Craig Peterson - Secure Your Business, Your Privacy, and Save Your Sanity

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Hello, hello Craig Peterson here on WGAN and online Craig Peterson. dot com, you can catch me streaming almost anywhere, including the tune in app, just go to Craig Peterson com slash tune in, in order to listen to me right there. Of course I'm on with our friends Ken and Matt during their drive time shows, every Wednesday morning at 738, we usually take about most of that half hour to talk about the latest news. And of course, you always get a little bit of Ken and Matt in there as well, I don't know if you could ever, you know, kind of get away from having them with their two cents in there. So I think that's pretty normal. And I appreciate everybody that's been listening to the show here on the week. And for those of you who are new, I have been an entrepreneur now for many decades, for decades, plus now so long time. And as part of that I had to become security aware, because I did get hacked one of these days, we'll have to talk about that in some more detail. But that was over 20 years ago. And I've been on the internet now for about 30 years and ran training programs for the FBI infra guard program and, and continue to do trainings and, and all kinds of things for my customers. And that's what I do for a living and have for many years now we're new, Northern New England's, in fact, all of New England's oldest managed security services provider is my company as well. And you can find me online at Craig Peterson. com, if you have questions or comments, you can email me at Craig peterson.com. Now, I have never done this before. I mentioned this almost an hour ago now. But I have a phenomenal Quick Start Guide for you, you are going to love it. We've got some stepping stones in here what to do to get going on your security for your business, cyber security. We have nine stepping stones, we've got checklists in here, we've got the key points for every small business looking at your hardware, your people, your security information assets. This is something that I have charged for before security endpoints. This is just incredible. Okay, and there's so much more in here. This is a 32 page guide. And it's all about quick starting the cyber security for your business. And I have never given this away before, it's always been something that's been paid. And I may never give this away again. But you can get it as a loyal listener to me here, you can get by going to Craig peterson.com slash Quick Start. So you'll go to slash Quick Start, you'll see my picture there in In fact, it's kind of cool, because that's an insider shot of me, you can see me in my natural habitat there. And you can give me your name and your email address. And I will immediately provide for you the quick start guide so that you'll have it. And I'll also put you on my weekly mailing list. So you get all of the articles I talked about here, every Saturday afternoon, you'll get links to all of those. So you can read them more in depth as well as I have free classes that I give other free giveaways that I have, I have dozens of cheat sheets and special report that I make available for free to people. Of course, I have courses that are paid courses to. And I also have the done it for you when it comes to managed security, which is way cheaper than trying to do it for yourself. If you're a business, if you're a small business at all, really under 10 to $20 million in annual income, you really shouldn't be trying to do this yourself. And you really need to go to a specialist when it comes to the security stuff. So that's what I do. I've been doing this for a long time, I'm quite good at it. And I hope that I'm going to be able to help you out here. And that's my ultimate goal. Okay, obviously, I have to keep my lights on. But I think you're going to be very impressed with all the stuff that I'm going to be providing for you once you sign up. In fact, once you sign up, I've even got more stuff that's going to be coming your way. So it's it's absolutely phenomenal. I got lots of great feedback, and so many people thanking me for what I do. And I've already gotten some of that from you guys. So I appreciate that. Now, when there is a major security problem, that is kind of, you know, one of those world changing things.

Yeah, kinda like that. You hear the horn going off in the background, then I will send you a text, but you have to be on my text list. I'll also remind you when I have a show coming up so you can listen live. But you can just text My name or text WGAN, which Danny did that last week, apparently, as well. WGAN just texted to me. So the easy way to do that is to open your texting and text the word WGAN to 855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553. And once you have sent that off, I'll add you to that list. So you get all of those emergency warnings when they come up. So now on to GG health. You know, this is according to CNBC one the first FDA clearance for an artificial intelligence powered X ray system. Now, if you've been listening to me for a while, you know, my definition of artificial intelligence tends to disagree with some of the other experts out there. There is something known as machine learning and then something that's known as artificial intelligence. I have yet to see any artificial intelligence I, I use a test that was derived about 80 years ago, that says artificial intelligence basically has to pass the Turing test, which means you should be able to have a conversation with it, it should be able to learn, anticipate, understand, and you don't even know you're talking to a machine. Now, there have been some that have kind of fooled people, but they didn't really pass the Turing test. So anyhow, be that as it may, I tend to call these machine learning things. But CNBC is reporting that the Food and Drug Administration is cleared new artificial intelligence powered X ray device, the GE Healthcare says, reduces the time to detect a collapsed lung from eight hours to as little as 15 minutes. Now, that is critical. And now you probably know I was involved in emergency medicine for about 10 years. And having a collapsed lung is a very, very bad thing. And being able to properly diagnose it is very important when it happened. So this thing uses AI algorithms to scan these x ray images and detect detect a new more thorax. Now, I don't know how detailed Should I get here, the difference between a new more thorax and the chemo thorax, basically, numeral four, x is when you have air in your lungs just isn't supposed to be there or in your chest cavity. And a Hema thorax is when you have blood in either the lungs or the chest can just kind of make this simple here, from a typically a piercing wound that like you might get in a car accident. So there are all kinds of potential benefits to this type of, frankly, artificial intelligence. And let's see here, they're saying that works by using AI to analyze images and the X ray, if a condition is suspected. And all it can diagnose right now is a new, more thorax, the image is sent directly to the radiologist for review. And it functions outside the cloud is not dependent on an internet connection runs locally. And currently, 62% of portable chest exams are marked stack or urgent, but they aren't all critical. So this creates a delay in the turnaround for truly critical patients can be a serious issue.

So this is interesting, primarily because of the fact now that the FDA is expanding the allowed use of artificial intelligence across the medical field. So this is really aimed at helping doctors really quickly recognize diagnose various types of illnesses and disease. And that's going to allow them to give more timely treatment to patient, it's going to hopefully help reduce costs and inefficiencies. So you know, we've been talking for a long time about people losing their jobs to automation. And, you know, that's certainly been happening already. And there are some estimates that we could lose, you know, 10% of the jobs in the next 12 months, I've seen that that's kind of the worst case scenario. And what jobs are we losing, we're losing the jobs that can easily be automated. This changes the whole definition of easily automated, doesn't it? Because we're talking about something that takes a true specialist, a radiologist who reads these things all day long and analyzes with analyzes those things. So our radiologists, maybe another job that's going to go away soon. How about anesthesiologists, the people that are putting you under for surgery, even surgeons, I think are in for a little bit of trouble. Because of the remote technology. Now, it's all better for us in many, many ways that in most cases, the computers, the artificial intelligence is not making the same mistakes. It has a wider breadth of knowledge than the doctor does that might have gotten out of school six months ago, or 60 years ago, it doesn't matter the machine can keep up to date and understand the techniques a little bit better. So for some basic surgeries, you know, removal of skin cancer, you know, the questionable moles or various other things. That that I think we're going to start seeing more and more of being done in an automated fashion. And as we as consumers demand, better treatment, faster treatment, and less expensive treatment. This is really going to take off. Of course right now, consumers are isolated and insulated from the actual costs involved. But we'll see where this all goes. By the way. This year, GE announced plans to sell its biopharma portion to industrial firm, Danny or for $21.4 billion. Oh, and when we're talking about accuracy, I member Well, I wasn't on these stations, I was on some other stations. But there was a very interesting study looking at doctors and their outcomes. And they found that younger doctors tended to have patients that had better outcomes. Now what does that mean? Well, younger doctors probably aren't seen the older patients like the older doctors are right? We just don't feel comfortable with a young guy still wet behind the ears. But so far, the accuracy of this large animal thorax with this machine is at 96% with a very low number of false positives. And that is a phenomenal thing. So it'll continue to get better as time goes on. Well, when we get back we're going to talk about Words with Friends. Have you ever played that game? Yeah, that one that got Alec Baldwin? I think it was in trouble on the airplane. Remember all of that, dear. Okay, stick around. You're listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN. And we'll be right back after this course online. Craig Peterson calm

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Technology is always improving and now the FDA has approved a new x=ray technology that can save lives and it is using some machine-language algorithms to do it.  Want to know more... listen in

