jailbreak instead gets people involved in this Pay Per Click online. Advertising fraud the security Researchers Telos those of the guys that I use with my company, they are the best in the business. Telos is an, Of course, I'm biased right is associated with Cisco and Cisco bought the whole Telos operation. But they're saying this new malicious actor Telos discovered claims to provide the check rain jailbreak the site even claims to be working with popular jailbreaking researchers, such as cool star Google project zeros IN or Ian beer, the page attempts to look legitimate prompting users to seemingly download an application to jailbreak their phone. However, there's no application This is an attempt to install a malicious profile on the end-user device. Now, profiles and iOS are used to authorize things like VPN to authorize the control basically remote control of an iOS device. That's what these things are really used for. So always be careful. If your phone or your iOS tablet your iPad comes up and says hey, I want to install this profile, make sure it's legit make sure you really are trying to install a profile usually profiles are used by businesses in order to control devices that they own so the data doesn't get out. The whole profile thing mobile device management gets a little complicated. If you want some help let me know. I'd be glad to help you out if not that's fine too. You can work it through yourself but it's me at Craig Peterson dot com if you have any questions on it, but it is fascinating because there is a jailbreak that is available that goes for anything from the five through the 813 chipsets.

The check em eight by the way only impacts five to 11 chipsets. This was actually rather huge this vulnerability that was pretty fairly recently. So what's my advice here on jailbreak because people are constantly trying to jailbreak their iOS devices in their jailbreaking their Android devices? What do you think the advice is, don't do it, it's just not worth it. You don't want to install one of these fake jailbreaks on your iOS device, because what's going to end up happening is more than more often than not, you are going to have some malicious code installed on your machine. You're going to be a victim of some of these ad networks that are fake that are just trying to make money for the bad guy. So be very, very careful. The same thing is true on Android. Now, most of them there are many Android jailbreaks also known as routing the devices and it is fun if you're a geek like me. It's fun to get in and see what they're doing and how They're doing it. And if you're a developer, it's really handy to be able to get in and get around some of the restrictions that are normally in place. And if your security researcher can be incredibly useful to get in and figure this stuff all out, but for your average user, the thing is, you know, just don't do it, because it's going to be nothing but pain for you. Bottom line, just nothing but pain. A lot of good information in this article. They are targeting an array of victims in the US, UK, France, Nigeria, many other countries, including Eastern and Western Europe. And it's a very, very dangerous thing, okay, so be careful. Don't try and jailbreak your devices, no matter how fun it may seem, and no matter how much you may want to jailbreak your device, just onto it because it's going to cause you nothing. Bye Pain. So coming up next we're going to talk a little bit about the iOS attacks that are up significantly in the first half of this year. And I also want to point out this is, this is something I offered about three weeks ago, but I don't think I offered it here on Facebook or YouTube. This is my quick-start guide. This is my security reboot guide for small businesses. This thing is phenomenal. Okay, it's 30 pages long. I go through stepping stones, all kinds of stuff that you need to know key points for the small businesses, your hardware, I've got stepping stones for you to walk through the path to success, what you need to do. Okay, this is absolutely phenomenal. You want a copy, believe me, and this is something I have only ever sold before. I've never given it away. But I'll give it to you right now if you go to Craig Peterson comm slash Quick Start Craig peterson.com slash QuickStart and you'll sign up there and I will send it to you right away. You are going to appreciate this even if you've started trying to do cybersecurity for your small-medium enterprise, this is going to help take you to the next level that you need. So stick around we're going to do a little bit of a show wrap up talk about some of the important things that we discussed today in case you missed it. And make sure you sign up for my quick-start guide Craig Peterson comm slash Quick Start course you listening to me on WGAN online all over the place. But you'll find it all at Craig Peterson calm and make sure you stick around because we will be right back.

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Welcome Back!

It is time to talk about Jailbreaking or Rooting your iPhone.  Generally it is not a good idea -- listen in an I will explain more and how some people were caught off guard.

For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

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Related Articles:

Fake iPhone Jailbreak Site leads to Advertising Click Fraud

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Craig
Hello, everybody Craig Peterson here. Welcome back. If you have any questions, by the way on some of these things, you can always email me at Craig Peterson dot com. I do try and get back to you. And I have talked with some of these people who were into cryptocurrencies, I mean big time teaching courses on them trying to get all of their friends involved. They even had some of their own coin launches. And you know, I've talked to them and told them about, hey, here are the problems I see with this. You know, it all has to do with trust, who's going to buy it? Who can you trust with it? And, you know, frankly, I don't think many of them actually believed me. Which is, which is in my mind anyway is a bit of a problem. Because they should, believe me, this is a real, real problem. Hani I'm not going to get into any more right now let's get into iOS. iOS, of course, is Apple's operating system. It runs on In fact, this phone sitting right here that's getting charged. It is on iPads. It's everywhere. Apple has one of the most popular devices out there and its operating system is part of the reason for that. It has been known to be very safe and very secure. Well, I don't know how long maybe five years ago I think it was. I decided I would try and jailbreak or root. There's another term people use to jailbreak my iPhone because I wanted to see what it was like and it was really, really cool because I'm a Unix guy. I've been a Unix guy since like 1981 really 82 and I love the shell. I'm used to it and it was really, really cool to be there on my iPhone and drop into a shell see what was running to what was going on since that time, Apple has really closed the door on so many of these jailbreaks and they've made it so that it's almost impossible nowadays to jailbreak the devices now. There is a jailbreak that's out right now that affects almost every iPhone ever made. But it's all you can only use it in certain conditions. It's

a month some security researchers are starting to use it, but people have heard about it. So what are they doing? They're going online and they're doing searches for iOS jailbreak and they are finding jailbreak sites and they're getting excited. Oh, isn't that exciting? I am going to be able to jailbreak my phone. Right. I said in a very staccato voice. Well, what's really happening is they're going to a site and what's happening on that site click fraud because they don't have real jailbreak stuff. This is an article from a threat post that you'll find up on my site at Craig peterson.com. But these fake websites are centering around a vulnerability called check em aid, which affects hundreds of millions of iPhones and gives the attackers potentially system-level access to the handsets via an unlockable hack. It's kind of complicated and it's not something most of us have to worry about. But, man, you've got to be very careful there. The fake website for the jailbreak is called check rain calm. It was registered within 24 hours of the jailbreaks official website which is checked RA one and.com But unlike the real website This doesn't download the jailbreak instead gets people involved in this Pay Per Click online. Advertising fraud the security Researchers Telos those of the guys that I use with my company, they are the best in the business. Telos is an, Of course, I'm biased right is associated with Cisco and Cisco bought the whole Telos operation. But they're saying this new malicious actor Telos discovered claims to provide the check rain jailbreak the site even claims to be working with popular jailbreaking researchers, such as cool star Google project zeros IN or Ian beer, the page attempts to look legitimate prompting users to seemingly download an application to jailbreak their phone. However, there's no application This is an attempt to install a malicious profile on the end-user device. Now, profiles and iOS are used to authorize things like VPN to authorize the control basically remote control of an iOS device. That's what these things are really used for. So always be careful. If your phone or your iOS tablet your iPad comes up and says hey, I want to install this profile, make sure it's legit make sure you really are trying to install a profile usually profiles are used by businesses in order to control devices that they own so the data doesn't get out. The whole profile thing mobile device management gets a little complicated. If you want some help let me know. I'd be glad to help you out if not that's fine too. You can work it through yourself but it's me at Craig Peterson dot com if you have any questions on it, but it is fascinating because there is a jailbreak that is available that goes for anything from the five through the 813 chipsets.

The check em eight by the way only impacts five to 11 chipsets. This was actually rather huge this vulnerability that was pretty fairly recently. So what's my advice here on jailbreak because people are constantly trying to jailbreak their iOS devices in their jailbreaking their Android devices? What do you think the advice is, don't do it, it's just not worth it. You don't want to install one of these fake jailbreaks on your iOS device, because what's going to end up happening is more than more often than not, you are going to have some malicious code installed on your machine. You're going to be a victim of some of these ad networks that are fake that are just trying to make money for the bad guy. So be very, very careful. The same thing is true on Android. Now, most of them there are many Android jailbreaks also known as routing the devices and it is fun if you're a geek like me. It's fun to get in and see what they're doing and how They're doing it. And if you're a developer, it's really handy to be able to get in and get around some of the restrictions that are normally in place. And if your security researcher can be incredibly useful to get in and figure this stuff all out, but for your average user, the thing is, you know, just don't do it, because it's going to be nothing but pain for you. Bottom line, just nothing but pain. A lot of good information in this article. They are targeting an array of victims in the US, UK, France, Nigeria, many other countries, including Eastern and Western Europe. And it's a very, very dangerous thing, okay, so be careful. Don't try and jailbreak your devices, no matter how fun it may seem, and no matter how much you may want to jailbreak your device, just onto it because it's going to cause you nothing. Bye Pain. So coming up next we're going to talk a little bit about the iOS attacks that are up significantly in the first half of this year. And I also want to point out this is, this is something I offered about three weeks ago, but I don't think I offered it here on Facebook or YouTube. This is my quick-start guide. This is my security reboot guide for small businesses. This thing is phenomenal. Okay, it's 30 pages long. I go through stepping stones, all kinds of stuff that you need to know key points for the small businesses, your hardware, I've got stepping stones for you to walk through the path to success, what you need to do. Okay, this is absolutely phenomenal. You want a copy, believe me, and this is something I have only ever sold before. I've never given it away. But I'll give it to you right now if you go to Craig Peterson comm slash Quick Start Craig peterson.com slash QuickStart and you'll sign up there and I will send it to you right away. You are going to appreciate this even if you've started trying to do cybersecurity for your small-medium enterprise, this is going to help take you to the next level that you need. So stick around we're going to do a little bit of a show wrap up talk about some of the important things that we discussed today in case you missed it. And make sure you sign up for my quick-start guide Craig Peterson comm slash Quick Start course you listening to me on WGAN online all over the place. But you'll find it all at Craig Peterson calm and make sure you stick around because we will be right back.

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We are closing up today's show with a warning about all these connected devices that you have in your homes and offices.  Tune in to find out why you must be worried about IoT gadgets.

