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

Craig is on the WGAN Morning News. This morning they talked about the dangers of spam, spear phishing, and sextortion emails. They also talked about the Supreme Court taxing the online stores.

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: 04/10/2019

Internet Sales About To Be Taxed - Dangers Of Spam

Craig Peterson  0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody. Sorry, yesterday, I was not able to record a little intro to my Jim podcast. But anyhow, I am today. And we're planning on doing a security thing this week to on Thursday and Friday. So keep an ear out for that. I got a couple of real interesting cases that we're going to be talking about. Some major companies and some small companies and what happened to them this week with leaking sensitive data. So this morning, I was on with Ken and Matt. And we talked about two different things. We talked about something I did not talk with Jim about yesterday. And that is how the US has stepped up its tax game. And what is happening with the tax jurisdictions, the Supreme Court decision last fall, that really is going to change everything. So I talked to them about that. And then also, of course course about email, and the email problems we're having right now, the switch, frankly, that's been occurring in spearphishing that I saw starting in about six weeks ago, but now it's starting to reach epidemic levels a lot higher than the measles right now. Anyhow, take care. And here we go. be back tomorrow

Matt Gagnon 1:21
7:38 WGAN Morning News on a Wednesday, which means that it's time to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now as he always does at this time, except for last week when he didn't join us. So he's back. Ladies and gentlemen, Craig, how are you?

Craig 1:34
I am. I was at a conference last weekend in Phoenix, Arizona.

Matt 1:41
Excuses, excuses.

Ken Altshuler 1:41
So let's see probably the same kind of whether you're experiencing this week here in town.

Craig 1:46
Pretty much the you know, it was about 70 degrees inside the conference room for five days. And then I heard rumors that it was in the 90s outside. Yeah, I was a good little boy and stayed in there. The whole time learned and contributed.

Matt 1:59
Soldiered on.

Ken 2:02
So well. Why don't we start off with email security. This is very safe as I know. We don't have to worry about anything about email security now do we?

Craig 2:12
Yeah. Well there are some changes in this. I don't know if you guys noticed some of the changes in the emails that are coming in, these these spear phishing attacks?

Ken 2:21
Spear phishing attacks.

Matt 2:24 
I don't really like fish.

Ken 2:25
I don't really mind spearfishing, sounds kind of...

Craig 2:27
You can't connect, you know, normally when you're spearfishing, you can't you don't get a whole bunch of fish or better with a big net. And for years, that's what they did, what they would do is send out emails, the exact same emails to as many email addresses as they could get their hands on. And some people would respond. And there's some interesting science behind this, you know, the Nigerian prince scams that are still going on, but not at the rate they used to. They would have spelling mistakes and grammatical, you guys must have noticed that right?

Matt 3:00 
Yeah. A little bit, yeah.

Craig 3:02 
Yeah. And did you realize that the intention of them putting in, the intent behind putting in the grammatical grammatical errors, as well as the spelling mistakes, was to catch people that weren't terribly smart, because they were thinking, well, if they don't notice, if they can get past all of the grammar errors and things, then maybe we can convince them to send us some money, so that we can rescue the Nigerian prince. And that worked and it worked with a quite a few people over a lot of years. And unfortunately, it really hit the senior community because they, this is all new, they weren't paying that type of close attention. Well, now we've gotten smarter. So rather than casting these huge nets out there, what the bad guys have been doing is they're still phishing but now they're phishing individuals. And this is a problem that comes from all of the data breaches over the years, it seems like almost every week now we hear about another massive data breach. So on the dark web, there are databases of hundreds of millions. We just found one this year already that had 2 billion records in it, of people's email addresses their passwords, etc. So the bad guys are get a little smarter. They've been doing business email compromise attack that we kind of talked about before, FBI has been warning about them for quite a while, over $12 billion in cash stolen over the last few years to the business email compromise attacks. But what I want to talk about now is a new type of email attacks that's been happening, because they have so much data. They've been doing spear phishing attacks in the realm of what's called nowadays, sextortion. And they'll send an email out, the emails look like it's just a regular warning email, it'll say, so the subject might be warning, your end, it'll give your email address [email protected], for instance, account has been compromised. And then you go into the email because it looks like a warning. And it may look like it's from Google. In fact, right now, the majority, the number one source for these emails is Gmail. So you'll get an email is coming from Gmail. So Google, right you have using, so you open it up, look inside it says, Ken, this is a warning that your [email protected] account has been compromised. And they give you some other information like your password. So with the sextortion email, what they're doing is they're saying, Ken we have a video of you on and they'll name some pornographic website, and your password on that site is this. Now remember what we keep warning people about week after week, and that is don't use the same email address on multiple sites, right? People are still using the same email address on multiple sites. And so the problem that's arisen from all of this is that people are getting the email, it says, we caught you, we have you on video at this porn site. Here's your password for that porn site, pay up now, or we are going to release this information. And right now, which of course is a former blackmail, and it's about 10% of all of the spear phishing attacks, it is increasing. If you are, if you have a business email address that's been compromised in a breach, you're twice as likely to be the target of blackmail now, than business email compromise. So this is a very, very big deal. I've had listeners who have reached out to me and said, Oh, I got this email and they tell me what it is. They say Should I get a lawyer involved? And you know, bottom line? It obviously it's up to you. But this is now the fastest growing type of attack. So advice for everybody how to stop this. Change all your email passwords and addresses. Matt, you said you use LastPass right?

Matt 7:26
Yes I do.

Craig 7:28
Yeah, LastPass is great. You know, I prefer 1Password. It's a lot better for businesses group account sharing, you know, accounts that you might have to share inside of business with different vaults and things. But both of them are excellent. And what I'll do is everybody that's on my text list, I'll send out this thing later today. And I'll give out the phone number. So you can text me and I'll send it to this, I'm not selling anything, I'm going to send you my report that compares the password services so you can change your password and get that stuff all straight. I'll send that out after we get off the air here. But this is huge. And it's been successful, because people are still using the same email and the same password on multiple websites I live. There's the biggest tip of the day right there.

Matt 8:22
Were 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, let's say for the sake of argument, Mr. Peterson that I sell stuff online. And and you know what i tax is kind of an open question sometimes. The United States seems to have recently paid a little bit more attention to this and trying to figure out how to actually extract more blood from the stone. So tell us a little bit about what you should be aware of if you're a retailer that sells stuff online.

Craig 8:52
Yeah, if you're selling stuff online, there's a US Supreme Court case last year that was heard. And it's between Wayfair, which is this big online furniture and home goods company. Have you, I've seen it online.

Matt 9:07
Oh yeah sure, absolutely.

Craig 9:08
And Wayfai'r's online and the State of South Dakota, said people in South Dakota who are buying from Wayfair should be paying our state sales tax. Which makes sense, right? I can see that. But the question is Wayfair, who has no presence in South Dakota, no physical presence, know nexus at all, says, Hey, listen, we're not there. And we know that Congress has really protected the internet from sales taxes, and having to pay it because they kind of wanted it to grow. And it's just a nightmare if they had to collect sales tax. So the US Supreme Court overturned the law on not taxing companies that had no state nexus. So now, things are going to get very messy, because companies that are selling online, are going to end up having to collect sales tax for every sales tax jurisdiction in the United States. And it's estimated that there are some 9000 different sales taxes across the United States, because they're not just talking about the state taxes, which range from 4.7 to 13.5%. Right now, but we're including local sir taxes, like, if you live in New York City, you've got New York state tax, you've got the county tax, you've got the city tax, it gets kind of crazy. So they're trying to be kind of reasonable in the ruling. So they're saying there are going to be thresholds. So most, and this is state by state, by the way, which makes it even more of a nightmare. So some states are saying if you sell 100,000 dollars of product in our state, you now have to pay and withhold the sales taxes. And the threshold varies as I said. Now, big companies like our friends over at Amazon, I love this, because they can easily take care of all of us state sales tax and messes and county and the city and everything else. But the little guys can't. And so amazon for quite a while has been saying yeah, yeah, we we are we sure have internet sales tax. If this is going to hurt some companies, obviously $100,000 is quite a few sales. But depending on what you're doing, keep an eye out. Now there are a couple of companies that have popped up in the last little while. Paddle is one of them. But there's others that are able to do this for you. But I think what's going to happen is this is going to help Amazon in another way. And that is if you're selling things online, you're just going to sell them through Amazon, or through eBay, and let them worry about all of the red tape of filing with some 9000 different taxes in, you know hundreds of jurisdictions throughout the country. So you're right about that Matt. And if I could text out the links, I also have something this is a free service that Google has, I'll send you a link to this as well. And what it does is it gives you on your screen, it doesn't send you emails or anything it asks you for your name and email. And it what it does, it doesn't use it other than to try and fool you on the web page. So it'll run you through eight different emails will show them to you on the web page. You can hover over the links and things and it'll help you understand better whether or not you are, you know, educated enough, if you will, about these types of attacks to protect yourself. So we'll give you a little quiz and help you out and answer your questions. So I'll text that out as well. So if you just text either Ken or Matt to me at 855-385-5553. I will send you links to both of those things on the password managers, a big article I wrote on that. And then also a link to Google's really cool little training thing you can use for yourself and people in your company to help your spear phishing. So just Ken or Matt just text either to me 855-385-5553 and I'll send that out to you later on today. I'm not going to spam you. I don't sell these things. I just want to get the information out there because I can't believe these things are working.

Ken 13:53
Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us every Wednesday at 7:38. Get all of his information directly from him. Thank you, Craig we'll talk to you next week.

Craig 14:05
Hey gentlemen, take care. Bye bye. 

Craig 14:10 
Alright guys have a great day. It is going to be a busy one today for me because I had my last coaching call from the Cybersecurity Do It Yourself course this afternoon so I gotta get ready for that. Off I go. Take care everybody. Bye bye. 

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Craig is on the WGAN Morning News. This morning they talked about the dangers of spam, spear phishing, and sextortion emails. They also talked about the Supreme Court taxing the online stores.

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

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The US Has Stepped Up Its Tax Game. You Will Want To Read This If You’re Selling Online

Latest Tactics Used By Cybercriminals To Bypass Traditional Email Security
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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 04/10/2019

Internet Sales About To Be Taxed - Dangers Of Spam

Craig Peterson  0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody. Sorry, yesterday, I was not able to record a little intro to my Jim podcast. But anyhow, I am today. And we're planning on doing a security thing this week to on Thursday and Friday. So keep an ear out for that. I got a couple of real interesting cases that we're going to be talking about. Some major companies and some small companies and what happened to them this week with leaking sensitive data. So this morning, I was on with Ken and Matt. And we talked about two different things. We talked about something I did not talk with Jim about yesterday. And that is how the US has stepped up its tax game. And what is happening with the tax jurisdictions, the Supreme Court decision last fall, that really is going to change everything. So I talked to them about that. And then also, of course course about email, and the email problems we're having right now, the switch, frankly, that's been occurring in spearphishing that I saw starting in about six weeks ago, but now it's starting to reach epidemic levels a lot higher than the measles right now. Anyhow, take care. And here we go. be back tomorrow

Matt Gagnon 1:21
7:38 WGAN Morning News on a Wednesday, which means that it's time to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now as he always does at this time, except for last week when he didn't join us. So he's back. Ladies and gentlemen, Craig, how are you?

Craig 1:34
I am. I was at a conference last weekend in Phoenix, Arizona.

Matt 1:41
Excuses, excuses.

Ken Altshuler 1:41
So let's see probably the same kind of whether you're experiencing this week here in town.

Craig 1:46
Pretty much the you know, it was about 70 degrees inside the conference room for five days. And then I heard rumors that it was in the 90s outside. Yeah, I was a good little boy and stayed in there. The whole time learned and contributed.

Matt 1:59
Soldiered on.

Ken 2:02
So well. Why don't we start off with email security. This is very safe as I know. We don't have to worry about anything about email security now do we?

Craig 2:12
Yeah. Well there are some changes in this. I don't know if you guys noticed some of the changes in the emails that are coming in, these these spear phishing attacks?

Ken 2:21
Spear phishing attacks.

Matt 2:24 
I don't really like fish.

Ken 2:25
I don't really mind spearfishing, sounds kind of...

Craig 2:27
You can't connect, you know, normally when you're spearfishing, you can't you don't get a whole bunch of fish or better with a big net. And for years, that's what they did, what they would do is send out emails, the exact same emails to as many email addresses as they could get their hands on. And some people would respond. And there's some interesting science behind this, you know, the Nigerian prince scams that are still going on, but not at the rate they used to. They would have spelling mistakes and grammatical, you guys must have noticed that right?

Matt 3:00 
Yeah. A little bit, yeah.

Craig 3:02 
Yeah. And did you realize that the intention of them putting in, the intent behind putting in the grammatical grammatical errors, as well as the spelling mistakes, was to catch people that weren't terribly smart, because they were thinking, well, if they don't notice, if they can get past all of the grammar errors and things, then maybe we can convince them to send us some money, so that we can rescue the Nigerian prince. And that worked and it worked with a quite a few people over a lot of years. And unfortunately, it really hit the senior community because they, this is all new, they weren't paying that type of close attention. Well, now we've gotten smarter. So rather than casting these huge nets out there, what the bad guys have been doing is they're still phishing but now they're phishing individuals. And this is a problem that comes from all of the data breaches over the years, it seems like almost every week now we hear about another massive data breach. So on the dark web, there are databases of hundreds of millions. We just found one this year already that had 2 billion records in it, of people's email addresses their passwords, etc. So the bad guys are get a little smarter. They've been doing business email compromise attack that we kind of talked about before, FBI has been warning about them for quite a while, over $12 billion in cash stolen over the last few years to the business email compromise attacks. But what I want to talk about now is a new type of email attacks that's been happening, because they have so much data. They've been doing spear phishing attacks in the realm of what's called nowadays, sextortion. And they'll send an email out, the emails look like it's just a regular warning email, it'll say, so the subject might be warning, your end, it'll give your email address [email protected], for instance, account has been compromised. And then you go into the email because it looks like a warning. And it may look like it's from Google. In fact, right now, the majority, the number one source for these emails is Gmail. So you'll get an email is coming from Gmail. So Google, right you have using, so you open it up, look inside it says, Ken, this is a warning that your [email protected] account has been compromised. And they give you some other information like your password. So with the sextortion email, what they're doing is they're saying, Ken we have a video of you on and they'll name some pornographic website, and your password on that site is this. Now remember what we keep warning people about week after week, and that is don't use the same email address on multiple sites, right? People are still using the same email address on multiple sites. And so the problem that's arisen from all of this is that people are getting the email, it says, we caught you, we have you on video at this porn site. Here's your password for that porn site, pay up now, or we are going to release this information. And right now, which of course is a former blackmail, and it's about 10% of all of the spear phishing attacks, it is increasing. If you are, if you have a business email address that's been compromised in a breach, you're twice as likely to be the target of blackmail now, than business email compromise. So this is a very, very big deal. I've had listeners who have reached out to me and said, Oh, I got this email and they tell me what it is. They say Should I get a lawyer involved? And you know, bottom line? It obviously it's up to you. But this is now the fastest growing type of attack. So advice for everybody how to stop this. Change all your email passwords and addresses. Matt, you said you use LastPass right?