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Hello, hello Craig Peterson here on WGAN and online Craig Peterson. dot com, you can catch me streaming almost anywhere, including the tune in app, just go to Craig Peterson com slash tune in, in order to listen to me right there. Of course I'm on with our friends Ken and Matt during their drive time shows, every Wednesday morning at 738, we usually take about most of that half hour to talk about the latest news. And of course, you always get a little bit of Ken and Matt in there as well, I don't know if you could ever, you know, kind of get away from having them with their two cents in there. So I think that's pretty normal. And I appreciate everybody that's been listening to the show here on the week. And for those of you who are new, I have been an entrepreneur now for many decades, for decades, plus now so long time. And as part of that I had to become security aware, because I did get hacked one of these days, we'll have to talk about that in some more detail. But that was over 20 years ago. And I've been on the internet now for about 30 years and ran training programs for the FBI infra guard program and, and continue to do trainings and, and all kinds of things for my customers. And that's what I do for a living and have for many years now we're new, Northern New England's, in fact, all of New England's oldest managed security services provider is my company as well. And you can find me online at Craig Peterson. com, if you have questions or comments, you can email me at Craig peterson.com. Now, I have never done this before. I mentioned this almost an hour ago now. But I have a phenomenal Quick Start Guide for you, you are going to love it. We've got some stepping stones in here what to do to get going on your security for your business, cyber security. We have nine stepping stones, we've got checklists in here, we've got the key points for every small business looking at your hardware, your people, your security information assets. This is something that I have charged for before security endpoints. This is just incredible. Okay, and there's so much more in here. This is a 32 page guide. And it's all about quick starting the cyber security for your business. And I have never given this away before, it's always been something that's been paid. And I may never give this away again. But you can get it as a loyal listener to me here, you can get by going to Craig peterson.com slash Quick Start. So you'll go to slash Quick Start, you'll see my picture there in In fact, it's kind of cool, because that's an insider shot of me, you can see me in my natural habitat there. And you can give me your name and your email address. And I will immediately provide for you the quick start guide so that you'll have it. And I'll also put you on my weekly mailing list. So you get all of the articles I talked about here, every Saturday afternoon, you'll get links to all of those. So you can read them more in depth as well as I have free classes that I give other free giveaways that I have, I have dozens of cheat sheets and special report that I make available for free to people. Of course, I have courses that are paid courses to. And I also have the done it for you when it comes to managed security, which is way cheaper than trying to do it for yourself. If you're a business, if you're a small business at all, really under 10 to $20 million in annual income, you really shouldn't be trying to do this yourself. And you really need to go to a specialist when it comes to the security stuff. So that's what I do. I've been doing this for a long time, I'm quite good at it. And I hope that I'm going to be able to help you out here. And that's my ultimate goal. Okay, obviously, I have to keep my lights on. But I think you're going to be very impressed with all the stuff that I'm going to be providing for you once you sign up. In fact, once you sign up, I've even got more stuff that's going to be coming your way. So it's it's absolutely phenomenal. I got lots of great feedback, and so many people thanking me for what I do. And I've already gotten some of that from you guys. So I appreciate that. Now, when there is a major security problem, that is kind of, you know, one of those world changing things.

Yeah, kinda like that. You hear the horn going off in the background, then I will send you a text, but you have to be on my text list. I'll also remind you when I have a show coming up so you can listen live. But you can just text My name or text WGAN, which Danny did that last week, apparently, as well. WGAN just texted to me. So the easy way to do that is to open your texting and text the word WGAN to 855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553. And once you have sent that off, I'll add you to that list. So you get all of those emergency warnings when they come up. So now on to GG health. You know, this is according to CNBC one the first FDA clearance for an artificial intelligence powered X ray system. Now, if you've been listening to me for a while, you know, my definition of artificial intelligence tends to disagree with some of the other experts out there. There is something known as machine learning and then something that's known as artificial intelligence. I have yet to see any artificial intelligence I, I use a test that was derived about 80 years ago, that says artificial intelligence basically has to pass the Turing test, which means you should be able to have a conversation with it, it should be able to learn, anticipate, understand, and you don't even know you're talking to a machine. Now, there have been some that have kind of fooled people, but they didn't really pass the Turing test. So anyhow, be that as it may, I tend to call these machine learning things. But CNBC is reporting that the Food and Drug Administration is cleared new artificial intelligence powered X ray device, the GE Healthcare says, reduces the time to detect a collapsed lung from eight hours to as little as 15 minutes. Now, that is critical. And now you probably know I was involved in emergency medicine for about 10 years. And having a collapsed lung is a very, very bad thing. And being able to properly diagnose it is very important when it happened. So this thing uses AI algorithms to scan these x ray images and detect detect a new more thorax. Now, I don't know how detailed Should I get here, the difference between a new more thorax and the chemo thorax, basically, numeral four, x is when you have air in your lungs just isn't supposed to be there or in your chest cavity. And a Hema thorax is when you have blood in either the lungs or the chest can just kind of make this simple here, from a typically a piercing wound that like you might get in a car accident. So there are all kinds of potential benefits to this type of, frankly, artificial intelligence. And let's see here, they're saying that works by using AI to analyze images and the X ray, if a condition is suspected. And all it can diagnose right now is a new, more thorax, the image is sent directly to the radiologist for review. And it functions outside the cloud is not dependent on an internet connection runs locally. And currently, 62% of portable chest exams are marked stack or urgent, but they aren't all critical. So this creates a delay in the turnaround for truly critical patients can be a serious issue.

So this is interesting, primarily because of the fact now that the FDA is expanding the allowed use of artificial intelligence across the medical field. So this is really aimed at helping doctors really quickly recognize diagnose various types of illnesses and disease. And that's going to allow them to give more timely treatment to patient, it's going to hopefully help reduce costs and inefficiencies. So you know, we've been talking for a long time about people losing their jobs to automation. And, you know, that's certainly been happening already. And there are some estimates that we could lose, you know, 10% of the jobs in the next 12 months, I've seen that that's kind of the worst case scenario. And what jobs are we losing, we're losing the jobs that can easily be automated. This changes the whole definition of easily automated, doesn't it? Because we're talking about something that takes a true specialist, a radiologist who reads these things all day long and analyzes with analyzes those things. So our radiologists, maybe another job that's going to go away soon. How about anesthesiologists, the people that are putting you under for surgery, even surgeons, I think are in for a little bit of trouble. Because of the remote technology. Now, it's all better for us in many, many ways that in most cases, the computers, the artificial intelligence is not making the same mistakes. It has a wider breadth of knowledge than the doctor does that might have gotten out of school six months ago, or 60 years ago, it doesn't matter the machine can keep up to date and understand the techniques a little bit better. So for some basic surgeries, you know, removal of skin cancer, you know, the questionable moles or various other things. That that I think we're going to start seeing more and more of being done in an automated fashion. And as we as consumers demand, better treatment, faster treatment, and less expensive treatment. This is really going to take off. Of course right now, consumers are isolated and insulated from the actual costs involved. But we'll see where this all goes. By the way. This year, GE announced plans to sell its biopharma portion to industrial firm, Danny or for $21.4 billion. Oh, and when we're talking about accuracy, I member Well, I wasn't on these stations, I was on some other stations. But there was a very interesting study looking at doctors and their outcomes. And they found that younger doctors tended to have patients that had better outcomes. Now what does that mean? Well, younger doctors probably aren't seen the older patients like the older doctors are right? We just don't feel comfortable with a young guy still wet behind the ears. But so far, the accuracy of this large animal thorax with this machine is at 96% with a very low number of false positives. And that is a phenomenal thing. So it'll continue to get better as time goes on. Well, when we get back we're going to talk about Words with Friends. Have you ever played that game? Yeah, that one that got Alec Baldwin? I think it was in trouble on the airplane. Remember all of that, dear. Okay, stick around. You're listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN. And we'll be right back after this course online. Craig Peterson calm

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I rail on this all the time and I will climb on my soap box again! Android can not be trusted.  It was not designed to be secure and Android, is not Android, is not Android.  Well this week it was unveiled that the Google Play store was full of Apps that contained or were malicious malware, listen in for more on this and why you should use a more trustworthy mobile platform.

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Hi, everybody, Craig Peterson here on WGAN. And online at Craig Peterson.com. That is Peterson with an S-O-N. Well, you know, I'm always telling people not to use Android just don't do it. Friends don't let friends whose hand droid and it's not because I'm so in love with Apple or iOS, although I do like what they've been doing. And full disclosure here I was on Apple's advisory board for three years. And there were, I think about a dozen of us. And we are all companies that are Apple, AC, and so part of the apples consultants network. So it was kind of fun to work with Cupertino for a while. But the reason I am so anti Android goes back to two major things. Number one is well, three things, maybe four. Number one is it was never designed with security in mind. It was designed by young kid and was purchased by Google. Now they've Yeah, they've made some changes, they made some improvements. But also remember that Android is all based on Java. And Java is one of the biggest security problems we have buried. So there you go. Number one, why use an insecure operating system as the base and somehow expect it to be secure, it's just not going to be it just can't be. And in fact, it is not. So that's number one. Number two is because it's a free operating system, many handset, many factors are using it. Now we're talking about a handset manufacturer, it means like Samsung making a smartphone, or HTC, or Huawei, or you name it, even cars now come with Android embedded in them, that is controlling the sound system, maybe the heating cooling system. And maybe heaven forbid, the braking system and the tracking systems and other things, which it is doing in some cars out there. Now because it's in so many different devices, each device manufacturer has to go and do something that I think is really a problem. That is the device manufacturers have to select hardware, and then get or make device drivers for the hardware, and then bolted into Android. And then they go the next step and they sell these devices to you know, carrier like a Verizon or at&t etc. Well, the carrier now makes changes to the Android operating system, they changed the way it looks away It feels. So whereas in the apple world, there are dozens of different configurations in the hardware side that Apple has to worry about. In the Android side, there are thousands of them. And it isn't Google's responsibility to keep track of all of them, or release patches. for them. Google does not do that. It is frankly, the responsibility of the manufacturer of the handset or the tablet or the car or whatever Android is embedded into. It is the responsibility of that company to now update the android operating systems. So in order to do that, each handset manufacturer has to get new device drivers put their device drivers in because remember, you have to update them because the devices have probably changed. And we know the operating system has changed. And oftentimes the interface between the operating system the device drivers makes gets changed as well it makes a difference. And so now they have to get it recorded, they have to take that device driver, they have to integrate it and they have to integrate all the other dozens of device drivers. So little work with their handset. And then they have to provide that upstream to the cellular phone company or with our car manufacturer, who then has to go and make changes to the user interface so that it has their logo looks the way they wanted to look. It's acting as an embedded system instead of a million interactive tablets system, whatever it might be. How often do you think that actually happens?