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Hello, everybody, welcome back, Craig Peterson here, we have had quite a day today. It's been pretty heavy actually, on the security stuff, I usually talk about a few other things like last week with Tesla and the farting car, right? And what you need to do or to just stay safe with these electric cars that are driving around, that isn't making any noise. There are new laws, rules, and regulations in places that are requiring them to make noise. And so, Elon Musk said, Well, if I have to make a noise, and so farting was one of them. Another one that I would actually do is remember that bit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, where the guys going around with the coconuts caught pack pack pack pack, right? pretend he has a horse, and that's one of the sounds of the Tesla will be able to make, apparently in the near future.

So, today we have talked about IBM without encryption. It's really the end to our privacy, which is a very, very big deal. The FBI is urging businesses to use biometric factors to authorize users. Now really what they're talking about is two-factor authentication. But biometrics is an easy factor. And that's like on my iPhone, I've got this little thumbprint thing to unlock it. And that's also true with our visual face recognition. Because that's also now letting us login the phone identifies biometrics. cyber theft is a huge problem in the United States and around the world. China has been very, very involved in it and I don't know why people tend to overlook this right. The media seems to downplay it, but try that just came out with an airliner I was talking about earlier, that apparently is composed almost entirely out of stolen parts and pieces from the United States of America and from Europe.

All of this, by the way, you'll find online that Craig Peterson dot com, I got the videos and everything else up there. tamper protection has been added now to Microsoft defender antivirus, only certain versions of it will have it. But I was talking about what versions those are, what you can do what you should do with Microsoft defender, and their new camper protection, which I think is a great idea. And I also talked about how you can for free, basically, get about 85 maybe 80% secure systems by just going with some of the built-in Microsoft software. So that was a little bit earlier today. We talked also about the Tor browser and what the Tor Browser means to you and me the origins of it, and what you can use it for.

Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency and cryptocurrencies in general. You know, I love the idea of crypto currencies. But the implementation so far it's been bad. And I was actually hoping that Facebook could pull it off. But I talked about that and what's going to happen with their announcement for next year. And of course, we just in the last, the last section here talked about this fake iOS jailbreak site. And you got to be careful with that it's been lowering in some of the iOS users and been causing real problems. And this goes back to Apple's problem that they have right now. with being able to crack almost every modern version of Apple's chips they use to run well, it's not the chips themselves. It's the bootstrapping process, but it's a really big deal. So bottom line, do not try and route your phones right route jailbreak the same thing. So right now I want to talk about it here. In our last segment of the day, I want to talk about IoT. This is, of course, the Internet of Things. 

There's kind of a funny article out this week, they actually did surveys of some of the people who are in security in IT security, and they surveyed them about the Internet of Things and which devices are they most concerned about? And I think this was actually a joke on the part of you know, the security guys. But the number one thing they were afraid of was their IoT toilet.

Which is frankly pretty funny if he asked me because it, it is connected to the internet now you look at these Japanese Charlie's been they've been real fancy for a long time, right? We may Some of us may have learned about that in the movie cars with tone meter. But these, these toilets are getting fancier and fancier. And they're monitoring themselves. They try and get rid of odors they sometimes the days built in, but that was the number one thing they were worried about. Why are they worried about things like toilets? Well, when was the last time you upgraded the software on your computer? If you're like most people, over 50%, about 56% of people have Windows computers that have not been updated. That is a very, very big deal. That's a huge number. Well, well, let's look at that a little bit further. When was the last time you updated the firmware in your light bulb? Because a lot of us have these lights overhead that we can control with our Siri device, right? The Apple Home, we might control them with our Amazon Alexa or Google Home. We're talking about having real computers. There's a computer in that light, but it might only be all on a single chip, but it's a computer. And when we're talking about fancier things like our security cameras, that security camera has an entire computer in it. And it uses that to control the camera control the lighting, control the internet connection, and so to do the recording of its recording locally. When was the last time you updated the firmware and those devices and we've talked on the show before about many of these camera systems coming from China come pre-infected with spyware? And then they're used to launch other attacks. There are even warnings if you are really a security professional. I know most of you aren't most of you are like me. You're kind of the de facto IT person. You've been assigned security as part of you're you know, another half your role, right? And you have to learn more and more about that, the security. But we're not out there updating all of these devices all of the time. And that's a huge problem. So some security researchers have said, Okay, here's what we're going to do, I'm going to scan the internet for devices that are vulnerable to this particular security problem. And when I find them, I'm going to use that security vulnerability to break into them. And since I cannot fix their device, I'm going to break the device. Now breaking the device means the device now becomes worthless. You can't do anything with it. There is no longer any way to recover it unless you really know what you're doing right. And that's something that somebody that knows how to do a factory reset might be able to do in some cases that might be booked for life. It'll never work ever again.

So the security researcher researchers going on and breaking people's devices. That's a very, very bad idea. Because what could happen is you might be breaking the device that is being used by someone that has a home monitor for their breathing machine. And now that home monitor can't get out because their firewall was just bricked or the router was just bricked, we can't do that sort of thing. That is not the way to fix the problem. And I don't get it, you know, how can somebody say their security researcher, they're trying to make the internet a safer place, and at the same time, they might be leading to the death of someone? guaranteed? Okay. So all of these devices that I've been talking about are part of the Internet of Things. Right? That's what I was just talking about here. IoT attacks up eight fold. A huge, huge number.

Now, there's a company called Kaspersky. Remember, I warned you don't use Kaspersky, the federal government says don't use them. They are security company. They've had a lot of great stuff. But the problem with Kaspersky is they're in Russia, and they have direct ties to the Kremlin. So we're worried about the Kremlin having access to our networks because of the Kaspersky software that's in it. Well, Kaspersky put up something called honey pots. And we've used them for some of our clients in the past where we needed you to know, they were under direct attack, okay, and then find out who was attacking. So these honey pots are machines that are set up on a network that are purposely out of date, they're purposely not patched up so that when somebody scans them and finds a vulnerability, they will then try and do something with that vulnerability. So they'll often just install software that gives them remote control over that machine and they'll get back to it at a later date, or they will just sell it and they sell these remote control networks of computers. So when they're using a honeypot, they know, Hey, wait a minute, somebody from North Korea just broke in using this particular type of hack and this software.

And we got to close the deal, right? We got to make sure it's patched up. So on one network of these honey pots put in place by Kaspersky, they saw 105 million attacks on Internet of Things devices, 105 million attacks on IoT devices. In this one network, they had set up compared with just 12 million in the first half of 2018. So in other words, Kaspersky saw an eight-fold increase in attacks on these devices in the first half of 2018 scary and sad all of the same time. Okay. Now Kaspersky is honey pots found that most of these attacks were not very sophisticated, but they didn't have to be. They were what is called quiet attacks, they came in, they found the vulnerability, they exploded the vulnerability, they put something in place to let them remote control, and they just let it sit. Then, later on, they come back and they as part of a button that they might use those machines to attack other machines to do denial of service attack, etc, etc, etc. And by the way, they found that one particular attack was the most successful kind of 39% of the infections, all kinds of great stats. Now, who's responsible? According to Kaspersky, their honey pot was attacked 30% of the time by China 19% from Brazil 12% from Egypt. And that's a big change from last year where Brazil was the leading the tax source. So things are changing. But in some ways, the more things change, the more they stay the same. We are seeing the tax, they are coming from China. They're all coming from all these places. And it's against the agenda thing. So make sure you update the software, on your Windows machines on your max on your Android devices, on your light bulbs or your light switches, anything that's connected to a network. Make sure it's updated. Hey, everybody, have a great week. Make sure you pick up my reboot guide, Craig peterson.com slash Quick Start. And we'll be chatting next week. You can also text me by the way 855-385-5553 Take care, everybody. Have a great week and we'll be back next week with more. Bye-Bye.

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Welcome Back!

We are closing up today's show with a warning about all these connected devices that you have in your homes and offices.  Tune in to find out why you must be worried about IoT gadgets.

For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

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Related Articles:

Convenience Gadgets - Design, Functionality then Security

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Craig
Hello, everybody, welcome back, Craig Peterson here, we have had quite a day today. It's been pretty heavy actually, on the security stuff, I usually talk about a few other things like last week with Tesla and the farting car, right? And what you need to do or to just stay safe with these electric cars that are driving around, that isn't making any noise. There are new laws, rules, and regulations in places that are requiring them to make noise. And so, Elon Musk said, Well, if I have to make a noise, and so farting was one of them. Another one that I would actually do is remember that bit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, where the guys going around with the coconuts caught pack pack pack pack, right? pretend he has a horse, and that's one of the sounds of the Tesla will be able to make, apparently in the near future.

So, today we have talked about IBM without encryption. It's really the end to our privacy, which is a very, very big deal. The FBI is urging businesses to use biometric factors to authorize users. Now really what they're talking about is two-factor authentication. But biometrics is an easy factor. And that's like on my iPhone, I've got this little thumbprint thing to unlock it. And that's also true with our visual face recognition. Because that's also now letting us login the phone identifies biometrics. cyber theft is a huge problem in the United States and around the world. China has been very, very involved in it and I don't know why people tend to overlook this right. The media seems to downplay it, but try that just came out with an airliner I was talking about earlier, that apparently is composed almost entirely out of stolen parts and pieces from the United States of America and from Europe.

All of this, by the way, you'll find online that Craig Peterson dot com, I got the videos and everything else up there. tamper protection has been added now to Microsoft defender antivirus, only certain versions of it will have it. But I was talking about what versions those are, what you can do what you should do with Microsoft defender, and their new camper protection, which I think is a great idea. And I also talked about how you can for free, basically, get about 85 maybe 80% secure systems by just going with some of the built-in Microsoft software. So that was a little bit earlier today. We talked also about the Tor browser and what the Tor Browser means to you and me the origins of it, and what you can use it for.

Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency and cryptocurrencies in general. You know, I love the idea of crypto currencies. But the implementation so far it's been bad. And I was actually hoping that Facebook could pull it off. But I talked about that and what's going to happen with their announcement for next year. And of course, we just in the last, the last section here talked about this fake iOS jailbreak site. And you got to be careful with that it's been lowering in some of the iOS users and been causing real problems. And this goes back to Apple's problem that they have right now. with being able to crack almost every modern version of Apple's chips they use to run well, it's not the chips themselves. It's the bootstrapping process, but it's a really big deal. So bottom line, do not try and route your phones right route jailbreak the same thing. So right now I want to talk about it here. In our last segment of the day, I want to talk about IoT. This is, of course, the Internet of Things. 

