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Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning, they talked about a lot of things. Craig discussed the benefits of intermittent fasting. They also talked about the Israeli bombing cyber hackers, Jeff Bezos getting into the business of freight services, and hospitals pushing device makers to improve security on medical devices.

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

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Transcript:

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.

Airing date: 05/22/2019

Intermittent Fasting - Microsoft Warning About Patches - Israel Responded To Hacking By Bombing

Craig Peterson  0:00
Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, welcome, welcome. Hey, if you watch me on YouTube, or maybe you attend some of my classes, or you're one of my insiders that I do coaching with, you might have noticed that I have lost a quite a bit of fat. I'm going to say, not necessarily weight, I have lost weight. I've lost a lot, 30, 40 pounds. But I've also put on some muscle. And you might be wondering why and how. I've had quite a few people asked me that are, you know, getting security coaching from me. Well, I am doing something called intermittent fasting as well as my wife. My kids have been doing it. It has been just amazing for general health. So this morning, I was on with Ken and Matt, I guess Ken had disappeared during this segment. But he had been talking about doing some intermittent fasting a little earlier in the morning. And I was so I got in and I explained what I will learned about intermittent fasting and diabetes and various types of diseases, including cancer. Some Nobel Prize material that had been presented to a Nobel laureate just a few years ago, a major breakthrough in science of medicine. So I talked about that this morning. And of course, we got into all of our weekly stuff as well, including a major warning out this week about Microsoft and doing some of the updates. You know, should you, shouldn't you while we talked about that this morning as well. So here we go. And of course, you'll find all of this at http://CraigPeterson.com.

Matt Gagnon 1:38
Again 7:38 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. It is time to talk to our friend Craig Peterson. He joins us at this time every every Wednesday, and this is no exception of course. Craig, How are you this morning?

Craig 1:53
Hey, I am doing great. You know, we got to talk about one of my favorite subjects you guys are talking about a little earlier today, too?

Matt 2:01
Yes. What is that subject, sir?

Craig 2:02
So my wife and I have been doing intermittent fasting for over a year now. And I've read seven books on the topic. I follow a doctor out of the University of Toronto really closely, Jason Fung and he's a doctor. He's been a kidney doctor for the all a very long time. And he was tired of all of his patients dying. And of basically one thing, right, the whole insulin problem, diabetes. And about three years ago, there was a Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to a Japanese researcher who discovered and really documented something called autophagy. And autophagy is the process whereby your cells repair themselves, but your body only repairs itself at one time. And that's when your fasting. So for instance, Matt, you know that you your mom probably told you time and time again, you got to get your sleep, right, give your body a chance to rest and repair. What are you not doing when you're sleeping? You're not eating? Right? And so it was really interesting to me, it started to click and so I read at least a half a dozen books on the topic and looked into the research, read some of the Nobel laureates writings on autophagy and follow Jason Fung who has been able to cure 1200 of his patients have diabetes, including the most severe types of diabetes. Now you got to be careful if you're diabetic, and you're thinking about fasting, intermittent fasting. Make sure you talk to your doctor. But with autophagy basically fixes almost everything. And then a side effect of it all is that you end up losing weight as well, and my wife and I, we've combined lost over 100 pounds over the last year, we are feeling better than I'm feeling better than I can remember in decades now. She is too, but it's absolutely amazing. So from a guy, you know, 10 years I was a volunteer paramedic, so I don't play a doctor on the radio. But I've read a lot about this, it's been very fascinating to me. And once you're trying to do is two things typically Ken. One is you want the results of autophagy, there's a study that just came out of Cambridge, about a month ago by a researcher saying basically, if you fast seven days a year, you it's almost impossible for you to get any type of cancer, because the autophagy clears those cells out of your body there. It's fascinating. You should research it. But taking your vitamins, it's still recommended to do that. Absolutely. But if you're eating less than about 500 calories a day, which you would be if all you took was your vitamins, you're on what's called a fasting mimicking diet. Now you got to be careful about restricting your calories because a calorie restricted diet causes other problems with your body and doesn't actually help with the fasting or the autophagy. What you're trying to do, bottom line here is stop the insulin reaction in your body. You want to slow that down. So eating anything like eating six meals a day, according to everything I've been reading and including what Dr. Fung has been talking about six meals a day is almost the worst thing you could possibly do. So don't snack. When you start out. Well, what we did for months with something called a 16. Eight fast, so we fasted for 16 hours a day. So if you finish your dinner at 6pm, 6am, the next day, there you got 12 hours with no snacks at all, you just drink water basically, or black coffee or tea, and then you don't eat until noon. So basically skip breakfast, you now have fasted for 16 hours and your body has had a chance to repair itself. It's fascinating stuff. After 24 hours of fasting, again, no food, no snacks, just some water and you know clear stuff, no sugars at all. After 24 hours, most of your immune system gets replaced. Your T cells, these white blood cells that protect you if they get rebuilt and replaced. And it's just fascinating, fascinating stuff. I read a bunch of scientific papers on this, as well as a whole bunch of books and studied some diets and things. Ken I absolutely love it. It is the easiest thing we have ever done from any sort of a diet. We've done, you know, bunches of them in the past, and they've all had various results for us. But this intermittent fasting thing has been amazing for us.

Matt 6:59
Well, this is the health hour with Craig Peterson. And he's talking with us here talking about all things technology and health related. So let's actually turn our attention a little bit to the technology side of things, if you don't mind. So Microsoft is warning us that there is a gigantic monster evil, malevolent force out there, a computer bug, and we should pay attention to that. So tell us a little bit more about what this warning is.

Craig 7:22
Yeah, I sent out another warning yesterday too, that was a Microsoft based one. But here's what happened. Intel, our friends member we have Intel processors CPUs in most of our computers. That's not true of your Samsung phone,Matt. It's not true of your iOS devices there Ken. But Intel processors, it's been found have another extremely major security vulnerability, I hate to have to say that again. And in order to completely block that computer vulnerability, you have to turn off something called hyperthreading, and that causes a 40% performance penalty. So we've got Apple's, Cook is very very, very upset with Intel right now, it's going to cause some more tensions between the two companies. Microsoft released patches for this, as has Apple, all the major manufacturers have released patches for this Intel bug. You will notice your machine will slow down afterwards. But I've got to warn you because Microsoft had 19 severe rated patches that they released this week. You know the Patch Tuesday thing. Be very careful because it breaks machines that are running so folks antivirus as well as some other software out there. So if you have not applied the Microsoft patches from this month's set of patches, don't do them. My Microsoft is calling them a monster computer bug. This is very big. And the likelihood that you're going to get nailed by it right now is kind of low. So be careful, Microsoft issued a warning that they are causing what's called the blue screen of death on Windows computers. So this is one time, you probably don't want to apply the patches quite yet. But you're definitely going to want to apply them.

Matt 9:21
We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us on Wednesdays at this time to go over what's happening in the world of technology. And Craig, Equifax got a data breach of course and a lot of their customers information was was taken and there's some huge data breach there whatnot. Apparently that has cost them dearly. Cash wise, what happened?

Craig 9:41
Yeah, this is I was just bemoaning Equifax because look at the insane ruined 145 million people's private data, you know, it got released, and some of it was extreme private data. And it was due to the fact that they didn't patch right, they had a six months old patching problem. And really no heads rolled over this. And that kind of upset me too. They just weren't doing anything right. But now we found out because Equifax just had their earnings report last week, we found out that they have they've spent they said more than $1.4 billion because of the breach and that's paying people, covering people for having their credit monitored, etc. And by the way, that does not include the money they keep they paid to Ken and his cohorts. So the 1.4 billion does not include legal fees. So I don't know if I should consider that any form of justice. But yeah, Equifax has paid and paid I would say $1.4 billion, and plus legal fees. This is probably they paid kind of dearly for this. I hope they have changed their practices. You know what people, this reminds us get back to the brass tacks. When it comes to security. get right down to it, make sure you are doing the patches, just wait this month for maybe another week or so for Microsoft to get its act together. But make sure you patch make sure you have the 321 backup stuff in place. Make sure you are taking care of the fundamentals. 

Matt 11:25
And Craig speaking of justice, you mentioned the word justice. One of the little tidbits that caught my attention was this. This, this news item about Israel actually bombing cyber hackers or cyber, I don't know if you want to call them cyber terrorists, whatever. So this is a this is sort of a this is a new front on on, I guess the the general idea of welfare, warfare, excuse me. And it's it's historic and different, new and a lot of ways. So describe this to us.

Craig 11:59
Well, it is it. We know already the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, they return fire when Hamas sends rockets over the border and stuff. And apparently, Hamas has been very aggressive against Israeli targets on the cyber security front. So they apparently track down where these Hamas cyber operatives are working out of. And it was a group called HamasCyberHQ.exe is what they call themselves. And the IDF came out with with a statement on Twitter that said, following our successful cyber defensive operation, we targeted a building where Hamas cyber operatives work. HamasCyberHQ.exe has been removed. And in Twitter they posted a picture of a U shaped building with the right side of it colored in red. And that apparently was a section that is now wiped off the map. So kinetic conflicts is what it's been called, which I thought was really kind of cool. But yeah, apparently Israel has decided that cyber warfare, it should be treated the same as any other type of warfare. And they took them out with good old fashioned explosives.

Matt 13:20
And speaking of taking out that's a good segue or not, but Jeff Bezos is undercutting and taking the knees out of FedEx. He's going going after them directly. What's happening there?

Craig 13:35
Did you see this pictures?

Matt 13:36 
I did.

Craig 13:37 
Bezos on this big John Deere right, front end loader. And yes, this is really fascinating, because of course, Amazon keeps trying to cut costs. We've talked about that before. And one of the things that they are doing right now just last week, outside of Cincinnati down in Kentucky, because they're right on the border, he's building a 3 million square foot parking garage, he's building his own airport, they're going to call it the Prime Air airport. It hasn't a parking garage for 100 cargo jets. Amazon doesn't own anywhere near that many right now. And he is launching his own freight delivery service. extensively, we're assuming here to be able to move Amazon products around the country. He's putting that one and a half billion dollars into this and saying this is going to create about 2000 new jobs. But as you pointed out, FedEx and UPS have been hauling this stuff for him. So I don't know, maybe it's rubbing a little salt into their wounds, because this is going to hurt their businesses.

Matt 14:45
Indeed, it is. Craig we have maybe a minute and a half left here. So a quick question here to wrap up here, hospitals, device makers and proving security following cyber attack. So you hear hospitals and cyber attacks and gonna freak me out a little bit like health records and everything else like what's actually happening here in a couple of minutes?

Craig 15:03
Yeah, well, we know health records are especially two years ago, it was the year of the medical cyber hack. Right now what we're seeing is US hospitals very concerned because there was a test done on CT machines and others in the hospitals. And it found that they were very vulnerable to hackers. And that's extremely concerning. Think about what might happen, if you have a had a radiological machine, an x-ray machine that was compromised, and they compromised them throughout the country. And now they're holding people's lives, literally at ransom, because they're saying, Hey, we will overdose people on x-rays. It's a terrible thought. And hospitals are now pushing back to device makers saying we want to know everything about those devices. We're buying, what operating system is inside of them, and go further along the lines. And we've seen that before too even in manufacturing facilities. Some of these devices even are still running Windows XP. These are not just a black box. It's not just sitting there doing nothing, right? It has a computer in it, everybody. We've got to protect it. And so hospitals are really pushing the device makers now. 

Matt 16:18
Yeah indeed. All right. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over what's happening in the world of technology. As always Craig, we appreciate it and talk to you again next Wednesday, sir.

Craig 16:29
Take care. Bye. Bye.

Matt 16:31
Thanks a lot, Craig. Alright, so we're gonna take a quick break here.

Craig 16:33
Hey, if you're interested in having me, I was thinking maybe do a little quick masterclass on this whole fasting thing. Maybe put a little support group together because I know it can be tough. I don't know. Let me know if you think I should or if you have any other questions, just [email protected]. And you know if you're interested, look it up. Study it a little bit. This is free, right? Who's going to pay for TV ads to do something for free, right? Nobody. This stuff just works. I'm just fascinated, amazed by it. Amazed how good it is, how good it's been for me, and how good it's been for thousands of other people that I'm aware of. I don't know what the ultimate number is. Anyways, Take care everybody. We will be back on Saturday. Bye bye.

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Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning, they talked about a lot of things. Craig discussed the benefits of intermittent fasting. They also talked about the Israeli bombing cyber hackers, Jeff Bezos getting into the business of freight services, and hospitals pushing device makers to improve security on medical devices.

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

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Related Articles:

Microsoft Warns Of A Monster Computer Bug, In A Week Of Them

Israel Bombed Cyber Hackers (That Is Historic, For Many Reasons)

Jeff Bezos Personally Dumps A Truckload Of Dirt On Fedex’s Future

Hospitals Push Device Makers To Improve Security Following Cyberattacks

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Transcript:

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.

Airing date: 05/22/2019

Intermittent Fasting - Microsoft Warning About Patches - Israel Responded To Hacking By Bombing

Craig Peterson  0:00
Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, welcome, welcome. Hey, if you watch me on YouTube, or maybe you attend some of my classes, or you're one of my insiders that I do coaching with, you might have noticed that I have lost a quite a bit of fat. I'm going to say, not necessarily weight, I have lost weight. I've lost a lot, 30, 40 pounds. But I've also put on some muscle. And you might be wondering why and how. I've had quite a few people asked me that are, you know, getting security coaching from me. Well, I am doing something called intermittent fasting as well as my wife. My kids have been doing it. It has been just amazing for general health. So this morning, I was on with Ken and Matt, I guess Ken had disappeared during this segment. But he had been talking about doing some intermittent fasting a little earlier in the morning. And I was so I got in and I explained what I will learned about intermittent fasting and diabetes and various types of diseases, including cancer. Some Nobel Prize material that had been presented to a Nobel laureate just a few years ago, a major breakthrough in science of medicine. So I talked about that this morning. And of course, we got into all of our weekly stuff as well, including a major warning out this week about Microsoft and doing some of the updates. You know, should you, shouldn't you while we talked about that this morning as well. So here we go. And of course, you'll find all of this at http://CraigPeterson.com.

Matt Gagnon 1:38
Again 7:38 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. It is time to talk to our friend Craig Peterson. He joins us at this time every every Wednesday, and this is no exception of course. Craig, How are you this morning?

Craig 1:53
Hey, I am doing great. You know, we got to talk about one of my favorite subjects you guys are talking about a little earlier today, too?

Matt 2:01
Yes. What is that subject, sir?