Now, if you are someone who is using maybe the most popular device out there, maybe you've got the latest Samsung XYZYG gig, and that would you give you something you just absolutely love, and it's fantastic. And Samsung is sold them by the hundreds of quadrillions throughout the universe, well, then you probably will get updates for a while. But then after a few years, those updates are going to slow down and stop eventually. And at that point, now you are left on your own. And in many cases, it can be as little as six months, I have seen major security releases come out for Android, that did not make it onto a handset for over a year for a friend of mine, which is absolutely inexcusable. versus what happens with Apple, with iOS with the apple phones is Apple has control over the physical devices over the device drivers that are needed for those physical devices, over the user interface, etc. And so Apple is really, really good at providing security updates and fixes and performance improvements and new features. And they don't charge for any of those either, which is nice. Now you're saying Craig, I can't afford an iPhone, right? I have a friend that just bought the newest iPhone and I was like 1200 bucks. That's just crazy. I agree with you. Okay, that is a lot of money. And I I use my iPhones, I keep my iPhones until I need a new one, or someone else on my plan needs a new one. So they get my hand me down, and I get the new phone. I understand that right because it is costly. But here's a suggestion that I think will work for you. And that is by an older iPhone. So get something that's a couple of generations older, it's still going to be supported by Apple for at least another four or five years, maybe longer. And then you have something you know is going to get the security update. Now it may not get the latest new feature update. But it's very, very likely to get all the latest security updates. So that's what I advise people to do get that Apple iPhone, get rid of the Android The next time you do an upgrade, and just get an iPhone, get an older one don't get a brand new one. A lot of carriers have great deals on iPhones where they're 100 bucks for an iPhone, that's not gonna be the latest, greatest, most wonderful iPhone. But at 100 bucks has hard to go wrong. And some of them will even sell you the iPhone at a low price on a very, very short contract like less than a year. So keep that in mind. So let's get into this. I said all of that. So I can say this. Google desperately needs to curb the spread of Android malware. That's how this article starts at The Next Web. The Next Web com of course, I have it up on my website as well. Craig Peterson calm. In September alone, researchers uncovered a total of 107 too infected apps on the Play Store The worst part, these apps had racked up over 335 million installs. By the time they were detected by security experts. That's another thing Apple's been really good at. They have been monitoring all of the software that is being built to us in the Google apps store. And Google in the Apple App Store. Google has not been good at that ad were accounted for staggering 300 million installs. And this is according to data compiled by he set. Other types of malware found on the Play Store now this is Google's official store people. This isn't where people have gone when used a rooted phone or gone to a different store. This is Google's official store. They found subscription spam, hidden add text, premium subscription software, 57 instances of software with hidden and

the list goes on. It's crazy subscription scam 20 million plus hidden ads, 14 million plus texting, premium texting. They found 472,000. It is absolutely amazing. So obviously Apple has had some problems in the past. They tend to get them fixed very, very quickly Google, late to the game as usual with Android. And it's a shame but Android isn't their big moneymaker. What do you expect? All right. When we get back we're going to talk about some AI powered X ray systems to really want that. Hey, you listening to Craig Peterson FWGAN and online at Craig Peterson calm

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I rail on this all the time and I will climb on my soap box again! Android can not be trusted.  It was not designed to be secure and Android, is not Android, is not Android.  Well this week it was unveiled that the Google Play store was full of Apps that contained or were malicious malware, listen in for more on this and why you should use a more trustworthy mobile platform.

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

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Related Articles:

Google Play “Malware” Store -- Poor App Management Platform

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Hi, everybody, Craig Peterson here on WGAN. And online at Craig Peterson.com. That is Peterson with an S-O-N. Well, you know, I'm always telling people not to use Android just don't do it. Friends don't let friends whose hand droid and it's not because I'm so in love with Apple or iOS, although I do like what they've been doing. And full disclosure here I was on Apple's advisory board for three years. And there were, I think about a dozen of us. And we are all companies that are Apple, AC, and so part of the apples consultants network. So it was kind of fun to work with Cupertino for a while. But the reason I am so anti Android goes back to two major things. Number one is well, three things, maybe four. Number one is it was never designed with security in mind. It was designed by young kid and was purchased by Google. Now they've Yeah, they've made some changes, they made some improvements. But also remember that Android is all based on Java. And Java is one of the biggest security problems we have buried. So there you go. Number one, why use an insecure operating system as the base and somehow expect it to be secure, it's just not going to be it just can't be. And in fact, it is not. So that's number one. Number two is because it's a free operating system, many handset, many factors are using it. Now we're talking about a handset manufacturer, it means like Samsung making a smartphone, or HTC, or Huawei, or you name it, even cars now come with Android embedded in them, that is controlling the sound system, maybe the heating cooling system. And maybe heaven forbid, the braking system and the tracking systems and other things, which it is doing in some cars out there. Now because it's in so many different devices, each device manufacturer has to go and do something that I think is really a problem. That is the device manufacturers have to select hardware, and then get or make device drivers for the hardware, and then bolted into Android. And then they go the next step and they sell these devices to you know, carrier like a Verizon or at&t etc. Well, the carrier now makes changes to the Android operating system, they changed the way it looks away It feels. So whereas in the apple world, there are dozens of different configurations in the hardware side that Apple has to worry about. In the Android side, there are thousands of them. And it isn't Google's responsibility to keep track of all of them, or release patches. for them. Google does not do that. It is frankly, the responsibility of the manufacturer of the handset or the tablet or the car or whatever Android is embedded into. It is the responsibility of that company to now update the android operating systems. So in order to do that, each handset manufacturer has to get new device drivers put their device drivers in because remember, you have to update them because the devices have probably changed. And we know the operating system has changed. And oftentimes the interface between the operating system the device drivers makes gets changed as well it makes a difference. And so now they have to get it recorded, they have to take that device driver, they have to integrate it and they have to integrate all the other dozens of device drivers. So little work with their handset. And then they have to provide that upstream to the cellular phone company or with our car manufacturer, who then has to go and make changes to the user interface so that it has their logo looks the way they wanted to look. It's acting as an embedded system instead of a million interactive tablets system, whatever it might be. How often do you think that actually happens?

Now, if you are someone who is using maybe the most popular device out there, maybe you've got the latest Samsung XYZYG gig, and that would you give you something you just absolutely love, and it's fantastic. And Samsung is sold them by the hundreds of quadrillions throughout the universe, well, then you probably will get updates for a while. But then after a few years, those updates are going to slow down and stop eventually. And at that point, now you are left on your own. And in many cases, it can be as little as six months, I have seen major security releases come out for Android, that did not make it onto a handset for over a year for a friend of mine, which is absolutely inexcusable. versus what happens with Apple, with iOS with the apple phones is Apple has control over the physical devices over the device drivers that are needed for those physical devices, over the user interface, etc. And so Apple is really, really good at providing security updates and fixes and performance improvements and new features. And they don't charge for any of those either, which is nice. Now you're saying Craig, I can't afford an iPhone, right? I have a friend that just bought the newest iPhone and I was like 1200 bucks. That's just crazy. I agree with you. Okay, that is a lot of money. And I I use my iPhones, I keep my iPhones until I need a new one, or someone else on my plan needs a new one. So they get my hand me down, and I get the new phone. I understand that right because it is costly. But here's a suggestion that I think will work for you. And that is by an older iPhone. So get something that's a couple of generations older, it's still going to be supported by Apple for at least another four or five years, maybe longer. And then you have something you know is going to get the security update. Now it may not get the latest new feature update. But it's very, very likely to get all the latest security updates. So that's what I advise people to do get that Apple iPhone, get rid of the Android The next time you do an upgrade, and just get an iPhone, get an older one don't get a brand new one. A lot of carriers have great deals on iPhones where they're 100 bucks for an iPhone, that's not gonna be the latest, greatest, most wonderful iPhone. But at 100 bucks has hard to go wrong. And some of them will even sell you the iPhone at a low price on a very, very short contract like less than a year. So keep that in mind. So let's get into this. I said all of that. So I can say this. Google desperately needs to curb the spread of Android malware. That's how this article starts at The Next Web. The Next Web com of course, I have it up on my website as well. Craig Peterson calm. In September alone, researchers uncovered a total of 107 too infected apps on the Play Store The worst part, these apps had racked up over 335 million installs. By the time they were detected by security experts. That's another thing Apple's been really good at. They have been monitoring all of the software that is being built to us in the Google apps store. And Google in the Apple App Store. Google has not been good at that ad were accounted for staggering 300 million installs. And this is according to data compiled by he set. Other types of malware found on the Play Store now this is Google's official store people. This isn't where people have gone when used a rooted phone or gone to a different store. This is Google's official store. They found subscription spam, hidden add text, premium subscription software, 57 instances of software with hidden and

the list goes on. It's crazy subscription scam 20 million plus hidden ads, 14 million plus texting, premium texting. They found 472,000. It is absolutely amazing. So obviously Apple has had some problems in the past. They tend to get them fixed very, very quickly Google, late to the game as usual with Android. And it's a shame but Android isn't their big moneymaker. What do you expect? All right. When we get back we're going to talk about some AI powered X ray systems to really want that. Hey, you listening to Craig Peterson FWGAN and online at Craig Peterson calm

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Hello, everybody, this is Craig Peterson you're listening to me on WGAN radio, as well as online at Craig Peterson dot com.