There's kind of a funny article out this week, they actually did surveys of some of the people who are in security in IT security, and they surveyed them about the Internet of Things and which devices are they most concerned about? And I think this was actually a joke on the part of you know, the security guys. But the number one thing they were afraid of was their IoT toilet.

Which is frankly pretty funny if he asked me because it, it is connected to the internet now you look at these Japanese Charlie's been they've been real fancy for a long time, right? We may Some of us may have learned about that in the movie cars with tone meter. But these, these toilets are getting fancier and fancier. And they're monitoring themselves. They try and get rid of odors they sometimes the days built in, but that was the number one thing they were worried about. Why are they worried about things like toilets? Well, when was the last time you upgraded the software on your computer? If you're like most people, over 50%, about 56% of people have Windows computers that have not been updated. That is a very, very big deal. That's a huge number. Well, well, let's look at that a little bit further. When was the last time you updated the firmware in your light bulb? Because a lot of us have these lights overhead that we can control with our Siri device, right? The Apple Home, we might control them with our Amazon Alexa or Google Home. We're talking about having real computers. There's a computer in that light, but it might only be all on a single chip, but it's a computer. And when we're talking about fancier things like our security cameras, that security camera has an entire computer in it. And it uses that to control the camera control the lighting, control the internet connection, and so to do the recording of its recording locally. When was the last time you updated the firmware and those devices and we've talked on the show before about many of these camera systems coming from China come pre-infected with spyware? And then they're used to launch other attacks. There are even warnings if you are really a security professional. I know most of you aren't most of you are like me. You're kind of the de facto IT person. You've been assigned security as part of you're you know, another half your role, right? And you have to learn more and more about that, the security. But we're not out there updating all of these devices all of the time. And that's a huge problem. So some security researchers have said, Okay, here's what we're going to do, I'm going to scan the internet for devices that are vulnerable to this particular security problem. And when I find them, I'm going to use that security vulnerability to break into them. And since I cannot fix their device, I'm going to break the device. Now breaking the device means the device now becomes worthless. You can't do anything with it. There is no longer any way to recover it unless you really know what you're doing right. And that's something that somebody that knows how to do a factory reset might be able to do in some cases that might be booked for life. It'll never work ever again.

So the security researcher researchers going on and breaking people's devices. That's a very, very bad idea. Because what could happen is you might be breaking the device that is being used by someone that has a home monitor for their breathing machine. And now that home monitor can't get out because their firewall was just bricked or the router was just bricked, we can't do that sort of thing. That is not the way to fix the problem. And I don't get it, you know, how can somebody say their security researcher, they're trying to make the internet a safer place, and at the same time, they might be leading to the death of someone? guaranteed? Okay. So all of these devices that I've been talking about are part of the Internet of Things. Right? That's what I was just talking about here. IoT attacks up eight fold. A huge, huge number.

Now, there's a company called Kaspersky. Remember, I warned you don't use Kaspersky, the federal government says don't use them. They are security company. They've had a lot of great stuff. But the problem with Kaspersky is they're in Russia, and they have direct ties to the Kremlin. So we're worried about the Kremlin having access to our networks because of the Kaspersky software that's in it. Well, Kaspersky put up something called honey pots. And we've used them for some of our clients in the past where we needed you to know, they were under direct attack, okay, and then find out who was attacking. So these honey pots are machines that are set up on a network that are purposely out of date, they're purposely not patched up so that when somebody scans them and finds a vulnerability, they will then try and do something with that vulnerability. So they'll often just install software that gives them remote control over that machine and they'll get back to it at a later date, or they will just sell it and they sell these remote control networks of computers. So when they're using a honeypot, they know, Hey, wait a minute, somebody from North Korea just broke in using this particular type of hack and this software.

And we got to close the deal, right? We got to make sure it's patched up. So on one network of these honey pots put in place by Kaspersky, they saw 105 million attacks on Internet of Things devices, 105 million attacks on IoT devices. In this one network, they had set up compared with just 12 million in the first half of 2018. So in other words, Kaspersky saw an eight-fold increase in attacks on these devices in the first half of 2018 scary and sad all of the same time. Okay. Now Kaspersky is honey pots found that most of these attacks were not very sophisticated, but they didn't have to be. They were what is called quiet attacks, they came in, they found the vulnerability, they exploded the vulnerability, they put something in place to let them remote control, and they just let it sit. Then, later on, they come back and they as part of a button that they might use those machines to attack other machines to do denial of service attack, etc, etc, etc. And by the way, they found that one particular attack was the most successful kind of 39% of the infections, all kinds of great stats. Now, who's responsible? According to Kaspersky, their honey pot was attacked 30% of the time by China 19% from Brazil 12% from Egypt. And that's a big change from last year where Brazil was the leading the tax source. So things are changing. But in some ways, the more things change, the more they stay the same. We are seeing the tax, they are coming from China. They're all coming from all these places. And it's against the agenda thing. So make sure you update the software, on your Windows machines on your max on your Android devices, on your light bulbs or your light switches, anything that's connected to a network. Make sure it's updated. Hey, everybody, have a great week. Make sure you pick up my reboot guide, Craig peterson.com slash Quick Start. And we'll be chatting next week. You can also text me by the way 855-385-5553 Take care, everybody. Have a great week and we'll be back next week with more. Bye-Bye.

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Good morning everybody!

I was on with Ken and Matt per usual their base is expanding which is really kind of cool. They are adding stations and things which is quite exciting. Anyhow, I had a good conversation with them about our privacy security or what to do about it and what's in the news right now that the statistics are really getting scary frankly. Especially when I when it comes to small businesses, and of course, we discussed a little bit about what they are doing, what their bosses are doing over there at the Portland radio group, and what maybe you shouldn't be doing if you're that de facto IT person in your organization. I think what the Portland radio group is doing is a great step and it's going to make a huge difference for them.

These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

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Craig

Good morning everybody! Craig Peterson here.

I was on with Ken and Matt per usual their base is expanding which is really kind of cool. They are adding stations and things, which is quite exciting. Anyhow, I had a good conversation with them about our privacy security or what to do about it and what's in the news right now that the statistics are really getting scary frankly. Especially when I when it comes to small businesses, and of course, we discussed a little bit about what they are doing, what their bosses are doing over there at the Portland radio group, and what maybe you shouldn't be doing if you're that de facto IT person in your organization. I think what the Portland radio group is doing is a great step and it's going to make a huge difference for them.

Matt Gagnon 
Gentlemen, it's his time once again, Craig Peterson tech guru extraordinaire, and host of the Craig Peterson show on this Very Radio Network joins us now as he always does at this time on Wednesdays what's happening, Craig?

Craig
Hey, good morning. I don't get it here. The Red Sox are not in the playoffs now. But you guys are saying.

Ken Altschuler
That is correct, sir. That is correct. I did, however, win the World Series last year. So

Craig
it's okay. Isn't it kind of a weird thing, though, because you'd think if they were such a powerhouse last year, how come they didn't even make it into the playoffs? You know, I'm not a sports guy. You can tell.

Matt 
I could give you lots of answers. But we're not here to hear me talk about baseball our way.

Ken
Would you rather talk about Jethro Tull?

Matt
As long as that conversation could go? 

Ken
Do you agree with me that the Jethro Tull should absolutely be in the rock Hall of Fame and it's a travesty that they're not?

Craig
I absolutely agree. I don't get it. Why are they putting country music people in and other

Ken 
Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston,

Craig
Whitney Houston. I can see like some of the blues and Some of the old some of that eventually turned into rock and roll that makes sense. I can see that one. Well, you know, pop music gab Jessel told definitely, but anyway.

Ken
Yeah. So I was gonna ask you a question about lying on your password recovery questions but before we but but I want you to explain to me how AI systems are going to cause phones to disappear.

Craig
Yeah, this isn't going to be an eventual type of thing. What what's happening is we're putting microphones everywhere. They're in our cars. Our cars now of course have built into the many of them, you know, Wi Fi, it's time into the cellular data network, where we've started to see the rollout of 5g, which is really designed to allow pretty much everything ever manufactured to be on the Internet at very, very high speeds at very low cost. So what we're going to see over the course of the next five years, certainly the next 10 Yours is there will be internet available everywhere via every device you can think of. You know, we've got Levi's with their trucker jacket that has built in internet. Basically, it has remote controls and things, but right into it. So this is what the eventuality is now, tie that into artificial intelligence, and tie all of that into the ability for these systems to understand what we're saying. Now, in reality, it's going to take a while before they really understand it, but they are pretty darn good right now just talking to Alexa. We know that. So put all of this into a big pot and stir it up. Since it's Halloween. We'll call it a big cauldron. And stir it all up. You're going to end up with these artificial intelligence systems that are also just continually getting better and better. With the internet connectivity everywhere microphones everywhere, so to the point where you won't carry Any sort of a device that you would identify as a phone, you might have a little pin on your lapel that talks to you when you talk to it, etc. That might be a little projectors, here, there and everywhere so you can see things as kind of a screen. By the eventually this is all going to be tied right into our brains, it's going to be going into our optic nerves. We are going to become a little bored is when it kind of boils down to But before that, we're just going to be talking to devices and having them read our messages and send our messages and use it as as our communicator with no more phones.

Matt
We are talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now as he always does on Wednesdays at this time. Craig they force us here at the WGA and morning news to watch these security videos trying desperately to drag the employees not just this radio station but all Portland radio group radio stations. into being more secure with their email and stuff. Clicking on those things that say that their downloads and downloading them onto your computer and having a virus and so on and so forth. I believe that we have to watch those videos because more people are falling for it and more attacks are happening from outside. And this is a problem that's getting worse. Am I wrong about that? Am I right about that? Are we seeing a rise in email attacks?