Craig 2:02
So my wife and I have been doing intermittent fasting for over a year now. And I've read seven books on the topic. I follow a doctor out of the University of Toronto really closely, Jason Fung and he's a doctor. He's been a kidney doctor for the all a very long time. And he was tired of all of his patients dying. And of basically one thing, right, the whole insulin problem, diabetes. And about three years ago, there was a Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to a Japanese researcher who discovered and really documented something called autophagy. And autophagy is the process whereby your cells repair themselves, but your body only repairs itself at one time. And that's when your fasting. So for instance, Matt, you know that you your mom probably told you time and time again, you got to get your sleep, right, give your body a chance to rest and repair. What are you not doing when you're sleeping? You're not eating? Right? And so it was really interesting to me, it started to click and so I read at least a half a dozen books on the topic and looked into the research, read some of the Nobel laureates writings on autophagy and follow Jason Fung who has been able to cure 1200 of his patients have diabetes, including the most severe types of diabetes. Now you got to be careful if you're diabetic, and you're thinking about fasting, intermittent fasting. Make sure you talk to your doctor. But with autophagy basically fixes almost everything. And then a side effect of it all is that you end up losing weight as well, and my wife and I, we've combined lost over 100 pounds over the last year, we are feeling better than I'm feeling better than I can remember in decades now. She is too, but it's absolutely amazing. So from a guy, you know, 10 years I was a volunteer paramedic, so I don't play a doctor on the radio. But I've read a lot about this, it's been very fascinating to me. And once you're trying to do is two things typically Ken. One is you want the results of autophagy, there's a study that just came out of Cambridge, about a month ago by a researcher saying basically, if you fast seven days a year, you it's almost impossible for you to get any type of cancer, because the autophagy clears those cells out of your body there. It's fascinating. You should research it. But taking your vitamins, it's still recommended to do that. Absolutely. But if you're eating less than about 500 calories a day, which you would be if all you took was your vitamins, you're on what's called a fasting mimicking diet. Now you got to be careful about restricting your calories because a calorie restricted diet causes other problems with your body and doesn't actually help with the fasting or the autophagy. What you're trying to do, bottom line here is stop the insulin reaction in your body. You want to slow that down. So eating anything like eating six meals a day, according to everything I've been reading and including what Dr. Fung has been talking about six meals a day is almost the worst thing you could possibly do. So don't snack. When you start out. Well, what we did for months with something called a 16. Eight fast, so we fasted for 16 hours a day. So if you finish your dinner at 6pm, 6am, the next day, there you got 12 hours with no snacks at all, you just drink water basically, or black coffee or tea, and then you don't eat until noon. So basically skip breakfast, you now have fasted for 16 hours and your body has had a chance to repair itself. It's fascinating stuff. After 24 hours of fasting, again, no food, no snacks, just some water and you know clear stuff, no sugars at all. After 24 hours, most of your immune system gets replaced. Your T cells, these white blood cells that protect you if they get rebuilt and replaced. And it's just fascinating, fascinating stuff. I read a bunch of scientific papers on this, as well as a whole bunch of books and studied some diets and things. Ken I absolutely love it. It is the easiest thing we have ever done from any sort of a diet. We've done, you know, bunches of them in the past, and they've all had various results for us. But this intermittent fasting thing has been amazing for us.

Matt 6:59
Well, this is the health hour with Craig Peterson. And he's talking with us here talking about all things technology and health related. So let's actually turn our attention a little bit to the technology side of things, if you don't mind. So Microsoft is warning us that there is a gigantic monster evil, malevolent force out there, a computer bug, and we should pay attention to that. So tell us a little bit more about what this warning is.

Craig 7:22
Yeah, I sent out another warning yesterday too, that was a Microsoft based one. But here's what happened. Intel, our friends member we have Intel processors CPUs in most of our computers. That's not true of your Samsung phone,Matt. It's not true of your iOS devices there Ken. But Intel processors, it's been found have another extremely major security vulnerability, I hate to have to say that again. And in order to completely block that computer vulnerability, you have to turn off something called hyperthreading, and that causes a 40% performance penalty. So we've got Apple's, Cook is very very, very upset with Intel right now, it's going to cause some more tensions between the two companies. Microsoft released patches for this, as has Apple, all the major manufacturers have released patches for this Intel bug. You will notice your machine will slow down afterwards. But I've got to warn you because Microsoft had 19 severe rated patches that they released this week. You know the Patch Tuesday thing. Be very careful because it breaks machines that are running so folks antivirus as well as some other software out there. So if you have not applied the Microsoft patches from this month's set of patches, don't do them. My Microsoft is calling them a monster computer bug. This is very big. And the likelihood that you're going to get nailed by it right now is kind of low. So be careful, Microsoft issued a warning that they are causing what's called the blue screen of death on Windows computers. So this is one time, you probably don't want to apply the patches quite yet. But you're definitely going to want to apply them.

Matt 9:21
We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us on Wednesdays at this time to go over what's happening in the world of technology. And Craig, Equifax got a data breach of course and a lot of their customers information was was taken and there's some huge data breach there whatnot. Apparently that has cost them dearly. Cash wise, what happened?

Craig 9:41
Yeah, this is I was just bemoaning Equifax because look at the insane ruined 145 million people's private data, you know, it got released, and some of it was extreme private data. And it was due to the fact that they didn't patch right, they had a six months old patching problem. And really no heads rolled over this. And that kind of upset me too. They just weren't doing anything right. But now we found out because Equifax just had their earnings report last week, we found out that they have they've spent they said more than $1.4 billion because of the breach and that's paying people, covering people for having their credit monitored, etc. And by the way, that does not include the money they keep they paid to Ken and his cohorts. So the 1.4 billion does not include legal fees. So I don't know if I should consider that any form of justice. But yeah, Equifax has paid and paid I would say $1.4 billion, and plus legal fees. This is probably they paid kind of dearly for this. I hope they have changed their practices. You know what people, this reminds us get back to the brass tacks. When it comes to security. get right down to it, make sure you are doing the patches, just wait this month for maybe another week or so for Microsoft to get its act together. But make sure you patch make sure you have the 321 backup stuff in place. Make sure you are taking care of the fundamentals. 

Matt 11:25
And Craig speaking of justice, you mentioned the word justice. One of the little tidbits that caught my attention was this. This, this news item about Israel actually bombing cyber hackers or cyber, I don't know if you want to call them cyber terrorists, whatever. So this is a this is sort of a this is a new front on on, I guess the the general idea of welfare, warfare, excuse me. And it's it's historic and different, new and a lot of ways. So describe this to us.

Craig 11:59
Well, it is it. We know already the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, they return fire when Hamas sends rockets over the border and stuff. And apparently, Hamas has been very aggressive against Israeli targets on the cyber security front. So they apparently track down where these Hamas cyber operatives are working out of. And it was a group called HamasCyberHQ.exe is what they call themselves. And the IDF came out with with a statement on Twitter that said, following our successful cyber defensive operation, we targeted a building where Hamas cyber operatives work. HamasCyberHQ.exe has been removed. And in Twitter they posted a picture of a U shaped building with the right side of it colored in red. And that apparently was a section that is now wiped off the map. So kinetic conflicts is what it's been called, which I thought was really kind of cool. But yeah, apparently Israel has decided that cyber warfare, it should be treated the same as any other type of warfare. And they took them out with good old fashioned explosives.

Matt 13:20
And speaking of taking out that's a good segue or not, but Jeff Bezos is undercutting and taking the knees out of FedEx. He's going going after them directly. What's happening there?

Craig 13:35
Did you see this pictures?

Matt 13:36 
I did.

Craig 13:37 
Bezos on this big John Deere right, front end loader. And yes, this is really fascinating, because of course, Amazon keeps trying to cut costs. We've talked about that before. And one of the things that they are doing right now just last week, outside of Cincinnati down in Kentucky, because they're right on the border, he's building a 3 million square foot parking garage, he's building his own airport, they're going to call it the Prime Air airport. It hasn't a parking garage for 100 cargo jets. Amazon doesn't own anywhere near that many right now. And he is launching his own freight delivery service. extensively, we're assuming here to be able to move Amazon products around the country. He's putting that one and a half billion dollars into this and saying this is going to create about 2000 new jobs. But as you pointed out, FedEx and UPS have been hauling this stuff for him. So I don't know, maybe it's rubbing a little salt into their wounds, because this is going to hurt their businesses.

Matt 14:45
Indeed, it is. Craig we have maybe a minute and a half left here. So a quick question here to wrap up here, hospitals, device makers and proving security following cyber attack. So you hear hospitals and cyber attacks and gonna freak me out a little bit like health records and everything else like what's actually happening here in a couple of minutes?

Craig 15:03
Yeah, well, we know health records are especially two years ago, it was the year of the medical cyber hack. Right now what we're seeing is US hospitals very concerned because there was a test done on CT machines and others in the hospitals. And it found that they were very vulnerable to hackers. And that's extremely concerning. Think about what might happen, if you have a had a radiological machine, an x-ray machine that was compromised, and they compromised them throughout the country. And now they're holding people's lives, literally at ransom, because they're saying, Hey, we will overdose people on x-rays. It's a terrible thought. And hospitals are now pushing back to device makers saying we want to know everything about those devices. We're buying, what operating system is inside of them, and go further along the lines. And we've seen that before too even in manufacturing facilities. Some of these devices even are still running Windows XP. These are not just a black box. It's not just sitting there doing nothing, right? It has a computer in it, everybody. We've got to protect it. And so hospitals are really pushing the device makers now. 

Matt 16:18
Yeah indeed. All right. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over what's happening in the world of technology. As always Craig, we appreciate it and talk to you again next Wednesday, sir.

Craig 16:29
Take care. Bye. Bye.

Matt 16:31
Thanks a lot, Craig. Alright, so we're gonna take a quick break here.

Craig 16:33
Hey, if you're interested in having me, I was thinking maybe do a little quick masterclass on this whole fasting thing. Maybe put a little support group together because I know it can be tough. I don't know. Let me know if you think I should or if you have any other questions, just [email protected]. And you know if you're interested, look it up. Study it a little bit. This is free, right? Who's going to pay for TV ads to do something for free, right? Nobody. This stuff just works. I'm just fascinated, amazed by it. Amazed how good it is, how good it's been for me, and how good it's been for thousands of other people that I'm aware of. I don't know what the ultimate number is. Anyways, Take care everybody. We will be back on Saturday. Bye bye.

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Craig is on with Jim Polito. Today they discussed hackers getting into medical devices and endangering people. They also talked about Huawei and the problems they are facing.

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Transcript:

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.

Airing date: 05/21/2019

Dangers Of Medical Equipment - Why Huawei Is In Trouble

Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey, good morning everybody Craig Peterson here. I say good morning for a couple of reasons. One, it's morning when I'm recording this, and secondarily, most people listen in the morning. But we have some people that listen on the weekends only, some people when they're at the gym in the evening on the drive. So hello, hello to everybody. It's just good morning is such a nice greeting, I think. Here's what happened today. I was on with Jim Polito, we talked about the latest in the Huawei battle that's going on there, the second largest cell phone manufacturer in the world right now. And we are at war with them. It's a very interesting story. So we talked about that, as well as medical devices. If you're in the hospital, if you're in the hospital business. You gotta listen to this because we talked about what's really going on behind the scenes with some of the cyber issues that are present with our medical devices. So here we go with Mr. Jim Polito.

Jim Polito 1:01
He is one of our most popular podcasts when we put his segment up because people want to know what he has to say. And I am talking about our tech talk guru. And good friend, Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig 1:17
Hey, good morning, Jim. I loved it. I saw the sun yesterday. It was warm. I'm happy.

Jim 1:23
You know, aren't Canadians, the descendants of vampires. I mean, don't you guys have trouble if there's, if there's you know, more than say 12 hours of sunlight in a day? Don't Canadians have a problem with that? When it really impacts their health?

Craig 1:42
You got it backwards actually, because it in the summertime the sun never sets.

Jim 1:45 
Oh that's right.

Craig 1:49 
In the wintertime it never comes up. You see. So yeah, you got it backwards. Yeah. But But I will tell you this, that the veins do migrate deeper into the tissue so when summer comes it's a little much. My ideal summer day, it was always about 72 degrees with the sun out. Right. That was a beach day. 

Jim 2:16
Yeah. That would be a Canadian beach day. Actually, you know, in all honesty, that would be a beach day for me too, because I don't like it too hot. I can maybe I should have been born Canadian because I can't take that temperature a little bit more. And I would like all that sunlight during the day, you know, but I couldn't take it. Interesting.

Craig 2:35
We used to be out playing as kids, you know, back in the day when you had free range kids.

Jim 2:44
Free range kids. Organic, organic, free range kids.

Craig 2:48
Free range, pasture raised. Yeah. And we would be out. You know, we go out in the morning and on our bikes, and whatever we'd like kick the can and hide and seek and a little baseball. And in the winter of course you play hockey, but but because it's the law up there. But you know, going out in the daytime having a good old time. And I remember one night we were out playing and it was it. My mom came hunting for us, which she never did. Right. So she wouldn't see us after about 7:00am. And it was like 10:30, 11 o'clock at night. And it was still light out. Right. And she was out there trying to, where have you been all night? We've been playing, yeah, because you just didn't know. It's such a different world.

Jim 3:30 
It is. it is. Well no, and people this is the time of year that people begin to go on cruises to Alaska, because you have the midnight sun. And no, I would like that. So here's what I don't like, you know, I'm in the hospital, and I'm hooked up to a machine. And all of a sudden Vlad, from Eastern Europe, hacks into the machine. And whatever that machine is doing for me, he decides to change it or I've got a medical device implanted in my body or I use one for myself. It's not implanted me. I mean, these types of things. You You sounded the alarm years ago, that that the the medical information hack was going to be the new battle ground. And now is it medical equipment hacks?

Craig 4:21
Yeah, this is a huge deal a lot of people really aren't aware of there's there's some peripheral, you know, understanding of it. And you've got some too right? You mentioned medical devices, the heart pacemakers for the people have. Those, many of those are hackable and how it's been demonstrated that they have been hacked, or a big study late last year that happened to over in the UK, looking at some of their gear now. And they found CT machines that were imminently hackable, you know, we had Wannacry last year, we're kind of worldwide, it's still out there still kind of floating around. And it costs the UK health service 150 million dollars. But it isn't just hacking the computers on your desktop, because there are computers everywhere. We have clients here that are in manufacturing. And they've got these huge machines that are out on the floor that that do various types of cutting and drilling and different parts of the manufacturing. And people don't really sit there and think well, what's inside that machine? Well, this one client machines they've had now for probably 20 years. And you know, they fix them when something goes wrong. These machines are multiple, multiple, multiple millions of dollars to buy new. And in some cases, you can't even get them new anymore. Like for instance, a big shaft for a ship, there's only one machine in the country that can make these big enough for our larger ships. Well, those machines that this client that called us into to fix their problem, we're running Windows XP, and they had them all hooked up to their networks. And they had a flat network. So things spread across their network. So when we're talking about the medical devices, everything from infusion pumps, biopsy, imaging tables, the CT machines I mentioned, have computers in them. And most of the time, we're talking about a manufacturer of a machine, in this case, a medical machine, not a security company. So if it works, they ship it. So now here's what's happening, the hospitals are starting to freak out. Because these machines, let's say the CT machine gets compromised. The odds are really good that they you know, they're not getting into the CT machine, so that they can you know, empty the bank accounts because the CT machine doesn't have that information in it.

Jim 7:05
Or maybe just as a joke, like I'm getting a CAT scan of my head, and they erase the brain, you know, the doctor gets the results. And it's like, God, everybody was right. There's nothing in here. There's nothing in here.

Craig 7:20
I'm not gonna laugh too much. Because there's there's a classic case of a machine that had software that was bad and killed people.

Jim 7:31
Great. Oh, that's great. I'm going to the CAT scan machine and it basically turns into a microwave is what you're saying. Okay, yeah, so I'm like a bag of microwave popcorn. Great. See, that's why I am actually taking this seriously. Because when I saw this when you sent it to me, I said, this is important. And we're talking with our Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson about hospitals sounding the alarm, you gotta protect devices and equipment from hacking.

Craig 8:07
Remember, the federal government required under the HIPAA law and regulations that we automate so many systems that we move everything to digital equipment, so hospitals and doctors offices have been focused on that trying to get that done, trying to be safe. And let me tell you what a nightmare that still is out there. And they haven't paid attention to this. So now hospitals are demanding from the device manufacturers information about exactly what's inside each one of these machines. Are you using a version of Linux an embedded Linux, an embedded Windows, a full Windows or some other operating system? What are you using inside of these machines? What version of it and the hospitals are now working on tracking what versions of software they have, so that they can demand from the manufacturer when there's a known vulnerability that that vulnerability gets fixed. And hospitals have gone to the next level? And they're going to people like me, saying, Hey Craig we have a potential problem here. We have a machine, we don't know what's in it. And we don't know how valuable it is. And so we do what's called a penetration test against the machines. Are do these machines have any vulnerabilities that are known that can be easily penetrated? So really, what we're talking about now is our hospitals having to become security experts in order to keep their equipment online, at the very least. And secondarily, make sure that these machines aren't compromised in such a way that it could really adversely affect patients health.