Hey, in case you missed it, that's what this whole security reboot guy and with all of the special tips and tricks and things that you should be doing to get a quick start on your security again, you can get it at Craig Peterson comm slash Quick Start, I have only ever included this in paid courses. So if you get it today, you will be guaranteed to have it. I don't know how long we'll leave this up for, we're probably going to include an updated version of this in my next course will we'll see how this all goes. Okay, on to Kaspersky. If you have been involved with security for a while you know who these guys are. This is a Russian company that has been well known for producing some pretty darn good anti virus software, some good security software over the years. They were the one the first time in fact, I think if I remember right, that had this type of security available for the Linux world for Unix machines. Nobody else had it. I remember looking for it and trying to figure out what I could use for my big servers because we were running a version of Unix. I think we're running free BSD at the time. And we also had some Linux machines, and nobody had anything, but Kaspersky did. And Kaspersky also had some great stuff for Windows. And when you were comparing Kaspersky to some of the other antivirus software out there, they were they were really, really hot, they were near the top of a number of these different list of some of the software you could use that you could trust to provide you with some reasonable security. And so Kaspersky started spreading, and it spread, it spread, it spread to people in their businesses, it spread to home machines, and it spread into government in a very, very big way. Now, now things have changed, it's still kind of everywhere. And the US government ordered its agencies to remove all of the Kaspersky software. And the same thing was supposed to have been done by the fortune 500 companies out there, which, to me makes a lot of sense. Because as it turns out, Kaspersky apparently has some pretty decent ties to the Kremlin. And there are allegations that Kaspersky has been spying on and stealing data. Now, this is a bit of a problem. It's kind of like in China dealing with almost any Chinese company, most of them are owned by the People's Liberation Army, which of course, is controlled by this socialist government of China. And they have to give information to the government whenever the government asks for it. And much the same is true. You know, Russia, in some ways, has a lot of freedom. In many ways, it's still a socialist government, just like it was as when it was part of the Soviet Union.

So there's warnings up there right now, from the Department of State on out, warning everybody not to use this now. It was in September 2017. So about two years ago, the Department of Homeland Security issued a binding operational directive to remove all caps, Kaspersky, these antivirus software from their systems. Now this is course was all federal executive branch departments and agencies. And they had to start by identifying it and then removing it and they were given 90 days to comply. And government contractors were given until October 2018. Well do the math. That's been two years since the federal government put the directive out. And it's been a year since federal contractors. Were supposed to remove all of Kaspersky labs antivirus software. Now I still see it for sale. I went to one of the local big box retailers and I went over to where they're selling computer software. And sure enough, there's all of this useless antivirus software. And right next to the useless antivirus software was Kaspersky labs antivirus software, which is less than useless, because it apparently actually does do some spying on us. So here's the statement from the Department of Homeland Security. Kaspersky antivirus products and solutions provide broad access to files and elevated privileges on the computers on which this software is installed, which can be exploited by malicious cyber actors to compromise those Information Systems very, very big deal. Now they are they've been analyzed. There's a couple of companies that have been looking at the federal government computers and some of the contractor computer systems remotely. And they have found some results are talking about being concerning. One of these companies is called expanse. And they're saying that they detected Kaspersky software residing on at least two government military networks, eight government, non military networks and 14 defense contractor networks. Additionally, and this is according to an article at CSO online that you'll find online at Craig Peterson calm additionally expands detected the prevalent use of Kaspersky software in leading commercial organizations, including 19 financial services companies, and 17 healthcare businesses in the fortune 500. Now, of course, you cannot see all of the computers inside these networks. And so their numbers are not entirely accurate, but they are accurate. At least it looks like from what I'm able to tell here. They are accurate from the standpoint of there are at least that many who, which is very, very concerning. So I brought this up, not just because it's the federal government falling, falling down again, right there isn't that seemed to be what they always do. But it's also fortune 500 companies that they're finding are still using Kaspersky all the way on down through the medium companies and the small companies and the small office, Home Office. And Shame on them. Also, on some of these big box retailers that are still selling Kaspersky labs, anti virus software. So I'm pleading with you right now. Check your antivirus software, if it's Kaspersky, that's spelled KASPRSKY, Casper sky, if you will. If you have Kaspersky antivirus, you're going to want to uninstalled that immediately. Now, you still want to have some sort of anti malware software, if your business, you really should reach out to me at Craig Peterson calm and based on what your businesses I can point you in the right direction. If you are a home user,

I'm going to have a hardening course available here in just a couple of weeks. And I really advise you guys to keep an eye out for that hardening course, I'll be announcing it on my email list, you'll know about it, you know all of the details if you're on it. But the idea here is, if you're a home user, you can get to about 95% protection without having to pay anybody for any software on any ongoing basis. If you're a business things are different because as a business, you are held to a higher level than a home user is. So there's a lot more that you have to do. In fact, there is not a business right now, out there, period, none. That does not have to comply with cyber security regulations. If you haven't single employee, if you take a single credit card, you are already under various regulations about cyber security. So it's a lot different for businesses, sometimes keep your ear to the ground. In fact, what you might do is get my quick start guide. And when you do that, you'll sign up for my email newsletter. So you'll find out when that hardening course is going to be released. So this is going to tell you how to harden your windows installs. It's great for small businesses it's great for small office, Home Office. And you can get all of this just by going to Craig Peterson. com slash Quick Start. Craig Peterson. com slash Quick Start. And by all means get rid of that Kaspersky software if you have it, business or otherwise, when we get back we talked a little bit about problems on Android. What Android problems Craig, don't you tell us not to use Android. You're listening to Craig bitter son right here on WGAN. And online at Craig Peterson calm

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Hello, everybody, this is Craig Peterson you're listening to me on WGAN radio, as well as online at Craig Peterson dot com.

Hey, in case you missed it, that's what this whole security reboot guy and with all of the special tips and tricks and things that you should be doing to get a quick start on your security again, you can get it at Craig Peterson comm slash Quick Start, I have only ever included this in paid courses. So if you get it today, you will be guaranteed to have it. I don't know how long we'll leave this up for, we're probably going to include an updated version of this in my next course will we'll see how this all goes. Okay, on to Kaspersky. If you have been involved with security for a while you know who these guys are. This is a Russian company that has been well known for producing some pretty darn good anti virus software, some good security software over the years. They were the one the first time in fact, I think if I remember right, that had this type of security available for the Linux world for Unix machines. Nobody else had it. I remember looking for it and trying to figure out what I could use for my big servers because we were running a version of Unix. I think we're running free BSD at the time. And we also had some Linux machines, and nobody had anything, but Kaspersky did. And Kaspersky also had some great stuff for Windows. And when you were comparing Kaspersky to some of the other antivirus software out there, they were they were really, really hot, they were near the top of a number of these different list of some of the software you could use that you could trust to provide you with some reasonable security. And so Kaspersky started spreading, and it spread, it spread, it spread to people in their businesses, it spread to home machines, and it spread into government in a very, very big way. Now, now things have changed, it's still kind of everywhere. And the US government ordered its agencies to remove all of the Kaspersky software. And the same thing was supposed to have been done by the fortune 500 companies out there, which, to me makes a lot of sense. Because as it turns out, Kaspersky apparently has some pretty decent ties to the Kremlin. And there are allegations that Kaspersky has been spying on and stealing data. Now, this is a bit of a problem. It's kind of like in China dealing with almost any Chinese company, most of them are owned by the People's Liberation Army, which of course, is controlled by this socialist government of China. And they have to give information to the government whenever the government asks for it. And much the same is true. You know, Russia, in some ways, has a lot of freedom. In many ways, it's still a socialist government, just like it was as when it was part of the Soviet Union.

So there's warnings up there right now, from the Department of State on out, warning everybody not to use this now. It was in September 2017. So about two years ago, the Department of Homeland Security issued a binding operational directive to remove all caps, Kaspersky, these antivirus software from their systems. Now this is course was all federal executive branch departments and agencies. And they had to start by identifying it and then removing it and they were given 90 days to comply. And government contractors were given until October 2018. Well do the math. That's been two years since the federal government put the directive out. And it's been a year since federal contractors. Were supposed to remove all of Kaspersky labs antivirus software. Now I still see it for sale. I went to one of the local big box retailers and I went over to where they're selling computer software. And sure enough, there's all of this useless antivirus software. And right next to the useless antivirus software was Kaspersky labs antivirus software, which is less than useless, because it apparently actually does do some spying on us. So here's the statement from the Department of Homeland Security. Kaspersky antivirus products and solutions provide broad access to files and elevated privileges on the computers on which this software is installed, which can be exploited by malicious cyber actors to compromise those Information Systems very, very big deal. Now they are they've been analyzed. There's a couple of companies that have been looking at the federal government computers and some of the contractor computer systems remotely. And they have found some results are talking about being concerning. One of these companies is called expanse. And they're saying that they detected Kaspersky software residing on at least two government military networks, eight government, non military networks and 14 defense contractor networks. Additionally, and this is according to an article at CSO online that you'll find online at Craig Peterson calm additionally expands detected the prevalent use of Kaspersky software in leading commercial organizations, including 19 financial services companies, and 17 healthcare businesses in the fortune 500. Now, of course, you cannot see all of the computers inside these networks. And so their numbers are not entirely accurate, but they are accurate. At least it looks like from what I'm able to tell here. They are accurate from the standpoint of there are at least that many who, which is very, very concerning. So I brought this up, not just because it's the federal government falling, falling down again, right there isn't that seemed to be what they always do. But it's also fortune 500 companies that they're finding are still using Kaspersky all the way on down through the medium companies and the small companies and the small office, Home Office. And Shame on them. Also, on some of these big box retailers that are still selling Kaspersky labs, anti virus software. So I'm pleading with you right now. Check your antivirus software, if it's Kaspersky, that's spelled KASPRSKY, Casper sky, if you will. If you have Kaspersky antivirus, you're going to want to uninstalled that immediately. Now, you still want to have some sort of anti malware software, if your business, you really should reach out to me at Craig Peterson calm and based on what your businesses I can point you in the right direction. If you are a home user,