Craig
No, you're absolutely right. In fact, we'll be talking a little bit more about that next week, because there's some new statistics are just coming out right now on that. But we're seeing right now that 76% of us businesses have been attacked, they've experienced a cyber attack in the last year. 76% is absolutely crazy how many organizations have been attacked and 63% of businesses reported the loss of some type of corporate or customer information in the last 12 months. It's absolutely huge and, and frankly, too many businesses are ostrich, ostrich. You're such a work. They're sticking their heads into sand, right? They're saying they're gonna it's not going to happen to me. Now bigger businesses, when you get out of the SMB space, the bigger ones over 500 employees are taking this seriously. They are doing the right things. They're doing what the Portland radio group is doing. They're making sure their employees are trained in what to watch for because most of these bad really bad cyber attacks that have happened besides ransomware have happened because of things employees do and have done and that includes opening emails. So the bad guys are good. They've come a long way from the days when it was you know And my heart goes out to that poor Nigerian prince who lost all his money. And all he needs is Us Bank Account to transfer the money through. And all you have to do is you know, keep a little commission but a lot of use your bank account. Today what they're doing is they are breaking into websites for businesses. And they're stealing all of the data they can get their Well, some of the data that they're stealing and they're going after are your password recovery questions. And they can from that find out all kinds of information. Now this goes back to of course, our friend Sarah Palin. Remember this back in 2008, a 20 year old college student broke into her Yahoo account and stole a bunch of emails from there. How does he do it? While he googled her password recovery question answers. He found out what her zip code was her birthday people will you The name of their dog, their child's birthday wedding date, social security number, but use all of these things to break into account. So the bottom line here is Portland Raider groups doing the right thing by making you watch videos. They should make you watch my videos because they're much more interesting. But, but it is the right thing. Because that is the primary way your email that the bad guys are using to manipulate you by using things like your password recovery questions, to be able to get into your accounts and it's a very, very bad thing. And that's what I'm saying right now. Everybody, you should lie on your bank password recovery questions absolutely should lie on them. When it says what high school did you graduate from? Makeup something don't just use Scooby Doo his high school graduation. But you know poolesville that's not a great one. Completely make something up what high school? Did you graduate from college ended software? And you have to remember all of these answers because you shouldn't be using different answers on every website. So put them all into a password management management program. That's what I do. Use different password recovery questions every time. You can get my password recovery. I have a 10 page thing on passwords. Okay. 10 page special report. So it uncovers password recovery stuff, but what software should you buy? Which ones are free? What should you do? But this is all part of the same thing. And you can get that by the way, just like Craig peterson.com slash password password and get that password recovery thing. But this is complicated. You need to do training with your employees and email. According to the FBI. His latest report is the number one way the bad guys are stealing from our businesses.

Matt
Wouldn't it be easier to just not have computers anymore? 

Ken
Seriously, it would be what would it be like if there was no internet? I was a very good typewriter. I mean, I could type again, if I had to. Yeah. People have to use a phone. Although they were scams that way too. Is it done? Okay. Craig Peterson joins us every Wednesday at 738. And you can hear him on Saturday from one to three on WGAN.

Matt
So 76% of us businesses have experienced a cyber attack in the past year.

Craig
Yeah, definitely. You know, it ties all in and it's it's very, very, very big. The SMB space is the space of going after that small medium businesses. Some people call the mass and the, you know, small medium enterprises. And the reason they're going after these smaller businesses, which are basically the under 500 employees, isn't because necessarily that's where the money is, but it's Because that's where they are least prepared for the attack, they're least ready for it. And they leave their money laying around. I picked up some new clients that have had their entire operating account stolen can imagine that you rely on your operating account to pay your bills to pay the vendors, maybe you are using it for payroll as well. And all of a sudden, it's empty. That is a killer for businesses that especially small medium businesses, and so now you're stuck you're in big trouble and they're going after them because they are not ready. Now the some of the stats here also are amazing that it okay 76% of cyber businesses or businesses that cyber attack and 63% of them lost their intellectual property as we mentioned, or customer information the last 12 months but those businesses 63% 50% of them will be out of business in six months. So it's 63% over 76%. And they take 50% of that they will be out of business within six months. And the really scary part is of those somewhere around 30% file for bankruptcy. The week it happens, because they realize that they just can't pay their bills. They're incomplete trouble. So everybody, do what Ken and Matt have been doing. Make sure your employees get training on email, email handling. If you are a home user, a small office, Home Office retiree, make sure you are very careful, basically, nowadays never clicked on anything in the emails is that one of the popular things right now is they're trying to get you to do something. So they'll save things like hey, we've got video of you visiting a porn site. And here's your password. Here's your username and be Cuz you're reusing passwords, it is one of your password. So anyways, I know we're out of time here. But this I can't stress this enough because I've seen so many people, it just breaks my heart that that aren't ready for this. If you're a small business, you have to address this. And you got to take some time and maybe one of the ways to start, if you're interested. Grab it right now, which is Craig peterson.com slash password. That's a great place to start playing some training, do it with your employees and, and protect your business. It's your investment. And if you're the defacto IT person in your organization, you're going to get blamed when this happens to you.

Matt
Well, on that cheery note, ladies, gentlemen, Craig Peterson, our tech guru who has been joining us as he always does on Wednesday morning is is done for the day. So thank you, Craig. Appreciate it as always, and we will talk again next week.

Craig,

Hey guys, thanks a lot. Alright.

Matt

So we're going to take a quick break we'll be back on the other side of the break coming up next on WGAN

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Good morning everybody!

I was on with Ken and Matt per usual their base is expanding which is really kind of cool. They are adding stations and things which is quite exciting. Anyhow, I had a good conversation with them about our privacy security or what to do about it and what's in the news right now that the statistics are really getting scary frankly. Especially when I when it comes to small businesses, and of course, we discussed a little bit about what they are doing, what their bosses are doing over there at the Portland radio group, and what maybe you shouldn't be doing if you're that de facto IT person in your organization. I think what the Portland radio group is doing is a great step and it's going to make a huge difference for them.

These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

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Related Articles:

The Future Communication Means No Phones

Maintaining Privacy Means Obfuscating Online Security Answers

More Than Three-Quarters of US Businesses Are CyberAtttack Targets

Keeping Windows Safe Means Patching, Patching, Patching and More Patching

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Craig

Good morning everybody! Craig Peterson here.

I was on with Ken and Matt per usual their base is expanding which is really kind of cool. They are adding stations and things, which is quite exciting. Anyhow, I had a good conversation with them about our privacy security or what to do about it and what's in the news right now that the statistics are really getting scary frankly. Especially when I when it comes to small businesses, and of course, we discussed a little bit about what they are doing, what their bosses are doing over there at the Portland radio group, and what maybe you shouldn't be doing if you're that de facto IT person in your organization. I think what the Portland radio group is doing is a great step and it's going to make a huge difference for them.

Matt Gagnon 
Gentlemen, it's his time once again, Craig Peterson tech guru extraordinaire, and host of the Craig Peterson show on this Very Radio Network joins us now as he always does at this time on Wednesdays what's happening, Craig?

Craig
Hey, good morning. I don't get it here. The Red Sox are not in the playoffs now. But you guys are saying.

Ken Altschuler
That is correct, sir. That is correct. I did, however, win the World Series last year. So

Craig
it's okay. Isn't it kind of a weird thing, though, because you'd think if they were such a powerhouse last year, how come they didn't even make it into the playoffs? You know, I'm not a sports guy. You can tell.

Matt 
I could give you lots of answers. But we're not here to hear me talk about baseball our way.

Ken
Would you rather talk about Jethro Tull?

Matt
As long as that conversation could go? 

Ken
Do you agree with me that the Jethro Tull should absolutely be in the rock Hall of Fame and it's a travesty that they're not?

Craig
I absolutely agree. I don't get it. Why are they putting country music people in and other

Ken 
Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston,

Craig
Whitney Houston. I can see like some of the blues and Some of the old some of that eventually turned into rock and roll that makes sense. I can see that one. Well, you know, pop music gab Jessel told definitely, but anyway.

Ken
Yeah. So I was gonna ask you a question about lying on your password recovery questions but before we but but I want you to explain to me how AI systems are going to cause phones to disappear.

Craig
Yeah, this isn't going to be an eventual type of thing. What what's happening is we're putting microphones everywhere. They're in our cars. Our cars now of course have built into the many of them, you know, Wi Fi, it's time into the cellular data network, where we've started to see the rollout of 5g, which is really designed to allow pretty much everything ever manufactured to be on the Internet at very, very high speeds at very low cost. So what we're going to see over the course of the next five years, certainly the next 10 Yours is there will be internet available everywhere via every device you can think of. You know, we've got Levi's with their trucker jacket that has built in internet. Basically, it has remote controls and things, but right into it. So this is what the eventuality is now, tie that into artificial intelligence, and tie all of that into the ability for these systems to understand what we're saying. Now, in reality, it's going to take a while before they really understand it, but they are pretty darn good right now just talking to Alexa. We know that. So put all of this into a big pot and stir it up. Since it's Halloween. We'll call it a big cauldron. And stir it all up. You're going to end up with these artificial intelligence systems that are also just continually getting better and better. With the internet connectivity everywhere microphones everywhere, so to the point where you won't carry Any sort of a device that you would identify as a phone, you might have a little pin on your lapel that talks to you when you talk to it, etc. That might be a little projectors, here, there and everywhere so you can see things as kind of a screen. By the eventually this is all going to be tied right into our brains, it's going to be going into our optic nerves. We are going to become a little bored is when it kind of boils down to But before that, we're just going to be talking to devices and having them read our messages and send our messages and use it as as our communicator with no more phones.

Matt
We are talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now as he always does on Wednesdays at this time. Craig they force us here at the WGA and morning news to watch these security videos trying desperately to drag the employees not just this radio station but all Portland radio group radio stations. into being more secure with their email and stuff. Clicking on those things that say that their downloads and downloading them onto your computer and having a virus and so on and so forth. I believe that we have to watch those videos because more people are falling for it and more attacks are happening from outside. And this is a problem that's getting worse. Am I wrong about that? Am I right about that? Are we seeing a rise in email attacks?