Jim 9:48
Wow, we're talking with our good friend Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson. About the well, all the news in tech. But this is one of the big ones protecting us. How about Huawei, I always pronounce their name wrong. They're basically the big Chinese company that, Huawei, thank you, manufacturers. equipment, basically communications equipment. And the President said, Whoa, I've got an executive order here. I don't want these guys producing stuff. Well, one, I think it's part of the terror of war. But the other part of it is, I think the Chinese are sneaking stuff into the stuff that they build. Shall I use the term Trojan horse?

Craig 10:41
Yeah, that's an appropriate one, frankly, because we do have companies here in the US that have received Huawei hardware and have found code in there that is malicious.

Jim 10:54 
Yeah, see? See? Yeah.

Craig 10:56
Now was it put in because Huawei, remember now people forget what a socialist government is. And China is a socialist government. They're communist government, which is a type of socialism. And everybody there works for the communist government, right. And so they are trying to have a leg up on us. They want the first shot over the bow to be fired and the next war to be a cyber shot, because it's just easier to deal with it harder to track down. So President Trump put a bit of an embargo in place against Huawei in the US. Now we've had one for over a year, when it comes to military equipment, even US military bases, they can't sell Huawei. But now it's gone even further. So what happened was Google was the first company to step forward here. And this was just yesterday, I guess it was, stepped forward and say, Hey, listen, we are no longer going to provide Huawei with the Android operating system. Now remember why we just passed Apple to become the second largest cell phone manufacturers, sales in the world. So it goes Samsung and Huawei, so they can't get Android. And if they can't get updates for Android operating system security updates, that anybody that owns a Huawei handset or other piece of equipment, like what you're talking about the stuff that runs some of our networks, is in big trouble. So just late yesterday, President Trump came out and said, Okay, well, Google will let you give Huawei security updates so that they can be dispersed to people here in the US and around the world because everything that's important. But man, we are, we are in the middle, not just of a sanction war here. But this is part of potentially a hot war that could erupt with China.

Jim 12:52
Yeah, you know, like you said it, I've heard it from others, World War Three has already begun. The just, it's just going going on in the cyber world. Not not, it's not traditional warfare. It's going on in the cyber world.

Craig 13:07
It's behind this behind the scenes, but we just got to make sure people back to basics, back to basics, the basics you need to for your security, and you'll be ahead of the game.

Jim 13:18
All right, and you'll be ahead of the game if you stick with Craig Peterson our Tech Talk guru. And if you text My name to this phone number.

Craig 13:28
855-385-5553. Just text Jim to 855-385-5553.

Jim 13:38
All right, standard data and text rates apply. And Richard, I mean excuse me, looking at the name Richard and talking to you. Isn't that great? Isn't that great? I can't do two things at once. Again, thank god Craig Peterson can. And Craig will not try to sell you stuff, hack you, whatever. So anyway, and Craig you are one of our most popular podcasts. And of course, folks if you want to hear anything more out of this, we will podcast it for you after the show. Have a very good day Mr. Peterson. Take care.

Craig 14:17
Thanks. Take care, Jim.

Now back to basics as we talked about in there. Remember what we're talking about when I say back to basics, I am talking about making sure that you have your 123 backup that you have your grandfather grandson, son backup, make sure that you've got also your WiFi secure your network secured, that you have some anti virus some anti malware that you have detection software running on those machines that you keep your machines absolutely up to date with the latest patches. I usually wait a week okay, so not necessarily up to the second. And once that's all done keep an eye on it all those are the basics. And don't forget about it. I have a course. I thinking about releasing a back to basics course. I don't know what you guys think. Let me know, [email protected]. Take care guys. Talk to you tomorrow.

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Craig is on with Jim Polito. Today they discussed hackers getting into medical devices and endangering people. They also talked about Huawei and the problems they are facing.

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Transcript:

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.

Airing date: 05/21/2019

Dangers Of Medical Equipment - Why Huawei Is In Trouble

Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey, good morning everybody Craig Peterson here. I say good morning for a couple of reasons. One, it's morning when I'm recording this, and secondarily, most people listen in the morning. But we have some people that listen on the weekends only, some people when they're at the gym in the evening on the drive. So hello, hello to everybody. It's just good morning is such a nice greeting, I think. Here's what happened today. I was on with Jim Polito, we talked about the latest in the Huawei battle that's going on there, the second largest cell phone manufacturer in the world right now. And we are at war with them. It's a very interesting story. So we talked about that, as well as medical devices. If you're in the hospital, if you're in the hospital business. You gotta listen to this because we talked about what's really going on behind the scenes with some of the cyber issues that are present with our medical devices. So here we go with Mr. Jim Polito.

Jim Polito 1:01
He is one of our most popular podcasts when we put his segment up because people want to know what he has to say. And I am talking about our tech talk guru. And good friend, Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig 1:17
Hey, good morning, Jim. I loved it. I saw the sun yesterday. It was warm. I'm happy.

Jim 1:23
You know, aren't Canadians, the descendants of vampires. I mean, don't you guys have trouble if there's, if there's you know, more than say 12 hours of sunlight in a day? Don't Canadians have a problem with that? When it really impacts their health?

Craig 1:42
You got it backwards actually, because it in the summertime the sun never sets.

Jim 1:45 
Oh that's right.

Craig 1:49 
In the wintertime it never comes up. You see. So yeah, you got it backwards. Yeah. But But I will tell you this, that the veins do migrate deeper into the tissue so when summer comes it's a little much. My ideal summer day, it was always about 72 degrees with the sun out. Right. That was a beach day. 

Jim 2:16
Yeah. That would be a Canadian beach day. Actually, you know, in all honesty, that would be a beach day for me too, because I don't like it too hot. I can maybe I should have been born Canadian because I can't take that temperature a little bit more. And I would like all that sunlight during the day, you know, but I couldn't take it. Interesting.

Craig 2:35
We used to be out playing as kids, you know, back in the day when you had free range kids.

Jim 2:44
Free range kids. Organic, organic, free range kids.

Craig 2:48
Free range, pasture raised. Yeah. And we would be out. You know, we go out in the morning and on our bikes, and whatever we'd like kick the can and hide and seek and a little baseball. And in the winter of course you play hockey, but but because it's the law up there. But you know, going out in the daytime having a good old time. And I remember one night we were out playing and it was it. My mom came hunting for us, which she never did. Right. So she wouldn't see us after about 7:00am. And it was like 10:30, 11 o'clock at night. And it was still light out. Right. And she was out there trying to, where have you been all night? We've been playing, yeah, because you just didn't know. It's such a different world.

Jim 3:30 
It is. it is. Well no, and people this is the time of year that people begin to go on cruises to Alaska, because you have the midnight sun. And no, I would like that. So here's what I don't like, you know, I'm in the hospital, and I'm hooked up to a machine. And all of a sudden Vlad, from Eastern Europe, hacks into the machine. And whatever that machine is doing for me, he decides to change it or I've got a medical device implanted in my body or I use one for myself. It's not implanted me. I mean, these types of things. You You sounded the alarm years ago, that that the the medical information hack was going to be the new battle ground. And now is it medical equipment hacks?

Craig 4:21
Yeah, this is a huge deal a lot of people really aren't aware of there's there's some peripheral, you know, understanding of it. And you've got some too right? You mentioned medical devices, the heart pacemakers for the people have. Those, many of those are hackable and how it's been demonstrated that they have been hacked, or a big study late last year that happened to over in the UK, looking at some of their gear now. And they found CT machines that were imminently hackable, you know, we had Wannacry last year, we're kind of worldwide, it's still out there still kind of floating around. And it costs the UK health service 150 million dollars. But it isn't just hacking the computers on your desktop, because there are computers everywhere. We have clients here that are in manufacturing. And they've got these huge machines that are out on the floor that that do various types of cutting and drilling and different parts of the manufacturing. And people don't really sit there and think well, what's inside that machine? Well, this one client machines they've had now for probably 20 years. And you know, they fix them when something goes wrong. These machines are multiple, multiple, multiple millions of dollars to buy new. And in some cases, you can't even get them new anymore. Like for instance, a big shaft for a ship, there's only one machine in the country that can make these big enough for our larger ships. Well, those machines that this client that called us into to fix their problem, we're running Windows XP, and they had them all hooked up to their networks. And they had a flat network. So things spread across their network. So when we're talking about the medical devices, everything from infusion pumps, biopsy, imaging tables, the CT machines I mentioned, have computers in them. And most of the time, we're talking about a manufacturer of a machine, in this case, a medical machine, not a security company. So if it works, they ship it. So now here's what's happening, the hospitals are starting to freak out. Because these machines, let's say the CT machine gets compromised. The odds are really good that they you know, they're not getting into the CT machine, so that they can you know, empty the bank accounts because the CT machine doesn't have that information in it.

Jim 7:05
Or maybe just as a joke, like I'm getting a CAT scan of my head, and they erase the brain, you know, the doctor gets the results. And it's like, God, everybody was right. There's nothing in here. There's nothing in here.

Craig 7:20
I'm not gonna laugh too much. Because there's there's a classic case of a machine that had software that was bad and killed people.

Jim 7:31
Great. Oh, that's great. I'm going to the CAT scan machine and it basically turns into a microwave is what you're saying. Okay, yeah, so I'm like a bag of microwave popcorn. Great. See, that's why I am actually taking this seriously. Because when I saw this when you sent it to me, I said, this is important. And we're talking with our Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson about hospitals sounding the alarm, you gotta protect devices and equipment from hacking.

Craig 8:07
Remember, the federal government required under the HIPAA law and regulations that we automate so many systems that we move everything to digital equipment, so hospitals and doctors offices have been focused on that trying to get that done, trying to be safe. And let me tell you what a nightmare that still is out there. And they haven't paid attention to this. So now hospitals are demanding from the device manufacturers information about exactly what's inside each one of these machines. Are you using a version of Linux an embedded Linux, an embedded Windows, a full Windows or some other operating system? What are you using inside of these machines? What version of it and the hospitals are now working on tracking what versions of software they have, so that they can demand from the manufacturer when there's a known vulnerability that that vulnerability gets fixed. And hospitals have gone to the next level? And they're going to people like me, saying, Hey Craig we have a potential problem here. We have a machine, we don't know what's in it. And we don't know how valuable it is. And so we do what's called a penetration test against the machines. Are do these machines have any vulnerabilities that are known that can be easily penetrated? So really, what we're talking about now is our hospitals having to become security experts in order to keep their equipment online, at the very least. And secondarily, make sure that these machines aren't compromised in such a way that it could really adversely affect patients health.

Jim 9:48
Wow, we're talking with our good friend Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson. About the well, all the news in tech. But this is one of the big ones protecting us. How about Huawei, I always pronounce their name wrong. They're basically the big Chinese company that, Huawei, thank you, manufacturers. equipment, basically communications equipment. And the President said, Whoa, I've got an executive order here. I don't want these guys producing stuff. Well, one, I think it's part of the terror of war. But the other part of it is, I think the Chinese are sneaking stuff into the stuff that they build. Shall I use the term Trojan horse?

Craig 10:41
Yeah, that's an appropriate one, frankly, because we do have companies here in the US that have received Huawei hardware and have found code in there that is malicious.

Jim 10:54 
Yeah, see? See? Yeah.

Craig 10:56
Now was it put in because Huawei, remember now people forget what a socialist government is. And China is a socialist government. They're communist government, which is a type of socialism. And everybody there works for the communist government, right. And so they are trying to have a leg up on us. They want the first shot over the bow to be fired and the next war to be a cyber shot, because it's just easier to deal with it harder to track down. So President Trump put a bit of an embargo in place against Huawei in the US. Now we've had one for over a year, when it comes to military equipment, even US military bases, they can't sell Huawei. But now it's gone even further. So what happened was Google was the first company to step forward here. And this was just yesterday, I guess it was, stepped forward and say, Hey, listen, we are no longer going to provide Huawei with the Android operating system. Now remember why we just passed Apple to become the second largest cell phone manufacturers, sales in the world. So it goes Samsung and Huawei, so they can't get Android. And if they can't get updates for Android operating system security updates, that anybody that owns a Huawei handset or other piece of equipment, like what you're talking about the stuff that runs some of our networks, is in big trouble. So just late yesterday, President Trump came out and said, Okay, well, Google will let you give Huawei security updates so that they can be dispersed to people here in the US and around the world because everything that's important. But man, we are, we are in the middle, not just of a sanction war here. But this is part of potentially a hot war that could erupt with China.

Jim 12:52
Yeah, you know, like you said it, I've heard it from others, World War Three has already begun. The just, it's just going going on in the cyber world. Not not, it's not traditional warfare. It's going on in the cyber world.

Craig 13:07
It's behind this behind the scenes, but we just got to make sure people back to basics, back to basics, the basics you need to for your security, and you'll be ahead of the game.

Jim 13:18
All right, and you'll be ahead of the game if you stick with Craig Peterson our Tech Talk guru. And if you text My name to this phone number.

Craig 13:28
855-385-5553. Just text Jim to 855-385-5553.

Jim 13:38
All right, standard data and text rates apply. And Richard, I mean excuse me, looking at the name Richard and talking to you. Isn't that great? Isn't that great? I can't do two things at once. Again, thank god Craig Peterson can. And Craig will not try to sell you stuff, hack you, whatever. So anyway, and Craig you are one of our most popular podcasts. And of course, folks if you want to hear anything more out of this, we will podcast it for you after the show. Have a very good day Mr. Peterson. Take care.

Craig 14:17
Thanks. Take care, Jim.

Now back to basics as we talked about in there. Remember what we're talking about when I say back to basics, I am talking about making sure that you have your 123 backup that you have your grandfather grandson, son backup, make sure that you've got also your WiFi secure your network secured, that you have some anti virus some anti malware that you have detection software running on those machines that you keep your machines absolutely up to date with the latest patches. I usually wait a week okay, so not necessarily up to the second. And once that's all done keep an eye on it all those are the basics. And don't forget about it. I have a course. I thinking about releasing a back to basics course. I don't know what you guys think. Let me know, [email protected]. Take care guys. Talk to you tomorrow.

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Craig is on with Jack Heath this Monday morning. Today they talked about the Fort Worth kidnapping and how the Ring doorbells helped save the victim's life. They also talked about Microsoft's monster security bug, and how Amazon is expanding their freight services.