I'm going to have a hardening course available here in just a couple of weeks. And I really advise you guys to keep an eye out for that hardening course, I'll be announcing it on my email list, you'll know about it, you know all of the details if you're on it. But the idea here is, if you're a home user, you can get to about 95% protection without having to pay anybody for any software on any ongoing basis. If you're a business things are different because as a business, you are held to a higher level than a home user is. So there's a lot more that you have to do. In fact, there is not a business right now, out there, period, none. That does not have to comply with cyber security regulations. If you haven't single employee, if you take a single credit card, you are already under various regulations about cyber security. So it's a lot different for businesses, sometimes keep your ear to the ground. In fact, what you might do is get my quick start guide. And when you do that, you'll sign up for my email newsletter. So you'll find out when that hardening course is going to be released. So this is going to tell you how to harden your windows installs. It's great for small businesses it's great for small office, Home Office. And you can get all of this just by going to Craig Peterson. com slash Quick Start. Craig Peterson. com slash Quick Start. And by all means get rid of that Kaspersky software if you have it, business or otherwise, when we get back we talked a little bit about problems on Android. What Android problems Craig, don't you tell us not to use Android. You're listening to Craig bitter son right here on WGAN. And online at Craig Peterson calm

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Hello, everybody, Craig Peterson here, you listening to me on WGAN. If this is Saturday, otherwise, you might be listening to me streaming on a podcast services and of course, you can find all of that at Craig Peterson dot com.

Hey, we've got a number of problems this week, some of which you might have heard of, I was listening to the radio earlier today. In fact, I heard an ad for one of these companies that supposed to be able to help you out if your data is stolen. Remember, some of those guys can be good, some of them not so good. And I want to give you guys something here, we'll be talking about that a little bit later.

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Hello, everybody, Craig Peterson here, you listening to me on WGAN. If this is Saturday, otherwise, you might be listening to me streaming on a podcast services and of course, you can find all of that at Craig Peterson dot com.

Hey, we've got a number of problems this week, some of which you might have heard of, I was listening to the radio earlier today. In fact, I heard an ad for one of these companies that supposed to be able to help you out if your data is stolen. Remember, some of those guys can be good, some of them not so good. And I want to give you guys something here, we'll be talking about that a little bit later.

But if you need security, you almost certainly have to do a reboot, there is so much going on today. And you got to kind of start from scratch. You know, I was out at client side a new client, and we were looking at their systems. And we found no fewer than three and sometimes as many five pieces of anti virus software on their computers. Now, there's a few things to remember here when we're talking about security. And I'd have Iris software. Number one is, it doesn't work anymore. antivirus software is okay, in some cases, but it doesn't work for many of the problems that we're really facing today. You know, we have a bigger ransomware problem than we've ever had. Although it's not going out to just about everybody. It's it's been more targeted than it used to be. And it's it's almost useless when it comes to the via anti virus because so much of this code now ransomware and others is continually morphing, thinking of a virus in nature. Why do you get the flu every year or cold every year? If you right? Some of us don't. But why is there a new one coming out every year. And the reason there's a new virus every year and a new cold virus that's behind her maybe flu is because it is morphing. So your body's immune system sees it but doesn't really recognize it as an invader doesn't recognize it as something that should be fighting. And before it, your minister really knows what's happened, that virus is taking control and is using your own cells to generate viruses, then try and overwhelm your whole system.

Well, that's kind of the simplified way of talking about it. Well, as much as the same true with the new viruses that are out there. They are constantly morphing themselves, they get onto one computer, it morphs itself before it goes on to another computer. And one of these weeks here probably pretty soon, we're going to talk more specifically about these new types of malware. The never even put themselves out on the heart desk. It's just amazing what they're doing. And they're using their internet connection in order to call home, but also in order to get another version of it. And it just gets kind of crazy. So when we're talking about antivirus software, it doesn't work. So what these guys have done is they put on multiple types of antivirus software from different vendors. Now I understand that right? I really do. What are you supposed to do? Well, maybe McAfee old kept some might catch some others, you know, the bigger Symantec packages might catch some others and see whether kindness anti virus is out there. And I want to turn on Windows Defender, and I'm going to do some stuff, make sure my Windows Firewall is turned on. And then I should be protected. And it makes sense when you think about it, right? They're all not going to detect all of the viruses, they're not all going to detect all the different types of malware. So maybe by installing three or four or five different versions, you're going to be a little bit more covered, even if they all only cover say 50 or 60%. And the real number, by the way, right now is about 20%. But no, let's say that will give them the benefit of the doubt. Even if they cover 50 or 60% 50 or 60%. Each time you install a new piece of antivirus software from a different company, you should be adding to that right. So maybe you get up to 8090 100%. That's not what happened. What ends up happening is the anti virus software starts fighting with the other antivirus software. Because we went ahead and we installed a whole stack of software. It's not just anti virus software. But it's all kinds of anti malware software, which is what we do, right? That's really what you have to do as a security professional nowadays, you can't just have antivirus. So we saw this whole stack. And we got a call from a company that we had done this with we had just installed all of this stuff. We hadn't removed all of their other antivirus software yet, because we want to do bit of a cleanup and get it going quickly, quickly, quickly because they had already been infected. So we had to go ahead and start doing some cleanup. And so we got a call from them. And the lady there was saying, Oh no, my Norton Antivirus software says you're the software you installed is a virus. Well, that's also true, because these antivirus packages are fighting against each other. And here's why. Most of the antivirus software looks for certain patterns in programs that are installed on your computer programs that are in your hard disk is that's the typical way. In our case for the last about two years now. We've also been monitoring all of the processes that are running in memory. So they're they're looking at it, they're saying, Oh my gosh, this new software that Craig installed, it has something in it that looks like a virus. Well, yeah, in a number of ways. It does, as does the Norton and Symantec and the McAfee and everything else out there. Because what they have in them are check sums of, or signatures of various types of viruses that are out there. So installing multiple pieces of antivirus software, and or anti malware software is not going to help. In fact, it's going to make life worse for you ultimately. And then of course, people they don't update them and they get out of date, and it gets to be a real big problem. So that's what this quick start guide is about. I've got it here right now in front of me. I have never given this away before except as part of a paid program. This thing's 32 pages long. And it goes through and talks about some of the detailed stuff that that you might need do. We've got bonus tips in here. Let's see how many of them are there. 1718 bonus tips. Okay, so there's 22 as well bonus tips, software availability, what you can do, what you might not want to do all of that is in here and have given this away before passwords what to do what kinds to use virtual private networks want you to use them when shouldn't to firewalls, securing your endpoints which are your computer's your printers, anything that sitting there on your network, some of the good anti malware software that's out there. So this is a very, very, very good guide. As I said, we sold it before we've never given it away. If you want a copy of it, you can get it by going to Craig Peterson comm slash Quick Start. Right now Craig peterson.com slash Quick Start. And this steps you through all the the major things you have to do now I have courses on how to do all of this. And, and they are dozens of hours long. Okay, so this isn't, this is just a quick start, okay, this isn't one of these big courses, where I'm going to hold your hand give you coaching or anything. This is just something that you can print out and and share with the other people in your organization or at home. Now, most of what I do is geared for businesses. So you'll see, this is called a security reboot guide for today's small business. And I go through a couple of stories of recent clients and the problems they had been having. So that you can kind of get an idea on what is going on out there. And you're not alone. Okay, if you've been hacked already, believe me it is not your fault. These people are selling you stuff that just doesn't work. And in isn't probably the right thing for you. So hey, I get it. But it's a quick start guide, you can get it by going to Craig Peterson. com slash Quick Start. Now if you don't want to go there, I get it. It's fine. Don't bother. Okay. This is not for everybody. But it's important enough. Just looking at what I have coming up today. We've got we're going to talk about Kaspersky today. This IT admin man. This is part of my Do It Yourself course. And I think this is really important. This just happened October 1, it appeared in zero day.

And man, this, this IT admin, you got to be careful, okay? You gotta be careful when you hire people, when you bring in outsourced it people when you bring in outsource, break fix shops. This guy, he's a former systems engineer. And he ended up in prison, in prison because of what he did. So we'll be talking about that a little bit later. And some new some features that we'll talk about here. Amazon Echo, the father of identity theft. He's been convicted on 13 federal counts, we'll talk about what he was doing. And then into some security stuff here. We've got 172 malicious apps on the Google Play Store 35, or excuse me, 335 million installs. So these apps are all malicious. General Electric, what they're doing, of course, Words with Friends, you might have heard about that. Apparently, they had their data stolen, and it could affect 218 million users. So what I don't want to have happen is I don't want to have your business breach because most small businesses that are breached are out of business within six months, absolutely. no two ways about it, you get breached, you're out of business six months. And I want you to understand what you should be doing. So that's what this quick start guide is about. That's why I'm releasing it for free today. 32 page Quick Start Guide. And the only place you can get it right now unless you buy one of my bigger courses is by going to Craig peterson.com. Slash Quick Start. If you want to get it great if you don't I understand. Okay, there. This is confusing. It can be overwhelming. You already have it people, right. So is this going to step on their toes while it may and maybe they should have their toes stepped on? But that's what that's all about. Hey, when we come back, we're going to be talking about some of these problems this week. What's up with Kaspersky and the federal government you're listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN and online at Craig peterson.com.