Matt 7:26
Yes I do.

Craig 7:28
Yeah, LastPass is great. You know, I prefer 1Password. It's a lot better for businesses group account sharing, you know, accounts that you might have to share inside of business with different vaults and things. But both of them are excellent. And what I'll do is everybody that's on my text list, I'll send out this thing later today. And I'll give out the phone number. So you can text me and I'll send it to this, I'm not selling anything, I'm going to send you my report that compares the password services so you can change your password and get that stuff all straight. I'll send that out after we get off the air here. But this is huge. And it's been successful, because people are still using the same email and the same password on multiple websites I live. There's the biggest tip of the day right there.

Matt 8:22
Were 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, let's say for the sake of argument, Mr. Peterson that I sell stuff online. And and you know what i tax is kind of an open question sometimes. The United States seems to have recently paid a little bit more attention to this and trying to figure out how to actually extract more blood from the stone. So tell us a little bit about what you should be aware of if you're a retailer that sells stuff online.

Craig 8:52
Yeah, if you're selling stuff online, there's a US Supreme Court case last year that was heard. And it's between Wayfair, which is this big online furniture and home goods company. Have you, I've seen it online.

Matt 9:07
Oh yeah sure, absolutely.

Craig 9:08
And Wayfai'r's online and the State of South Dakota, said people in South Dakota who are buying from Wayfair should be paying our state sales tax. Which makes sense, right? I can see that. But the question is Wayfair, who has no presence in South Dakota, no physical presence, know nexus at all, says, Hey, listen, we're not there. And we know that Congress has really protected the internet from sales taxes, and having to pay it because they kind of wanted it to grow. And it's just a nightmare if they had to collect sales tax. So the US Supreme Court overturned the law on not taxing companies that had no state nexus. So now, things are going to get very messy, because companies that are selling online, are going to end up having to collect sales tax for every sales tax jurisdiction in the United States. And it's estimated that there are some 9000 different sales taxes across the United States, because they're not just talking about the state taxes, which range from 4.7 to 13.5%. Right now, but we're including local sir taxes, like, if you live in New York City, you've got New York state tax, you've got the county tax, you've got the city tax, it gets kind of crazy. So they're trying to be kind of reasonable in the ruling. So they're saying there are going to be thresholds. So most, and this is state by state, by the way, which makes it even more of a nightmare. So some states are saying if you sell 100,000 dollars of product in our state, you now have to pay and withhold the sales taxes. And the threshold varies as I said. Now, big companies like our friends over at Amazon, I love this, because they can easily take care of all of us state sales tax and messes and county and the city and everything else. But the little guys can't. And so amazon for quite a while has been saying yeah, yeah, we we are we sure have internet sales tax. If this is going to hurt some companies, obviously $100,000 is quite a few sales. But depending on what you're doing, keep an eye out. Now there are a couple of companies that have popped up in the last little while. Paddle is one of them. But there's others that are able to do this for you. But I think what's going to happen is this is going to help Amazon in another way. And that is if you're selling things online, you're just going to sell them through Amazon, or through eBay, and let them worry about all of the red tape of filing with some 9000 different taxes in, you know hundreds of jurisdictions throughout the country. So you're right about that Matt. And if I could text out the links, I also have something this is a free service that Google has, I'll send you a link to this as well. And what it does is it gives you on your screen, it doesn't send you emails or anything it asks you for your name and email. And it what it does, it doesn't use it other than to try and fool you on the web page. So it'll run you through eight different emails will show them to you on the web page. You can hover over the links and things and it'll help you understand better whether or not you are, you know, educated enough, if you will, about these types of attacks to protect yourself. So we'll give you a little quiz and help you out and answer your questions. So I'll text that out as well. So if you just text either Ken or Matt to me at 855-385-5553. I will send you links to both of those things on the password managers, a big article I wrote on that. And then also a link to Google's really cool little training thing you can use for yourself and people in your company to help your spear phishing. So just Ken or Matt just text either to me 855-385-5553 and I'll send that out to you later on today. I'm not going to spam you. I don't sell these things. I just want to get the information out there because I can't believe these things are working.

Ken 13:53
Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us every Wednesday at 7:38. Get all of his information directly from him. Thank you, Craig we'll talk to you next week.

Craig 14:05
Hey gentlemen, take care. Bye bye. 

Craig 14:10 
Alright guys have a great day. It is going to be a busy one today for me because I had my last coaching call from the Cybersecurity Do It Yourself course this afternoon so I gotta get ready for that. Off I go. Take care everybody. Bye bye. 

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Craig is on with Jim Polito this morning. They talked about sextortion scams being circulated in the emails and about passwords and password managers you can use.

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 04/09/2019

Why Hackers Hack - Sextortion On The Rise And What To Do About It 

Jim Polito 0:01
Welcome back. He's here and thank God because the cyber criminals are out there. Still trying to get into your email. Well, how do you protect yourself? Well you start with this man, our Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig Peterson 0:21
Hey, good morning, Jim.

Jim 0:22
How are you, buddy?

Craig 0:24
I'm doing great. We're just in a conference, in fact, out west and now I'm trying to get used to the time zone again, back and forth, back and forth. There's so much going on.

Jim 0:34
There is and they're relentless, the cyber criminals in wanting to get into your email every time some other patches put up or some other security measure, they figure a way around it. So what's the latest that they're doing? And what can we do about it?

Craig 0:50
Well, if you don't mind you, and let me let me explain something to the audience.

Jim 0:53
Explain, I like that. Explain.

Craig 0:58
Why are they doing it? And you get right down to it, you and I and everybody else around here. We're living here in this first world country. And we enjoy all kinds of things. At the conference, I spent some time with a few ladies from Zimbabwe and South Africa. And they're living there, this one lady is trying to help other women who are in abusive relationships there. Get out of that learn some skills. They make it $100 a month, in Zimbabwe. They do not have running water. Most of the days of the week the pipes are turned off, there's no water at all. They don't have the electricity that we have. It's just amazing. And they were just absolutely livid about what they called entitled, stupid people worried about everything from the type of plastic bag all the way on out.

Jim 2:03
Don't talk about plastic bags. You're going to get people upset.

Craig 2:10 
Total first world problems, okay, I'm helping them by getting some use computers together, cleaning them up, I'm gonna be doing some free training for them on cyber security. So consider that type of person. And then then you can move on to Eastern Europe where it's more than $100 a month that they're making but they're not making very much.

Jim 2:28 
They're not making very much.

Craig 2:31
So if they can somehow get their hands on your data, if they can, you know, these people aren't stupid. They're just in a bad financial circumstance. So if they can get their hands on your data, let's say one, one of my new clients had $100,000 taken out of their operating account, based on the technique we're going to talk about, okay. $100,000, and this was an Eastern European, that means they can not only support themselves for a year or two, but they can support their brothers, their sisters, their parents, their grandparents for a year or two. You know, the getting a $500 from someone is a huge win. Again, these women in Zimbabwe, that's five months worth of food and rent if they have to pay that. That's huge, huge money. So we're sitting here with our first world problems saying, well, why would anybody want to steal my credit card or my identity? Or get into my business bank account?

Craig 3:40
Well that's why. Think think of the motivation of these people and how many people there, they're going to be helping? So I had to say that because.

Jim 3:48
It makes sense. I'm glad I'm glad you gave that perspective, I mean, just about what they're dealing with. And and if they you know, it drives people to some things. Drive people to crime.

Craig 3:59
They absolutely do and we just don't realize it so much of the time zone, we have a very interesting conversation at dinner the night before last, with these ladies talking about what's going on. So when you were talking about here with email is absolutely huge. Because again, these are just bad guys. And they are trying to get some money out of you. And they're using some new strategies to get past these email security gateways. You know, you have some of the lower end ones that you might get from a Barracuda or an online site, and there's ways to get past them. And that's what we're talking about just for a minute here. I've had a lot of listeners, contact me with these sextortion scams. Know, I've got them as well, I don't know if you have. But what will happen with these sextortion scams, which is a type of blackmail, and right now it's making up 10% send of all of the spear phishing attacks and email, and that number is rising. And if your employees are more than twice as likely to be targeted blackmail, then standard business email compromise. And so here's what happened. They send an email that has in the subject line, security alerts type of message. They'll include your email address, or even your password in the subject line. And they'll say something like, Hey, you know, we have video of you on this porn site. And they'll give you a password. Now remember, Jim, we've talked many times about do not put your password out on, you know, the same password on multiple websites? 

Jim 5:52
Yeah. Because once they get one, they get the others. Yeah.

Craig 5:57
They've got them all because it's the same one. So they'll either put your email, your email address, they'll definitely put your password into these things. And now all of a sudden, you say, Oh, my gosh, what happened? And whether or not you were on that site, you're questioning now wait a minute, they've got my password? Well, of course they do. If you use the same password everywhere, of course they do. And we're seeing brand impersonation is huge. One out of three times a impersonate a financial institution.

Jim 6:34
And there is. Yeah.

Craig 6:35
There it is business email compromises and blackmail is on the rebound right now. So one of the most common ones is impersonating Microsoft and my dad fell victim to that one. Thank goodness, my mom called me and said, you know, your dad's  talking to someone on Microsoft technical support? And I'm not sure. You know, one in five is a financial institution, the majority them now are sextortion emails with a security alert, subject lines and more than 70% nowadays, are trying to establish some form of rapport. Hey, we're trying to help you.

Craig 7:17
Yeah, sense of urgency. And we're using name spoofing techniques. And it's getting past most of these lower end filters and gateways out there. So if you're a business person, and this is, you know, they're not all going to business email addresses, that's for sure. And they are not all coming from them either. Right now, the number one source of these sextortion and other emails, is Gmail. It's Google. Google's not even able to stop them from going out okay. Huge. So just stay ahead, you've got to have the right combination of the right technology, which isn't the cheap stuff, I'm afraid to say, you know. Look for something good look for Cisco's email firewalls. Look for the higher end ones. You know, even a Barracuda is better than nothing. Right? So have that, but also have training for your people. You know what, I'm going to dig up, there is a website that Google has put out, I've got the URL somewhere. I'll dig it out. I'll text it out to our listeners here later on today, once I figure it all out. But this is training. It's free, it takes five to 10 minutes, 15 minutes at the most. And what it does is it shows you on this website to type it asks for your name and email address, okay, now, they don't use it in marketing or anything. But the goal behind this is to embed it into these fake emails, they're going to show you they're not going to send them to you, they're just going to show you. And you'll see the email on a web browser, just like it will be showing up in your normal email client. And you can mouse over and over over so they teach you some techniques. And with what's going on right now, Jim, this is going to be a godsend. So I'll make sure I SMS them out. Probably this afternoon.

Jim 9:13
All right. And it will tell you at the end of the segment, how to get to that stuff. But it's very, very important. Craig, you've got I guess the real tip here is you've got to make different passwords for every single account. And you talked before about a password storage system to help people with that.

Craig 9:38
Right, exactly. So go into Jim's archives, and you'll find, here's what it is, okay, there's two password managers, I highly recommend. If you are a business user, absolutely use something called 1Password. So that's the digit one, followed by the word password, 1Password is the way to go. And it's absolutely phenomenal. And I've written this thing up about this, I'll try and send that out later today too. I'll try and send them both out. And then I use it for my family as well. But it does cost money to get the family options and to get the group options. And 1Password has multiple vaults so you can have a vault for your financial people, a vault for your marketing people, etc, etc. So I love that. And then the other one that is free, now 1Password does have free as well. Okay, just let me have all the advanced features which you don't need from normal, just normal use. LastPass is the other one. LastPass as in last password. And both of these tie into your web browsers, they'll create passwords, they will remember them, they work across all of your devices. It's huge. So start today. Change all your passwords and use one of these two password managers.

Jim 10:57
All right Craig big help. Craig Peterson everybody. Now here's how you get all this information. This is how I know this stuff. And you'll be in on it too. Text my name, Jim, to this number.

Craig 11:12
855-385-5553. So just text the word Jim to 855-385-5553 along with any questions you might have.

Jim 11:26
Standard data and text rates apply. Craig will not sell your name to somebody, he won't hack you. This is all free. There's there's nothing, nothing you need to do about it. It's all free and he won't pester you with incessant messages but he will alert you when something big happens and tell you what you need to do. Craig excellent segment. Thank you so much for the time.

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Airing date: 04/09/2019

Why Hackers Hack - Sextortion On The Rise And What To Do About It 

Jim Polito 0:01
Welcome back. He's here and thank God because the cyber criminals are out there. Still trying to get into your email. Well, how do you protect yourself? Well you start with this man, our Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig Peterson 0:21
Hey, good morning, Jim.

Jim 0:22
How are you, buddy?

Craig 0:24
I'm doing great. We're just in a conference, in fact, out west and now I'm trying to get used to the time zone again, back and forth, back and forth. There's so much going on.

Jim 0:34
There is and they're relentless, the cyber criminals in wanting to get into your email every time some other patches put up or some other security measure, they figure a way around it. So what's the latest that they're doing? And what can we do about it?

Craig 0:50
Well, if you don't mind you, and let me let me explain something to the audience.

Jim 0:53
Explain, I like that. Explain.