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Airing date: 05/20/2019

Ring Doorbells Can Save Lives - Microsoft Monster Security Bug - Amazon Expanding Freight

Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey, good morning everybody. My computer died, you're not gonna believe this. Wow. Also was on with Jack Heath this morning Microsoft had big monster security bug, computer bug, Jeff Bezos, we talked about a little bit this morning. And these Ring doorbells and others are they something you should use? Yeah, my computer, I have a Mac Pro that I've had the, you know, 2013 was the last time they really updated this thing. And mine's been just giving me nothing but problems lately. And you know, yeah, I went through all the normal stuff you try and reinstall, you reset the computer, you go back to default, you do all of the things you're trying to really see if maybe something else is going on because it's just kind of wacky and slow. So I decided i'd order another CPU this would be an upgraded one. So 12 core CPU, which is really kind of cool. And just upgraded I get about 50% boost because it's an eight core right now. So we took it all apart. Then you know we have all the tools to do it and the static control, stuff you need and everything. And we opened it up and right up, man I couldn't believe this, that the top of the chip of the main processor, of course it's right on a heatsink and it very cool heatsink. If you've never seen a Mac Pro, you gotta check this thing out. It kind of looks like a little trash can. But they did an amazing job with the cooling on this. So right at the top in the center. It is melted. Yeah, the copper from the heatsink is melted right onto the chip and the heatsink itself has a hole in it. It is absolutely astounding. I have not seen this sort of thing in decades, frankly, because Intel chips are pretty good about, at least it used to be, about slowing themselves down if they were overheating. They're not supposed to melt copper. And it was just absolutely amazing. So I took it down to the Apple Store. It's out of warranty right now. And hasn't been for probably a couple of years. And we took it down and told them about it first, called the business team at the store, they're always really helpful down there. And they set up an appointment for us. We brought it down, they had to look at it and they they had never seen anything like this before. And to me it's an obvious manufacturing problem. There was probably a contaminant in that goop that you put in the thermal heatsink goop between the CPU and the the basically the cooler, let's call it that, okay, the heatsink. And what probably happened is that's probably where the hole in the heatsink came from, is it did not have really good thermal coupling, and ended up melting. And of course subtle cause all kinds of weird ass problems with the computer. And that's probably what I've been experiencing now for a few years. So it was really kind of an eye opener. And now they're gonna charge me I found a new heatsinks for this computer. And remember, this is kind of a fancy computer. So the heatasinks I found were $400 for a new one online and refurbished on eBay bathes 120 bucks, which isn't too bad. So we were thinking about doing that before we took it down. But Apple said that if it would be 250 bucks, and they would do reattach the GPUs and get the CPU all set up properly. Now that's a really good deal, frankly, because whoever touches it last owns it right? So I didn't I would have had to have removed the GPUs these are the graphic processing units. Mine had two high end GPUs in it. Or I guess it does have right? Now past tense. And so they'll have to remove those, clean those off, put mount them properly with the right heatsink material on to that new heatsink. And I'm going to put them, I'm going to give them that brand new CPU and put it in the machine and then they will mount that up as well and then put the whole machine back together. So I should have a machine that's good for me for the next few years again, so knock on wood. I don't know how long it's going to take Apple to come up with the new Mac Pro. There's been some kind of artists renderings of what people would love to see. We really don't know what Apple's going to do yet. There's supposed to have been one last year now they're supposed to be one this year. Their rumors are in fact there's even a statement from Apple that'll probably be next year. But you know for now, if you need a real high end Mac get the iMac pro which is really a nice machine. But anyhow, so that's been my little, what do you want to call this journey over the last week? Very interesting to me anyways, okay, so here we go. Let's get into this morning's conversation with Mr. Jack Heath.

Jack Heath 5:12
In terms of our on demand podcast, but joining us now on the Auto Fair listener lines, our regular contributor our Tech Talk guy Craig Peterson on this Monday morning. Good morning Craig

Craig 5:21
Hey good morning. Boy this has been a busy week in tech everything from Jeff Bezos going and building his own airport starting last week, all the way through huge security problems this last week as well.

Jack 5:36
You know, I'm going to come back to Bezos and Amazon but real quick, you know, this Fort Worth kidnapping story this morning. Michael Webb suspect extensive criminal history. That's a good thing but kidnapping an eight year old girl who was walking with her mother, you know, extensive criminal history of the suspect. But you know Craig these doorbell videos? Are you a fan of these? These? These of the right on the this? I don't know the company but you know the video right and right in your front door?

Craig 6:02
Yeah, there's a few of those out there. And the biggest one right now has had major security problems. Turns out all of the videos that have ever been recorded, were available on the internet for anyone within the organization to watch it anytime. But yeah, there was more and more of that. And I think it's kind of good. Frankly.

Jack 6:22
I was gonna ask you if you're a fan of them. Yeah. Because in this case, apparently, all these things sort of helped put the pieces together to get the suspect or at least figure out what happened.

Craig 6:32
Yeah, well, these Ring doorbells are probably the ones you're thinking of, they're very common out there. And their video doorbells, you can get different models anywhere from 100 to $200. Some of them get even a little more expensive. And the whole idea behind them is they have a built in video camera, they also have a motion detector. So that when someone comes up to your door, you know that there's somebody there, or maybe they're dropping off a package rather than doing something else. Some of them record all of the time. And there's even a feature on it, so that you can link your doorbell in with other people in your neighborhood, so that you can kind of track things. So if something like this does happen, whether it's someone who's grabbing packages from the porch, a porch pirate, you know, packages that don't belong to them, or heaven forbid something like this kidnapping, you can look at other people in your neighborhoods videos as well to try and figure out what might have happened.

Jack 7:30
Alright, so getting back to Mr. Bezos, is it just me and who am I to say this, but you know, it just seems that some of these, I don't maybe they get bored running their own company. But you know, when you have Amazon, and it's, you know, the robotics and the you know, the way they're marketing, you know, what you say is like doing his own airport wants to do this or go to the moon, you know, or fly to Mars, what, at some point do the is that? Is that problematic for the company's future or not? I mean, that's speculation. It's a speculative question.

Craig 8:00
Well, look at what's happening right now in New Hampshire with Amazon. We have now same day delivery in much of New Hampshire, certainly in the southern tier for some of the Amazon products. That's getting to the point where it will be same day delivery. So what Amazon needs is a way to deliver to our homes quickly and inexpensively. So they've already cut a lot of the contracts with the major carriers out there. They have a setup right now, where they are paying people who are working for Amazon currently, to go and start a delivery company for Amazon, you have all these individual contractors, so they're trying to keep costs under control. And now what they're doing is they're building right outside Cincinnati, a 3 million square foot airport. This thing's going to have a parking garage on this airport for 100 cargo jets. So the FedEx and UPS and these other companies that have been hauling for Amazon are no longer going to be hauling. Amazon is going to keep getting more and more of the costs under control. And we're going to end up with a two hour delivery which is already available from Amazon's Whole Foods division, you know the grocery store so you can in much again of New Hampshire, you can order something online, a food product and have it delivered within two hours. So that's what he's aiming at. These drone deliveries have not been working out too well yet. They're still really a few years away before it really starts happening. So you entering your question. Yeah, they are looking at a company like Amazon, they are trying to increase the deliverability of the goods, decrease the time, decrease the cost. But you have companies like Facebook, that are now into robotics are building new robots and tying them into AI and doing all kinds of weird things. At least Bezos seems to be sticking with selling and delivering.

Jack 10:04
Far being from  me to question him and the guy's been you know, seemingly brilliant and even survived his they say an expensive divorce. All right Craig, what else, before we let you go, a Tech Talk tip. 

Craig 10:16
Oh, this is an absolutely huge one, we found out Intel really messed up again. And pretty much any computer made since 2011, that uses Intel chips is vulnerable to this new, nasty nasty one of the worst hack, hackability problems out there. So Microsoft has 17 critical patches this month, including some patches that will fix some of these Intel problems. But in order to be completely secure here, Jack, you're going to lose 40% of your performance on your Intel chips. And this is something that is driving Apple leaving further away from Intel. So expect in within the next year or so to see Apple Computers probably switching away from Intel in maybe even entirely.

Jack 11:05
Alright Craig, I appreciate all the Tech Talk. Thank you very much on this Monday morning and you have a great Memorial Day.

Craig 11:11
Take care. You too, Jack.

Craig 11:18
By the way, everybody this week's kind of a busy week, we are repositioning our websites looks like we're going to change the email provider and stuff. So things might be a little iffy here over the next few weeks. So you know, keep that in mind. Right? I might not be as regular a podcaster as I have been, or email or website updates, but we'll see how this all ends up going. So anyways, have a great week as we prepare for some amazing things that are coming your way we're going to have some little mini courses and other things to we're going to make available to people anyways. Have a great day and week I should be back tomorrow. We'll see. We'll see how things go. Hopefully I don't have another computer, bite the big one on me. Take care bye bye

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Airing date: 05/20/2019

Ring Doorbells Can Save Lives - Microsoft Monster Security Bug - Amazon Expanding Freight

Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey, good morning everybody. My computer died, you're not gonna believe this. Wow. Also was on with Jack Heath this morning Microsoft had big monster security bug, computer bug, Jeff Bezos, we talked about a little bit this morning. And these Ring doorbells and others are they something you should use? Yeah, my computer, I have a Mac Pro that I've had the, you know, 2013 was the last time they really updated this thing. And mine's been just giving me nothing but problems lately. And you know, yeah, I went through all the normal stuff you try and reinstall, you reset the computer, you go back to default, you do all of the things you're trying to really see if maybe something else is going on because it's just kind of wacky and slow. So I decided i'd order another CPU this would be an upgraded one. So 12 core CPU, which is really kind of cool. And just upgraded I get about 50% boost because it's an eight core right now. So we took it all apart. Then you know we have all the tools to do it and the static control, stuff you need and everything. And we opened it up and right up, man I couldn't believe this, that the top of the chip of the main processor, of course it's right on a heatsink and it very cool heatsink. If you've never seen a Mac Pro, you gotta check this thing out. It kind of looks like a little trash can. But they did an amazing job with the cooling on this. So right at the top in the center. It is melted. Yeah, the copper from the heatsink is melted right onto the chip and the heatsink itself has a hole in it. It is absolutely astounding. I have not seen this sort of thing in decades, frankly, because Intel chips are pretty good about, at least it used to be, about slowing themselves down if they were overheating. They're not supposed to melt copper. And it was just absolutely amazing. So I took it down to the Apple Store. It's out of warranty right now. And hasn't been for probably a couple of years. And we took it down and told them about it first, called the business team at the store, they're always really helpful down there. And they set up an appointment for us. We brought it down, they had to look at it and they they had never seen anything like this before. And to me it's an obvious manufacturing problem. There was probably a contaminant in that goop that you put in the thermal heatsink goop between the CPU and the the basically the cooler, let's call it that, okay, the heatsink. And what probably happened is that's probably where the hole in the heatsink came from, is it did not have really good thermal coupling, and ended up melting. And of course subtle cause all kinds of weird ass problems with the computer. And that's probably what I've been experiencing now for a few years. So it was really kind of an eye opener. And now they're gonna charge me I found a new heatsinks for this computer. And remember, this is kind of a fancy computer. So the heatasinks I found were $400 for a new one online and refurbished on eBay bathes 120 bucks, which isn't too bad. So we were thinking about doing that before we took it down. But Apple said that if it would be 250 bucks, and they would do reattach the GPUs and get the CPU all set up properly. Now that's a really good deal, frankly, because whoever touches it last owns it right? So I didn't I would have had to have removed the GPUs these are the graphic processing units. Mine had two high end GPUs in it. Or I guess it does have right? Now past tense. And so they'll have to remove those, clean those off, put mount them properly with the right heatsink material on to that new heatsink. And I'm going to put them, I'm going to give them that brand new CPU and put it in the machine and then they will mount that up as well and then put the whole machine back together. So I should have a machine that's good for me for the next few years again, so knock on wood. I don't know how long it's going to take Apple to come up with the new Mac Pro. There's been some kind of artists renderings of what people would love to see. We really don't know what Apple's going to do yet. There's supposed to have been one last year now they're supposed to be one this year. Their rumors are in fact there's even a statement from Apple that'll probably be next year. But you know for now, if you need a real high end Mac get the iMac pro which is really a nice machine. But anyhow, so that's been my little, what do you want to call this journey over the last week? Very interesting to me anyways, okay, so here we go. Let's get into this morning's conversation with Mr. Jack Heath.

Jack Heath 5:12
In terms of our on demand podcast, but joining us now on the Auto Fair listener lines, our regular contributor our Tech Talk guy Craig Peterson on this Monday morning. Good morning Craig

Craig 5:21
Hey good morning. Boy this has been a busy week in tech everything from Jeff Bezos going and building his own airport starting last week, all the way through huge security problems this last week as well.

Jack 5:36
You know, I'm going to come back to Bezos and Amazon but real quick, you know, this Fort Worth kidnapping story this morning. Michael Webb suspect extensive criminal history. That's a good thing but kidnapping an eight year old girl who was walking with her mother, you know, extensive criminal history of the suspect. But you know Craig these doorbell videos? Are you a fan of these? These? These of the right on the this? I don't know the company but you know the video right and right in your front door?

Craig 6:02
Yeah, there's a few of those out there. And the biggest one right now has had major security problems. Turns out all of the videos that have ever been recorded, were available on the internet for anyone within the organization to watch it anytime. But yeah, there was more and more of that. And I think it's kind of good. Frankly.

Jack 6:22
I was gonna ask you if you're a fan of them. Yeah. Because in this case, apparently, all these things sort of helped put the pieces together to get the suspect or at least figure out what happened.

Craig 6:32
Yeah, well, these Ring doorbells are probably the ones you're thinking of, they're very common out there. And their video doorbells, you can get different models anywhere from 100 to $200. Some of them get even a little more expensive. And the whole idea behind them is they have a built in video camera, they also have a motion detector. So that when someone comes up to your door, you know that there's somebody there, or maybe they're dropping off a package rather than doing something else. Some of them record all of the time. And there's even a feature on it, so that you can link your doorbell in with other people in your neighborhood, so that you can kind of track things. So if something like this does happen, whether it's someone who's grabbing packages from the porch, a porch pirate, you know, packages that don't belong to them, or heaven forbid something like this kidnapping, you can look at other people in your neighborhoods videos as well to try and figure out what might have happened.

Jack 7:30
Alright, so getting back to Mr. Bezos, is it just me and who am I to say this, but you know, it just seems that some of these, I don't maybe they get bored running their own company. But you know, when you have Amazon, and it's, you know, the robotics and the you know, the way they're marketing, you know, what you say is like doing his own airport wants to do this or go to the moon, you know, or fly to Mars, what, at some point do the is that? Is that problematic for the company's future or not? I mean, that's speculation. It's a speculative question.

Craig 8:00
Well, look at what's happening right now in New Hampshire with Amazon. We have now same day delivery in much of New Hampshire, certainly in the southern tier for some of the Amazon products. That's getting to the point where it will be same day delivery. So what Amazon needs is a way to deliver to our homes quickly and inexpensively. So they've already cut a lot of the contracts with the major carriers out there. They have a setup right now, where they are paying people who are working for Amazon currently, to go and start a delivery company for Amazon, you have all these individual contractors, so they're trying to keep costs under control. And now what they're doing is they're building right outside Cincinnati, a 3 million square foot airport. This thing's going to have a parking garage on this airport for 100 cargo jets. So the FedEx and UPS and these other companies that have been hauling for Amazon are no longer going to be hauling. Amazon is going to keep getting more and more of the costs under control. And we're going to end up with a two hour delivery which is already available from Amazon's Whole Foods division, you know the grocery store so you can in much again of New Hampshire, you can order something online, a food product and have it delivered within two hours. So that's what he's aiming at. These drone deliveries have not been working out too well yet. They're still really a few years away before it really starts happening. So you entering your question. Yeah, they are looking at a company like Amazon, they are trying to increase the deliverability of the goods, decrease the time, decrease the cost. But you have companies like Facebook, that are now into robotics are building new robots and tying them into AI and doing all kinds of weird things. At least Bezos seems to be sticking with selling and delivering.

Jack 10:04
Far being from  me to question him and the guy's been you know, seemingly brilliant and even survived his they say an expensive divorce. All right Craig, what else, before we let you go, a Tech Talk tip. 

Craig 10:16
Oh, this is an absolutely huge one, we found out Intel really messed up again. And pretty much any computer made since 2011, that uses Intel chips is vulnerable to this new, nasty nasty one of the worst hack, hackability problems out there. So Microsoft has 17 critical patches this month, including some patches that will fix some of these Intel problems. But in order to be completely secure here, Jack, you're going to lose 40% of your performance on your Intel chips. And this is something that is driving Apple leaving further away from Intel. So expect in within the next year or so to see Apple Computers probably switching away from Intel in maybe even entirely.