Craig
No, you're absolutely right. In fact, we'll be talking a little bit more about that next week, because there's some new statistics are just coming out right now on that. But we're seeing right now that 76% of us businesses have been attacked, they've experienced a cyber attack in the last year. 76% is absolutely crazy how many organizations have been attacked and 63% of businesses reported the loss of some type of corporate or customer information in the last 12 months. It's absolutely huge and, and frankly, too many businesses are ostrich, ostrich. You're such a work. They're sticking their heads into sand, right? They're saying they're gonna it's not going to happen to me. Now bigger businesses, when you get out of the SMB space, the bigger ones over 500 employees are taking this seriously. They are doing the right things. They're doing what the Portland radio group is doing. They're making sure their employees are trained in what to watch for because most of these bad really bad cyber attacks that have happened besides ransomware have happened because of things employees do and have done and that includes opening emails. So the bad guys are good. They've come a long way from the days when it was you know And my heart goes out to that poor Nigerian prince who lost all his money. And all he needs is Us Bank Account to transfer the money through. And all you have to do is you know, keep a little commission but a lot of use your bank account. Today what they're doing is they are breaking into websites for businesses. And they're stealing all of the data they can get their Well, some of the data that they're stealing and they're going after are your password recovery questions. And they can from that find out all kinds of information. Now this goes back to of course, our friend Sarah Palin. Remember this back in 2008, a 20 year old college student broke into her Yahoo account and stole a bunch of emails from there. How does he do it? While he googled her password recovery question answers. He found out what her zip code was her birthday people will you The name of their dog, their child's birthday wedding date, social security number, but use all of these things to break into account. So the bottom line here is Portland Raider groups doing the right thing by making you watch videos. They should make you watch my videos because they're much more interesting. But, but it is the right thing. Because that is the primary way your email that the bad guys are using to manipulate you by using things like your password recovery questions, to be able to get into your accounts and it's a very, very bad thing. And that's what I'm saying right now. Everybody, you should lie on your bank password recovery questions absolutely should lie on them. When it says what high school did you graduate from? Makeup something don't just use Scooby Doo his high school graduation. But you know poolesville that's not a great one. Completely make something up what high school? Did you graduate from college ended software? And you have to remember all of these answers because you shouldn't be using different answers on every website. So put them all into a password management management program. That's what I do. Use different password recovery questions every time. You can get my password recovery. I have a 10 page thing on passwords. Okay. 10 page special report. So it uncovers password recovery stuff, but what software should you buy? Which ones are free? What should you do? But this is all part of the same thing. And you can get that by the way, just like Craig peterson.com slash password password and get that password recovery thing. But this is complicated. You need to do training with your employees and email. According to the FBI. His latest report is the number one way the bad guys are stealing from our businesses.

Matt
Wouldn't it be easier to just not have computers anymore? 

Ken
Seriously, it would be what would it be like if there was no internet? I was a very good typewriter. I mean, I could type again, if I had to. Yeah. People have to use a phone. Although they were scams that way too. Is it done? Okay. Craig Peterson joins us every Wednesday at 738. And you can hear him on Saturday from one to three on WGAN.

Matt
So 76% of us businesses have experienced a cyber attack in the past year.

Craig
Yeah, definitely. You know, it ties all in and it's it's very, very, very big. The SMB space is the space of going after that small medium businesses. Some people call the mass and the, you know, small medium enterprises. And the reason they're going after these smaller businesses, which are basically the under 500 employees, isn't because necessarily that's where the money is, but it's Because that's where they are least prepared for the attack, they're least ready for it. And they leave their money laying around. I picked up some new clients that have had their entire operating account stolen can imagine that you rely on your operating account to pay your bills to pay the vendors, maybe you are using it for payroll as well. And all of a sudden, it's empty. That is a killer for businesses that especially small medium businesses, and so now you're stuck you're in big trouble and they're going after them because they are not ready. Now the some of the stats here also are amazing that it okay 76% of cyber businesses or businesses that cyber attack and 63% of them lost their intellectual property as we mentioned, or customer information the last 12 months but those businesses 63% 50% of them will be out of business in six months. So it's 63% over 76%. And they take 50% of that they will be out of business within six months. And the really scary part is of those somewhere around 30% file for bankruptcy. The week it happens, because they realize that they just can't pay their bills. They're incomplete trouble. So everybody, do what Ken and Matt have been doing. Make sure your employees get training on email, email handling. If you are a home user, a small office, Home Office retiree, make sure you are very careful, basically, nowadays never clicked on anything in the emails is that one of the popular things right now is they're trying to get you to do something. So they'll save things like hey, we've got video of you visiting a porn site. And here's your password. Here's your username and be Cuz you're reusing passwords, it is one of your password. So anyways, I know we're out of time here. But this I can't stress this enough because I've seen so many people, it just breaks my heart that that aren't ready for this. If you're a small business, you have to address this. And you got to take some time and maybe one of the ways to start, if you're interested. Grab it right now, which is Craig peterson.com slash password. That's a great place to start playing some training, do it with your employees and, and protect your business. It's your investment. And if you're the defacto IT person in your organization, you're going to get blamed when this happens to you.

Matt
Well, on that cheery note, ladies, gentlemen, Craig Peterson, our tech guru who has been joining us as he always does on Wednesday morning is is done for the day. So thank you, Craig. Appreciate it as always, and we will talk again next week.

Craig,

Hey guys, thanks a lot. Alright.

Matt

So we're going to take a quick break we'll be back on the other side of the break coming up next on WGAN

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Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning.  I don't know if you've noticed, but I've started kind of a soft launch. So this is kind of hush-hush. I have been wanting to try this for a while, start doing some live streaming over on Facebook, because a lot of people who are the de-facto IT people for businesses use this platform. You know, who you are -- you're interested in computers and you're kind of the operations person. Now you find yourself elected to be the computer person.  That leads into what I've been doing here this week, and I'm going to keep doing it, without really promoting it. In fact, I haven't really told anyone but people have been finding out which I love, okay as I'm helping and I love the feedback I'm getting. I have been doing Facebook Lives now. I kind of did it this morning with Jim Polito and I had a couple of little issues when I got started figuring out FB specific tech. But hey, if you check me out on Facebook, you will find my Interview with Mr. Polito that I did live on Facebook as well. Also, I had a daily, this week of little training videos, I'm doing lives talking about VPNs. We're talking about all kinds of aspects of VPN this week and next week's mobile devices and then we're going to get into Wi-Fi and then security compliance. We're going to be doing this and so you will eventually I'm guessing next week, or maybe in Saturday's email, I'm going to be announcing but if you want to be in a little bit early, go to my Facebook account. It's Craig radio, actually is what my facebook account is. And you can see some of these lives right there.  Well, it is that time so, here we go with Mr. Polito.

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Craig Peterson

Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning.  I don't know if you've noticed, but I've started kind of a soft launch. So this is kind of hush-hush. I have been wanting to try this for a while, start doing some live streaming over on Facebook, because a lot of people who are the de-facto IT people for businesses use this platform. You know, who you are -- you're interested in computers and you're kind of the operations person. Now you find yourself elected to be the computer person.  That leads into what I've been doing here this week, and I'm going to keep doing it, without really promoting it. In fact, I haven't really told anyone but people have been finding out which I love, okay as I'm helping and I love the feedback I'm getting. I have been doing Facebook Lives now. I kind of did it this morning with Jim Polito and I had a couple of little issues when I got started figuring out FB specific tech. But hey, if you check me out on Facebook, you will find my Interview with Mr. Polito that I did live on Facebook as well. Also, I had a daily, this week of little training videos, I'm doing lives talking about VPNs. We're talking about all kinds of aspects of VPN this week and next week's mobile devices and then we're going to get into Wi-Fi and then security compliance. We're going to be doing this and so you will eventually I'm guessing next week, or maybe in Saturday's email, I'm going to be announcing but if you want to be in a little bit early, go to my Facebook account. It's Craig radio, actually is what my facebook account is. And you can see some of these lives right there.  Well, it is that time so, here we go with Mr. Polito.

Jim Polito 
The man the myth, the legend, our tech talks. Guru and good friend Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig
Good morning. How are you doing, Jim?

Jim 
I'm good. How are you, Craig?

Craig
Doing well, but enjoying the show per usual this morning. No wonder you the fastest growing show in the world. Also the fastest growing host when you get right down to it.

Jim

Yeah, I'm the fastest growing host. We should put that out there as it is an interesting promotion. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. But you are part of the reason why we are one of the fastest growing shows and it's what you bring to the table. And I found two things today. And I hope we can get to both of them in your material. And we'll tell folks at the end of the segment how they can get on your mailing list. So you can have what I get every week from Craig. Craig, this is this is interesting, right when I saw that headline I got it You should lie in your password recovery questions like when they say, what was the name of your first pet? What's your mother's maiden name? And what street where you are is your family living on when you were born? Right? Those are the most common. And and you're saying lie on those questions.

Craig
Yeah, this is a little different than you're used to with what your mom told you to do when you are because , n fact, you should lie to your bank. You should lie.

Jim
I do frequently. As a matter of fact. I say that now because I might get arrested for that.

Craig
You're right. It was a different type of line, right? Yeah. In this case, what we're trying to do is avoid what the FBI is warned more than just this last month is the number one problem we have when it comes to hackers. And that is the whole problem of hackers getting our personal information and then using that to hack us think back a little bit to the days of the Nigerian prince scam, for instance. And, and I help and developed a system to stop these scams all those years ago. But that's where you got an email from the prince and he needed to get your help because he's trying to get his money out of Nigeria, and you needed a US bank account to move it through. So would it be all right if you send to the money and you could keep a little bit of it as kind of a commission that you could then you could then use I didn't end this spelling was terrible. The grammar was terrible. And, you know, they were doing it on purpose to get people who were, frankly a little naive, right. And unfortunately, they caught a lot of people Today they do real social engineering. So they want to know your name, your birthdate, where you're from all these things. And if they break into a website, and that website is asked you those questions, and they'll have it. So I want you to go back to when the book going room came out. There's a little bit of a subtle reference. I do remember actually. And then there was a kind of a comedy democrat book called going ruse about Sarah Palin. Remember, there was a 20 year old college student that broke into Sarah Palin's Yahoo account. By the way, Yahoo is paying people right now. And you had if you had a Yahoo account, it was compromised, basically 2 billion accounts compromised. And Yahoo is paying their penalties right now in the form of checks. But anyways, courage was broken into specifically by this 20 year old, because he could go online and find out what your zip code was or birthday, the date of her wedding, the name of her kids or husbands or dogs and all of that sort of stuff. And he got into it. And he took all of her emails, and he shared them with the media. And there was a whole big thing about Sarah Palin because of that. That's social engineering to just an amateur degree. Today, they want you to put in all this information on the website to be able to recover your password. So here's my advice to you. Don't give them the real information. I use a password manager. You've known that for a long time. Yes. And you can get my special report on passwords. If you go to Craig peterson.com slash passwords. It's free. It's easy, okay, and it's 10 pages long telling you what to do how to do it. So I use a password manager and I put in my password manager in my secure notes and I just told Bank of America that I was born in ultra design. Well, first name of a city, right? American. Yeah. And I told Bank of America again, this is for the recovery questions right? That my the name of my first teacher was CEO Soho, right. And I'm never going to remember this because I told Bank of America that but I told TD Bank something entirely different. Yes. And I do that for every website. So that now if someone breaks in, and they're trying to get to me, because they know I'm a business owner, they know I have employees. So they want to try and transfer money out of my account like they've done for some of my newer clients that I picked up because of the bad guy who's got their bank accounts or operating accounts. There are many good because Bank of America thinks that, you know, I was born over here and in fact I was born over there. According to This this other website.