Craig 0:58
Why are they doing it? And you get right down to it, you and I and everybody else around here. We're living here in this first world country. And we enjoy all kinds of things. At the conference, I spent some time with a few ladies from Zimbabwe and South Africa. And they're living there, this one lady is trying to help other women who are in abusive relationships there. Get out of that learn some skills. They make it $100 a month, in Zimbabwe. They do not have running water. Most of the days of the week the pipes are turned off, there's no water at all. They don't have the electricity that we have. It's just amazing. And they were just absolutely livid about what they called entitled, stupid people worried about everything from the type of plastic bag all the way on out.

Jim 2:03
Don't talk about plastic bags. You're going to get people upset.

Craig 2:10 
Total first world problems, okay, I'm helping them by getting some use computers together, cleaning them up, I'm gonna be doing some free training for them on cyber security. So consider that type of person. And then then you can move on to Eastern Europe where it's more than $100 a month that they're making but they're not making very much.

Jim 2:28 
They're not making very much.

Craig 2:31
So if they can somehow get their hands on your data, if they can, you know, these people aren't stupid. They're just in a bad financial circumstance. So if they can get their hands on your data, let's say one, one of my new clients had $100,000 taken out of their operating account, based on the technique we're going to talk about, okay. $100,000, and this was an Eastern European, that means they can not only support themselves for a year or two, but they can support their brothers, their sisters, their parents, their grandparents for a year or two. You know, the getting a $500 from someone is a huge win. Again, these women in Zimbabwe, that's five months worth of food and rent if they have to pay that. That's huge, huge money. So we're sitting here with our first world problems saying, well, why would anybody want to steal my credit card or my identity? Or get into my business bank account?

Craig 3:40
Well that's why. Think think of the motivation of these people and how many people there, they're going to be helping? So I had to say that because.

Jim 3:48
It makes sense. I'm glad I'm glad you gave that perspective, I mean, just about what they're dealing with. And and if they you know, it drives people to some things. Drive people to crime.

Craig 3:59
They absolutely do and we just don't realize it so much of the time zone, we have a very interesting conversation at dinner the night before last, with these ladies talking about what's going on. So when you were talking about here with email is absolutely huge. Because again, these are just bad guys. And they are trying to get some money out of you. And they're using some new strategies to get past these email security gateways. You know, you have some of the lower end ones that you might get from a Barracuda or an online site, and there's ways to get past them. And that's what we're talking about just for a minute here. I've had a lot of listeners, contact me with these sextortion scams. Know, I've got them as well, I don't know if you have. But what will happen with these sextortion scams, which is a type of blackmail, and right now it's making up 10% send of all of the spear phishing attacks and email, and that number is rising. And if your employees are more than twice as likely to be targeted blackmail, then standard business email compromise. And so here's what happened. They send an email that has in the subject line, security alerts type of message. They'll include your email address, or even your password in the subject line. And they'll say something like, Hey, you know, we have video of you on this porn site. And they'll give you a password. Now remember, Jim, we've talked many times about do not put your password out on, you know, the same password on multiple websites? 

Jim 5:52
Yeah. Because once they get one, they get the others. Yeah.

Craig 5:57
They've got them all because it's the same one. So they'll either put your email, your email address, they'll definitely put your password into these things. And now all of a sudden, you say, Oh, my gosh, what happened? And whether or not you were on that site, you're questioning now wait a minute, they've got my password? Well, of course they do. If you use the same password everywhere, of course they do. And we're seeing brand impersonation is huge. One out of three times a impersonate a financial institution.

Jim 6:34
And there is. Yeah.

Craig 6:35
There it is business email compromises and blackmail is on the rebound right now. So one of the most common ones is impersonating Microsoft and my dad fell victim to that one. Thank goodness, my mom called me and said, you know, your dad's  talking to someone on Microsoft technical support? And I'm not sure. You know, one in five is a financial institution, the majority them now are sextortion emails with a security alert, subject lines and more than 70% nowadays, are trying to establish some form of rapport. Hey, we're trying to help you.

Craig 7:17
Yeah, sense of urgency. And we're using name spoofing techniques. And it's getting past most of these lower end filters and gateways out there. So if you're a business person, and this is, you know, they're not all going to business email addresses, that's for sure. And they are not all coming from them either. Right now, the number one source of these sextortion and other emails, is Gmail. It's Google. Google's not even able to stop them from going out okay. Huge. So just stay ahead, you've got to have the right combination of the right technology, which isn't the cheap stuff, I'm afraid to say, you know. Look for something good look for Cisco's email firewalls. Look for the higher end ones. You know, even a Barracuda is better than nothing. Right? So have that, but also have training for your people. You know what, I'm going to dig up, there is a website that Google has put out, I've got the URL somewhere. I'll dig it out. I'll text it out to our listeners here later on today, once I figure it all out. But this is training. It's free, it takes five to 10 minutes, 15 minutes at the most. And what it does is it shows you on this website to type it asks for your name and email address, okay, now, they don't use it in marketing or anything. But the goal behind this is to embed it into these fake emails, they're going to show you they're not going to send them to you, they're just going to show you. And you'll see the email on a web browser, just like it will be showing up in your normal email client. And you can mouse over and over over so they teach you some techniques. And with what's going on right now, Jim, this is going to be a godsend. So I'll make sure I SMS them out. Probably this afternoon.

Jim 9:13
All right. And it will tell you at the end of the segment, how to get to that stuff. But it's very, very important. Craig, you've got I guess the real tip here is you've got to make different passwords for every single account. And you talked before about a password storage system to help people with that.

Craig 9:38
Right, exactly. So go into Jim's archives, and you'll find, here's what it is, okay, there's two password managers, I highly recommend. If you are a business user, absolutely use something called 1Password. So that's the digit one, followed by the word password, 1Password is the way to go. And it's absolutely phenomenal. And I've written this thing up about this, I'll try and send that out later today too. I'll try and send them both out. And then I use it for my family as well. But it does cost money to get the family options and to get the group options. And 1Password has multiple vaults so you can have a vault for your financial people, a vault for your marketing people, etc, etc. So I love that. And then the other one that is free, now 1Password does have free as well. Okay, just let me have all the advanced features which you don't need from normal, just normal use. LastPass is the other one. LastPass as in last password. And both of these tie into your web browsers, they'll create passwords, they will remember them, they work across all of your devices. It's huge. So start today. Change all your passwords and use one of these two password managers.

Jim 10:57
All right Craig big help. Craig Peterson everybody. Now here's how you get all this information. This is how I know this stuff. And you'll be in on it too. Text my name, Jim, to this number.

Craig 11:12
855-385-5553. So just text the word Jim to 855-385-5553 along with any questions you might have.

Jim 11:26
Standard data and text rates apply. Craig will not sell your name to somebody, he won't hack you. This is all free. There's there's nothing, nothing you need to do about it. It's all free and he won't pester you with incessant messages but he will alert you when something big happens and tell you what you need to do. Craig excellent segment. Thank you so much for the time.

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Cloud and Cloud computing is in the news and we'll talk about what is going on and what to expect

Do you sell things online off a website?  If so, you have to listen in to find out what the IRS is doing, right now, it's going to drive you crazy.

It's update time! Microsoft is out with their April update, known as 1903 or 19h1. It has some nice Windows Update policy features.

What are Cybercriminals up to now?  They are using new tactics that bypass traditional email security, So listen in to find out more

It's bad enough that cybercriminals are attacking us and stealing out information but now these Bad guys are stealing money right out of bank accounts.

Do you know what a Denial-of-Service or a Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks are?  Well, the FBI and Secret Service trying to shut down criminal organizations who are using them in a big way, we'll talk about what they are doing today.

Are you a C-level executive? It is time to remove your cybersecurity blinders -- Cybersecurity is no longer an IT problem it is a boardroom level problem and scary one when you get right down to it.  Cybercriminals are using brand impersonation now and it's it costing companies a lot of money 

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Airing date: 04/06/2019

FBI Shuts Down Denial Of Service Attacks - Supreme Court Ruling Will Affect Every Business

Craig Peterson 0:00  
Hey, hello, everybody, Craig Peterson here. And it looks like my math was wrong. You know, last week I said, I thought we were coming up to the 1,000th week of being on the air. Actually, we weren't coming up on it, it was the 1000th week. So this is our One Thousand and One weeks of broadcasting, and this week, we're going to have a few different radio appearances, as I usually do all be on with Jack Heath on Monday, but because I'm going to be busy this week, as well, actually, I guess, this week? No, I'm not going to be on with Jack on Monday. But I am going to be on on other stations Tuesday and Wednesday. Okay. So anyhow, we passed 1000 weeks, you can do the math, that's a lot of years on the air. I don't know if that makes me old. It's certainly kind that makes me feel old. But you guys, man, I appreciate you. I appreciate everyone who listens, and everyone who subscribes to my podcast. And you can do that quite easily by going to http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes. Leave a comment. Hopefully, I've earned a five star from you guys. And that'll help get the show out so more people are aware of it.

Craig 1:26
So let's get right into the articles this week. as is true every week, I send these things out on Saturday morning. So you should get my show notes-newsletter, and that'll keep you up to date. Let you know about the latest security problems that have arisen this last week and other things in the tech biz and tech world that I think are interesting. So number one this week is from Infosecurity Magazine. And it's talking about cloud and cloud computing, we'll get to that in a few minutes. The U.S, man, if you have a website, if you're selling things online, you got to hear what the IRS is doing right now.

Craig 2:08
And man, the internet tax stuff, it's going to drive you crazy. There is a new update here for Windows coming on. Well, it's the April update. And it's known as version 1903 or 19h1.

Craig 2:26
But it's going to have a new Windows Update policy. And it's going to let you if you are a big organization that is using the group policy editor, basically, you have an Active Directory server and you have group policies for your various accounts.

Craig 2:46
Excuse me, this, the policy is supposed to allow you now to specify deadlines for automatic updates, and restarts. Now if you don't have the Windows 10 professional, you're kind of stuck as it is right now because you can not, I repeat, can not specify when you want updates to be applied and how long you might want to wait. And we've certainly talked about that on the show before. But it's going to give IT admins a lot more control, especially when managing larger fleets really of devices, number of Windows devices, so it should be pretty good. And I have some details on where you'll find it in the menus there on my website at http://CraigPeterson.com. And Softpedia has really quite a nice little thing about the whole thing. But basically, you as an admin can set a deadline for installing updates as high as 30 days. Usually, I recommend about seven days, five to seven days, because that lets you get past the initial problems that often accompany these updates from our friends at Microsoft. And the auto reboot can be anywhere from zero to seven days following that.

Craig 4:08
Now, this feature is something that was available only in the pro
version. And now it's available across the board if you are using group policies, okay? The latest tactics used by cybercriminals will talk about this. And this is bypassing traditional email security.

Craig 4:27
And where do most IT professionals feel vulnerable when it comes to bad guys and attacks and stealing our information, stealing money literally right out of bank accounts. Well, we'll talk about that too. But first, I want to get to an article I love the title of this. This is out of the UK, it's from The Register. It's called Silence of the WANs, which I thought was just very clever. The FBI has been working hard to shut down criminal organizations, so has the Secret Service. I've talked with both of them before about what they're doing and how effective they have been. And one of the problems we talked about in my cybersecurity course, was something called a denial of service attack and distributed denial of service attack. And we talked about how to prevent them, how to stop them, and how to make your life so much easier. And we, of course, concluded that class, it's not open, you can't get into it right now, because I'm not conducting it right now. But denial of service attacks is absolutely huge. And the FBI just busted a massive attack and network about two weeks ago.

Craig 5:45
And this was just amazing. Because the traffic loads plummeted after the FBI took these guys out. And some of them were right here in the US. You think most of the time that there may be in Russia or, you know, some Eastern European country, maybe India, you know, the normal places these things come from. But the December of 2018, the FBI really started pushing trying to figure out who was running the distributed denial of service attacks. Now, here's what how a DOS works, the denial of service attack.

Craig 6:25
Someone, usually it's either a competitor or more often, it's someone that disagrees with your company. So a company that maybe has some sort of a political stance or donated to a charity that somebody doesn't like, they will start sending dozens, hundreds, thousands of requests to a web server, this is just a simple explanation, okay. So they'll send all of these to the web server, the web server becomes overloaded. It may crash or may not crash doesn't really matter. But because it has so many requests coming in, it cannot serve the normal users. So, people who are coming to your website to find out more about you may be to place an order, maybe to get some of the information that you're providing, they cannot get there because of the denial of service attack that's going on. Well, there is a worse type of denial of service attack, and it's called a distributed denial of service attack. Because bottom line, if there's only one machine that's attacking you, it's pretty darn easy to put a filter in place to block that machine from getting to you. That makes sense, right? Well, if you have 100, or thousand machines that are all sending data to you becomes much more difficult to stop. And that's the whole idea behind distributed denial of service attacks.

Craig 7:55
So they FBI worked with a mitigation provider called Nexusguard. And they've been tracking this stuff. And they're saying both the overall number of attacks and the volume of the data fired at the targets to overwhelm them is down and it's measurably down because the FBI wiped out 15 of these denials of service mercenary sites. Some of them are run in America, some of them are run overseas, but they allowed people to purchase the temporary use of the massive button that's of compromised devices. Right? Isn't that what I'm always warning you guys about? That's part of the reason you got to keep his machine safe. Because millions of machines have been compromised. They have remote controllers on them. The owners of the machines just aren't aware of this because they're not paying any attention to security. And then they hire your machine now to use to attack a third party. They use your machine to mine for Bitcoin to make money for them. They use your machine to distribute kiddie porn, pictures and videos of Americans being beheaded. Okay, how many times we have to talk about this everybody? So these massive botnets were in turn commanded to create massive loads of network traffic and targeted websites and different types of services, which ultimately overload them and knock some offline. 

Craig 9:27
Now, it seems according to The Register that these 15 denial-of-service groups were so prolific that simply taking them offline has caused a noticeable drop in global activity for the entire fourth quarter of 2018. We're talking about an estimate from the FBI of more than 300,000 attacks over the last five years from these guys. And Nexusguard is saying the number of attacks fell by 11%. And the size of each attack, which is the low directed at the target took a nosedive with the average rate dropping 85% and the maximum size down 24% from a year previous to that. So that's really good. The huge dip and attacks may not last, because it's so easy to set up a botnet because so many people haven't properly secured their computers, okay. And somebody else is going to come along and take over, fill in that void. There's going to be nude and distributed denial of services for higher services popping up.