Jack 11:05
Alright Craig, I appreciate all the Tech Talk. Thank you very much on this Monday morning and you have a great Memorial Day.

Craig 11:11
Take care. You too, Jack.

Craig 11:18
By the way, everybody this week's kind of a busy week, we are repositioning our websites looks like we're going to change the email provider and stuff. So things might be a little iffy here over the next few weeks. So you know, keep that in mind. Right? I might not be as regular a podcaster as I have been, or email or website updates, but we'll see how this all ends up going. So anyways, have a great week as we prepare for some amazing things that are coming your way we're going to have some little mini courses and other things to we're going to make available to people anyways. Have a great day and week I should be back tomorrow. We'll see. We'll see how things go. Hopefully I don't have another computer, bite the big one on me. Take care bye bye

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Airing date: 05/19/2019

Today I will be discussing hospitals and the new approach they're taking to cybersecurity and why they are pushing manufacturers to give them access to their source code. And is Israel bombing hackers. Then more on the fallout from the Equifax hack. And Big news out of  Amazon Jeff Bezos is going after Fedex and UPS. Intel has Monster computer vulnerability and President Trump issued an executive order about Huawei. Big hack on security av manufacturers Mcafee - Norton this week.

0:01 - Craig Peterson

Here we go.

Welcome. Welcome, Craig Peterson here. Of course, we have a lot of technology to talk about. And always, always read a little bit of security as well. So we're going to get right into it today because there is a lot to cover per usual we're going to be talking about hospitals and the new approach they're taking to cybersecurity. I'm going to tell you what one of my clients did to really make their whole hospital chain even safer. In fact, they were very safe, to begin with. Right, so I guess that’s easy. 

Israel, you know, they've been bombing but man, you haven't heard about this. 

What happened with Equifax after that nasty breach? They had you think they didn't pay a penalty? Well, in some ways they didn’t. But we’re going to talk about what ended up happening here with Equifax based on their earnings report. 

Jeff Bezos has been out on the road in a big John Deere Tractor, what's that about? In fact, I was just out by where he is at just a couple of weeks ago.

Microsoft major warnings coming out from all of the major computer manufacturers this week, we'll talk about that. And Apple how fixing this problem if it thinks Intel might cost you a 40% performance penalty, and White House cracking down on Huawei

And anti-virus makers? Do you have Norton or McAfee or Symantec? Oh, you gotta hear this.

So here we go with Tech Talk with Craig Peterson. 

Now, if you want to watch this, you can watch it online, we are streaming this on YouTube, we're putting it up streaming on Facebook, as well. 

So I'm going to be showing some copies of some of these articles as we go through this. And in some cases, obviously, it might be a little difficult if you listen to me on the radio or podcast to kind of figure it out, but I'm gonna do my best I can to describe it all to you as we go. 

Well, it has been a busy week for so many people out there. And I'm showing an article right now, talking about hospitals, this has been crazy. The infusion pump, you've seen these before, right? in hospitals, you get an IV in your arm, and they hook it up with an infusion pump. So that now you can get a drip IV right now. So we used to do this in the ambulance all the time you took it up, you'd obviously you'd have to set the IV up, you'd have to get get a needle every go into the arm, sometimes you'd even have to go as far as the hand, depending on where the problem was and how much fluid they needed. Anyhow, these devices were invented right here, Manchester, New Hampshire. Not too long ago, go Dean came in, of course, that was his first big product.

And if I remember the story, right, his brother was a nurse, and they're trying to figure out how do we make sure that the infusion pumps are working properly, and we're getting the right dosage of the right medication to the patient? Well, those devices are controlled by what they are controlled by computer. How about all these other devices they have in the hospitals? No, hold on a sec, I'm going to move something real quick. Here behind me so that you can see that screen behind me. Here it goes, hopefully, the screen will come up right.

In the hospital, people doctors are performing biopsies, you have the MRI machines. Nowadays, almost everything in the hospital is hooked up to a network. And I remember the issues that I had with one of our clients, Steve was the IT manager for our rather large hospital chain. And he was trying to figure out what do we do? How do we make this stuff safe? We have all these people that are going on getting their email.  Now we've got all the IoT devices, right? The Internet of Things. What do we do with those devices? How do we keep them all secure? And what he ended up doing is actually follow my advice. And we split up the networks, he found that it wasn't as scary as he thought it would be. It wasn't as hard as he thought it would be. And it wasn't as expensive as he thought it would be. Because nowadays you can lease a lot of this equipment, the prices have come down. So he was able to really secure the whole hospital chain. It's not just the hospitals, you remember, you have doctors offices affiliated with the hospitals. So they were responsible for it and for these doctors offices as well. It kind of goes on and on from there. So we now have our friends in the hospitals being very worried about what is going to happen. We have these massive cyber attacks that have been happening worldwide. 

We have, of course, financial institutions that have been hit. I have another client, Lucille was trying to figure out what to do because she was part of a global network and a worldwide Corporation, and how do I protect myself from other aspects of the corporation, how to protect myself from my clients and everything else. So you know, I did a bunch of training with her helped her out as well. 

But that's what hospitals are doing. They're trying to detect weaknesses. But remember, it isn't just in your networks anymore, because it's one thing to segment them out. As I explained in my course, on network segmentation, it's important to do that. But now hospitals are demanding that they see right into the devices that are being connected to the networks. So they're asking even for software, they're saying, Hey, guys, you need to give me access to your source code, which you know, how many software companies are going to be happy about that.

But that's what they're doing. And that's what they have to do. I have a manufacturing client who has all kinds of equipment on the floor, some of that stuff is still running Windows XP. So we had to set up special firewalls right in front of the equipment to protect the Windows XP. And, in this case, she was able to understand how to really do that, because they have to be individually protected.

Because she wasn't about to pay, I think it's like $30,000 a year right now, from Microsoft per XP machine that you want patches for right.

And there's no way she could have afforded that. So we went a little bit of a different route. And we put an individual specialized firewall designed to protect the Windows XP machines that she had. That's all well and good. 

But when you're talking about all of these embedded systems, how do you even know what has what? What's running Linux? which version of Linux? are they running? what's running Windows? which version of Windows? are they running? What can I do to protect it? Does it have a database server in there? Does it? Does it just have a very basic application? Is it going through some middleware? Is it calling home is trying to get updates? Is it bringing the software in? Does it have a backdoor? Think about all the things you have to know in order to make sure your network is safe. And that’s what my whole course cybersecurity DIY is all about, right? How do you know all of that?

So the hospitals are now demanding admission to really admission to the innards of the equipment that's hooked up in their networks. And I think that makes a lot of sense. They're going beyond firewalls, they're looking at all of these different devices that are out there. 

Who owns a piece of cybersecurity, if this piece of equipment gets hacked, whose fault is it? Who has to clean it up? And what's the cost of Boston Scientific have began to add some features disclosing more about the product. And frankly, I think everyone's going to have to do that if you are a manufacturer. If you make something that has to do with software or hardware, right, I'm not just talking about making widgets.

If you sell something that has some sort of embedded intelligent, if you're not already telling your clients what's in it, you need to be and you as a client need to be holding these vendors responsible for some of these issues than that, you know, you might end up having, frankly, due to the security problems that they can pop up from all of us, right. So keep an eye out for that we're going to be covering more of course, as time goes on. And Patrick got a really great article, you know, talking about this very thing right now because it isn't even just the operating system.

It's the processors, it's the chips that might control the network. It's you know, the wireless chips that are in them.

We've got a big vulnerability will be talking about here in just a couple of minutes. 

So let's, let's move on to our next one here. And this is Israel.

We know that they have been under attack from Hamas for some basically forever since their founding. And there have been a lot of rockets flying lately, I have a friend that videographer for CNN, he's over there. He said some pictures of himself, standing there trying to figure out what it is that he needs to be doing taking care of to keep himself safe, right. 

And, you know, there are some things you can do some things you can't do, frankly. But all of those rockets flying, this was a bit of a surprise to me, you can see the article up on my screen from national interest.org. 

But last weekend, the Israeli Defense Forces claimed to have flattened a building used by hackers from Hamas. Now we've talked before about our friends and our North Korea and how they have a whole huge budget set aside for what set aside for hacking. And they have one of the most advanced hacking teams in the world yet North Korea, they send their people over to Western schools to learn about this, then go back and they steal billions of dollars. 

It's amazing when you try and follow the money. And we did a special FBI infer guard webinar that I ran talking about some of this and how they're moving the money around. So it's a very, very big deal.

So, what's cheaper to buy some missiles and lob them over to Israel? Or have your people go to school, learn how to hack, go online, and pay as little as $20 for a ransomware tool?

What's What do you think is cheaper, right? These missiles, I don't know, what that costs thousands of dollars, right? The big ones probably hundreds of thousands of dollars, versus a $20 piece of software off the dark web. 

I think the answer to that is pretty darn obvious, right? The $20 piece of software is going to be a cheaper way to go. And nowadays, most anybody knows how to install software and run it. And some of this software, if you want to pay as much as $100, you can completely pre-configure the software. So the tools you put in your email address how much you want to hold the machine for ransom for how to contact you how to probably get tech support there even our tech support companies that only deal with the hackers and read somewhere that you can hire to take care of it for you. 

So, Israel saying wait a minute, now Hamas is coming after Israel. They're not just lobbing these missiles anymore, these bombs, they are now hacking us. 

So according to the IDF, and there's a photo that accompanies their tweet, it was showing this U shaped building. And it was colored in red presumably indicating where they were going to be attacking from this drone. That was overhead. But IDF didn't provide details on all of this. 

You know, what was Hamas exactly doing with the cyber attack? And exactly how did Israel find it right there. Some things they do keep secret and they kind of need to. But they blew up the building that they said that the Hamas hackers were in? So, how's that for a different way to do it? Right. 

Pentagon's got these new high tech crap weapons like the F 35. How about it getting hacked? I remember an article from a few years back saying that the computer chips that they had ordered, that were to replace some of the chips that were in our defensive and offensive weapons. Our military weapons, these weapons were specifically for a jet aircraft, that used those chips were embedded with malware. And that we kind of found out about it by accident, almost. You know, we did testing and things and we found, wait a minute. Now, this isn't doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing. And they had been manufactured in China who got involved and had messed around with some microcode. And before you know it, we're installing defective chips and not only the effective but chips that may be hackable or shut down double remotely. Right?  This is a very, very big deal. 

So, something to be concerned about. And now Israel is responding apparently to a cyber attack with a bomb and just blew them up. Interesting stuff. 

Well, let's go on to the next one. I don't know how many people are upset by this Equifax security breach that happened? I know I was. I've talked about it a lot I did in another webinar just last week, I think Yeah, aired it. In fact, this just this last week, it was with Laura Lee. And we were talking about how she got involved with cybersecurity. She's been in it for a while now. And she got involved because of this hack. This hack here, I'm going to put it up on the screen, you can see this whole article. But it was a security breach that basically gave up all of the information about everybody in the US. And a lot of people I think almost everybody in Canada, and the much out of the rest of the world, right? 

Not a fun time. And it was Equifax and I was really upset with them because they're basically nothing happened, right? A couple of people were resigned and one or two were fired. And, and, you know, I'm not saying that Equifax does this, but I can say that a lot of companies have it people who are in charge of security. And their security plan is I have in my drawer here, my letter of resignation and my resume.

Because if anything happens, I'm going to be fired. So I'm just going to resign and walk out and find a new job.

And why does that happen? That happens for a few reasons. One of the big reasons, frankly, is that they can't get the budget to do what they need to do. And that's what I'm trying to do with some of this training, right. That's why I have these in-depth training on different parts of cybersecurity. I don't have any training's going on right now. But that's why I do it. 

And some of these are very exclusive, obviously, because there's information that's confidential, and some of its even slightly classified. We don't usually get into real classified stuff.  The IT security department can't do what they need to do. And they don't get the support they need but from management. So, what do you expect them to do? 

So, Equifax got hacked? And let me tell you the examinations of Equifax and what happened is a basic security course. If they had followed what I teach in my course, the hack would have never happened. It was that simple. 

That's how badly Equifax messed up. So are they out of business? No. Did they go to prison? No. Right, what happened? They found a scapegoat and they fired a couple of people. Well, this week, Equifax published its earnings report, and they're saying that they had a $1.4 billion expense, plus legal fees. 

So, in some cases, Equifax was providing people whose information had been stolen. They were providing them with credit monitoring. But you know, the bottom line here, that's a lot of money. And then think of all the legal defense costs here. They exploited a vulnerability that was well known. It just goes on and on. A hundred and 45 million people in the US, the UK. Names, social security numbers, birthdays, home addresses, credit score, dispute forms, credit card numbers, driver's license numbers. Absolutely amazing. And apparently, by the way, this was last year, there were reports that this hack was worse than we initially thought and worse than what Equifax told us. So how's that for fun? Okay, so, yeah, Equifax, they had to pay a bit of a penalty. But you know, who paid the penalty? The stockholders who had to cover that expense? I bet you it was closer to $2 billion. When you add in all of the legal fees. 

Now, I'm going to show you this picture. I think you might like this one. Do you recognize this guy? This is Jeff Bezos. And he is standing on a massive John Deere tractor in an article from TechCrunch here. Why is he standing, you know, on a front loader, with a hard hat on? Well, here's why. 

This, man, this is going to at least it should, scare the daylights out of companies like FedEx, Amazon, you know, they, they about 50% of all retail now is going to Amazon and numbers are just crazy. of the online stuff. It's just nuts. So, Amazon is doing a few things right now to help out right help their people out, to help their business out. 

One of the big things Amazon has done recently is that they are giving people who are current employees, who are interested, they're giving them cash and paid time off to start their own delivery business. So, that’s competing with everybody from the US Postal Service, through FedEx and UPS and, and these delivery companies that have been around for quite a while. 

Well, now, they broke the ground last week on a 3 million square foot prime airport, outside of Cincinnati, just across the line in Kentucky. Now, I want to put this in context here. What does a 3 million square foot airport look like? Well, bottom line, what they're doing is they are building a parking garage that can hold 100 cargo jets.

So, it looks like Mr. Bezos is absolutely going to be not only delivering to your door that last mile as it were, but he is going to be flying his own airplanes via his own airport and doing the delivery. So, he's really going to own the whole thing. This is Amazon, of course, he doesn't have 100 cargo jets, yet. But it is part of the company's logistics ambitions here, man. If anybody's going to pull it off he is. According to Bezos, his tweet, Amazon's investing $1.5 billion in this effort, okay. That’s real, real money. Let me just kind of scroll this up. So you can see this article a little bit, right. It's, I'm showing a couple of pictures here. There he is with a pile of dirt behind him with his tweet. So he's looking he says he's going to be creating 2000 new jobs. Isn't that just amazing? So Amazon's encroaching on the core business now of FedEx and UPS, as well. Of course, the USPS, the US Postal Service. They're not in business per se, but it's going to affect them as well. 

Okay, we got to get on to this one. We are running out of time quickly here. Huge bug week this week. Absolutely huge. Now, those of you who are on my internal lists here who get my subscription for the security newsletters, you know about this already, because I sent this out right away. 

But for everybody else, you got to know this need to know this right now. I even sent it out to my regular mailing list this week. 

Microsoft is warning of this monster, monster computer bug this week, Microsoft announced Tuesday one of the several high profile computer companies to do it and included Apple and many others. 

So let's do this pretty quickly. Bottom line, we have a couple of things happening right now, we've got a major security problem with Intel processors, almost every processor Intel has made since 2011. You heard that right. Almost every Intel processor made since 2011, has a major security problem. 