Jim

So good advice there right here bank? Well, at least on the password recovery questions, it makes sense because people could also get that information. All right. Let's go on to this one. That that obscene amount of money that I spend on a smartphone, I won't be doing it in the future. Well, wait a minute, I'll probably be still be spending an obscene amount of money. But I won't be using a phone because AI is going to be all around me. What's this?

Craig
Yeah, this is interesting and scary and wonderful all at the same time. A guy that I follow Gary vein or truck, yo, smart guy. He's claiming now that artificial intelligence is going to get to the point and is going to be so ubiquitous, it's going to be everywhere. That everything we do is going to change. Take a look right now. We've got these Amazon Alexa is there all over the place I have a my use of the Internet. That's how I listened to your radio show. I just tell Alexa the tune the end. And off I go with my, my Jim Pluto show. So what and, and Amazon has a new Echo, which is one of these electric shock devices for your car, little teeny tiny thing. And it clips right on to the event. And it will hook up to your phone so that it gets data and it hooks up to the Bluetooth to your, your stereo so that it can play and then you just talk to a Jew to ask it to send a message, make a phone call, play certain music, whatever you would normally have your Alexa do very, very cool. And that's today. So another five or 10 years from now. We're going to have you know Google Play in the car. We've already got some fairly advanced technology Apple has car, play, etc. Yeah, the cars and upcoming with Wi Fi built in the coming with microphones and speakers, but they're these devices, Gary saying are going to be everywhere and AI is getting so good at understanding what we say and interpreting it. You know, it's still not okay. But it's a lot better than it was that in 10 years from now, these devices are going to be everywhere. We already know that Levi's is building smart, smart jackets, their trucker jacket, it has sensors

Jim
crazy

Craig
in it. That soon going to be everywhere gym and we're going to be because of that able to just talk to get answers go further. And if Elon Musk is successful, he has a business and just came out of stealth mode. And that business is designing a direct neural interface into your brain.

Jim
No, really

Craig 
Yeah. And the glasses think of google glasses that weren't such a big hit people today are would be a little more accepting from those. But it's going to be everywhere. We're going to use it for everything in our lives just going to get simpler and more complex. Remember, the younger generations don't care that everybody has all their information, and they will trade their email addresses for as little as a cup of coffee, according to a test. I know.

Jim
I know. They will, which is incredible to me.

Craig
Yeah. This is incredible. I don't know how far we're going to let this go. But you know, let's get right down to it. Even marketers, right? If I'm buying a car, not only do I not mind seeing car commercials that are aimed at me, they know I want a new F150 pickup truck. And so I've got now 10 dealers bidding against each other trying to sell me an F150 I'd rather have that. Then Then have, you know all these other commercials for all of this other stuff that I don't care about? In some ways, having the marketing guys kind of know who I am, what I want, is really to my advantage, and yet at the same time, I don't want you've got it, you've got to look at it. You've got to drop everything.

Jim

The thinking is I need this device in my hand to be able to connect everything to I'm going to be connected to everything.

Craig
Yeah, it is entirely different. So you're not going to be carrying that little device around. You might have a pair of sunglasses, it might be in your hat, it might be in the color of your shirt that you're wearing is just a little clip, and it's going to change absolutely everything. Now I want people to also understand something that is not being talked about the time into this. And that is we've got a couple of candidates on the trail now like our beloved senator, and they're out saying, Hey, listen, if a company replaces you with automation, we want that company to give you stock in the company in lieu of a job, which I can see where she's going with this. But what we're actually finding is that the jobs that are being replaced, obviously, they're the simpler jobs typically, those people and the new jobs are being created, are higher paying. And we know right now with the economy the way it is and what President Trump is done, but blue collar workers, the lower end workers, if you will, have been making more money. Some of these jobs have paid 15 bucks an hour before President Trump was elected are now paying as much as 25 an hour. But we're also seeing that the new jobs are being created, even though they might not require A whole huge level of skill are actually higher pain. Yeah, so this is gonna be an interesting trend to watch and hopefully we don't get caught up in that negatively.

Jim
This is great stuff, folks, you know, every week every Tuesday at this time, we're joined by Craig Peterson, but you can stay in touch with Craig, he doesn't want to sell you anything. He just wants to provide you with information. So what you do is you text my name, Jim J-I-M to this number

Craig
8553855553 just texted Jim, to me at 855-385-5553

Jim
Standard data and text rates apply. Craig will not try to sell you anything. You won't hack you, but you'll get the information I get. And it's interesting stuff and you the best to know this stuff. And to be ready for it. So Craig, thank you very much. We'll talk with you next week, buddy.

Craig
Take care, Jim. Bye-bye.

Craig 
All right, everybody. Take care. I'll be back tomorrow and of course this weekend, and I'm going to try and do Facebook Lives for the radio show.  I have been taping the radio show beforehand. So you may see them. I don't know how best to do this. Do I do the facebook live while I'm recording it because sometimes I go in and do some edits. Do I not bother with Facebook Lives? Do I use a pre-recorded thing to do it? To air, Facebook Lives on Saturday? I don't know if you guys have any suggestions, but if you do - drop me a line it is just me M-E at Craig Peterson dot com. I'd love to hear from you. We'll figure this out. We will take care, Bye-bye.

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Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning.  I don't know if you've noticed, but I've started kind of a soft launch. So this is kind of hush-hush. I have been wanting to try this for a while, start doing some live streaming over on Facebook, because a lot of people who are the de-facto IT people for businesses use this platform. You know, who you are -- you're interested in computers and you're kind of the operations person. Now you find yourself elected to be the computer person.  That leads into what I've been doing here this week, and I'm going to keep doing it, without really promoting it. In fact, I haven't really told anyone but people have been finding out which I love, okay as I'm helping and I love the feedback I'm getting. I have been doing Facebook Lives now. I kind of did it this morning with Jim Polito and I had a couple of little issues when I got started figuring out FB specific tech. But hey, if you check me out on Facebook, you will find my Interview with Mr. Polito that I did live on Facebook as well. Also, I had a daily, this week of little training videos, I'm doing lives talking about VPNs. We're talking about all kinds of aspects of VPN this week and next week's mobile devices and then we're going to get into Wi-Fi and then security compliance. We're going to be doing this and so you will eventually I'm guessing next week, or maybe in Saturday's email, I'm going to be announcing but if you want to be in a little bit early, go to my Facebook account. It's Craig radio, actually is what my facebook account is. And you can see some of these lives right there.  Well, it is that time so, here we go with Mr. Polito.

For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

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Craig Peterson

Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning.  I don't know if you've noticed, but I've started kind of a soft launch. So this is kind of hush-hush. I have been wanting to try this for a while, start doing some live streaming over on Facebook, because a lot of people who are the de-facto IT people for businesses use this platform. You know, who you are -- you're interested in computers and you're kind of the operations person. Now you find yourself elected to be the computer person.  That leads into what I've been doing here this week, and I'm going to keep doing it, without really promoting it. In fact, I haven't really told anyone but people have been finding out which I love, okay as I'm helping and I love the feedback I'm getting. I have been doing Facebook Lives now. I kind of did it this morning with Jim Polito and I had a couple of little issues when I got started figuring out FB specific tech. But hey, if you check me out on Facebook, you will find my Interview with Mr. Polito that I did live on Facebook as well. Also, I had a daily, this week of little training videos, I'm doing lives talking about VPNs. We're talking about all kinds of aspects of VPN this week and next week's mobile devices and then we're going to get into Wi-Fi and then security compliance. We're going to be doing this and so you will eventually I'm guessing next week, or maybe in Saturday's email, I'm going to be announcing but if you want to be in a little bit early, go to my Facebook account. It's Craig radio, actually is what my facebook account is. And you can see some of these lives right there.  Well, it is that time so, here we go with Mr. Polito.

Jim Polito 
The man the myth, the legend, our tech talks. Guru and good friend Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig
Good morning. How are you doing, Jim?

Jim 
I'm good. How are you, Craig?

Craig
Doing well, but enjoying the show per usual this morning. No wonder you the fastest growing show in the world. Also the fastest growing host when you get right down to it.

Jim

Yeah, I'm the fastest growing host. We should put that out there as it is an interesting promotion. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. But you are part of the reason why we are one of the fastest growing shows and it's what you bring to the table. And I found two things today. And I hope we can get to both of them in your material. And we'll tell folks at the end of the segment how they can get on your mailing list. So you can have what I get every week from Craig. Craig, this is this is interesting, right when I saw that headline I got it You should lie in your password recovery questions like when they say, what was the name of your first pet? What's your mother's maiden name? And what street where you are is your family living on when you were born? Right? Those are the most common. And and you're saying lie on those questions.

Craig
Yeah, this is a little different than you're used to with what your mom told you to do when you are because , n fact, you should lie to your bank. You should lie.

Jim
I do frequently. As a matter of fact. I say that now because I might get arrested for that.