Craig 10:33
Many of these Internet of Things (IoT) devices are now being used for botnets. So you're smart light there on the factory floor that isn't properly secured, are not only being used to attack you and get the information from your servers. But they're also being used now too, to a direct these denial-of-service attacks. The number of these IoT devices that are used in the amplification attacks, which is a specific type, but they were up over 3,000% from last year and their accounting for more than half of all the taxing in the last quarter of 2018. So again, you know, we covered this in detail in the DIY cybersecurity, make sure you segment your network, if you have IoT devices, make sure they cannot get out of your network, except to the control nodes, the legitimate ones, right?

Craig 11:34
The ones that are for the manufacturer to make sure they get security upgrades. And make sure you do the security updates, make sure they get the security updates, make sure it's all working. Because it's no longer you buy a light bulb from the local Home Depot store for a buck and plug it in. And you don't ever look at that light bulb again until it burns out.

Craig 11:57
Now with the Internet of Things who the smart bulbs in the smart everything, you know, thermostats, any of this stuff, those smart devices now are your responsibility. It's just like a friend of mine, who we've been providing DNS services to for 20 years, probably 15, 20 years, well, more than 20 years. And he called us up he says, Hey, listen, why aren't you guys providing DNS for us anymore, you know, from my little network. And we were and we dug into it. And we found out guess what?

Craig 12:32
His home address block that was assigned to him by in this case he has Comcast was used to access the dark web. Yeah, pretty big deal.

Craig 12:50
And so now he's running around trying to figure out why now we have automatic systems in place that saw, wait a minute, the side dark web block. So all of our stuff worked perfectly. It was great. And that's how we protect our customer's websites. And that's how we set up the networks for all of our customers. Just automatic. If it's not automatic. It's not going to happen, right? So we had automatically blocked him now he's trying to figure out why what IoT device, what light switch whatever, went out to the dark web, and was being used as a tor exit point, even. It's crazy. It's crazy what's happening. So make sure you know what you're doing, find some good courses, whether they're mine or somebody else's, and understand how to do this. And I have free master classes that we're offering from time to time, make sure you're on my email list, http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. That way, you'll get my show notes, you'll also get some of the more urgent alerts that come out. And I'll let you know about the free master classes and other training that I'm doing. Okay. So http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, and keep listening to this radio show. Because I do get stuff out here. Although, you know, when you talk about master classes, they can go easily an hour, hour and a half or even longer, you know, the courses can take you six weeks to get through. But you know, stay up to date, do the right thing. 

Craig 14:24
Now, let's talk about the number one problem that IT security professionals are looking at right now. 91%, this is according to Insider Threats, 91% of it and security professionals feel vulnerable to insider threats. And 75% believe the biggest risks lie in cloud applications like popular file storage, email solutions. You know, we talked about them before, they're worried about the Dropbox, Gmail, Google Drive, OneDrive. All of those things, right. So it is very, very concerning to IT professionals. And it's, you know, 91% of them being worried about the insider threats is huge. And that's why again, I have included in the DIY cybersecurity course, a whole set of policies and procedures that can go into the HR manuals as well as things that you should be doing in your business. Now BetterCloud surveyed nearly 500 IT network security professionals, and you can find this online. It's called The State of Insider Threats in the Digital Workspace 2019. So here are the key findings amongst again IT network security professionals, nearly all of them surveyed, 91%, feel vulnerable to insider threats. And that means things like people opening an email clicking on the wrong link, maybe doing something malicious because I got fired they got a bad review. Right. Those are all insider threats. 62% of them believe the biggest security threat comes from the well-meaning but negligent end user. That number fits in with other stats I've seen solids probably pretty legit. 75% believe the biggest risks lie in cloud storage and email solutions, which is really big. And I'm going to talk about an email security article here in a minute and about how the cybercriminals are changing their tactics. 46% of IT leaders which means, you know, the IT managers and above believe that the rise of software-as-a-service applications makes them the most vulnerable. And man, I'm seeing that all of the time, especially in regulated industries. And we're helping out some of these health care providers and legal and public companies. Man, they're using SaaS, software as a service. In other words, caught applications like that going on style, and they're not checking them. We've even done audits on restaurant chains, just small local chains, and found incredible liability that they're facing. 40% of them believe they're most vulnerable to exposure of confidential business information. That's financial information, customer list, personally identifiable information. And only 26% of C level executives say they've invested enough to mitigate the risk of insider threats, versus 44% of IT managers.

Craig 17:31
So in other words, the C level executives are running around with blinders on. Kind of scary isn't it when you get right down to it. So let's get into the latest tactics that are being used by the cybercriminals to bypass email security. And I've got this article up again on http://CraigPeterson.com and this is from Industry News. And they're saying that cybercriminals are using brand impersonation now in 83% of spear phishing attacks. Now, remember, these types of phishing attacks against businesses called business email compromise is kind of a general term to cover most of them. 83% of the time, this is what's used, and it's already accounting for about a little more than $12 billion worth of stolen funds, not wasted time, not cost to recovery, right. $12 billion in stolen funds. In the last couple of years according to the FBI, on the worldwide statistics. It is huge.

Craig 18:37
One in three of the spear phishing attacks is launched from Gmail accounts.

Craig 18:47
20% of them occur on Tuesdays. About 20% on Wednesday, 20% on Thursday, and it drops off to 5% on the weekends, with the slightly lower numbers on Mondays and Fridays. So no big surprise there. I've had people contact me, just texting me, you know, my 855-385-5553 number about these extortion scams. I've gotten one or two of them myself. And I know you guys have gotten them because you've contacted me, you've texted me about it. And and I've gone back and forth to kind of explain what's going on. But still sextortion scams, these are a form of blackmail. And right now it's making up about 10% of all spear phishing attacks. And it's expected to increase even more because it is on an increasing line right now. And employees are also twice as likely to be the target of blackmail, than of a business email compromise. So, that's a change from last year. And this is from a report released by Barracuda and it's called Spearphishing Top Threats and Trends if you want to look it out. And they looked at about 360,000 spear phishing emails.

Craig 20:08
So let's get some closer look here. Impersonating Microsoft is one of the more common techniques used by hackers to try and take over accounts, financial institutions. Impersonating nearly one in five attacks. Finance department employees are heavily targeted in obviously banks and other financial institutions as well. Majority of subject lines on sextortion emails contain some form of security alert attackers often include victims email address or password. Subject lines on more than 70% of the business email compromise attacks are trying to establish rapport, sense of urgency. Scammers are using name spoofing techniques, which they've used for years, changing the display name on Gmail and other employee accounts to make it look like it's coming from a company employee. So here's the top subject lines and number the two top 54% say security alert and 34% say change password. Okay. Very big deal. You'll see this article up on my website. And we'll have to try and do a master class on this one because I think this is important for people. I'm going to set these two aside and I'll let you know any anyone who's on my email list. I'll let you know about it. These are always free, will do a deeper dive into it.

Craig 21:30
Make sure you subscribe http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe if you haven't already. The US according to Forbes magazine has stepped up its tax collections here. And if you're selling software in the US, you've got a whole new problem coming your way, you know that we've had for a long time now, protection from the federal government saying the local authorities state and local cannot tax internet sales. And it has expanded a bit you've had massive companies like Amazon, who said yeah, we'll pay sales tax, state and local. And if you ask me, the reason they're doing that is to stomp the little guy into the ground. And the reason I say that is Amazon can deal with it. There are estimated to be over 9,000 different tax regulating entities in the United States. 9,000 of them. You have to comply with all of these 9000 across the board. How can you use a small business so that you can't, right? Amazon can. Well, there are going to be companies that are popping up there already are a few of them out there right now that are trying to take care of this problem for you where they'll collect all of the taxes.

Craig 22:56
And what it is resulting in, however, is many businesses is saying listen with all the European Union rules. They've got their GAFA rules are cooking up right now> GAFA, gaffer standing for Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon tax.

Craig 23:10
It's a kind of a VAT tax and supply, it's not supply driven. It's crazy. But there is a decision from the Supreme Court last year about a dispute between Wayfair now this is that online furniture company and the State of South Dakota and South Dakota wanted to collect taxes and Wayfair said no don't need to sell the Supreme Court overturned a law on not taxing companies with no physical presence in the taxing state. Because that legally is called legal nexus. So if you had operations in New Hampshire, you had to, well New Hampshire is a bad example, because we have no income tax. And we have no sales tax. Okay. But let's say you're in Massachusetts, which is a terrible state when it comes to taxes. You're in Massachusetts, if you sell something to someone in Mass., you have to click Mass. taxes. And if you sell something to someone in another state, you didn't necessarily have to collect the tax as well. Now you are going to. Any company selling online, this is more than just software companies, it's going to hit businesses across the board. And it's going to hit you hard.

Craig 24:25
Okay. South Dakota, has rules that say if you have more than 200, individual sales, or more than a hundred thousand revenues, there are other states that say more than 100 sales, or 50,000 in revenue, some of them have 4.7%, some of them have as much as 13.5%, and the thresholds for spending in the state span from 100,000 and $500,000. And there might be 100 transactions a year it might be 500 and might be 2000 transactions a year. Whoa, okay. This is going to be a huge burden. 52 new tax codes on the individual states plus sir taxes that are introduced by counties, by cities, not just in the US, but 30 countries in Europe, along with Australia, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, Norway, India, the list just goes on and on. Hundreds of countries. More than a hundred out there. And US states have highlighted software in SaaS products as explicitly liable for sales tax. So remember too that we're talking about different taxes and different tax rates. You look in Massachusetts, they have a different tax rate for different types of IT services, they have different rates for software as a service in different categories, this is going to be a nightmare. So there's companies out there like Avalara and TaxJar that will outsource and take care of a lot of this stuff for you. Many companies are saying "forget about it." I know companies in Canada that are just pulling their hair out just dealing with Canadian tax codes.

Craig 26:10
And many of them are just saying forget it, I'll just wait for the bill to come from the tax collector basically. So rather than charging you the appropriate sales tax, they fill out the state's forms that cross your fingers that they collected enough from you that they had enough in revenue to pay that state sales taxes.

Craig 26:29
This is why the federal government passed a law saying no internet sales taxes because it will be a nightmare. Now, it is going to help local small businesses because now they're going to compete on a more even footing where they have to collect the sales tax. So do the bigger companies, right? And so to the people, even small guys who are selling online, and it's going to help companies like eBay and Amazon, where you just sell your product on one of those sites veil worry about all of the sales tax and collecting that. And they'll take their cut and just pass it back to you. So yeah, well, this is going to be big. It's in. You heard it here first. Thank you, Supreme Court.

Craig 27:18
Anyhow, I hope you enjoyed today's show. You can read all of these articles plus the ones I missed today, including cloud adoption and what IT pros are concerned about. This 2019 state of enterprise cloud container adoption security that was published here recently, all of that in this morning's newsletter. If you didn't get it, make sure you get the future ones. http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, and I will keep you up to date and you can find out about this and, of course, a whole lot more. I have now thousands of articles I published up there my website, because we're over a thousand shows right now was this show 1001 weekly.

Craig 28:02
This is week 1001, not show 1001. Man, that's a lot of the time on the air. Anyhow, thanks for listening. Make sure you subscribe, http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe and have a great week. Talk to you next week. Bye-bye

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Airing date: 04/06/2019

FBI Shuts Down Denial Of Service Attacks - Supreme Court Ruling Will Affect Every Business

Craig Peterson 0:00  
Hey, hello, everybody, Craig Peterson here. And it looks like my math was wrong. You know, last week I said, I thought we were coming up to the 1,000th week of being on the air. Actually, we weren't coming up on it, it was the 1000th week. So this is our One Thousand and One weeks of broadcasting, and this week, we're going to have a few different radio appearances, as I usually do all be on with Jack Heath on Monday, but because I'm going to be busy this week, as well, actually, I guess, this week? No, I'm not going to be on with Jack on Monday. But I am going to be on on other stations Tuesday and Wednesday. Okay. So anyhow, we passed 1000 weeks, you can do the math, that's a lot of years on the air. I don't know if that makes me old. It's certainly kind that makes me feel old. But you guys, man, I appreciate you. I appreciate everyone who listens, and everyone who subscribes to my podcast. And you can do that quite easily by going to http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes. Leave a comment. Hopefully, I've earned a five star from you guys. And that'll help get the show out so more people are aware of it.

Craig 1:26
So let's get right into the articles this week. as is true every week, I send these things out on Saturday morning. So you should get my show notes-newsletter, and that'll keep you up to date. Let you know about the latest security problems that have arisen this last week and other things in the tech biz and tech world that I think are interesting. So number one this week is from Infosecurity Magazine. And it's talking about cloud and cloud computing, we'll get to that in a few minutes. The U.S, man, if you have a website, if you're selling things online, you got to hear what the IRS is doing right now.

Craig 2:08
And man, the internet tax stuff, it's going to drive you crazy. There is a new update here for Windows coming on. Well, it's the April update. And it's known as version 1903 or 19h1.

Craig 2:26
But it's going to have a new Windows Update policy. And it's going to let you if you are a big organization that is using the group policy editor, basically, you have an Active Directory server and you have group policies for your various accounts.

Craig 2:46
Excuse me, this, the policy is supposed to allow you now to specify deadlines for automatic updates, and restarts. Now if you don't have the Windows 10 professional, you're kind of stuck as it is right now because you can not, I repeat, can not specify when you want updates to be applied and how long you might want to wait. And we've certainly talked about that on the show before. But it's going to give IT admins a lot more control, especially when managing larger fleets really of devices, number of Windows devices, so it should be pretty good. And I have some details on where you'll find it in the menus there on my website at http://CraigPeterson.com. And Softpedia has really quite a nice little thing about the whole thing. But basically, you as an admin can set a deadline for installing updates as high as 30 days. Usually, I recommend about seven days, five to seven days, because that lets you get past the initial problems that often accompany these updates from our friends at Microsoft. And the auto reboot can be anywhere from zero to seven days following that.