And Apple, I'm going to pull this article up too.  Apple is saying that bottom-line if you want to protect yourself against yet another Intel CPU flaw, you're going to lose 40% of the performance on your Apple Computer. This isn't an Apple problem, by the way. This is across the board. If you are using a Windows computer, and you want to be completely protected, you're going to lose about 40% of your performance. Because hyperthreads, Hyperthreads are a huge problem right now, because of this particular problem. It’s just crazy here.

And then we've got other flaws that in Microsoft just talking about this week,

I think there was, Karen, 17 this week for Patch Tuesday?

This 74 with along those critical ones 19 critical flaws Microsoft is fixing in Patch Tuesday this month

That's out of over 70 total patches that they're applying. So here's your bottom line. If you have a device that has Intel, anything on it, you are going to want to apply patches, right away! 

All of the major manufacturers have patches out already. Apple's got theirs out, Microsoft has theirs out for Windows, It’s a very, very big deal and you got to take care of this and take care of this quickly.

So okay, patch, patch, patch!

If you haven’t been patching, and I know this is a problem, right. That's why I have the newsletter that describes these problems when you really, really need to patch. Because how many of us are really, really patching, right? 

We wait until we have to because stuff breaks, I've got work to do, I can spend two hours trying to do the patches. That's why we do it for so many clients, we actually take care of it all remotely, for them. All of the patches get applied and everything just automatically. But that's not most people and I understand why you don't want to do it and why you can do it. You just don't have the time to do it. But, right now you've got to do it, right. So, give it another week or so frankly, because you never know if the patches are going to work as well as they should. So far the Apple patches look good. The patches from Microsoft are out there. So questions, right? Wait about a week, and then by next weekend, make sure everything is patched up. 

Now if you have an iOS device, an Apple iPhone, or an iPad, or you have one of these smartphones from Samsung, or almost anybody, very few of those have the Intel chipsets in them. 

However, some of them do have licensed software from Intel does have the same problems. So patch patch patch, okay. This the week to do it. No question about that. 

Okay, I'm gonna pull another one up here on the screen with a couple of minutes left here. Huawei this is a Chinese manufacturer of all kinds of technology, one of the technologies that they are providing right now is 5g for the new cell phone. The new era of cell phone data connectivity. And a lot of people are very worried that because Huawei is the primary provider. We could end up in a huge, huge mess out there. I mean, huge. And the reason for one of the main reasons for the mess is Huawei, of course, like every company in China is controlled by the Communist Party. Yes, there are still communists, there are still socialists in the world. It's not just Bernie Sanders, they are worldwide. And they control the country and the money.

Just like I said a little bit earlier, is it easier for Hamas to hire some hackers or to lob some missiles, hackers. So, we are very worried about what Huawei is doing, very worried, about them being almost a sole-source for some of the 5g technology out there. President Trump just cracked down on it all. So, when this executive order from him this week.

We got a confirmation and a denial from Symantec and McAfee. Oh my gosh, here. Apparently, they were both hacked. There's an advanced intelligence company out in New York. And we put this up on the screen, so you can kind of follow along. Who is saying that, indeed, these two companies got hacked? The hackers known as FX MSP are said to be offering to sell the stolen data that they say they stole about 35 terabytes worth of data from these, I don’t want to call them security companies, so I don't know, security software manufacturers. Obviously, they're not that secure. Right. 

But if this is true, $300,000. Gizmodo who's reporting this has not confirmed it yet reviewed any of this allegedly stolen documents, but we'll see what happens. And you already know, you know me fairly well, that frankly, I’m not a fan of either one of those companies. So no big deal there. 

Alright, well, I want to thank everybody for being with us today. We really, we're going to have to kind of disappear. Because guess what? Time is

up. Time is over. I appreciate you being with us this week. Make sure you go online CraigPeterson.com And we've got a whole new website coming your way. So keep an eye out for that as well with more information. 

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So have a great week and we'll be chatting with you next week. Take care.

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Airing date: 05/19/2019

Today I will be discussing hospitals and the new approach they're taking to cybersecurity and why they are pushing manufacturers to give them access to their source code. And is Israel bombing hackers. Then more on the fallout from the Equifax hack. And Big news out of  Amazon Jeff Bezos is going after Fedex and UPS. Intel has Monster computer vulnerability and President Trump issued an executive order about Huawei. Big hack on security av manufacturers Mcafee - Norton this week.

0:01 - Craig Peterson

Here we go.

Welcome. Welcome, Craig Peterson here. Of course, we have a lot of technology to talk about. And always, always read a little bit of security as well. So we're going to get right into it today because there is a lot to cover per usual we're going to be talking about hospitals and the new approach they're taking to cybersecurity. I'm going to tell you what one of my clients did to really make their whole hospital chain even safer. In fact, they were very safe, to begin with. Right, so I guess that’s easy. 

Israel, you know, they've been bombing but man, you haven't heard about this. 

What happened with Equifax after that nasty breach? They had you think they didn't pay a penalty? Well, in some ways they didn’t. But we’re going to talk about what ended up happening here with Equifax based on their earnings report. 

Jeff Bezos has been out on the road in a big John Deere Tractor, what's that about? In fact, I was just out by where he is at just a couple of weeks ago.

Microsoft major warnings coming out from all of the major computer manufacturers this week, we'll talk about that. And Apple how fixing this problem if it thinks Intel might cost you a 40% performance penalty, and White House cracking down on Huawei

And anti-virus makers? Do you have Norton or McAfee or Symantec? Oh, you gotta hear this.

So here we go with Tech Talk with Craig Peterson. 

Now, if you want to watch this, you can watch it online, we are streaming this on YouTube, we're putting it up streaming on Facebook, as well. 

So I'm going to be showing some copies of some of these articles as we go through this. And in some cases, obviously, it might be a little difficult if you listen to me on the radio or podcast to kind of figure it out, but I'm gonna do my best I can to describe it all to you as we go. 

Well, it has been a busy week for so many people out there. And I'm showing an article right now, talking about hospitals, this has been crazy. The infusion pump, you've seen these before, right? in hospitals, you get an IV in your arm, and they hook it up with an infusion pump. So that now you can get a drip IV right now. So we used to do this in the ambulance all the time you took it up, you'd obviously you'd have to set the IV up, you'd have to get get a needle every go into the arm, sometimes you'd even have to go as far as the hand, depending on where the problem was and how much fluid they needed. Anyhow, these devices were invented right here, Manchester, New Hampshire. Not too long ago, go Dean came in, of course, that was his first big product.

And if I remember the story, right, his brother was a nurse, and they're trying to figure out how do we make sure that the infusion pumps are working properly, and we're getting the right dosage of the right medication to the patient? Well, those devices are controlled by what they are controlled by computer. How about all these other devices they have in the hospitals? No, hold on a sec, I'm going to move something real quick. Here behind me so that you can see that screen behind me. Here it goes, hopefully, the screen will come up right.

In the hospital, people doctors are performing biopsies, you have the MRI machines. Nowadays, almost everything in the hospital is hooked up to a network. And I remember the issues that I had with one of our clients, Steve was the IT manager for our rather large hospital chain. And he was trying to figure out what do we do? How do we make this stuff safe? We have all these people that are going on getting their email.  Now we've got all the IoT devices, right? The Internet of Things. What do we do with those devices? How do we keep them all secure? And what he ended up doing is actually follow my advice. And we split up the networks, he found that it wasn't as scary as he thought it would be. It wasn't as hard as he thought it would be. And it wasn't as expensive as he thought it would be. Because nowadays you can lease a lot of this equipment, the prices have come down. So he was able to really secure the whole hospital chain. It's not just the hospitals, you remember, you have doctors offices affiliated with the hospitals. So they were responsible for it and for these doctors offices as well. It kind of goes on and on from there. So we now have our friends in the hospitals being very worried about what is going to happen. We have these massive cyber attacks that have been happening worldwide. 

We have, of course, financial institutions that have been hit. I have another client, Lucille was trying to figure out what to do because she was part of a global network and a worldwide Corporation, and how do I protect myself from other aspects of the corporation, how to protect myself from my clients and everything else. So you know, I did a bunch of training with her helped her out as well. 

But that's what hospitals are doing. They're trying to detect weaknesses. But remember, it isn't just in your networks anymore, because it's one thing to segment them out. As I explained in my course, on network segmentation, it's important to do that. But now hospitals are demanding that they see right into the devices that are being connected to the networks. So they're asking even for software, they're saying, Hey, guys, you need to give me access to your source code, which you know, how many software companies are going to be happy about that.

But that's what they're doing. And that's what they have to do. I have a manufacturing client who has all kinds of equipment on the floor, some of that stuff is still running Windows XP. So we had to set up special firewalls right in front of the equipment to protect the Windows XP. And, in this case, she was able to understand how to really do that, because they have to be individually protected.

Because she wasn't about to pay, I think it's like $30,000 a year right now, from Microsoft per XP machine that you want patches for right.

And there's no way she could have afforded that. So we went a little bit of a different route. And we put an individual specialized firewall designed to protect the Windows XP machines that she had. That's all well and good. 

But when you're talking about all of these embedded systems, how do you even know what has what? What's running Linux? which version of Linux? are they running? what's running Windows? which version of Windows? are they running? What can I do to protect it? Does it have a database server in there? Does it? Does it just have a very basic application? Is it going through some middleware? Is it calling home is trying to get updates? Is it bringing the software in? Does it have a backdoor? Think about all the things you have to know in order to make sure your network is safe. And that’s what my whole course cybersecurity DIY is all about, right? How do you know all of that?

So the hospitals are now demanding admission to really admission to the innards of the equipment that's hooked up in their networks. And I think that makes a lot of sense. They're going beyond firewalls, they're looking at all of these different devices that are out there. 

Who owns a piece of cybersecurity, if this piece of equipment gets hacked, whose fault is it? Who has to clean it up? And what's the cost of Boston Scientific have began to add some features disclosing more about the product. And frankly, I think everyone's going to have to do that if you are a manufacturer. If you make something that has to do with software or hardware, right, I'm not just talking about making widgets.

If you sell something that has some sort of embedded intelligent, if you're not already telling your clients what's in it, you need to be and you as a client need to be holding these vendors responsible for some of these issues than that, you know, you might end up having, frankly, due to the security problems that they can pop up from all of us, right. So keep an eye out for that we're going to be covering more of course, as time goes on. And Patrick got a really great article, you know, talking about this very thing right now because it isn't even just the operating system.

It's the processors, it's the chips that might control the network. It's you know, the wireless chips that are in them.

We've got a big vulnerability will be talking about here in just a couple of minutes. 

So let's, let's move on to our next one here. And this is Israel.

We know that they have been under attack from Hamas for some basically forever since their founding. And there have been a lot of rockets flying lately, I have a friend that videographer for CNN, he's over there. He said some pictures of himself, standing there trying to figure out what it is that he needs to be doing taking care of to keep himself safe, right. 

And, you know, there are some things you can do some things you can't do, frankly. But all of those rockets flying, this was a bit of a surprise to me, you can see the article up on my screen from national interest.org. 

But last weekend, the Israeli Defense Forces claimed to have flattened a building used by hackers from Hamas. Now we've talked before about our friends and our North Korea and how they have a whole huge budget set aside for what set aside for hacking. And they have one of the most advanced hacking teams in the world yet North Korea, they send their people over to Western schools to learn about this, then go back and they steal billions of dollars. 

It's amazing when you try and follow the money. And we did a special FBI infer guard webinar that I ran talking about some of this and how they're moving the money around. So it's a very, very big deal.

So, what's cheaper to buy some missiles and lob them over to Israel? Or have your people go to school, learn how to hack, go online, and pay as little as $20 for a ransomware tool?

What's What do you think is cheaper, right? These missiles, I don't know, what that costs thousands of dollars, right? The big ones probably hundreds of thousands of dollars, versus a $20 piece of software off the dark web. 

I think the answer to that is pretty darn obvious, right? The $20 piece of software is going to be a cheaper way to go. And nowadays, most anybody knows how to install software and run it. And some of this software, if you want to pay as much as $100, you can completely pre-configure the software. So the tools you put in your email address how much you want to hold the machine for ransom for how to contact you how to probably get tech support there even our tech support companies that only deal with the hackers and read somewhere that you can hire to take care of it for you. 

So, Israel saying wait a minute, now Hamas is coming after Israel. They're not just lobbing these missiles anymore, these bombs, they are now hacking us. 

So according to the IDF, and there's a photo that accompanies their tweet, it was showing this U shaped building. And it was colored in red presumably indicating where they were going to be attacking from this drone. That was overhead. But IDF didn't provide details on all of this. 

You know, what was Hamas exactly doing with the cyber attack? And exactly how did Israel find it right there. Some things they do keep secret and they kind of need to. But they blew up the building that they said that the Hamas hackers were in? So, how's that for a different way to do it? Right. 

Pentagon's got these new high tech crap weapons like the F 35. How about it getting hacked? I remember an article from a few years back saying that the computer chips that they had ordered, that were to replace some of the chips that were in our defensive and offensive weapons. Our military weapons, these weapons were specifically for a jet aircraft, that used those chips were embedded with malware. And that we kind of found out about it by accident, almost. You know, we did testing and things and we found, wait a minute. Now, this isn't doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing. And they had been manufactured in China who got involved and had messed around with some microcode. And before you know it, we're installing defective chips and not only the effective but chips that may be hackable or shut down double remotely. Right?  This is a very, very big deal. 

So, something to be concerned about. And now Israel is responding apparently to a cyber attack with a bomb and just blew them up. Interesting stuff. 

Well, let's go on to the next one. I don't know how many people are upset by this Equifax security breach that happened? I know I was. I've talked about it a lot I did in another webinar just last week, I think Yeah, aired it. In fact, this just this last week, it was with Laura Lee. And we were talking about how she got involved with cybersecurity. She's been in it for a while now. And she got involved because of this hack. This hack here, I'm going to put it up on the screen, you can see this whole article. But it was a security breach that basically gave up all of the information about everybody in the US. And a lot of people I think almost everybody in Canada, and the much out of the rest of the world, right? 

Not a fun time. And it was Equifax and I was really upset with them because they're basically nothing happened, right? A couple of people were resigned and one or two were fired. And, and, you know, I'm not saying that Equifax does this, but I can say that a lot of companies have it people who are in charge of security. And their security plan is I have in my drawer here, my letter of resignation and my resume.

Because if anything happens, I'm going to be fired. So I'm just going to resign and walk out and find a new job.

And why does that happen? That happens for a few reasons. One of the big reasons, frankly, is that they can't get the budget to do what they need to do. And that's what I'm trying to do with some of this training, right. That's why I have these in-depth training on different parts of cybersecurity. I don't have any training's going on right now. But that's why I do it. 

And some of these are very exclusive, obviously, because there's information that's confidential, and some of its even slightly classified. We don't usually get into real classified stuff.  The IT security department can't do what they need to do. And they don't get the support they need but from management. So, what do you expect them to do? 

So, Equifax got hacked? And let me tell you the examinations of Equifax and what happened is a basic security course. If they had followed what I teach in my course, the hack would have never happened. It was that simple. 

That's how badly Equifax messed up. So are they out of business? No. Did they go to prison? No. Right, what happened? They found a scapegoat and they fired a couple of people. Well, this week, Equifax published its earnings report, and they're saying that they had a $1.4 billion expense, plus legal fees. 

So, in some cases, Equifax was providing people whose information had been stolen. They were providing them with credit monitoring. But you know, the bottom line here, that's a lot of money. And then think of all the legal defense costs here. They exploited a vulnerability that was well known. It just goes on and on. A hundred and 45 million people in the US, the UK. Names, social security numbers, birthdays, home addresses, credit score, dispute forms, credit card numbers, driver's license numbers. Absolutely amazing. And apparently, by the way, this was last year, there were reports that this hack was worse than we initially thought and worse than what Equifax told us. So how's that for fun? Okay, so, yeah, Equifax, they had to pay a bit of a penalty. But you know, who paid the penalty? The stockholders who had to cover that expense? I bet you it was closer to $2 billion. When you add in all of the legal fees. 