Craig
You're right. It was a different type of line, right? Yeah. In this case, what we're trying to do is avoid what the FBI is warned more than just this last month is the number one problem we have when it comes to hackers. And that is the whole problem of hackers getting our personal information and then using that to hack us think back a little bit to the days of the Nigerian prince scam, for instance. And, and I help and developed a system to stop these scams all those years ago. But that's where you got an email from the prince and he needed to get your help because he's trying to get his money out of Nigeria, and you needed a US bank account to move it through. So would it be all right if you send to the money and you could keep a little bit of it as kind of a commission that you could then you could then use I didn't end this spelling was terrible. The grammar was terrible. And, you know, they were doing it on purpose to get people who were, frankly a little naive, right. And unfortunately, they caught a lot of people Today they do real social engineering. So they want to know your name, your birthdate, where you're from all these things. And if they break into a website, and that website is asked you those questions, and they'll have it. So I want you to go back to when the book going room came out. There's a little bit of a subtle reference. I do remember actually. And then there was a kind of a comedy democrat book called going ruse about Sarah Palin. Remember, there was a 20 year old college student that broke into Sarah Palin's Yahoo account. By the way, Yahoo is paying people right now. And you had if you had a Yahoo account, it was compromised, basically 2 billion accounts compromised. And Yahoo is paying their penalties right now in the form of checks. But anyways, courage was broken into specifically by this 20 year old, because he could go online and find out what your zip code was or birthday, the date of her wedding, the name of her kids or husbands or dogs and all of that sort of stuff. And he got into it. And he took all of her emails, and he shared them with the media. And there was a whole big thing about Sarah Palin because of that. That's social engineering to just an amateur degree. Today, they want you to put in all this information on the website to be able to recover your password. So here's my advice to you. Don't give them the real information. I use a password manager. You've known that for a long time. Yes. And you can get my special report on passwords. If you go to Craig peterson.com slash passwords. It's free. It's easy, okay, and it's 10 pages long telling you what to do how to do it. So I use a password manager and I put in my password manager in my secure notes and I just told Bank of America that I was born in ultra design. Well, first name of a city, right? American. Yeah. And I told Bank of America again, this is for the recovery questions right? That my the name of my first teacher was CEO Soho, right. And I'm never going to remember this because I told Bank of America that but I told TD Bank something entirely different. Yes. And I do that for every website. So that now if someone breaks in, and they're trying to get to me, because they know I'm a business owner, they know I have employees. So they want to try and transfer money out of my account like they've done for some of my newer clients that I picked up because of the bad guy who's got their bank accounts or operating accounts. There are many good because Bank of America thinks that, you know, I was born over here and in fact I was born over there. According to This this other website.

Jim

So good advice there right here bank? Well, at least on the password recovery questions, it makes sense because people could also get that information. All right. Let's go on to this one. That that obscene amount of money that I spend on a smartphone, I won't be doing it in the future. Well, wait a minute, I'll probably be still be spending an obscene amount of money. But I won't be using a phone because AI is going to be all around me. What's this?

Craig
Yeah, this is interesting and scary and wonderful all at the same time. A guy that I follow Gary vein or truck, yo, smart guy. He's claiming now that artificial intelligence is going to get to the point and is going to be so ubiquitous, it's going to be everywhere. That everything we do is going to change. Take a look right now. We've got these Amazon Alexa is there all over the place I have a my use of the Internet. That's how I listened to your radio show. I just tell Alexa the tune the end. And off I go with my, my Jim Pluto show. So what and, and Amazon has a new Echo, which is one of these electric shock devices for your car, little teeny tiny thing. And it clips right on to the event. And it will hook up to your phone so that it gets data and it hooks up to the Bluetooth to your, your stereo so that it can play and then you just talk to a Jew to ask it to send a message, make a phone call, play certain music, whatever you would normally have your Alexa do very, very cool. And that's today. So another five or 10 years from now. We're going to have you know Google Play in the car. We've already got some fairly advanced technology Apple has car, play, etc. Yeah, the cars and upcoming with Wi Fi built in the coming with microphones and speakers, but they're these devices, Gary saying are going to be everywhere and AI is getting so good at understanding what we say and interpreting it. You know, it's still not okay. But it's a lot better than it was that in 10 years from now, these devices are going to be everywhere. We already know that Levi's is building smart, smart jackets, their trucker jacket, it has sensors

Jim
crazy

Craig
in it. That soon going to be everywhere gym and we're going to be because of that able to just talk to get answers go further. And if Elon Musk is successful, he has a business and just came out of stealth mode. And that business is designing a direct neural interface into your brain.

Jim
No, really

Craig 
Yeah. And the glasses think of google glasses that weren't such a big hit people today are would be a little more accepting from those. But it's going to be everywhere. We're going to use it for everything in our lives just going to get simpler and more complex. Remember, the younger generations don't care that everybody has all their information, and they will trade their email addresses for as little as a cup of coffee, according to a test. I know.

Jim
I know. They will, which is incredible to me.

Craig
Yeah. This is incredible. I don't know how far we're going to let this go. But you know, let's get right down to it. Even marketers, right? If I'm buying a car, not only do I not mind seeing car commercials that are aimed at me, they know I want a new F150 pickup truck. And so I've got now 10 dealers bidding against each other trying to sell me an F150 I'd rather have that. Then Then have, you know all these other commercials for all of this other stuff that I don't care about? In some ways, having the marketing guys kind of know who I am, what I want, is really to my advantage, and yet at the same time, I don't want you've got it, you've got to look at it. You've got to drop everything.

Jim

The thinking is I need this device in my hand to be able to connect everything to I'm going to be connected to everything.

Craig
Yeah, it is entirely different. So you're not going to be carrying that little device around. You might have a pair of sunglasses, it might be in your hat, it might be in the color of your shirt that you're wearing is just a little clip, and it's going to change absolutely everything. Now I want people to also understand something that is not being talked about the time into this. And that is we've got a couple of candidates on the trail now like our beloved senator, and they're out saying, Hey, listen, if a company replaces you with automation, we want that company to give you stock in the company in lieu of a job, which I can see where she's going with this. But what we're actually finding is that the jobs that are being replaced, obviously, they're the simpler jobs typically, those people and the new jobs are being created, are higher paying. And we know right now with the economy the way it is and what President Trump is done, but blue collar workers, the lower end workers, if you will, have been making more money. Some of these jobs have paid 15 bucks an hour before President Trump was elected are now paying as much as 25 an hour. But we're also seeing that the new jobs are being created, even though they might not require A whole huge level of skill are actually higher pain. Yeah, so this is gonna be an interesting trend to watch and hopefully we don't get caught up in that negatively.

Jim
This is great stuff, folks, you know, every week every Tuesday at this time, we're joined by Craig Peterson, but you can stay in touch with Craig, he doesn't want to sell you anything. He just wants to provide you with information. So what you do is you text my name, Jim J-I-M to this number

Craig
8553855553 just texted Jim, to me at 855-385-5553

Jim
Standard data and text rates apply. Craig will not try to sell you anything. You won't hack you, but you'll get the information I get. And it's interesting stuff and you the best to know this stuff. And to be ready for it. So Craig, thank you very much. We'll talk with you next week, buddy.

Craig
Take care, Jim. Bye-bye.

Craig 
All right, everybody. Take care. I'll be back tomorrow and of course this weekend, and I'm going to try and do Facebook Lives for the radio show.  I have been taping the radio show beforehand. So you may see them. I don't know how best to do this. Do I do the facebook live while I'm recording it because sometimes I go in and do some edits. Do I not bother with Facebook Lives? Do I use a pre-recorded thing to do it? To air, Facebook Lives on Saturday? I don't know if you guys have any suggestions, but if you do - drop me a line it is just me M-E at Craig Peterson dot com. I'd love to hear from you. We'll figure this out. We will take care, Bye-bye.

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I was on with Jack Heath this morning WGIR and we talked a little bit about Canadian Thanksgiving and the difference in the traditions really between the United States and Canada when it comes to Thanksgiving. Because of course Canada one day, Columbus Day is actually Thanksgiving Day up in Canada. You got to do it before the ground freezes solid. Anyhow, I also talked a little bit about password recovery questions, and why 60% of businesses have been hacked in the last 12 months. So here we go. with Mr. Heath.

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Craig
Good morning, Craig Peterson here on with jack Heath this morning WGIR and we talked a little bit about Canadian Thanksgiving and the difference in the traditions really between the United States and Canada when it comes to Thanksgiving. Because of course Canada one day, Columbus Day is actually Thanksgiving Day up in Canada. You got to do it before the ground freezes solid. Anyhow, I also talked a little bit about password recovery questions, and why 60% of businesses have been hacked in the last 12 months. So here we go. with Mr. Heath.

Jack Heath
On the tech side, always a big part of our life. We get a tech talk update from Craig Peterson on Mondays. His show airs on our iHeart stations on Saturday. Tech Talk, Craig. Good morning, Craig.

Craig Peterson 
Good morning, jack. You know, talking about Columbus Day and all, of course, Canadians are celebrating Thanksgiving. Today, wait a minute. Where's the turkey here? Yeah, exactly. Well, I think he's in the control room.

Jack Heath
That's right.

Justin
No, that's not

Jack Heath
I will not call Justin that. Seriously.

Craig Peterson
That's right it's  Thanksgiving today. It is and you know, Canada calls, their indigenous people. They call them First Nation, because, of course, near as we can tell they were not here originally the men have come across on the land bridge from Siberia. So it's First Nation and I think that's actually a really good term for the indigenous people. Those people that were here when the Europeans first came to settle. So there's something else at your formula.

Jack Heath 
So what's the kind of the traditional stuff for Canadian Thanksgiving Day today? What's sort of the nomenclature? I mean, you know, we know what our is sort of is I hate to boil it down. I think we missed the point. It's a great time for family and friends and to give thanks for a lot of things, but a lot of Americans it's a great meal with Turkey stuffing mashed potato and some football games. What is it in Canada?

Craig Peterson
Well, a little bit of the same, although it's the CFL versus the NFL and they're playing for the Grey Cup, as opposed to going to the Super Bowl. But yeah, much the same in Canada as it is here in the states a day where families get together. And it's still the same with turkey and stuffing and all. And in fact, I was going to head up and spend some time with my family. This, this Columbus Day this Thanksgiving Day, but ended up not being able to go this year. But yeah, yeah, it's much the same up there as it is here, including some of the security problems. Which brings us to the point I had this weekend, my newsletter that went out Saturday, which is basically why you should be lying to your bank and other websites that are out there right now. You know, jack, have you ever filled out one of these forms for password? recovery. And it asks you all of these personal questions before. And you know, those types of things are what you really want to avoid answering those questions, because it gets right down to what the FBI has been wanting us about lately. And that is the social engineering that's going on. So there was a great article in Mashable that I put up on my website as well. And I went into more depth, but they were talking about how these password recovery questions like what's your mother's maiden name? What was the first city that you where you attended school, etc, etc? All of those types of questions can be used to really hurt you. Take a look at Sarah Palin. You remember her Of course, more than a decade ago now back in 2008, a 20-year-old college student broke into her yahoo email account caused all kinds of hassles for her, but in many cases, it can cause us to lose things like our retirement. Money investments, even our business accounts. And there's some really bad news about businesses out this weekend, and how they are being hacked. And more than 60% of businesses in the last 12 months have been hacked. And most of them don't even know it. avoid answering those questions with the real answers. I have never answered them correctly. I use a password manager and I make notes. And I'm come up with fake answers for all of those questions. So remember, sometimes lying when it comes to those answers is really going to save you.