Craig 4:08
Now, this feature is something that was available only in the pro
version. And now it's available across the board if you are using group policies, okay? The latest tactics used by cybercriminals will talk about this. And this is bypassing traditional email security.

Craig 4:27
And where do most IT professionals feel vulnerable when it comes to bad guys and attacks and stealing our information, stealing money literally right out of bank accounts. Well, we'll talk about that too. But first, I want to get to an article I love the title of this. This is out of the UK, it's from The Register. It's called Silence of the WANs, which I thought was just very clever. The FBI has been working hard to shut down criminal organizations, so has the Secret Service. I've talked with both of them before about what they're doing and how effective they have been. And one of the problems we talked about in my cybersecurity course, was something called a denial of service attack and distributed denial of service attack. And we talked about how to prevent them, how to stop them, and how to make your life so much easier. And we, of course, concluded that class, it's not open, you can't get into it right now, because I'm not conducting it right now. But denial of service attacks is absolutely huge. And the FBI just busted a massive attack and network about two weeks ago.

Craig 5:45
And this was just amazing. Because the traffic loads plummeted after the FBI took these guys out. And some of them were right here in the US. You think most of the time that there may be in Russia or, you know, some Eastern European country, maybe India, you know, the normal places these things come from. But the December of 2018, the FBI really started pushing trying to figure out who was running the distributed denial of service attacks. Now, here's what how a DOS works, the denial of service attack.

Craig 6:25
Someone, usually it's either a competitor or more often, it's someone that disagrees with your company. So a company that maybe has some sort of a political stance or donated to a charity that somebody doesn't like, they will start sending dozens, hundreds, thousands of requests to a web server, this is just a simple explanation, okay. So they'll send all of these to the web server, the web server becomes overloaded. It may crash or may not crash doesn't really matter. But because it has so many requests coming in, it cannot serve the normal users. So, people who are coming to your website to find out more about you may be to place an order, maybe to get some of the information that you're providing, they cannot get there because of the denial of service attack that's going on. Well, there is a worse type of denial of service attack, and it's called a distributed denial of service attack. Because bottom line, if there's only one machine that's attacking you, it's pretty darn easy to put a filter in place to block that machine from getting to you. That makes sense, right? Well, if you have 100, or thousand machines that are all sending data to you becomes much more difficult to stop. And that's the whole idea behind distributed denial of service attacks.

Craig 7:55
So they FBI worked with a mitigation provider called Nexusguard. And they've been tracking this stuff. And they're saying both the overall number of attacks and the volume of the data fired at the targets to overwhelm them is down and it's measurably down because the FBI wiped out 15 of these denials of service mercenary sites. Some of them are run in America, some of them are run overseas, but they allowed people to purchase the temporary use of the massive button that's of compromised devices. Right? Isn't that what I'm always warning you guys about? That's part of the reason you got to keep his machine safe. Because millions of machines have been compromised. They have remote controllers on them. The owners of the machines just aren't aware of this because they're not paying any attention to security. And then they hire your machine now to use to attack a third party. They use your machine to mine for Bitcoin to make money for them. They use your machine to distribute kiddie porn, pictures and videos of Americans being beheaded. Okay, how many times we have to talk about this everybody? So these massive botnets were in turn commanded to create massive loads of network traffic and targeted websites and different types of services, which ultimately overload them and knock some offline. 

Craig 9:27
Now, it seems according to The Register that these 15 denial-of-service groups were so prolific that simply taking them offline has caused a noticeable drop in global activity for the entire fourth quarter of 2018. We're talking about an estimate from the FBI of more than 300,000 attacks over the last five years from these guys. And Nexusguard is saying the number of attacks fell by 11%. And the size of each attack, which is the low directed at the target took a nosedive with the average rate dropping 85% and the maximum size down 24% from a year previous to that. So that's really good. The huge dip and attacks may not last, because it's so easy to set up a botnet because so many people haven't properly secured their computers, okay. And somebody else is going to come along and take over, fill in that void. There's going to be nude and distributed denial of services for higher services popping up.

Craig 10:33
Many of these Internet of Things (IoT) devices are now being used for botnets. So you're smart light there on the factory floor that isn't properly secured, are not only being used to attack you and get the information from your servers. But they're also being used now too, to a direct these denial-of-service attacks. The number of these IoT devices that are used in the amplification attacks, which is a specific type, but they were up over 3,000% from last year and their accounting for more than half of all the taxing in the last quarter of 2018. So again, you know, we covered this in detail in the DIY cybersecurity, make sure you segment your network, if you have IoT devices, make sure they cannot get out of your network, except to the control nodes, the legitimate ones, right?

Craig 11:34
The ones that are for the manufacturer to make sure they get security upgrades. And make sure you do the security updates, make sure they get the security updates, make sure it's all working. Because it's no longer you buy a light bulb from the local Home Depot store for a buck and plug it in. And you don't ever look at that light bulb again until it burns out.

Craig 11:57
Now with the Internet of Things who the smart bulbs in the smart everything, you know, thermostats, any of this stuff, those smart devices now are your responsibility. It's just like a friend of mine, who we've been providing DNS services to for 20 years, probably 15, 20 years, well, more than 20 years. And he called us up he says, Hey, listen, why aren't you guys providing DNS for us anymore, you know, from my little network. And we were and we dug into it. And we found out guess what?

Craig 12:32
His home address block that was assigned to him by in this case he has Comcast was used to access the dark web. Yeah, pretty big deal.

Craig 12:50
And so now he's running around trying to figure out why now we have automatic systems in place that saw, wait a minute, the side dark web block. So all of our stuff worked perfectly. It was great. And that's how we protect our customer's websites. And that's how we set up the networks for all of our customers. Just automatic. If it's not automatic. It's not going to happen, right? So we had automatically blocked him now he's trying to figure out why what IoT device, what light switch whatever, went out to the dark web, and was being used as a tor exit point, even. It's crazy. It's crazy what's happening. So make sure you know what you're doing, find some good courses, whether they're mine or somebody else's, and understand how to do this. And I have free master classes that we're offering from time to time, make sure you're on my email list, http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. That way, you'll get my show notes, you'll also get some of the more urgent alerts that come out. And I'll let you know about the free master classes and other training that I'm doing. Okay. So http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, and keep listening to this radio show. Because I do get stuff out here. Although, you know, when you talk about master classes, they can go easily an hour, hour and a half or even longer, you know, the courses can take you six weeks to get through. But you know, stay up to date, do the right thing. 

Craig 14:24
Now, let's talk about the number one problem that IT security professionals are looking at right now. 91%, this is according to Insider Threats, 91% of it and security professionals feel vulnerable to insider threats. And 75% believe the biggest risks lie in cloud applications like popular file storage, email solutions. You know, we talked about them before, they're worried about the Dropbox, Gmail, Google Drive, OneDrive. All of those things, right. So it is very, very concerning to IT professionals. And it's, you know, 91% of them being worried about the insider threats is huge. And that's why again, I have included in the DIY cybersecurity course, a whole set of policies and procedures that can go into the HR manuals as well as things that you should be doing in your business. Now BetterCloud surveyed nearly 500 IT network security professionals, and you can find this online. It's called The State of Insider Threats in the Digital Workspace 2019. So here are the key findings amongst again IT network security professionals, nearly all of them surveyed, 91%, feel vulnerable to insider threats. And that means things like people opening an email clicking on the wrong link, maybe doing something malicious because I got fired they got a bad review. Right. Those are all insider threats. 62% of them believe the biggest security threat comes from the well-meaning but negligent end user. That number fits in with other stats I've seen solids probably pretty legit. 75% believe the biggest risks lie in cloud storage and email solutions, which is really big. And I'm going to talk about an email security article here in a minute and about how the cybercriminals are changing their tactics. 46% of IT leaders which means, you know, the IT managers and above believe that the rise of software-as-a-service applications makes them the most vulnerable. And man, I'm seeing that all of the time, especially in regulated industries. And we're helping out some of these health care providers and legal and public companies. Man, they're using SaaS, software as a service. In other words, caught applications like that going on style, and they're not checking them. We've even done audits on restaurant chains, just small local chains, and found incredible liability that they're facing. 40% of them believe they're most vulnerable to exposure of confidential business information. That's financial information, customer list, personally identifiable information. And only 26% of C level executives say they've invested enough to mitigate the risk of insider threats, versus 44% of IT managers.

Craig 17:31
So in other words, the C level executives are running around with blinders on. Kind of scary isn't it when you get right down to it. So let's get into the latest tactics that are being used by the cybercriminals to bypass email security. And I've got this article up again on http://CraigPeterson.com and this is from Industry News. And they're saying that cybercriminals are using brand impersonation now in 83% of spear phishing attacks. Now, remember, these types of phishing attacks against businesses called business email compromise is kind of a general term to cover most of them. 83% of the time, this is what's used, and it's already accounting for about a little more than $12 billion worth of stolen funds, not wasted time, not cost to recovery, right. $12 billion in stolen funds. In the last couple of years according to the FBI, on the worldwide statistics. It is huge.

Craig 18:37
One in three of the spear phishing attacks is launched from Gmail accounts.

Craig 18:47
20% of them occur on Tuesdays. About 20% on Wednesday, 20% on Thursday, and it drops off to 5% on the weekends, with the slightly lower numbers on Mondays and Fridays. So no big surprise there. I've had people contact me, just texting me, you know, my 855-385-5553 number about these extortion scams. I've gotten one or two of them myself. And I know you guys have gotten them because you've contacted me, you've texted me about it. And and I've gone back and forth to kind of explain what's going on. But still sextortion scams, these are a form of blackmail. And right now it's making up about 10% of all spear phishing attacks. And it's expected to increase even more because it is on an increasing line right now. And employees are also twice as likely to be the target of blackmail, than of a business email compromise. So, that's a change from last year. And this is from a report released by Barracuda and it's called Spearphishing Top Threats and Trends if you want to look it out. And they looked at about 360,000 spear phishing emails.

Craig 20:08
So let's get some closer look here. Impersonating Microsoft is one of the more common techniques used by hackers to try and take over accounts, financial institutions. Impersonating nearly one in five attacks. Finance department employees are heavily targeted in obviously banks and other financial institutions as well. Majority of subject lines on sextortion emails contain some form of security alert attackers often include victims email address or password. Subject lines on more than 70% of the business email compromise attacks are trying to establish rapport, sense of urgency. Scammers are using name spoofing techniques, which they've used for years, changing the display name on Gmail and other employee accounts to make it look like it's coming from a company employee. So here's the top subject lines and number the two top 54% say security alert and 34% say change password. Okay. Very big deal. You'll see this article up on my website. And we'll have to try and do a master class on this one because I think this is important for people. I'm going to set these two aside and I'll let you know any anyone who's on my email list. I'll let you know about it. These are always free, will do a deeper dive into it.

Craig 21:30
Make sure you subscribe http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe if you haven't already. The US according to Forbes magazine has stepped up its tax collections here. And if you're selling software in the US, you've got a whole new problem coming your way, you know that we've had for a long time now, protection from the federal government saying the local authorities state and local cannot tax internet sales. And it has expanded a bit you've had massive companies like Amazon, who said yeah, we'll pay sales tax, state and local. And if you ask me, the reason they're doing that is to stomp the little guy into the ground. And the reason I say that is Amazon can deal with it. There are estimated to be over 9,000 different tax regulating entities in the United States. 9,000 of them. You have to comply with all of these 9000 across the board. How can you use a small business so that you can't, right? Amazon can. Well, there are going to be companies that are popping up there already are a few of them out there right now that are trying to take care of this problem for you where they'll collect all of the taxes.

Craig 22:56
And what it is resulting in, however, is many businesses is saying listen with all the European Union rules. They've got their GAFA rules are cooking up right now> GAFA, gaffer standing for Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon tax.

Craig 23:10
It's a kind of a VAT tax and supply, it's not supply driven. It's crazy. But there is a decision from the Supreme Court last year about a dispute between Wayfair now this is that online furniture company and the State of South Dakota and South Dakota wanted to collect taxes and Wayfair said no don't need to sell the Supreme Court overturned a law on not taxing companies with no physical presence in the taxing state. Because that legally is called legal nexus. So if you had operations in New Hampshire, you had to, well New Hampshire is a bad example, because we have no income tax. And we have no sales tax. Okay. But let's say you're in Massachusetts, which is a terrible state when it comes to taxes. You're in Massachusetts, if you sell something to someone in Mass., you have to click Mass. taxes. And if you sell something to someone in another state, you didn't necessarily have to collect the tax as well. Now you are going to. Any company selling online, this is more than just software companies, it's going to hit businesses across the board. And it's going to hit you hard.

Craig 24:25
Okay. South Dakota, has rules that say if you have more than 200, individual sales, or more than a hundred thousand revenues, there are other states that say more than 100 sales, or 50,000 in revenue, some of them have 4.7%, some of them have as much as 13.5%, and the thresholds for spending in the state span from 100,000 and $500,000. And there might be 100 transactions a year it might be 500 and might be 2000 transactions a year. Whoa, okay. This is going to be a huge burden. 52 new tax codes on the individual states plus sir taxes that are introduced by counties, by cities, not just in the US, but 30 countries in Europe, along with Australia, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, Norway, India, the list just goes on and on. Hundreds of countries. More than a hundred out there. And US states have highlighted software in SaaS products as explicitly liable for sales tax. So remember too that we're talking about different taxes and different tax rates. You look in Massachusetts, they have a different tax rate for different types of IT services, they have different rates for software as a service in different categories, this is going to be a nightmare. So there's companies out there like Avalara and TaxJar that will outsource and take care of a lot of this stuff for you. Many companies are saying "forget about it." I know companies in Canada that are just pulling their hair out just dealing with Canadian tax codes.

Craig 26:10
And many of them are just saying forget it, I'll just wait for the bill to come from the tax collector basically. So rather than charging you the appropriate sales tax, they fill out the state's forms that cross your fingers that they collected enough from you that they had enough in revenue to pay that state sales taxes.