Now, I'm going to show you this picture. I think you might like this one. Do you recognize this guy? This is Jeff Bezos. And he is standing on a massive John Deere tractor in an article from TechCrunch here. Why is he standing, you know, on a front loader, with a hard hat on? Well, here's why. 

This, man, this is going to at least it should, scare the daylights out of companies like FedEx, Amazon, you know, they, they about 50% of all retail now is going to Amazon and numbers are just crazy. of the online stuff. It's just nuts. So, Amazon is doing a few things right now to help out right help their people out, to help their business out. 

One of the big things Amazon has done recently is that they are giving people who are current employees, who are interested, they're giving them cash and paid time off to start their own delivery business. So, that’s competing with everybody from the US Postal Service, through FedEx and UPS and, and these delivery companies that have been around for quite a while. 

Well, now, they broke the ground last week on a 3 million square foot prime airport, outside of Cincinnati, just across the line in Kentucky. Now, I want to put this in context here. What does a 3 million square foot airport look like? Well, bottom line, what they're doing is they are building a parking garage that can hold 100 cargo jets.

So, it looks like Mr. Bezos is absolutely going to be not only delivering to your door that last mile as it were, but he is going to be flying his own airplanes via his own airport and doing the delivery. So, he's really going to own the whole thing. This is Amazon, of course, he doesn't have 100 cargo jets, yet. But it is part of the company's logistics ambitions here, man. If anybody's going to pull it off he is. According to Bezos, his tweet, Amazon's investing $1.5 billion in this effort, okay. That’s real, real money. Let me just kind of scroll this up. So you can see this article a little bit, right. It's, I'm showing a couple of pictures here. There he is with a pile of dirt behind him with his tweet. So he's looking he says he's going to be creating 2000 new jobs. Isn't that just amazing? So Amazon's encroaching on the core business now of FedEx and UPS, as well. Of course, the USPS, the US Postal Service. They're not in business per se, but it's going to affect them as well. 

Okay, we got to get on to this one. We are running out of time quickly here. Huge bug week this week. Absolutely huge. Now, those of you who are on my internal lists here who get my subscription for the security newsletters, you know about this already, because I sent this out right away. 

But for everybody else, you got to know this need to know this right now. I even sent it out to my regular mailing list this week. 

Microsoft is warning of this monster, monster computer bug this week, Microsoft announced Tuesday one of the several high profile computer companies to do it and included Apple and many others. 

So let's do this pretty quickly. Bottom line, we have a couple of things happening right now, we've got a major security problem with Intel processors, almost every processor Intel has made since 2011. You heard that right. Almost every Intel processor made since 2011, has a major security problem. 

And Apple, I'm going to pull this article up too.  Apple is saying that bottom-line if you want to protect yourself against yet another Intel CPU flaw, you're going to lose 40% of the performance on your Apple Computer. This isn't an Apple problem, by the way. This is across the board. If you are using a Windows computer, and you want to be completely protected, you're going to lose about 40% of your performance. Because hyperthreads, Hyperthreads are a huge problem right now, because of this particular problem. It’s just crazy here.

And then we've got other flaws that in Microsoft just talking about this week,

I think there was, Karen, 17 this week for Patch Tuesday?

This 74 with along those critical ones 19 critical flaws Microsoft is fixing in Patch Tuesday this month

That's out of over 70 total patches that they're applying. So here's your bottom line. If you have a device that has Intel, anything on it, you are going to want to apply patches, right away! 

All of the major manufacturers have patches out already. Apple's got theirs out, Microsoft has theirs out for Windows, It’s a very, very big deal and you got to take care of this and take care of this quickly.

So okay, patch, patch, patch!

If you haven’t been patching, and I know this is a problem, right. That's why I have the newsletter that describes these problems when you really, really need to patch. Because how many of us are really, really patching, right? 

We wait until we have to because stuff breaks, I've got work to do, I can spend two hours trying to do the patches. That's why we do it for so many clients, we actually take care of it all remotely, for them. All of the patches get applied and everything just automatically. But that's not most people and I understand why you don't want to do it and why you can do it. You just don't have the time to do it. But, right now you've got to do it, right. So, give it another week or so frankly, because you never know if the patches are going to work as well as they should. So far the Apple patches look good. The patches from Microsoft are out there. So questions, right? Wait about a week, and then by next weekend, make sure everything is patched up. 

Now if you have an iOS device, an Apple iPhone, or an iPad, or you have one of these smartphones from Samsung, or almost anybody, very few of those have the Intel chipsets in them. 

However, some of them do have licensed software from Intel does have the same problems. So patch patch patch, okay. This the week to do it. No question about that. 

Okay, I'm gonna pull another one up here on the screen with a couple of minutes left here. Huawei this is a Chinese manufacturer of all kinds of technology, one of the technologies that they are providing right now is 5g for the new cell phone. The new era of cell phone data connectivity. And a lot of people are very worried that because Huawei is the primary provider. We could end up in a huge, huge mess out there. I mean, huge. And the reason for one of the main reasons for the mess is Huawei, of course, like every company in China is controlled by the Communist Party. Yes, there are still communists, there are still socialists in the world. It's not just Bernie Sanders, they are worldwide. And they control the country and the money.

Just like I said a little bit earlier, is it easier for Hamas to hire some hackers or to lob some missiles, hackers. So, we are very worried about what Huawei is doing, very worried, about them being almost a sole-source for some of the 5g technology out there. President Trump just cracked down on it all. So, when this executive order from him this week.

We got a confirmation and a denial from Symantec and McAfee. Oh my gosh, here. Apparently, they were both hacked. There's an advanced intelligence company out in New York. And we put this up on the screen, so you can kind of follow along. Who is saying that, indeed, these two companies got hacked? The hackers known as FX MSP are said to be offering to sell the stolen data that they say they stole about 35 terabytes worth of data from these, I don’t want to call them security companies, so I don't know, security software manufacturers. Obviously, they're not that secure. Right. 

But if this is true, $300,000. Gizmodo who's reporting this has not confirmed it yet reviewed any of this allegedly stolen documents, but we'll see what happens. And you already know, you know me fairly well, that frankly, I’m not a fan of either one of those companies. So no big deal there. 

Alright, well, I want to thank everybody for being with us today. We really, we're going to have to kind of disappear. Because guess what? Time is

up. Time is over. I appreciate you being with us this week. Make sure you go online CraigPeterson.com And we've got a whole new website coming your way. So keep an eye out for that as well with more information. 

Man, this is going to be really good. We’ll have more courses, more classes. We've got to get you up to speed. So I'm taking some of the stuff I've been doing for the FBI infragard. And we are incorporating it into other classes trying to keep you guys up to date with the information you need. 

Right, not the fire hose that we get.

So have a great week and we'll be chatting with you next week. Take care.

Bye-bye.

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It's 7:38 on a Wednesday, Craig is on with Ken and Matt. Today Craig gave Ken some instructions on how to upgrade his Windows machine. They also talked about the Pokemon region in the brains of the adults who played the game as kids, and how Facebook is a government protected monopoly.

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Airing date: 05/15/2019

Risks Of Upgrading Windows - Pokemon Changed Our Brains - New Google Privacy Feature Coming

Craig Peterson  0:00 
Hey, good morning everybody Craig Peterson here. This morning, I got to answer some questions. I helped Ken out with how to upgrade his Windows machine. Gave some, I think the best advice possible when it comes to an upgrade. And it's not just upgrades for Windows but we talked a little bit about Mac, I gave him some hints on what to do, because on his Mac, he's got windows seven, as well as Mac OS, he's got to get to Windows 10. So we talked about that. We talked about a Pokemon region in the brain of adults. Now this is kind of cool, too. And why is Facebook a government protected monopoly? What's that all about? And Google, automatically deleting our data? So all of that and a couple extra things too this morning with Ken and Matt. It was kind of a fun time again today. What a week. Alright, guys, we will be back Saturday with our weekly radio show wrap up. Take care of and I have a big warning too but you'll hear that right near the beginning.

Matt Gagnon 1:05
He's back ladies and gentlemen Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He's at this time every Wednesday. And it happens to be Wednesday at this time. So he's back again. Craig, How are you this morning?

Craig 1:18
I'm doing great. How are you guys?

Ken Altshuler 1:19
You know, the other day I was going to email you because I had a question. I forgot what it was. But another question has come up since then you have recommended everybody should upgrade to Windows 10. Correct?

Craig 1:30
At the very least Yes. And there's a huge, by the way, a huge I mean, how does President Trump pronounce it? There's a huge which is a new pronunciation, security vulnerability on every Intel processor made since 2011. I mean, we haven't had anything this bad in like for ever. So those people that are on my email list and my text list are going to get a link today with more information. But this came out yesterday. And all of the major guys Microsoft and Apple have already issued patches are there they're working on they've got them done. They should be out soon. But this is we've never seen anything this bad before. Thanks Intel. But of course your iPhones are fine. And other Samsung Galaxies and anything that's not using an Intel chip is ok. But this is like the hugest security problem we have seen I think maybe in a decade or two so anyway.

Ken 2:43
So when I upgrade to Windows 10. And is it something I can do or do I need somebody who knows something about computers like Matt could do it for me?

Craig 2:50
Well, if you can't handle...

Matt 2:53
He says this in the wake by the way of me having to clean up his computer last Friday.

Ken 2:56
Evidently I had asked Jeeves on it. I don't know how I put it on and they really made fun of me and and I was ashamed. They shamed me.

Matt 3:06
He was shamed. 

Ken 3:08
So I used to think I was somewhat tech savvy for an old man. But is it something I do myself?

Craig 3:15
I knew you had that it was coming. I knew that you had that sound bite.

Matt 3:19 
I got it on ready all the time.

Craig 3:21
Well, if you can't handle tabs on your browser, I think there's a little bit of a clue there. But here's the here's the bottom line, here's the recommendation. If you aren't going to upgrade to Windows 10. And this is true, particularly with Windows, but really kind of any operating system. Here's what I do, I don't upgrade, what I do is I make sure I have two backups of my computer. I do a virgin install, I do completely wipe the computer, reformat the hard disk, and particularly with Windows. And then I get it installed, I get it all patched up up to date. And then I get the newest versions of the software that I had been running. And then I restore my files from backup. I don't restore the whole backup. 

Ken 4:15
This is not going to happen. For me to do that is impossible. Just so you know.

Craig 4:24
So you need help then. We knew that. You need help with your computer then Ken. And yes, absolutely. And here's why I do that. And here's why I recommend people that have the ability to do it, do it. There are, and this is kind of a technical term, but there are turds all over your computer. Okay. The Ask Jeeves.

Ken 4:48  
Matt fixed that for me.

Matt 4:49 
I did. I got rid of it.

Craig 4:50
Yeah. Yeah, he got rid of it. And all these plugins remember when people were installing these bars on their browsers, right? Probably Ask Jeeves, yeah, don't do that people including today. But there's just all of these remnants from over the years that are there things are partially configured, the poorly configured. Your Windows machine crash right in the middle of updating the registry, all kinds of things happen there's a power failure, which never happens in Maine. There's a power failure when you're doing something and that messed up stuff just enough so the computer works but some things get weird and get slow, etc, etc. So that's why I recommend you just do a from scratch install, and then restore just your files. Now Apple is a little bit different. Apple can still have some of these types of problems. Apple doesn't use a registry, it has a much better system. But like even with that, there are different types of problems with your computer. So when you do an upgrade on the apple, it takes some liberties and cleans things up on your behalf. But every two or three or four major releases of Apple operating system, I advise people to make sure you've got at least one good time machine backup, which is the built in backup software with Apple. And with Apple, you can have two or more copies of your backups. So have two USB drives, plug them in, put them both on time machine, leave it alone for flow, you can use the computer but leave the backup alone for a few days. It'll backup everything. You'll have two copies, and then do a from scratch install. And then with a time machine backup, you can just restore the user account information. So all of your files and things and and then just reload your programs to stuff. So it's really good. It's like a then we take it to your car into the dealer and get an oil change. You get your transmission fluid changed, the coolant changed, everything changed. It's a good idea to do that with your computers and the way you do it is to good backups and then that thing out and start from scratch.

Matt 7:11
Craig Peterson tech guru joins us Wednesdays at this time to go over what's happening in the world of technology. Craig I'm too curious to not ask about this one. The Pokemon thing. I mean, I so there's some people who played as kids have some sort of brain scan, the brain scan is revealed that there's a region their brain that essentially tells you that they played this game like explain this thing.

Craig 7:34 
Yeah. Yeah.

Matt 7:35  
And why is that? Like what happened?

Craig 7:36
Pokemon. Well, here's what happened. This is just amazing. This is specifically that now any Pokemon gaming when you were young, now, you know, you had to do a fair amount of it, right? But any Pokemon gaming when you were younger, throws this little switch in your brain. But they found that particularly people who played Pokemon on Game Boys from the 1990s, are apparently kind of very susceptible for that. It's kind of cool, because here's what happened. They did an experiment, they did a brain study with some of these people who played Pokemon when they were kids. And they wanted to know, did it affect their brains? And you know how many years we've been talking about stuff like this right? Violent video games. Does that make you violent as an adult and stuff? Right. And I know, Matt, you've been saying no, it doesn't, right?

Matt 8:35 
No, it does not.

Craig 8:36 
Yeah, exactly. So I thought. So they scan the participants brains. These were all self selected, and everything. You know how that goes. So this wasn't like the best sort of study in the world, showing them images of all 150 original Pokemon. And they were showing them eight at a time and they mixed in other images, like animals faces, cars, words, hallways, other cartoons. And what they found in experienced players was a specific region of the brain responded more to Pokemon than to any other images. Absolutely amazing. This was the, you know, the occipital region, which is the rear back of the brain here. It's the occipital temporal sulcus. I think it is. S-U-L-C-U-S. Some will know how to pronounce that. But it was absolutely amazing. And novices did not have this region respond in any different way to anything. So basically, Pokemon programmed your brain to selectively notice Pokemons more than anything else as part of a theory called extra sensory bias. And it suggests the size of the images and the types we're looking at. And even in your peripheral vision, by the way, will make your brain respond. So fascinating. You know, what, what does that tell us? I don't know.

Matt 10:07  
You got to catch them all. That's what it tells you.

Craig 10:10
Yeah. Exactly. So you've been programmed Matt, and you just don't realize it.

Matt 2:50
I'd like to make clear with the audience that I did not actually play that game growing up, but I am familiar with it.

Ken 10:20
We are talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us Wednesdays at 7:38. Is Facebook a monopoly Mr. Peterson?

Matt 10:27
What does that have to do with milkshakes? I guess I didn't follow that.

Craig 10:32
Wow, man, we could go on for hours. But here's the bottom line, not just milkshakes, Matt, but hamburgers. And there's a great example. This is an article that I have up on my website from Amgreatness. And Ray Kroc. Of course, you might remember the story of the start of McDonald's, right? A couple of brothers had a hamburger stand. And it was amazing. And so Ray Kroc visited them trying to sell milkshake mixer, and was wondering why they needed four up milkshake mixer for such a small stand. The story evolved into McDonald's and, and he took what they had done and license issues everything else in the legal side. So the point here is that with the way the patent laws are today, they go far beyond what most people think the Constitution requires. They now have patent laws that allow you to patent processes, business processes, for instance. And it's gotten to the point where companies like Facebook, have patents on things that were obvious next steps, that even the patent law says aren't supposed to be issued. But the patent office is so overrun their patent issuing patents for things that should never been patented. And so now you have companies like, like Facebook out there, and Microsoft, who have patents on things that may be shouldn't have been issued, I don't think most of them should have been issued. So they can have and they don't have any competition. You know, we have people being that deep platform, we have conservative voices saying, Hey, listen, we're, we're not able to make any money anymore, because YouTube has cut us off, Facebook has cut us off, etc, etc. We should have five different alternatives out there for people to go to if Facebook or YouTube or someone else does something that kicks them off. And they say, Well, fine, I'm going to like conservative Facebook called XYZ book or whatever it might be. But we don't. And a lot of the reason for that is the state of the patent laws. And I personally have said for a very long time, we've got to change them. With technology moving the way it is, we are hindering our progress in the technology world in a huge way, by allowing these corporations, big ones and small ones, to take an obvious idea patented, and then use the federal government to be there and for sure, for what's now effectively a protected monopoly.