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Hello, everybody, Craig Peterson here, you listening to me on WGAN. If this is Saturday, otherwise, you might be listening to me streaming on a podcast services and of course, you can find all of that at Craig Peterson dot com.

Hey, we've got a number of problems this week, some of which you might have heard of, I was listening to the radio earlier today. In fact, I heard an ad for one of these companies that supposed to be able to help you out if your data is stolen. Remember, some of those guys can be good, some of them not so good. And I want to give you guys something here, we'll be talking about that a little bit later.

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Craig Peterson 0:06

Hello, everybody, Craig Peterson here, you listening to me on WGAN. If this is Saturday, otherwise, you might be listening to me streaming on a podcast services and of course, you can find all of that at Craig Peterson dot com.

Hey, we've got a number of problems this week, some of which you might have heard of, I was listening to the radio earlier today. In fact, I heard an ad for one of these companies that supposed to be able to help you out if your data is stolen. Remember, some of those guys can be good, some of them not so good. And I want to give you guys something here, we'll be talking about that a little bit later.

But if you need security, you almost certainly have to do a reboot, there is so much going on today. And you got to kind of start from scratch. You know, I was out at client side a new client, and we were looking at their systems. And we found no fewer than three and sometimes as many five pieces of anti virus software on their computers. Now, there's a few things to remember here when we're talking about security. And I'd have Iris software. Number one is, it doesn't work anymore. antivirus software is okay, in some cases, but it doesn't work for many of the problems that we're really facing today. You know, we have a bigger ransomware problem than we've ever had. Although it's not going out to just about everybody. It's it's been more targeted than it used to be. And it's it's almost useless when it comes to the via anti virus because so much of this code now ransomware and others is continually morphing, thinking of a virus in nature. Why do you get the flu every year or cold every year? If you right? Some of us don't. But why is there a new one coming out every year. And the reason there's a new virus every year and a new cold virus that's behind her maybe flu is because it is morphing. So your body's immune system sees it but doesn't really recognize it as an invader doesn't recognize it as something that should be fighting. And before it, your minister really knows what's happened, that virus is taking control and is using your own cells to generate viruses, then try and overwhelm your whole system.

Well, that's kind of the simplified way of talking about it. Well, as much as the same true with the new viruses that are out there. They are constantly morphing themselves, they get onto one computer, it morphs itself before it goes on to another computer. And one of these weeks here probably pretty soon, we're going to talk more specifically about these new types of malware. The never even put themselves out on the heart desk. It's just amazing what they're doing. And they're using their internet connection in order to call home, but also in order to get another version of it. And it just gets kind of crazy. So when we're talking about antivirus software, it doesn't work. So what these guys have done is they put on multiple types of antivirus software from different vendors. Now I understand that right? I really do. What are you supposed to do? Well, maybe McAfee old kept some might catch some others, you know, the bigger Symantec packages might catch some others and see whether kindness anti virus is out there. And I want to turn on Windows Defender, and I'm going to do some stuff, make sure my Windows Firewall is turned on. And then I should be protected. And it makes sense when you think about it, right? They're all not going to detect all of the viruses, they're not all going to detect all the different types of malware. So maybe by installing three or four or five different versions, you're going to be a little bit more covered, even if they all only cover say 50 or 60%. And the real number, by the way, right now is about 20%. But no, let's say that will give them the benefit of the doubt. Even if they cover 50 or 60% 50 or 60%. Each time you install a new piece of antivirus software from a different company, you should be adding to that right. So maybe you get up to 8090 100%. That's not what happened. What ends up happening is the anti virus software starts fighting with the other antivirus software. Because we went ahead and we installed a whole stack of software. It's not just anti virus software. But it's all kinds of anti malware software, which is what we do, right? That's really what you have to do as a security professional nowadays, you can't just have antivirus. So we saw this whole stack. And we got a call from a company that we had done this with we had just installed all of this stuff. We hadn't removed all of their other antivirus software yet, because we want to do bit of a cleanup and get it going quickly, quickly, quickly because they had already been infected. So we had to go ahead and start doing some cleanup. And so we got a call from them. And the lady there was saying, Oh no, my Norton Antivirus software says you're the software you installed is a virus. Well, that's also true, because these antivirus packages are fighting against each other. And here's why. Most of the antivirus software looks for certain patterns in programs that are installed on your computer programs that are in your hard disk is that's the typical way. In our case for the last about two years now. We've also been monitoring all of the processes that are running in memory. So they're they're looking at it, they're saying, Oh my gosh, this new software that Craig installed, it has something in it that looks like a virus. Well, yeah, in a number of ways. It does, as does the Norton and Symantec and the McAfee and everything else out there. Because what they have in them are check sums of, or signatures of various types of viruses that are out there. So installing multiple pieces of antivirus software, and or anti malware software is not going to help. In fact, it's going to make life worse for you ultimately. And then of course, people they don't update them and they get out of date, and it gets to be a real big problem. So that's what this quick start guide is about. I've got it here right now in front of me. I have never given this away before except as part of a paid program. This thing's 32 pages long. And it goes through and talks about some of the detailed stuff that that you might need do. We've got bonus tips in here. Let's see how many of them are there. 1718 bonus tips. Okay, so there's 22 as well bonus tips, software availability, what you can do, what you might not want to do all of that is in here and have given this away before passwords what to do what kinds to use virtual private networks want you to use them when shouldn't to firewalls, securing your endpoints which are your computer's your printers, anything that sitting there on your network, some of the good anti malware software that's out there. So this is a very, very, very good guide. As I said, we sold it before we've never given it away. If you want a copy of it, you can get it by going to Craig Peterson comm slash Quick Start. Right now Craig peterson.com slash Quick Start. And this steps you through all the the major things you have to do now I have courses on how to do all of this. And, and they are dozens of hours long. Okay, so this isn't, this is just a quick start, okay, this isn't one of these big courses, where I'm going to hold your hand give you coaching or anything. This is just something that you can print out and and share with the other people in your organization or at home. Now, most of what I do is geared for businesses. So you'll see, this is called a security reboot guide for today's small business. And I go through a couple of stories of recent clients and the problems they had been having. So that you can kind of get an idea on what is going on out there. And you're not alone. Okay, if you've been hacked already, believe me it is not your fault. These people are selling you stuff that just doesn't work. And in isn't probably the right thing for you. So hey, I get it. But it's a quick start guide, you can get it by going to Craig Peterson. com slash Quick Start. Now if you don't want to go there, I get it. It's fine. Don't bother. Okay. This is not for everybody. But it's important enough. Just looking at what I have coming up today. We've got we're going to talk about Kaspersky today. This IT admin man. This is part of my Do It Yourself course. And I think this is really important. This just happened October 1, it appeared in zero day.

And man, this, this IT admin, you got to be careful, okay? You gotta be careful when you hire people, when you bring in outsourced it people when you bring in outsource, break fix shops. This guy, he's a former systems engineer. And he ended up in prison, in prison because of what he did. So we'll be talking about that a little bit later. And some new some features that we'll talk about here. Amazon Echo, the father of identity theft. He's been convicted on 13 federal counts, we'll talk about what he was doing. And then into some security stuff here. We've got 172 malicious apps on the Google Play Store 35, or excuse me, 335 million installs. So these apps are all malicious. General Electric, what they're doing, of course, Words with Friends, you might have heard about that. Apparently, they had their data stolen, and it could affect 218 million users. So what I don't want to have happen is I don't want to have your business breach because most small businesses that are breached are out of business within six months, absolutely. no two ways about it, you get breached, you're out of business six months. And I want you to understand what you should be doing. So that's what this quick start guide is about. That's why I'm releasing it for free today. 32 page Quick Start Guide. And the only place you can get it right now unless you buy one of my bigger courses is by going to Craig peterson.com. Slash Quick Start. If you want to get it great if you don't I understand. Okay, there. This is confusing. It can be overwhelming. You already have it people, right. So is this going to step on their toes while it may and maybe they should have their toes stepped on? But that's what that's all about. Hey, when we come back, we're going to be talking about some of these problems this week. What's up with Kaspersky and the federal government you're listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN and online at Craig peterson.com.

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Hey, Good Morning, everybody, I had a conversation with Ken and map this morning. They are on WGAN, the morning drive show there in Maine. How do you explain quantum computing? And I thought I could probably explain them pretty well. And Matt wanted to do a follow up on this whole quantum supremacy thing. And so I took a stab at it, explained it, and I have heard some half decent explanations before but unless you really get into the physics of it, it can be hard to explain. Anyhow, let me know what you think about what I did here. Again, me at Craig Peterson dot com to send me a note. And here we go with Ken and Matt.

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Craig 0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody, Greg Peterson here. I had a conversation with Ken and map this morning. They are on WGAN, the morning drive show there in Maine, and had an interesting time I problem i don't i don't know what you want to call it. How do you explain quantum computing? And I thought I could probably explain them pretty well. And Matt wanted to do a follow up on this whole quantum supremacy thing. And so I took a stab at it, explained it, and I have heard some half decent explanations before but unless you really get into the physics of it, it can be hard to explain. Anyhow, let me know what you think about what I did here. Again, me at Craig Peterson, calm to send me a note. And here we go with Ken and Matt.

Ken 0:55
We'er back ladies gentlemen, at 738

Matt 0:59
seriously means that Craig Peterson joins us as he always does on Wednesdays to go over what's happening in the world of technology. Craig Peterson, ladies and gentlemen. How are you, sir?