Craig 26:29
This is why the federal government passed a law saying no internet sales taxes because it will be a nightmare. Now, it is going to help local small businesses because now they're going to compete on a more even footing where they have to collect the sales tax. So do the bigger companies, right? And so to the people, even small guys who are selling online, and it's going to help companies like eBay and Amazon, where you just sell your product on one of those sites veil worry about all of the sales tax and collecting that. And they'll take their cut and just pass it back to you. So yeah, well, this is going to be big. It's in. You heard it here first. Thank you, Supreme Court.

Craig 27:18
Anyhow, I hope you enjoyed today's show. You can read all of these articles plus the ones I missed today, including cloud adoption and what IT pros are concerned about. This 2019 state of enterprise cloud container adoption security that was published here recently, all of that in this morning's newsletter. If you didn't get it, make sure you get the future ones. http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, and I will keep you up to date and you can find out about this and, of course, a whole lot more. I have now thousands of articles I published up there my website, because we're over a thousand shows right now was this show 1001 weekly.

Craig 28:02
This is week 1001, not show 1001. Man, that's a lot of the time on the air. Anyhow, thanks for listening. Make sure you subscribe, http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe and have a great week. Talk to you next week. Bye-bye

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Airing date: 04/01/2019

Artificial Intelligence Predicting Lifespan

Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I had a discussion this morning with Mr. Jack Heath about this new artificial intelligence that they put together and tested over in the UK. And it really is concerning with all of our talk here about socialized medicine, Medicaid, Medicare for all, all of these government sponsored health care programs. What does it mean to you, particularly as you get a little bit older? So here we go with Mr. Jack Heath.

Jack Heath 0:34
Joining us now some Tech Talk on this April Fools. So that means all what Craig Peterson is going to say is serious, including artificial intelligence. Good morning, Craig.

Craig 0:44
Yeah, this is this is definitely not a April 1st kind of type of joke. I was just talking about Justin and I said, you know, I couldn't come up with one this morning. You know, the reality is just so unreal. Why do you need to come up with something fake?

Jack  1:02
Well, that's what some of the posts are this morning is that the news is so surreal at some point. What's going on in parts of the world or this cut, you know, you look at Great Britain, what's going on in Parliament over the Brexit. You look at Venezuela, you look at the migrant crisis, you look at politics of the day, who needs any April Fools, right?

Craig 1:19
Yeah, absolutely. And the article this morning that you're talking about that, of course, is up on my website, as well and NBC has been reporting on is talking about these artificial intelligence programs that are being designed and nowadays to do a number of different things. Now, you mentioned that they are significantly more accurate than predictions delivered by pretty much anyone, including the doctors in predicting how long someone will live. And this is a study that was done over in Britain as well, at the National Institute of Health. And, of course, they have death panels over there. And you know, they will call them that, but it's socialized medicine, they want to know, is it worth spending money on someone? Or should they just not bother spending the money because they're going to die fairly soon. And you know, it's just not worth putting money into old people. That is not an April Fool's joke. That is what they're trying to do. And they found that they could get their programs, these algorithms, identifying 76% of the time when a subject was going to die. It was in. Yeah, Isn't that crazy? But there's good things to they're using AI now, it's better at spotting skin cancer than most doctors are early signs of Alzheimer's disease, onset of autism in six months old, six months old now.

Jack 2:46
I'm not surprised the advances in technology. Amazing. But you know, you've heard of sometimes to know if you've heard of, and Justin, genetic screening, or some families are signing up for this. So say a family has a history, some cancer or heart disease. And you know, you could do this genetic screening, and they can kind of forecast. But I guess I guess it would be good to know, but can I ask you a question? Would you really want to know? 

Justin 3:07
Hell yeah.

Jack 3:07
You would?

Justin 3:08 
Let me know what I can do to avoid it.

Jack 3:10
Well avoid it. But what if it was inevitable? I mean, what if you, I'm being hypothetical, but what if something said, well, chances are 90% chance that by this date and this age, you'll probably be passed away? I don't know if I'd want to know that.

Justin 3:23 
Oh I would. Let me go skydiving. Let me go hit the casino. Let me do all that stuff. Right Craig?

Craig 3:28 
You know you do want to prepare for that though. You know, bottom line. And we've had for a long time, this is not a new problem, a long time people have known Hey, listen, you you have this major history is probably best that you don't have children and many people, many couples have gone without children for that very reason.

Jack 3:45
The other thing is, and I know you tend to rely on the science and, you know, the technology side of things Craig Peterson, check out Craig Peterson with an O-N.com Craig. It's not always a perfect science. Sometimes they get this stuff wrong. So imagine going through one these tests or something and being told, well, you're probably not gonna live much beyond 59 or 60 years old, then all of a sudden you get to be 72. Oops, we were wrong in that one.

Craig 4:11
Oops. Sorry about that. And that's bound to happen, especially with some of the newer technologies. And it really concerns me, jack, when you've got the National Health System in a country using it to predict when the patients are going to die, and using that to ration health care. Because again, it may have been 77% accurate, but when you get right down to it, is it accurate because they've decided to remove care from some of these patients, and so that it's become predictive in a very negative way.

Jack 4:45
Yeah. All right, Craig, good stuff. Check it out. Craig Peterson, of course Tech Talk airs on our Saturday mornings on these iHeart News talk stations. Thank you, Craig. Take care.

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Airing date: 04/01/2019

Artificial Intelligence Predicting Lifespan

Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I had a discussion this morning with Mr. Jack Heath about this new artificial intelligence that they put together and tested over in the UK. And it really is concerning with all of our talk here about socialized medicine, Medicaid, Medicare for all, all of these government sponsored health care programs. What does it mean to you, particularly as you get a little bit older? So here we go with Mr. Jack Heath.

Jack Heath 0:34
Joining us now some Tech Talk on this April Fools. So that means all what Craig Peterson is going to say is serious, including artificial intelligence. Good morning, Craig.

Craig 0:44
Yeah, this is this is definitely not a April 1st kind of type of joke. I was just talking about Justin and I said, you know, I couldn't come up with one this morning. You know, the reality is just so unreal. Why do you need to come up with something fake?

Jack  1:02
Well, that's what some of the posts are this morning is that the news is so surreal at some point. What's going on in parts of the world or this cut, you know, you look at Great Britain, what's going on in Parliament over the Brexit. You look at Venezuela, you look at the migrant crisis, you look at politics of the day, who needs any April Fools, right?

Craig 1:19
Yeah, absolutely. And the article this morning that you're talking about that, of course, is up on my website, as well and NBC has been reporting on is talking about these artificial intelligence programs that are being designed and nowadays to do a number of different things. Now, you mentioned that they are significantly more accurate than predictions delivered by pretty much anyone, including the doctors in predicting how long someone will live. And this is a study that was done over in Britain as well, at the National Institute of Health. And, of course, they have death panels over there. And you know, they will call them that, but it's socialized medicine, they want to know, is it worth spending money on someone? Or should they just not bother spending the money because they're going to die fairly soon. And you know, it's just not worth putting money into old people. That is not an April Fool's joke. That is what they're trying to do. And they found that they could get their programs, these algorithms, identifying 76% of the time when a subject was going to die. It was in. Yeah, Isn't that crazy? But there's good things to they're using AI now, it's better at spotting skin cancer than most doctors are early signs of Alzheimer's disease, onset of autism in six months old, six months old now.

Jack 2:46
I'm not surprised the advances in technology. Amazing. But you know, you've heard of sometimes to know if you've heard of, and Justin, genetic screening, or some families are signing up for this. So say a family has a history, some cancer or heart disease. And you know, you could do this genetic screening, and they can kind of forecast. But I guess I guess it would be good to know, but can I ask you a question? Would you really want to know? 

Justin 3:07
Hell yeah.

Jack 3:07
You would?

Justin 3:08 
Let me know what I can do to avoid it.

Jack 3:10
Well avoid it. But what if it was inevitable? I mean, what if you, I'm being hypothetical, but what if something said, well, chances are 90% chance that by this date and this age, you'll probably be passed away? I don't know if I'd want to know that.

Justin 3:23 
Oh I would. Let me go skydiving. Let me go hit the casino. Let me do all that stuff. Right Craig?

Craig 3:28 
You know you do want to prepare for that though. You know, bottom line. And we've had for a long time, this is not a new problem, a long time people have known Hey, listen, you you have this major history is probably best that you don't have children and many people, many couples have gone without children for that very reason.

Jack 3:45
The other thing is, and I know you tend to rely on the science and, you know, the technology side of things Craig Peterson, check out Craig Peterson with an O-N.com Craig. It's not always a perfect science. Sometimes they get this stuff wrong. So imagine going through one these tests or something and being told, well, you're probably not gonna live much beyond 59 or 60 years old, then all of a sudden you get to be 72. Oops, we were wrong in that one.

Craig 4:11
Oops. Sorry about that. And that's bound to happen, especially with some of the newer technologies. And it really concerns me, jack, when you've got the National Health System in a country using it to predict when the patients are going to die, and using that to ration health care. Because again, it may have been 77% accurate, but when you get right down to it, is it accurate because they've decided to remove care from some of these patients, and so that it's become predictive in a very negative way.

Jack 4:45
Yeah. All right, Craig, good stuff. Check it out. Craig Peterson, of course Tech Talk airs on our Saturday mornings on these iHeart News talk stations. Thank you, Craig. Take care.

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Using Two Factor Authentication - Drones Delivering Blood Samples And Barking At Animals

Craig Peterson 0:00  
Hello, everybody, we are getting close. My goodness, I can't believe it has been that long. We're almost at show 1000. I think today is 999. I'll have to check. But man, I guess we should do something soon. I just been so busy for all you guys because that means 1000 weeks of shows. Some weeks I put out as many as 12 podcasts. I've put out. I've been on the air 5, 6, 7 times in a week. So it has been a very busy time. So I'm not talking about 1000 podcasts or I'm talking about 1000 radio shows, and literally tens of thousands of podcasts. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, over 10,000 actually, podcasts. I
added it up, five years ago, and I had interviewed more than 7,500 C-level executives. Yeah, it's just nuts. Of course. Lately, it's been primarily just me right here on the radio, sharing what I've learned over the years online, or the guy that's been kind of out front, getting all the arrows in my back, putting together internet protocols, implementing them helping businesses get online. Man, I've been doing that since 91, when it first came became legal to do business on the internet. And I quickly ended up getting into security within a couple of years because of what happened to me and my business. And so I had to become an expert in security and now i"m known as America's leading security coach, which is really kind of cool when you get right down to it. But has been a long road. Let me tell you.

Craig 2:03 
Well, today we are going to go through a couple of really cool articles. This one's a little disconcerting. This is from NBC News. We're going to talk about AI, artificial intelligence. And they talked about how artificial intelligence when fed the right data, and when programmed the right way. They call it AI, right? But you and I know it's really machine learning. But in the United Kingdom, they were able to use it to predict when someone was going to die. And that's part of the National Health Service, which I guess shouldn't be a surprise to anybody, right? Government running the health care, they want to know when you're going to die so they can, you know, get someone else ready to go into your bed.

Craig 2:51
Is personal data safer when it's stored on your own computer, your company's computer, your company's network or on a private network? Some interesting stats that came out and published in Forbes this week.

Craig 3:04
Apple's finally showed off its plan to conquer TV this week. So we'll talk a little bit about that. I signed up for their News Plus service. And it's not bad, but it's still a little disappointing, frankly. But you know, we'll give it some time. We'll talk about that as well.

Craig 3:25
Now UPS This is one of the first real uses of drones for delivery. You might remember that we had the 711 people working on using drones for delivery. And we've had Amazon working on using drones for delivery. Now, UPS has launched a new service using drones to transport blood and other medical samples between various buildings at WakeMed Raleigh's medical campus, North Carolina. And the speed that the drones can deliver these samples could literally be the difference between life and death. A great article from Futurism, which you'll see in today's show notes that we sent out this morning. But it's kind of cool here. They're using an autonomous drone developer called Matternet. And they've got something called an M2 quadcopter, and it can carry a payload up to five pounds, approximately 12 miles. So the medical professionals, there at WakeMed's nearby facilities are loading the drone's containers get a secure container, so that if it crashes, that, you know, people are going to be able to steal what's in it, or get contaminated because they're putting blood samples and other medical specimens into the drone. And then the drone follows a fixed path over to the healthcare system's main hospital there on the campus. And it goes right to the pathology lab who then unload it. Now Business Insider had a good article about it as well. And they're saying that this trip can take a driver up to 30 minutes. Yeah, that's how big this whole campus is. Plus, you know, some of the buildings aren't getting directly attached. And when you're talking about traffic, it can get terrible, and if you've ever been down there in the triangle, it's absolutely terrible in Raleigh, some of the traffic. But these unmanned drones that are being run and managed by UPS can cut the delivery time down to just three minutes and 15 seconds. So that's why they're saying this could really save some lives. So for now, UPS is expecting the drones to make fewer than 10 deliveries a day on the campus. But that could increase in the future, especially as there's services that are considered to be beneficial. And of course, UPS is expecting that to happen. This is very cool. So there you go. Kudos to UPS for doing that.

Craig 6:01
I've also got a whole thing here on two-factor authentication we'll get to in a second. But barking dogs, this is kind of cool. You know, for years, we've had shepherds using dogs. At my house, you know, I have chickens, right. I have bees and chickens. And we have a dog, we have a Great Dane. And it's a rescue Dane, we've had four of these Danes over the years. And she is about four years old now. We got her when she was three and a half. But she has been kind of a couch potato. And we were really surprised the other day when her instincts kind of kicked in. And we were out taking care of the chickens. And we had the coop door open, actually was one of my daughters, and the coop door was open. And one of the chickens decided to come running out which we let them do, right. We pasture raised them. So they go out into the pastures and they find all of the horsey stuff and everything and they tear it all up and have fun with it, eat all the bugs that are in it. So, it's okay if they get out. But we don't just want one out, we want to be able to kind of keep an eye on them. This time of year, there's a lot of predators. We've seen some hawks going around, we saw an eagle the other day coming by and sitting there, and you can hear them shrieking very loudly as they're right near us. And of course, that just freaks the chickens out who when they're out wandering around, spend most of the time under the bushes. But, and By the way, we have seen one of these birds of prey take one of our chickens before. We've seen a fox took one of our pet cats as well ran off the property with the cat in its mouth. And a little distressing. But I guess it's good for the foxes and the birds of prey this time of year. So we wanted to keep her in. And our Great Dane, Velma. She didn't like that chicken coming out because my daughter, you know, tried to shoo the chicken back in. And so Velma took care of it, and rounded her up and got her right back there into the run. Or actually, I guess she came out of the coop door. So back into the coop. And that surprised me but not terribly, because I know dogs have this instinct to do hurting. And we have dogs specifically bred for herding, right, you know about sheep dogs and things. So in this case, with a Great Dane that was bred to hunt wild boar, I wasn't sure what she'd do.