Matt 13:08
We are talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over what's happening in the world of technology. I guess the last question for us in the last couple minutes we have here Craig I'd love to ask you about about Google and deleting our data. This obviously sort of goes into privacy questions and everything we've been talking about recently in the online space. Will they be deleting my data? What do I need to know about this?

Craig 13:34
Yeah, you can manually go in right now and get a bunch of your data deleted manually. There's some simple on off controls for location, history, web app activity. But you have to go into your Google account constantly to delete it and ask for it to be deleted. So Google has a new rollout coming within a month or so that is called auto delete controls. So you will be able to go in and I'll let you guys know when this happens, right. So you can go and turn it on. But you'll be able to go in and say, I want to place a limit. And you'll have the amount of time Google you keep my history, my web, my app activity, my location, I want to put a limit on that. And you will get to choose between three months and 18 months, and the data will be automatically deleted on a rolling basis. So this is really good news. It comes in the wake of Facebook staring down at $2 billion fine, the largest in history, I think Google is kind of getting the impression that maybe we don't want all of our data tracked. So this is a good thing. I'll let you a little more when it happens. I'm also going to be putting info up on the top of my homepage today about this Intel vulnerability. It is huge. It's the worst ever. Update update update people. Bottom line.

Ken 15:01
Craig Peterson, tech guru joins us every Wednesday at 7:38. This not being an exception. Thank you very much. And I will let you know how my upgrade of Windows 10 by myself does next week.

Craig 15:12
So you're upgrading from XP. What are you doing?

Ken 15:15  
No. Windows 7 because I have a Mac it's on my VM Fusion side of my Mac.

Craig 15:21
Okay, so a little hint here, before you do this, because you're using Fusion, VMware Fusion, you can take a snapshot of your Windows machine before you upgrade it.

Ken 15:35 
How do I do that?

Craig 15:36 
Okay, you go into your fusion, and you click on the machine because you got a virtual machine, a Windows 7 machine, and then it has snapshot up in the menu at the top. And just go to snapshot and say take snapshot. And it'll it'll it'll completely preserve absolutely everything in your Windows machine. And then you can go ahead and do the upgrade and everything goes.

Ken 15:58 
Nice. I'm going to do that right you now. Thank you.

Craig 16:01 
You can roll back. 

Ken 16:02  
All right. Thank you so much. There you go.

Matt 16:02  
All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is Craig Peterson. American hero and friend of the show. Joins us every Wednesday at this time to go over the world of technology.

Ken 16:10  
American hero.

Matt 16:12  
American hero. Coming up at 8:08. we have our eye on politics team and Jeremy Fisher

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It's 7:38 on a Wednesday, Craig is on with Ken and Matt. Today Craig gave Ken some instructions on how to upgrade his Windows machine. They also talked about the Pokemon region in the brains of the adults who played the game as kids, and how Facebook is a government protected monopoly.

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

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Brain Scans Reveal A ‘Pokémon Region’ In Adults Who Played As Kids

Facebook Is A Government-Protected Monopoly

Google Confirms It Will Automatically Delete Your Data — What You Need To Know

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Transcript:

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.

Airing date: 05/15/2019

Risks Of Upgrading Windows - Pokemon Changed Our Brains - New Google Privacy Feature Coming

Craig Peterson  0:00 
Hey, good morning everybody Craig Peterson here. This morning, I got to answer some questions. I helped Ken out with how to upgrade his Windows machine. Gave some, I think the best advice possible when it comes to an upgrade. And it's not just upgrades for Windows but we talked a little bit about Mac, I gave him some hints on what to do, because on his Mac, he's got windows seven, as well as Mac OS, he's got to get to Windows 10. So we talked about that. We talked about a Pokemon region in the brain of adults. Now this is kind of cool, too. And why is Facebook a government protected monopoly? What's that all about? And Google, automatically deleting our data? So all of that and a couple extra things too this morning with Ken and Matt. It was kind of a fun time again today. What a week. Alright, guys, we will be back Saturday with our weekly radio show wrap up. Take care of and I have a big warning too but you'll hear that right near the beginning.

Matt Gagnon 1:05
He's back ladies and gentlemen Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He's at this time every Wednesday. And it happens to be Wednesday at this time. So he's back again. Craig, How are you this morning?

Craig 1:18
I'm doing great. How are you guys?

Ken Altshuler 1:19
You know, the other day I was going to email you because I had a question. I forgot what it was. But another question has come up since then you have recommended everybody should upgrade to Windows 10. Correct?

Craig 1:30
At the very least Yes. And there's a huge, by the way, a huge I mean, how does President Trump pronounce it? There's a huge which is a new pronunciation, security vulnerability on every Intel processor made since 2011. I mean, we haven't had anything this bad in like for ever. So those people that are on my email list and my text list are going to get a link today with more information. But this came out yesterday. And all of the major guys Microsoft and Apple have already issued patches are there they're working on they've got them done. They should be out soon. But this is we've never seen anything this bad before. Thanks Intel. But of course your iPhones are fine. And other Samsung Galaxies and anything that's not using an Intel chip is ok. But this is like the hugest security problem we have seen I think maybe in a decade or two so anyway.

Ken 2:43
So when I upgrade to Windows 10. And is it something I can do or do I need somebody who knows something about computers like Matt could do it for me?

Craig 2:50
Well, if you can't handle...

Matt 2:53
He says this in the wake by the way of me having to clean up his computer last Friday.

Ken 2:56
Evidently I had asked Jeeves on it. I don't know how I put it on and they really made fun of me and and I was ashamed. They shamed me.

Matt 3:06
He was shamed. 

Ken 3:08
So I used to think I was somewhat tech savvy for an old man. But is it something I do myself?

Craig 3:15
I knew you had that it was coming. I knew that you had that sound bite.

Matt 3:19 
I got it on ready all the time.

Craig 3:21
Well, if you can't handle tabs on your browser, I think there's a little bit of a clue there. But here's the here's the bottom line, here's the recommendation. If you aren't going to upgrade to Windows 10. And this is true, particularly with Windows, but really kind of any operating system. Here's what I do, I don't upgrade, what I do is I make sure I have two backups of my computer. I do a virgin install, I do completely wipe the computer, reformat the hard disk, and particularly with Windows. And then I get it installed, I get it all patched up up to date. And then I get the newest versions of the software that I had been running. And then I restore my files from backup. I don't restore the whole backup. 

Ken 4:15
This is not going to happen. For me to do that is impossible. Just so you know.

Craig 4:24
So you need help then. We knew that. You need help with your computer then Ken. And yes, absolutely. And here's why I do that. And here's why I recommend people that have the ability to do it, do it. There are, and this is kind of a technical term, but there are turds all over your computer. Okay. The Ask Jeeves.

Ken 4:48  
Matt fixed that for me.

Matt 4:49 
I did. I got rid of it.

Craig 4:50
Yeah. Yeah, he got rid of it. And all these plugins remember when people were installing these bars on their browsers, right? Probably Ask Jeeves, yeah, don't do that people including today. But there's just all of these remnants from over the years that are there things are partially configured, the poorly configured. Your Windows machine crash right in the middle of updating the registry, all kinds of things happen there's a power failure, which never happens in Maine. There's a power failure when you're doing something and that messed up stuff just enough so the computer works but some things get weird and get slow, etc, etc. So that's why I recommend you just do a from scratch install, and then restore just your files. Now Apple is a little bit different. Apple can still have some of these types of problems. Apple doesn't use a registry, it has a much better system. But like even with that, there are different types of problems with your computer. So when you do an upgrade on the apple, it takes some liberties and cleans things up on your behalf. But every two or three or four major releases of Apple operating system, I advise people to make sure you've got at least one good time machine backup, which is the built in backup software with Apple. And with Apple, you can have two or more copies of your backups. So have two USB drives, plug them in, put them both on time machine, leave it alone for flow, you can use the computer but leave the backup alone for a few days. It'll backup everything. You'll have two copies, and then do a from scratch install. And then with a time machine backup, you can just restore the user account information. So all of your files and things and and then just reload your programs to stuff. So it's really good. It's like a then we take it to your car into the dealer and get an oil change. You get your transmission fluid changed, the coolant changed, everything changed. It's a good idea to do that with your computers and the way you do it is to good backups and then that thing out and start from scratch.

Matt 7:11
Craig Peterson tech guru joins us Wednesdays at this time to go over what's happening in the world of technology. Craig I'm too curious to not ask about this one. The Pokemon thing. I mean, I so there's some people who played as kids have some sort of brain scan, the brain scan is revealed that there's a region their brain that essentially tells you that they played this game like explain this thing.

Craig 7:34 
Yeah. Yeah.

Matt 7:35  
And why is that? Like what happened?

Craig 7:36
Pokemon. Well, here's what happened. This is just amazing. This is specifically that now any Pokemon gaming when you were young, now, you know, you had to do a fair amount of it, right? But any Pokemon gaming when you were younger, throws this little switch in your brain. But they found that particularly people who played Pokemon on Game Boys from the 1990s, are apparently kind of very susceptible for that. It's kind of cool, because here's what happened. They did an experiment, they did a brain study with some of these people who played Pokemon when they were kids. And they wanted to know, did it affect their brains? And you know how many years we've been talking about stuff like this right? Violent video games. Does that make you violent as an adult and stuff? Right. And I know, Matt, you've been saying no, it doesn't, right?

Matt 8:35 
No, it does not.

Craig 8:36 
Yeah, exactly. So I thought. So they scan the participants brains. These were all self selected, and everything. You know how that goes. So this wasn't like the best sort of study in the world, showing them images of all 150 original Pokemon. And they were showing them eight at a time and they mixed in other images, like animals faces, cars, words, hallways, other cartoons. And what they found in experienced players was a specific region of the brain responded more to Pokemon than to any other images. Absolutely amazing. This was the, you know, the occipital region, which is the rear back of the brain here. It's the occipital temporal sulcus. I think it is. S-U-L-C-U-S. Some will know how to pronounce that. But it was absolutely amazing. And novices did not have this region respond in any different way to anything. So basically, Pokemon programmed your brain to selectively notice Pokemons more than anything else as part of a theory called extra sensory bias. And it suggests the size of the images and the types we're looking at. And even in your peripheral vision, by the way, will make your brain respond. So fascinating. You know, what, what does that tell us? I don't know.

Matt 10:07  
You got to catch them all. That's what it tells you.

Craig 10:10
Yeah. Exactly. So you've been programmed Matt, and you just don't realize it.

Matt 2:50
I'd like to make clear with the audience that I did not actually play that game growing up, but I am familiar with it.

Ken 10:20
We are talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us Wednesdays at 7:38. Is Facebook a monopoly Mr. Peterson?

Matt 10:27
What does that have to do with milkshakes? I guess I didn't follow that.

Craig 10:32
Wow, man, we could go on for hours. But here's the bottom line, not just milkshakes, Matt, but hamburgers. And there's a great example. This is an article that I have up on my website from Amgreatness. And Ray Kroc. Of course, you might remember the story of the start of McDonald's, right? A couple of brothers had a hamburger stand. And it was amazing. And so Ray Kroc visited them trying to sell milkshake mixer, and was wondering why they needed four up milkshake mixer for such a small stand. The story evolved into McDonald's and, and he took what they had done and license issues everything else in the legal side. So the point here is that with the way the patent laws are today, they go far beyond what most people think the Constitution requires. They now have patent laws that allow you to patent processes, business processes, for instance. And it's gotten to the point where companies like Facebook, have patents on things that were obvious next steps, that even the patent law says aren't supposed to be issued. But the patent office is so overrun their patent issuing patents for things that should never been patented. And so now you have companies like, like Facebook out there, and Microsoft, who have patents on things that may be shouldn't have been issued, I don't think most of them should have been issued. So they can have and they don't have any competition. You know, we have people being that deep platform, we have conservative voices saying, Hey, listen, we're, we're not able to make any money anymore, because YouTube has cut us off, Facebook has cut us off, etc, etc. We should have five different alternatives out there for people to go to if Facebook or YouTube or someone else does something that kicks them off. And they say, Well, fine, I'm going to like conservative Facebook called XYZ book or whatever it might be. But we don't. And a lot of the reason for that is the state of the patent laws. And I personally have said for a very long time, we've got to change them. With technology moving the way it is, we are hindering our progress in the technology world in a huge way, by allowing these corporations, big ones and small ones, to take an obvious idea patented, and then use the federal government to be there and for sure, for what's now effectively a protected monopoly.

Matt 13:08
We are talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over what's happening in the world of technology. I guess the last question for us in the last couple minutes we have here Craig I'd love to ask you about about Google and deleting our data. This obviously sort of goes into privacy questions and everything we've been talking about recently in the online space. Will they be deleting my data? What do I need to know about this?

Craig 13:34
Yeah, you can manually go in right now and get a bunch of your data deleted manually. There's some simple on off controls for location, history, web app activity. But you have to go into your Google account constantly to delete it and ask for it to be deleted. So Google has a new rollout coming within a month or so that is called auto delete controls. So you will be able to go in and I'll let you guys know when this happens, right. So you can go and turn it on. But you'll be able to go in and say, I want to place a limit. And you'll have the amount of time Google you keep my history, my web, my app activity, my location, I want to put a limit on that. And you will get to choose between three months and 18 months, and the data will be automatically deleted on a rolling basis. So this is really good news. It comes in the wake of Facebook staring down at $2 billion fine, the largest in history, I think Google is kind of getting the impression that maybe we don't want all of our data tracked. So this is a good thing. I'll let you a little more when it happens. I'm also going to be putting info up on the top of my homepage today about this Intel vulnerability. It is huge. It's the worst ever. Update update update people. Bottom line.

Ken 15:01
Craig Peterson, tech guru joins us every Wednesday at 7:38. This not being an exception. Thank you very much. And I will let you know how my upgrade of Windows 10 by myself does next week.

Craig 15:12
So you're upgrading from XP. What are you doing?

Ken 15:15  
No. Windows 7 because I have a Mac it's on my VM Fusion side of my Mac.

Craig 15:21
Okay, so a little hint here, before you do this, because you're using Fusion, VMware Fusion, you can take a snapshot of your Windows machine before you upgrade it.

Ken 15:35 
How do I do that?

Craig 15:36 
Okay, you go into your fusion, and you click on the machine because you got a virtual machine, a Windows 7 machine, and then it has snapshot up in the menu at the top. And just go to snapshot and say take snapshot. And it'll it'll it'll completely preserve absolutely everything in your Windows machine. And then you can go ahead and do the upgrade and everything goes.

Ken 15:58 
Nice. I'm going to do that right you now. Thank you.

Craig 16:01 
You can roll back. 

Ken 16:02  
All right. Thank you so much. There you go.

Matt 16:02  
All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is Craig Peterson. American hero and friend of the show. Joins us every Wednesday at this time to go over the world of technology.

Ken 16:10  
American hero.

Matt 16:12  
American hero. Coming up at 8:08. we have our eye on politics team and Jeremy Fisher

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