Craig 1:08
Hey, good morning doing well. Just had a comment when I called in about some of the listeners to my show on Saturday. And it's kind of exciting. I love getting little emails, people asking questions. Quite a few small business people, you know, SOHO type stuff, small office, Home Office. And those are the types of people that I think really need help as well as the home users and people who are afraid of shot.

Ken 1:36
So, there you go. Tune in to Craig Peterson this Saturday on WG and at one o'clock. And while we have you here today, Mr. Peterson. So what is this deep fake? And what's going to happen? When's it going to arrive? And what should I do about it

Matt 1:52
Oh, it's already arrived, sir.

Ken 1:55
Tell me about I don't even know what a deep fake is.

Craig 1:58
No, I was talking about it. Yeah, yesterday. And I think mad man united that this is going to be an interesting discussion. Because the whole idea behind deep fakes is to be able to make something that looks exactly like something else. So in this case, what we're talking about is that you remember the days you could take Photoshop and and they manipulate right? And they put somebody's face on somebody else's body. And it just looks terrible. And most of the time they didn't do a very good job of it used to be hard but now it's easy. I mentioned in fact before that, the whole movie concept if you think about Toy Story that out right now Toy Story for I guess it's coming to DVD near you. And then Toy Story movie, compared to the original one. So

Matt 2:51
God zero difference. Yeah, I know. It's I remember, I was watching that movie with my kids, like, a couple months ago or whatever. And it was awesome.

Craig 3:03
Yeah, it's it's absolutely amazing what they're able to do. And that technology that was used 20 years ago, was something that costs hundreds of millions of dollars to develop, and the movie The cost 10s of millions of dollars to just have that animation done. And today, he just anybody with an iPhone, or an Android phone, can sit there and make animations that are much better than the Toy Story 20 years ago. So what's happening with deep fakes is, we are now able to do all of this kind of the photoshopping stuff we mentioned, we're able to do that using special animation techniques. And we're able to make it so that if we have enough video of somebody, we can make a video, and we can stick someone else's head face into that video, even now, we can take their picture, how they walk, etc, uploaded into the video, as well. And we're seeing criminals using it today, where they are taking a person's voice, all they have to do is for instance, the annual stockholders meeting this, this just happened a couple of months back. And it was a German firm that owned this, I think it was a British company. And the course was CEO of the German parent company, had his annual meeting and he spoke. So they have lots of voice samples. And they were able to just feed this into some software that you can already get for your desktop PC, and make it so that they can make a recording that sounded just like this German CEO. And the bad guys use this recording now to call up the subsidiary company and have the German CEO order this company need to send a check for millions of dollars to the bad guys are actually transfer money, millions of dollars to the bad guys. Now, it's still fairly complicated. But we've got this guy, he's a deep fake pioneers name is Holly. And he told CNBC on Friday, that he thinks within six months, we're going to have deep fakes, where it's video, the audio, everything all together. And we're going to have it as a point where you cannot tell readily that it's a fake. Now, this is where Matt, I think this comes in with you a lot.

Craig 5:36
Think about October surprises, right? Does everybody know what October surprise? Matt, why don't you tell us? What an October surprise? Well, I would say that Ken's legal partner knows what an October surprise is given the 2000 election and drunk driving. Mr. Bush and whatnot. It's a unexpected event that happens in the very late stages of a campaign which throw a gigantic monkey wrench into the whole campaign.

Craig 5:58
So let's get happened in the year 2020, when deep fakes can be done by any kid with a computer. And all of a sudden there is a video released showing, well, maybe President Trump talking to maybe a foreign leader, okay.

Ken 6:15
Maybe he made a phone call to someone in the Ukraine.

Craig 6:18
Ukraine, just pretend that okay. And it wasn't real, or whoever, you know, Elizabeth Warren, whoever the candidate ends up being for the democrats saying something doing something, that we're already seeing this in the porn industry, and porn, of course, leads the tech world in so many ways. We're already seeing it there, man, what's going to happen?

Matt 6:42
The song Come on.

Craig 6:47
What's gonna happen next year when it's October, and Bill Weld is running against President Trump and all of a sudden there's a Bill Weld video or President Trump video or whoever it is? This is world changing.

Matt 7:05
is really, really great. For porn, is that what you're referring to? Just checking.

Craig 7:13
You know, again, not to belabor the the issue, because I think we can move on from it. But it's also, you know, if you are a celebrity or whatnot like that, one of the things that's terrible about the deep fake thing is that like people are now essentially mapping like Taylor Swift's face on to, you know, stuff. And it's not you know, that that's horrendous to do to people, but it's happening with increasing frequency. And I'm sure that this technology, as it gets better, will make those things more believable and more believable as time goes by. So that's something that obviously has to be looked at, obviously, going in the future.

Matt 7:47
But anyway, moving on to a different topic. Mr. Peterson I've read things over the years about quantum computing. And I understand the concept a little bit, I find it quite interesting. You have a little topic here that you'd like to talk about that relates to quantum computing, certainly has capabilities that regular computing does not Is that true?

Craig 8:04
Yeah, absolutely. And, man, this is kind of interesting, because there are a lot of companies right now who are busy with the whole quantum computing thing. And the idea is that our normal computers, a digital computer, it's ones and zeros. And each bit in that computers represented by either binary one or zero. And if the computer has to do things in certain order orders, you have to make it work, right. And you have to figure it all out with quantum computing. The easiest way to talk about

Matt 8:42
I'm very much looking forward to hearing you explain this, because it is really hard to explain

Craig 8:48
The quantum computing is basically the computer is using quantum physics in order to do computing. So each bit in the quantum world is called a cube bed. So in the regular world, it's got a zero or one sort of has two states. Right now, the quantum computers, each bit has five different states. And the way this all works is it's all kind of mess together, man. This is going to be tough. And and there is a milestone a quantum computing milestone called quantum supremacy. And Google claims it has met that milestone. Now what quantum it supremacy is, and this is, this is simple to explain, I'm not going to try and get more into quantum itself. But what read the Wikipedia article, if you're that interested in the details, it really is fascinating. You know what I mean? It is it is crazy, interesting. supremacy is okay, we now have a quantum computer that has solved a problem that a regular computer either could not solve or, in some cases, it can solve a computer in the matter of a problem in a matter of minutes that could take a regular computer as much as 100,000 years to do. It is absolutely amazing. What's happening. So let's talk quantum supremacy. And, you know, thank you to our robot overlords who are in charge, and we just so appreciate, because this is a major step towards AI. Because basically a quantum computer acts differently, if you will, it thinks differently, it can solve problems differently. And the Chinese have been working heavily on this, and they may have beat us to the punch, but they're not going to tell us. But the bottom line is with quantum computing, pretty much every type of encryption we use today, including military grade encryption to keep our secret safe, can be broken by quantum computer in a matter of just minutes. And some of these computers now or up to what are called 10 cubits. And it's it's absolutely amazing. And some people, by the way, are discounting what Google has claimed they're not they're saying Google really hasn't broken quantum supremacy. But we're going to be there very soon. And it is going to absolutely change things. And particularly in the military side and encryption side of things. So this is a fascinating topic. If you love this sort of stuff. I've got the article up at Craig Peterson calm, and you can just do a Google search on quantum computing and your mind will be blown as what these guys are doing.

Ken 11:40
Craig Peterson, you know, you hear him every Saturday, well, first here, wherever you hear me here. Every Friday, Saturday, at one o'clock and WGAN. And you hear Craig Peterson cot com And he's there as well. Thank you, Mr. Peterson. I will talk to you next week. But we'll listen to you on Saturday today.

Craig 12:00
Alright, thanks, guys,

Matt 12:02
Craig. So it's about that time that we go to a break.

Craig 12:05
Hey, everybody, thanks for being with us this morning. I think this was fun. I'll be back on Saturday. And we are starting a whole new series of probably video podcasts, I think is what we're going to do. So keep an eye out for those if you are a business person. That's who they're aimed at. What do you need to do for your business to keep it safe? Those are the people that can really be hurt. You're talking about all of your retirement? Of course, anybody can and much of this applies to regular home users and retirees as well. If you have an idea of what you think maybe we should call this podcast, let me know I would love to hear from you. Again, it's about security. It's about business, small business, medium business, maybe up to 20 $25 million size business but really aimed at the under 10 million dollar businesses out there. What should I call this thing? Anyways? Let me know I you know, I don't like the Tech Talk name. I don't know if I mentioned that before, but I I kind of got stuck with it because I took the advice of someone that had been in radio for like 20 years and OO Tech Talk. And there's like a ton of shows called Tech Talk. There's even a guy out west whose name Craig Peterson, or Peterson, I guess. Or San I'm not sure anyways, and he had a show he called tech talk. I don't know. Very confusing to me. Let me know what should I call the security for business show? Maybe Maybe that's the name to call it me at Craig Peterson dot com everybody. Have a great day. Bye-bye.

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Hey, Good Morning, everybody, I had a conversation with Ken and map this morning. They are on WGAN, the morning drive show there in Maine. How do you explain quantum computing? And I thought I could probably explain them pretty well. And Matt wanted to do a follow up on this whole quantum supremacy thing. And so I took a stab at it, explained it, and I have heard some half decent explanations before but unless you really get into the physics of it, it can be hard to explain. Anyhow, let me know what you think about what I did here. Again, me at Craig Peterson dot com to send me a note. And here we go with Ken and Matt.