Craig 8:32 
She also, this was a month or two ago, she also helped with one of these birds. Because we had some the chickens were out. And we have an outdoor roosting section for them. So if it gets raining, they can just go sit in there and enjoy being outside a little bit but at least be covered. And we're trying to get the chickens out of this roosting stuff. And so she saw what we were doing. And she, she grabbed one of them by the wing and carried her back. She was being gentle. The chicken wasn't harmed at all. But it's really kind of cool to see. 

Craig 9:14
Well, farmers have relied on dogs for a long time. And real farmers have multiple animals that all kind of help out each other, you have the cats to keep the field mice down, or heaven forbid the rats down, right, or the squirrels or the chipmunks which we have here as well. And they stay out of the feed and they're not spreading disease amongst your herd. And then you have the chickens too because you have horses or cattle, you have the chickens to break up all of that excrement, right, and then eat all the bugs from it. So you don't get the huge populations of flies or beetles or things. So they keep that population down. And then you have pigs. And they'll eat all of the scraps from the other animals what they don't want to eat, as well as from your table. And then you have goats because they'll eat the stuff that the cows and the horses won't eat, the particularly stuff and the lower nutrition things. So you have all of these animals and it's kind of a roundabout isn't it all the way around. And then you have the dogs out protect all of these animals, you have the sheep as well. So it's really quite an ecosystem if you've ever seen it work and have you ever sat down to think about a farm and how this all works. And course you have kids to help out on the farm, as well. Now we don't have these little farms like that anymore. Really, we don't. We take the manure from the chickens after a couple of years of its sending out and we use it in our own personal garden. And just it's phenomenal. We have some of the best flowers and, and vegetables around. But that's the way it used to be.

Craig 10:52 
Well now here's somebody getting rid of the dogs as part of that whole, a whole environmental loop on the local farm. And this is an article that came out of New Zealand. There is a company in Christchurch, New Zealand, it's called DJI Ferntech. And they have a special set of drones that are specifically designed for agricultural uses. And we've seen stuff kind of like this before will though, they'll survey the land to look for blight or maybe insects, problems that are occurring in your field. So that's what this company is doing down there New Zealand. And it's kind of cool because they have these kinda like county fairs. They call them agricultural field days, down there in New Zealand. And he's saying for the past two years we've seen farmers embrace drone technology to help with those jobs that are dirty, dangerous, or just plain dull he said. So what one of their new drones and this is on a cattle farm is set up with speakers on it where it can bark like a dog.

Craig 12:06
So they've got this 3,500 New Zealand dollar drone and the New Zealand dollars worth about 50 cents give or take. Not sure what it is today. But you know, so it's basically what may be a $2,000 drone at the most. It's called the DJI Mavic Enterprise and you can record sounds and play them over a speaker. So you can put a dogs bark or other noises there and it projects them wherever you want, very loudly across a paddock. And he said this feature helped him move livestock along faster during mustering while stressing the animals a lot less than a dog could because of course the dog is going to kind of nip at their legs, even though it's not going to bite them to get them to move and that's very stressful. And that means some of your cattle aren't going to give the milk that they could, etc, etc. Some cows are going to get very protective of their calves. When you have a dog out there. You might have seen that before, where they lunge at the farm dogs and they get too close. So it's really kind of cool to think about that. A drone instead of a dog. Oh, obviously a drone can't do everything a dog can do. It's not going to be completely autonomous. And someone's going to have to kind of watch it and man it. But over time that it will become more autonomous. But then what are we going to do? We're going to have dogs out of work, right?

Craig 13:30
Well, two-factor authentication.

Craig 13:34
This is a key part of security. This week, I put together a module on website security and one of the things I brought up is because so many business websites are getting hacked. And if you have a business, man, could you get hacked, so there's a lot to be concerned about. But using two-factor authentication on your website, for you, as an administrator to be able to login can save you know, end of grief. And security and on the internet just in general has gotten more important. And we're seeing it with built in security things now into our web browsers. Google has been protecting their stats are showing 1 billion websites that they are providing blockage to every day. Now it's not websites, but it's actually warnings to people who are using Google. And if you get blacklisted by Google, you will lose 95% of your traffic to your business website on average, which is just huge. So I explained that this week in that module on website security, what to do, how to do it and everything. But that number surprised me. 95% of your traffic and it can take you months to get back. And in most cases, the businesses never are able to get that traffic level back up because Google just doesn't trust them anymore.

Craig 15:03 
So having two-factor authentication can be a huge win. And that is where you have something you know, along with something you have in order to keep your logins safe. And when we're talking about something, you know, it's your password, right? It's your username and password, which is why I know I gave some tips on what to do there in this module. But basically, don't use admin as the admin user account. But there's some other things too. And then something you have, which is the two-factor authentication.

Craig 15:38
You guys know, I recommend 1Password, LastPass as good as well. But I think one passwords definitely the best, especially for businesses. So you should look at tying that into your website login, as well.

Craig 15:56
And if you do that, if you have the two-factor authentication using an authentication app, and you can get these for free Google Authenticator is a free app available on iOS or Android. And you can tie it into your website to allow you basically exclusive access to the administrative functions, you are and or other people within your organization that have to do the maintenance on the website. SMS messages are just not secure. We know about and I've talked on this show before about people hijacking your phone number, all kinds of nasty things that can help.

Craig 16:39
Apple has two-factor authentication built right into iOS and Mac OS. They do little differently than pretty much everybody else. They're using the Apple ecosystem. So when you try and log in on your Mac, and it doesn't know that you are who you say you are, the Mac will automatically pop something up on your iPhone and say is that you and you get a six-digit Pop-up code.

Craig 17:06
And you know, that happens when you log into iCloud and various other things. But there are a bunch of different ways that you can do it. Apple does make it easy. SMS messages really aren't secure. But I do like Google Authenticator and 1Password. They both, 1Password has the Authenticator built right into it. But it's absolutely fantastic. It's $60 per year for 1Password for the family plan. And you can have a shared vault where you keep the password that everybody in the family needs to access like your bank logins or, or other things that you might need, you know, the website for your kid's homework, all of that stuff for 60 bucks a year. It's just crazy. It also has one time passwords built into the app and everything. It's phenomenal nominal, these two-factor authentications.

Craig 18:03
Authy's. Another one, you might want to look at. A-U-T-H-Y, if you don't use 1Password. It is a very good two-factor authentication app. It's better than Google Authenticator. It's a little broader. But it is easier to use in, In fact, one of the two-factor authentication is all it does. So it's very straightforward, very easy. You can scan a QR code that the site is giving you and use that then to use Authy or Google Authenticator or 1Password in order to be able to get in. Google Authenticator, I should mention, it's basically been the default solution for a lot of two-factor deployments over the last few years. And man, I, I can't remember the first time I used it. It was a lot of years ago. And I think it was Google, it was prompting me to try it out and use it. Microsoft now has theirs as well, Microsoft Authenticator. They've done a good job on this, I've got to say, Microsoft, with the exception of Windows, well, even with Windows, it's really been pulling up its socks lately. Windows is still terrible.

Craig 19:15
But it is much better than it used to be. And if you use Microsoft products heavily, particularly if you're using Office 365, these authenticators are going to work really well for you. And in fact, that's exactly what we use to manage not only our deployment of Office 365 for internal company uses at Mainstream, but we also use it in order to authenticate ourselves to all of our partners, because we manage so many sites, all of their emails, we manage all of their networks, all of their security and everything. So you can bet we use the best of this two-factor authentication stuff.

Craig 20:02
Apple, of course, had their big show this week. And one of the things that they released was information on its plan, where it is trying to take over the TV business. And this is from an article I have up on http://CraigPeterson.com from Business Insider. There's still a whole lot of questions that are answered after the event that happened just this week, it unveiled a new subscription service in the US. It covers TV, gaming and news markets. As I mentioned earlier, I signed up for the news stuff called News Plus, it's like 10 bucks a month and you get the first 30 days for free. And I kind of like it. There's some good magazines and stuff in it. I think they've got to clean their interface up a little bit more. And I wish there were more newspapers in that there's very few newspapers, but it'll you know, it'll get better. And Apple really is trying to get more into services because they're making a ton of money from their services sector already. And they're very good. And have you seen the new ads from Apple, the latest ones, where they're really touting security? They're touting the fact that they're not giving all of your information away, that they're not selling it to the highest bidder like Facebook has been doing. You heard me talk about WhatsApp, I have a great article up on my website about the guy who developed WhatsApp, and then sold it to Facebook. And he's now telling people to delete WhatsApp and never use it again. So if you want to find out more about that, and why that's up on my website, as well. But it's all because our friends and Facebook are really messing with people, which is kind of a shame.

Craig 21:50
That used to be this article from again Business Insider goes through some of the older events and things that they've done. So they're calling it TV Plus, and a number of people are really kind of underwhelmed by it. But it's going to add more stuff in. What's going to make this very interesting is what the mouse has been doing. Disney. Have you seen what they've been doing they just a couple of weeks ago, got final approval, inked the deal with buying all of Fox's content and production. Fox Studios. No, we're not talking about the news network that's separate. But all of the movies and so think about this, basically, Disney now owns all of the top names out there all the Star Wars brand, and completely owns now, of course, all the standard Disney stuff. And now it's got Marvel under its belt. It even has Spider Man now, which used to be exclusively Sony's property. So the mouse, you know, if you can get them in onto your streaming network, you're in big trouble. And Disney, aka the mouse, is in direct competition with Apple for this stuff.

Craig 23:09
So I don't know what that's what's going to happen here. Apple has always made its money off of selling the devices and selling us some services never selling your information. Disney is not the same. And I don't know that the two will be able to come to terms or not, I guess, guess we'll see.

Craig 23:30
Your personal data, according to Forbes, is 99.99% safer on a major cloud service than it is on the average companies private network. Isn't that amazing? This is an article in Forbes and they're taking a quote from the site called Quora. And it's really kind of a cool one. Matthew Lodge wrote this. He's a tech executive. And he's talking about, frankly, the fact that most businesses aren't storing the data properly. They're not backing it up properly. They're not securing it properly. Hence my course, right, that I just finished delivering or actually I'm finishing just this week delivering all of the final components as I go through all of that, right. The integrity of the data of the fact that you get bit rot, that companies don't keep track of it. They don't have proper multigenerational backups. They're not pushing the backups off site. They don't have it on on different types of media. They don't have active defenses that don't have security monitoring, right. So duh. Yeah, it's 99.999% safer if you put it up on Dropbox. And so that's really interesting. They, he goes through and he talks about Google as well. And Amazon and what they're doing, they'll have stored stuff. Dropbox is what I recommend for businesses. And in fact, I put together in my last coaching call a whole thing about Dropbox and which version to get because I got like a million of them. But that's I find that to be just fascinating.

Craig 25:15
And then our last article here this week is all about artificial intelligence, and the National Health Service over in the United Kingdom. If you've been listening for a while, you know that I and my family have suffered under the Canadian healthcare service for years, and the Supreme Court in Canada finally rolled that you can buy private health insurance, you don't have to get stuck with it. Well, much the same has happened in the UK because the healthcare, public health care is just so bad. It's just terrible. You know, everybody gets it.

Craig 25:51
But it's all terrible, right, kind of the bottom line, and I can tell you horror stories from every member of my family that's still in Canada. But in the UK, they've been using some artificial intelligence algorithms. They looked at a half a million people in the UK and then they task this AI with predicting of individuals who were at the risk of dying prematurely. In other words sooner than the average life expectancy from chronic disease and they had three different models that they task the AI with. And this article up on http://CraigPeterson.com that is originally from NBC News, I think you're really gonna like this is they look at different things with each one of the models. They looked at things like well they had the random forest model, which looked mostly a body fat percentage, waist circumference, amount of fruit and vegetables of people ate. They had the deep learning model, top factors there included exposure to job-related hazards, air pollution, alcohol intake, use of certain medications. You had another model called the Cox model that lean heavily on ethnicity and physical activity. So they took those three models, they looked at it, and they found that the best and most accurate predictions that correctly identified 76% of the subjects who died during the study period. Wow, okay. 84% accuracy on predicting Alzheimer's, the onset of autism and six months old babies. So all of this work by the UK National Health Service to figure out you know, basically death panels. Who should we spend money on? And who shouldn't we spend money on? Which is what that's what's happened I Obamacare ended up with death panels. Of course, they don't call them death panels, any of these cases, but you know, the panels that decide whether or not you're worthy to receive medical treatment, I think you can tell which side of the market come down on with that.

Craig 28:03
Alright, so this next week, of course, we're going to have some podcasts, probably only one because I am out of town. Very busy. But I'm releasing some stuff to those of you who signed up for my DIY cybersecurity course. And we will be back next Saturday. http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes, to sign up for the podcast. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 03/30/2019

Using Two Factor Authentication - Drones Delivering Blood Samples And Barking At Animals

Craig Peterson 0:00  
Hello, everybody, we are getting close. My goodness, I can't believe it has been that long. We're almost at show 1000. I think today is 999. I'll have to check. But man, I guess we should do something soon. I just been so busy for all you guys because that means 1000 weeks of shows. Some weeks I put out as many as 12 podcasts. I've put out. I've been on the air 5, 6, 7 times in a week. So it has been a very busy time. So I'm not talking about 1000 podcasts or I'm talking about 1000 radio shows, and literally tens of thousands of podcasts. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, over 10,000 actually, podcasts. I
added it up, five years ago, and I had interviewed more than 7,500 C-level executives. Yeah, it's just nuts. Of course. Lately, it's been primarily just me right here on the radio, sharing what I've learned over the years online, or the guy that's been kind of out front, getting all the arrows in my back, putting together internet protocols, implementing them helping businesses get online. Man, I've been doing that since 91, when it first came became legal to do business on the internet. And I quickly ended up getting into security within a couple of years because of what happened to me and my business. And so I had to become an expert in security and now i"m known as America's leading security coach, which is really kind of cool when you get right down to it. But has been a long road. Let me tell you.