Jack Heath
All right. Good stuff, Craig. But Justin was raised to always tell the truth. That's right. That's all right, Craig. Good stuff. Craig, thank you very much.

Craig 4:51
Hey, by the way, thanks, everybody from this last weekend that responded, you know, I am always asking for people to take a couple of minutes and just email me at Craig Peterson calm. And let me know what you think. And also, if you have any questions, and I got a bunch of them, I'll be answering them this week, I promise I'm trying to get to every question people ask. And sometimes I turn those answers into posts on my website and emails that I send out to everybody when they're helpful. So I did that for a question that Steve posted and another one that Dave posted to me at Craig Peterson, calm that's ME. Me at Craig Peterson calm. And so what I want to ask you guys right now, because you guys always have such great, great suggestions. And there was another one to about the name of the podcast and what I should call some of the stuff and there was kind of a cool one that was mentioned called the vault which I thought was neat. But anyway, here's the question for you guys. What should I be doing for Cybersecurity Awareness Month Should we do something Special of course we've got about two weeks left and cybersecurity month so per usual I'm kind of dragging my feet on this thing. But do you have any suggestions? You know, I did the security summer which we just finished up and that was a lot of work hundreds of hours went into that in reality when we went back and looked at it, but anything special you guys think we should be doing for cybersecurity month? And what about the rest of the year? I've been thinking about launching a program kind of a training program if you will, for for the people who are kind of elected as cybersecurity people for their business you know, they not really want to go into cybersecurity as a career but they have to know a lot more about it. So I did one of those courses. Maybe 8-10 months ago, it's been a while and I was thinking maybe we should do one of those again. I don't know you guys let me know maybe I can update the old course add some more things. But are you that cyber secure? Are you the person that isn't really a career, the cybersecurity person, you kind of got roped into it, you know, let me know, what do you think we should do for Cybersecurity Awareness Month? Do you think we should do another launch of this course that I put together and I'm thinking about some other ways to do this too because cybersecurity can be confusing, and it can be a bit overwhelming, kind of do a little bit more step by step. And rather than have these hour plus long videos explaining things, maybe break it up into 10 minute or so, segments or we solve one narrow part of a problem. You know, so we're talking about Wi-Fi. So we delve into one part of Wi-Fi as part of a Wi-Fi module, rather than spending an hour and 15 minutes or even an hour and a half on Wi-Fi. What do you think Lino guys let me know I really want to help out here. And the best way for me to help is to know what you need and what you want, and the best way to do that is. Just email me at Craig Peterson calm or go ahead and text me as well. 855-385-5553 so remember to everybody that I get a lot of email and a lot of questions. So don't expect discuss the subjects for me to get right back to instantly. that's unlikely to happen. But we do try and answer everybody's email or also from texting. So take care, buddy, have a great day and we'll chat again tomorrow. Bye-bye.

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Welcome!

I was on with Jack Heath this morning WGIR and we talked a little bit about Canadian Thanksgiving and the difference in the traditions really between the United States and Canada when it comes to Thanksgiving. Because of course Canada one day, Columbus Day is actually Thanksgiving Day up in Canada. You got to do it before the ground freezes solid. Anyhow, I also talked a little bit about password recovery questions, and why 60% of businesses have been hacked in the last 12 months. So here we go. with Mr. Heath.

These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

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Maintaining Privacy Means Obfuscating Online Security Answers

Sophisticated Email Attacks Against Businesses Are Up Exponentially

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Craig
Good morning, Craig Peterson here on with jack Heath this morning WGIR and we talked a little bit about Canadian Thanksgiving and the difference in the traditions really between the United States and Canada when it comes to Thanksgiving. Because of course Canada one day, Columbus Day is actually Thanksgiving Day up in Canada. You got to do it before the ground freezes solid. Anyhow, I also talked a little bit about password recovery questions, and why 60% of businesses have been hacked in the last 12 months. So here we go. with Mr. Heath.

Jack Heath
On the tech side, always a big part of our life. We get a tech talk update from Craig Peterson on Mondays. His show airs on our iHeart stations on Saturday. Tech Talk, Craig. Good morning, Craig.

Craig Peterson 
Good morning, jack. You know, talking about Columbus Day and all, of course, Canadians are celebrating Thanksgiving. Today, wait a minute. Where's the turkey here? Yeah, exactly. Well, I think he's in the control room.

Jack Heath
That's right.

Justin
No, that's not

Jack Heath
I will not call Justin that. Seriously.

Craig Peterson
That's right it's  Thanksgiving today. It is and you know, Canada calls, their indigenous people. They call them First Nation, because, of course, near as we can tell they were not here originally the men have come across on the land bridge from Siberia. So it's First Nation and I think that's actually a really good term for the indigenous people. Those people that were here when the Europeans first came to settle. So there's something else at your formula.

Jack Heath 
So what's the kind of the traditional stuff for Canadian Thanksgiving Day today? What's sort of the nomenclature? I mean, you know, we know what our is sort of is I hate to boil it down. I think we missed the point. It's a great time for family and friends and to give thanks for a lot of things, but a lot of Americans it's a great meal with Turkey stuffing mashed potato and some football games. What is it in Canada?

Craig Peterson
Well, a little bit of the same, although it's the CFL versus the NFL and they're playing for the Grey Cup, as opposed to going to the Super Bowl. But yeah, much the same in Canada as it is here in the states a day where families get together. And it's still the same with turkey and stuffing and all. And in fact, I was going to head up and spend some time with my family. This, this Columbus Day this Thanksgiving Day, but ended up not being able to go this year. But yeah, yeah, it's much the same up there as it is here, including some of the security problems. Which brings us to the point I had this weekend, my newsletter that went out Saturday, which is basically why you should be lying to your bank and other websites that are out there right now. You know, jack, have you ever filled out one of these forms for password? recovery. And it asks you all of these personal questions before. And you know, those types of things are what you really want to avoid answering those questions, because it gets right down to what the FBI has been wanting us about lately. And that is the social engineering that's going on. So there was a great article in Mashable that I put up on my website as well. And I went into more depth, but they were talking about how these password recovery questions like what's your mother's maiden name? What was the first city that you where you attended school, etc, etc? All of those types of questions can be used to really hurt you. Take a look at Sarah Palin. You remember her Of course, more than a decade ago now back in 2008, a 20-year-old college student broke into her yahoo email account caused all kinds of hassles for her, but in many cases, it can cause us to lose things like our retirement. Money investments, even our business accounts. And there's some really bad news about businesses out this weekend, and how they are being hacked. And more than 60% of businesses in the last 12 months have been hacked. And most of them don't even know it. avoid answering those questions with the real answers. I have never answered them correctly. I use a password manager and I make notes. And I'm come up with fake answers for all of those questions. So remember, sometimes lying when it comes to those answers is really going to save you.

Jack Heath
All right. Good stuff, Craig. But Justin was raised to always tell the truth. That's right. That's all right, Craig. Good stuff. Craig, thank you very much.

Craig 4:51
Hey, by the way, thanks, everybody from this last weekend that responded, you know, I am always asking for people to take a couple of minutes and just email me at Craig Peterson calm. And let me know what you think. And also, if you have any questions, and I got a bunch of them, I'll be answering them this week, I promise I'm trying to get to every question people ask. And sometimes I turn those answers into posts on my website and emails that I send out to everybody when they're helpful. So I did that for a question that Steve posted and another one that Dave posted to me at Craig Peterson, calm that's ME. Me at Craig Peterson calm. And so what I want to ask you guys right now, because you guys always have such great, great suggestions. And there was another one to about the name of the podcast and what I should call some of the stuff and there was kind of a cool one that was mentioned called the vault which I thought was neat. But anyway, here's the question for you guys. What should I be doing for Cybersecurity Awareness Month Should we do something Special of course we've got about two weeks left and cybersecurity month so per usual I'm kind of dragging my feet on this thing. But do you have any suggestions? You know, I did the security summer which we just finished up and that was a lot of work hundreds of hours went into that in reality when we went back and looked at it, but anything special you guys think we should be doing for cybersecurity month? And what about the rest of the year? I've been thinking about launching a program kind of a training program if you will, for for the people who are kind of elected as cybersecurity people for their business you know, they not really want to go into cybersecurity as a career but they have to know a lot more about it. So I did one of those courses. Maybe 8-10 months ago, it's been a while and I was thinking maybe we should do one of those again. I don't know you guys let me know maybe I can update the old course add some more things. But are you that cyber secure? Are you the person that isn't really a career, the cybersecurity person, you kind of got roped into it, you know, let me know, what do you think we should do for Cybersecurity Awareness Month? Do you think we should do another launch of this course that I put together and I'm thinking about some other ways to do this too because cybersecurity can be confusing, and it can be a bit overwhelming, kind of do a little bit more step by step. And rather than have these hour plus long videos explaining things, maybe break it up into 10 minute or so, segments or we solve one narrow part of a problem. You know, so we're talking about Wi-Fi. So we delve into one part of Wi-Fi as part of a Wi-Fi module, rather than spending an hour and 15 minutes or even an hour and a half on Wi-Fi. What do you think Lino guys let me know I really want to help out here. And the best way for me to help is to know what you need and what you want, and the best way to do that is. Just email me at Craig Peterson calm or go ahead and text me as well. 855-385-5553 so remember to everybody that I get a lot of email and a lot of questions. So don't expect discuss the subjects for me to get right back to instantly. that's unlikely to happen. But we do try and answer everybody's email or also from texting. So take care, buddy, have a great day and we'll chat again tomorrow. Bye-bye.

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