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Craig 0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody, Greg Peterson here. I had a conversation with Ken and map this morning. They are on WGAN, the morning drive show there in Maine, and had an interesting time I problem i don't i don't know what you want to call it. How do you explain quantum computing? And I thought I could probably explain them pretty well. And Matt wanted to do a follow up on this whole quantum supremacy thing. And so I took a stab at it, explained it, and I have heard some half decent explanations before but unless you really get into the physics of it, it can be hard to explain. Anyhow, let me know what you think about what I did here. Again, me at Craig Peterson, calm to send me a note. And here we go with Ken and Matt.

Ken 0:55
We'er back ladies gentlemen, at 738

Matt 0:59
seriously means that Craig Peterson joins us as he always does on Wednesdays to go over what's happening in the world of technology. Craig Peterson, ladies and gentlemen. How are you, sir?

Craig 1:08
Hey, good morning doing well. Just had a comment when I called in about some of the listeners to my show on Saturday. And it's kind of exciting. I love getting little emails, people asking questions. Quite a few small business people, you know, SOHO type stuff, small office, Home Office. And those are the types of people that I think really need help as well as the home users and people who are afraid of shot.

Ken 1:36
So, there you go. Tune in to Craig Peterson this Saturday on WG and at one o'clock. And while we have you here today, Mr. Peterson. So what is this deep fake? And what's going to happen? When's it going to arrive? And what should I do about it

Matt 1:52
Oh, it's already arrived, sir.

Ken 1:55
Tell me about I don't even know what a deep fake is.

Craig 1:58
No, I was talking about it. Yeah, yesterday. And I think mad man united that this is going to be an interesting discussion. Because the whole idea behind deep fakes is to be able to make something that looks exactly like something else. So in this case, what we're talking about is that you remember the days you could take Photoshop and and they manipulate right? And they put somebody's face on somebody else's body. And it just looks terrible. And most of the time they didn't do a very good job of it used to be hard but now it's easy. I mentioned in fact before that, the whole movie concept if you think about Toy Story that out right now Toy Story for I guess it's coming to DVD near you. And then Toy Story movie, compared to the original one. So

Matt 2:51
God zero difference. Yeah, I know. It's I remember, I was watching that movie with my kids, like, a couple months ago or whatever. And it was awesome.

Craig 3:03
Yeah, it's it's absolutely amazing what they're able to do. And that technology that was used 20 years ago, was something that costs hundreds of millions of dollars to develop, and the movie The cost 10s of millions of dollars to just have that animation done. And today, he just anybody with an iPhone, or an Android phone, can sit there and make animations that are much better than the Toy Story 20 years ago. So what's happening with deep fakes is, we are now able to do all of this kind of the photoshopping stuff we mentioned, we're able to do that using special animation techniques. And we're able to make it so that if we have enough video of somebody, we can make a video, and we can stick someone else's head face into that video, even now, we can take their picture, how they walk, etc, uploaded into the video, as well. And we're seeing criminals using it today, where they are taking a person's voice, all they have to do is for instance, the annual stockholders meeting this, this just happened a couple of months back. And it was a German firm that owned this, I think it was a British company. And the course was CEO of the German parent company, had his annual meeting and he spoke. So they have lots of voice samples. And they were able to just feed this into some software that you can already get for your desktop PC, and make it so that they can make a recording that sounded just like this German CEO. And the bad guys use this recording now to call up the subsidiary company and have the German CEO order this company need to send a check for millions of dollars to the bad guys are actually transfer money, millions of dollars to the bad guys. Now, it's still fairly complicated. But we've got this guy, he's a deep fake pioneers name is Holly. And he told CNBC on Friday, that he thinks within six months, we're going to have deep fakes, where it's video, the audio, everything all together. And we're going to have it as a point where you cannot tell readily that it's a fake. Now, this is where Matt, I think this comes in with you a lot.

Craig 5:36
Think about October surprises, right? Does everybody know what October surprise? Matt, why don't you tell us? What an October surprise? Well, I would say that Ken's legal partner knows what an October surprise is given the 2000 election and drunk driving. Mr. Bush and whatnot. It's a unexpected event that happens in the very late stages of a campaign which throw a gigantic monkey wrench into the whole campaign.

Craig 5:58
So let's get happened in the year 2020, when deep fakes can be done by any kid with a computer. And all of a sudden there is a video released showing, well, maybe President Trump talking to maybe a foreign leader, okay.

Ken 6:15
Maybe he made a phone call to someone in the Ukraine.

Craig 6:18
Ukraine, just pretend that okay. And it wasn't real, or whoever, you know, Elizabeth Warren, whoever the candidate ends up being for the democrats saying something doing something, that we're already seeing this in the porn industry, and porn, of course, leads the tech world in so many ways. We're already seeing it there, man, what's going to happen?

Matt 6:42
The song Come on.

Craig 6:47
What's gonna happen next year when it's October, and Bill Weld is running against President Trump and all of a sudden there's a Bill Weld video or President Trump video or whoever it is? This is world changing.

Matt 7:05
is really, really great. For porn, is that what you're referring to? Just checking.

Craig 7:13
You know, again, not to belabor the the issue, because I think we can move on from it. But it's also, you know, if you are a celebrity or whatnot like that, one of the things that's terrible about the deep fake thing is that like people are now essentially mapping like Taylor Swift's face on to, you know, stuff. And it's not you know, that that's horrendous to do to people, but it's happening with increasing frequency. And I'm sure that this technology, as it gets better, will make those things more believable and more believable as time goes by. So that's something that obviously has to be looked at, obviously, going in the future.

Matt 7:47
But anyway, moving on to a different topic. Mr. Peterson I've read things over the years about quantum computing. And I understand the concept a little bit, I find it quite interesting. You have a little topic here that you'd like to talk about that relates to quantum computing, certainly has capabilities that regular computing does not Is that true?

Craig 8:04
Yeah, absolutely. And, man, this is kind of interesting, because there are a lot of companies right now who are busy with the whole quantum computing thing. And the idea is that our normal computers, a digital computer, it's ones and zeros. And each bit in that computers represented by either binary one or zero. And if the computer has to do things in certain order orders, you have to make it work, right. And you have to figure it all out with quantum computing. The easiest way to talk about

Matt 8:42
I'm very much looking forward to hearing you explain this, because it is really hard to explain

Craig 8:48
The quantum computing is basically the computer is using quantum physics in order to do computing. So each bit in the quantum world is called a cube bed. So in the regular world, it's got a zero or one sort of has two states. Right now, the quantum computers, each bit has five different states. And the way this all works is it's all kind of mess together, man. This is going to be tough. And and there is a milestone a quantum computing milestone called quantum supremacy. And Google claims it has met that milestone. Now what quantum it supremacy is, and this is, this is simple to explain, I'm not going to try and get more into quantum itself. But what read the Wikipedia article, if you're that interested in the details, it really is fascinating. You know what I mean? It is it is crazy, interesting. supremacy is okay, we now have a quantum computer that has solved a problem that a regular computer either could not solve or, in some cases, it can solve a computer in the matter of a problem in a matter of minutes that could take a regular computer as much as 100,000 years to do. It is absolutely amazing. What's happening. So let's talk quantum supremacy. And, you know, thank you to our robot overlords who are in charge, and we just so appreciate, because this is a major step towards AI. Because basically a quantum computer acts differently, if you will, it thinks differently, it can solve problems differently. And the Chinese have been working heavily on this, and they may have beat us to the punch, but they're not going to tell us. But the bottom line is with quantum computing, pretty much every type of encryption we use today, including military grade encryption to keep our secret safe, can be broken by quantum computer in a matter of just minutes. And some of these computers now or up to what are called 10 cubits. And it's it's absolutely amazing. And some people, by the way, are discounting what Google has claimed they're not they're saying Google really hasn't broken quantum supremacy. But we're going to be there very soon. And it is going to absolutely change things. And particularly in the military side and encryption side of things. So this is a fascinating topic. If you love this sort of stuff. I've got the article up at Craig Peterson calm, and you can just do a Google search on quantum computing and your mind will be blown as what these guys are doing.

Ken 11:40
Craig Peterson, you know, you hear him every Saturday, well, first here, wherever you hear me here. Every Friday, Saturday, at one o'clock and WGAN. And you hear Craig Peterson cot com And he's there as well. Thank you, Mr. Peterson. I will talk to you next week. But we'll listen to you on Saturday today.

Craig 12:00
Alright, thanks, guys,

Matt 12:02
Craig. So it's about that time that we go to a break.

Craig 12:05
Hey, everybody, thanks for being with us this morning. I think this was fun. I'll be back on Saturday. And we are starting a whole new series of probably video podcasts, I think is what we're going to do. So keep an eye out for those if you are a business person. That's who they're aimed at. What do you need to do for your business to keep it safe? Those are the people that can really be hurt. You're talking about all of your retirement? Of course, anybody can and much of this applies to regular home users and retirees as well. If you have an idea of what you think maybe we should call this podcast, let me know I would love to hear from you. Again, it's about security. It's about business, small business, medium business, maybe up to 20 $25 million size business but really aimed at the under 10 million dollar businesses out there. What should I call this thing? Anyways? Let me know I you know, I don't like the Tech Talk name. I don't know if I mentioned that before, but I I kind of got stuck with it because I took the advice of someone that had been in radio for like 20 years and OO Tech Talk. And there's like a ton of shows called Tech Talk. There's even a guy out west whose name Craig Peterson, or Peterson, I guess. Or San I'm not sure anyways, and he had a show he called tech talk. I don't know. Very confusing to me. Let me know what should I call the security for business show? Maybe Maybe that's the name to call it me at Craig Peterson dot com everybody. Have a great day. Bye-bye.

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