Craig 2:03 
Well, today we are going to go through a couple of really cool articles. This one's a little disconcerting. This is from NBC News. We're going to talk about AI, artificial intelligence. And they talked about how artificial intelligence when fed the right data, and when programmed the right way. They call it AI, right? But you and I know it's really machine learning. But in the United Kingdom, they were able to use it to predict when someone was going to die. And that's part of the National Health Service, which I guess shouldn't be a surprise to anybody, right? Government running the health care, they want to know when you're going to die so they can, you know, get someone else ready to go into your bed.

Craig 2:51
Is personal data safer when it's stored on your own computer, your company's computer, your company's network or on a private network? Some interesting stats that came out and published in Forbes this week.

Craig 3:04
Apple's finally showed off its plan to conquer TV this week. So we'll talk a little bit about that. I signed up for their News Plus service. And it's not bad, but it's still a little disappointing, frankly. But you know, we'll give it some time. We'll talk about that as well.

Craig 3:25
Now UPS This is one of the first real uses of drones for delivery. You might remember that we had the 711 people working on using drones for delivery. And we've had Amazon working on using drones for delivery. Now, UPS has launched a new service using drones to transport blood and other medical samples between various buildings at WakeMed Raleigh's medical campus, North Carolina. And the speed that the drones can deliver these samples could literally be the difference between life and death. A great article from Futurism, which you'll see in today's show notes that we sent out this morning. But it's kind of cool here. They're using an autonomous drone developer called Matternet. And they've got something called an M2 quadcopter, and it can carry a payload up to five pounds, approximately 12 miles. So the medical professionals, there at WakeMed's nearby facilities are loading the drone's containers get a secure container, so that if it crashes, that, you know, people are going to be able to steal what's in it, or get contaminated because they're putting blood samples and other medical specimens into the drone. And then the drone follows a fixed path over to the healthcare system's main hospital there on the campus. And it goes right to the pathology lab who then unload it. Now Business Insider had a good article about it as well. And they're saying that this trip can take a driver up to 30 minutes. Yeah, that's how big this whole campus is. Plus, you know, some of the buildings aren't getting directly attached. And when you're talking about traffic, it can get terrible, and if you've ever been down there in the triangle, it's absolutely terrible in Raleigh, some of the traffic. But these unmanned drones that are being run and managed by UPS can cut the delivery time down to just three minutes and 15 seconds. So that's why they're saying this could really save some lives. So for now, UPS is expecting the drones to make fewer than 10 deliveries a day on the campus. But that could increase in the future, especially as there's services that are considered to be beneficial. And of course, UPS is expecting that to happen. This is very cool. So there you go. Kudos to UPS for doing that.

Craig 6:01
I've also got a whole thing here on two-factor authentication we'll get to in a second. But barking dogs, this is kind of cool. You know, for years, we've had shepherds using dogs. At my house, you know, I have chickens, right. I have bees and chickens. And we have a dog, we have a Great Dane. And it's a rescue Dane, we've had four of these Danes over the years. And she is about four years old now. We got her when she was three and a half. But she has been kind of a couch potato. And we were really surprised the other day when her instincts kind of kicked in. And we were out taking care of the chickens. And we had the coop door open, actually was one of my daughters, and the coop door was open. And one of the chickens decided to come running out which we let them do, right. We pasture raised them. So they go out into the pastures and they find all of the horsey stuff and everything and they tear it all up and have fun with it, eat all the bugs that are in it. So, it's okay if they get out. But we don't just want one out, we want to be able to kind of keep an eye on them. This time of year, there's a lot of predators. We've seen some hawks going around, we saw an eagle the other day coming by and sitting there, and you can hear them shrieking very loudly as they're right near us. And of course, that just freaks the chickens out who when they're out wandering around, spend most of the time under the bushes. But, and By the way, we have seen one of these birds of prey take one of our chickens before. We've seen a fox took one of our pet cats as well ran off the property with the cat in its mouth. And a little distressing. But I guess it's good for the foxes and the birds of prey this time of year. So we wanted to keep her in. And our Great Dane, Velma. She didn't like that chicken coming out because my daughter, you know, tried to shoo the chicken back in. And so Velma took care of it, and rounded her up and got her right back there into the run. Or actually, I guess she came out of the coop door. So back into the coop. And that surprised me but not terribly, because I know dogs have this instinct to do hurting. And we have dogs specifically bred for herding, right, you know about sheep dogs and things. So in this case, with a Great Dane that was bred to hunt wild boar, I wasn't sure what she'd do.

Craig 8:32 
She also, this was a month or two ago, she also helped with one of these birds. Because we had some the chickens were out. And we have an outdoor roosting section for them. So if it gets raining, they can just go sit in there and enjoy being outside a little bit but at least be covered. And we're trying to get the chickens out of this roosting stuff. And so she saw what we were doing. And she, she grabbed one of them by the wing and carried her back. She was being gentle. The chicken wasn't harmed at all. But it's really kind of cool to see. 

Craig 9:14
Well, farmers have relied on dogs for a long time. And real farmers have multiple animals that all kind of help out each other, you have the cats to keep the field mice down, or heaven forbid the rats down, right, or the squirrels or the chipmunks which we have here as well. And they stay out of the feed and they're not spreading disease amongst your herd. And then you have the chickens too because you have horses or cattle, you have the chickens to break up all of that excrement, right, and then eat all the bugs from it. So you don't get the huge populations of flies or beetles or things. So they keep that population down. And then you have pigs. And they'll eat all of the scraps from the other animals what they don't want to eat, as well as from your table. And then you have goats because they'll eat the stuff that the cows and the horses won't eat, the particularly stuff and the lower nutrition things. So you have all of these animals and it's kind of a roundabout isn't it all the way around. And then you have the dogs out protect all of these animals, you have the sheep as well. So it's really quite an ecosystem if you've ever seen it work and have you ever sat down to think about a farm and how this all works. And course you have kids to help out on the farm, as well. Now we don't have these little farms like that anymore. Really, we don't. We take the manure from the chickens after a couple of years of its sending out and we use it in our own personal garden. And just it's phenomenal. We have some of the best flowers and, and vegetables around. But that's the way it used to be.

Craig 10:52 
Well now here's somebody getting rid of the dogs as part of that whole, a whole environmental loop on the local farm. And this is an article that came out of New Zealand. There is a company in Christchurch, New Zealand, it's called DJI Ferntech. And they have a special set of drones that are specifically designed for agricultural uses. And we've seen stuff kind of like this before will though, they'll survey the land to look for blight or maybe insects, problems that are occurring in your field. So that's what this company is doing down there New Zealand. And it's kind of cool because they have these kinda like county fairs. They call them agricultural field days, down there in New Zealand. And he's saying for the past two years we've seen farmers embrace drone technology to help with those jobs that are dirty, dangerous, or just plain dull he said. So what one of their new drones and this is on a cattle farm is set up with speakers on it where it can bark like a dog.

Craig 12:06
So they've got this 3,500 New Zealand dollar drone and the New Zealand dollars worth about 50 cents give or take. Not sure what it is today. But you know, so it's basically what may be a $2,000 drone at the most. It's called the DJI Mavic Enterprise and you can record sounds and play them over a speaker. So you can put a dogs bark or other noises there and it projects them wherever you want, very loudly across a paddock. And he said this feature helped him move livestock along faster during mustering while stressing the animals a lot less than a dog could because of course the dog is going to kind of nip at their legs, even though it's not going to bite them to get them to move and that's very stressful. And that means some of your cattle aren't going to give the milk that they could, etc, etc. Some cows are going to get very protective of their calves. When you have a dog out there. You might have seen that before, where they lunge at the farm dogs and they get too close. So it's really kind of cool to think about that. A drone instead of a dog. Oh, obviously a drone can't do everything a dog can do. It's not going to be completely autonomous. And someone's going to have to kind of watch it and man it. But over time that it will become more autonomous. But then what are we going to do? We're going to have dogs out of work, right?

Craig 13:30
Well, two-factor authentication.

Craig 13:34
This is a key part of security. This week, I put together a module on website security and one of the things I brought up is because so many business websites are getting hacked. And if you have a business, man, could you get hacked, so there's a lot to be concerned about. But using two-factor authentication on your website, for you, as an administrator to be able to login can save you know, end of grief. And security and on the internet just in general has gotten more important. And we're seeing it with built in security things now into our web browsers. Google has been protecting their stats are showing 1 billion websites that they are providing blockage to every day. Now it's not websites, but it's actually warnings to people who are using Google. And if you get blacklisted by Google, you will lose 95% of your traffic to your business website on average, which is just huge. So I explained that this week in that module on website security, what to do, how to do it and everything. But that number surprised me. 95% of your traffic and it can take you months to get back. And in most cases, the businesses never are able to get that traffic level back up because Google just doesn't trust them anymore.

Craig 15:03 
So having two-factor authentication can be a huge win. And that is where you have something you know, along with something you have in order to keep your logins safe. And when we're talking about something, you know, it's your password, right? It's your username and password, which is why I know I gave some tips on what to do there in this module. But basically, don't use admin as the admin user account. But there's some other things too. And then something you have, which is the two-factor authentication.

Craig 15:38
You guys know, I recommend 1Password, LastPass as good as well. But I think one passwords definitely the best, especially for businesses. So you should look at tying that into your website login, as well.

Craig 15:56
And if you do that, if you have the two-factor authentication using an authentication app, and you can get these for free Google Authenticator is a free app available on iOS or Android. And you can tie it into your website to allow you basically exclusive access to the administrative functions, you are and or other people within your organization that have to do the maintenance on the website. SMS messages are just not secure. We know about and I've talked on this show before about people hijacking your phone number, all kinds of nasty things that can help.

Craig 16:39
Apple has two-factor authentication built right into iOS and Mac OS. They do little differently than pretty much everybody else. They're using the Apple ecosystem. So when you try and log in on your Mac, and it doesn't know that you are who you say you are, the Mac will automatically pop something up on your iPhone and say is that you and you get a six-digit Pop-up code.

Craig 17:06
And you know, that happens when you log into iCloud and various other things. But there are a bunch of different ways that you can do it. Apple does make it easy. SMS messages really aren't secure. But I do like Google Authenticator and 1Password. They both, 1Password has the Authenticator built right into it. But it's absolutely fantastic. It's $60 per year for 1Password for the family plan. And you can have a shared vault where you keep the password that everybody in the family needs to access like your bank logins or, or other things that you might need, you know, the website for your kid's homework, all of that stuff for 60 bucks a year. It's just crazy. It also has one time passwords built into the app and everything. It's phenomenal nominal, these two-factor authentications.

Craig 18:03
Authy's. Another one, you might want to look at. A-U-T-H-Y, if you don't use 1Password. It is a very good two-factor authentication app. It's better than Google Authenticator. It's a little broader. But it is easier to use in, In fact, one of the two-factor authentication is all it does. So it's very straightforward, very easy. You can scan a QR code that the site is giving you and use that then to use Authy or Google Authenticator or 1Password in order to be able to get in. Google Authenticator, I should mention, it's basically been the default solution for a lot of two-factor deployments over the last few years. And man, I, I can't remember the first time I used it. It was a lot of years ago. And I think it was Google, it was prompting me to try it out and use it. Microsoft now has theirs as well, Microsoft Authenticator. They've done a good job on this, I've got to say, Microsoft, with the exception of Windows, well, even with Windows, it's really been pulling up its socks lately. Windows is still terrible.

Craig 19:15
But it is much better than it used to be. And if you use Microsoft products heavily, particularly if you're using Office 365, these authenticators are going to work really well for you. And in fact, that's exactly what we use to manage not only our deployment of Office 365 for internal company uses at Mainstream, but we also use it in order to authenticate ourselves to all of our partners, because we manage so many sites, all of their emails, we manage all of their networks, all of their security and everything. So you can bet we use the best of this two-factor authentication stuff.

Craig 20:02
Apple, of course, had their big show this week. And one of the things that they released was information on its plan, where it is trying to take over the TV business. And this is from an article I have up on http://CraigPeterson.com from Business Insider. There's still a whole lot of questions that are answered after the event that happened just this week, it unveiled a new subscription service in the US. It covers TV, gaming and news markets. As I mentioned earlier, I signed up for the news stuff called News Plus, it's like 10 bucks a month and you get the first 30 days for free. And I kind of like it. There's some good magazines and stuff in it. I think they've got to clean their interface up a little bit more. And I wish there were more newspapers in that there's very few newspapers, but it'll you know, it'll get better. And Apple really is trying to get more into services because they're making a ton of money from their services sector already. And they're very good. And have you seen the new ads from Apple, the latest ones, where they're really touting security? They're touting the fact that they're not giving all of your information away, that they're not selling it to the highest bidder like Facebook has been doing. You heard me talk about WhatsApp, I have a great article up on my website about the guy who developed WhatsApp, and then sold it to Facebook. And he's now telling people to delete WhatsApp and never use it again. So if you want to find out more about that, and why that's up on my website, as well. But it's all because our friends and Facebook are really messing with people, which is kind of a shame.

Craig 21:50
That used to be this article from again Business Insider goes through some of the older events and things that they've done. So they're calling it TV Plus, and a number of people are really kind of underwhelmed by it. But it's going to add more stuff in. What's going to make this very interesting is what the mouse has been doing. Disney. Have you seen what they've been doing they just a couple of weeks ago, got final approval, inked the deal with buying all of Fox's content and production. Fox Studios. No, we're not talking about the news network that's separate. But all of the movies and so think about this, basically, Disney now owns all of the top names out there all the Star Wars brand, and completely owns now, of course, all the standard Disney stuff. And now it's got Marvel under its belt. It even has Spider Man now, which used to be exclusively Sony's property. So the mouse, you know, if you can get them in onto your streaming network, you're in big trouble. And Disney, aka the mouse, is in direct competition with Apple for this stuff.

Craig 23:09
So I don't know what that's what's going to happen here. Apple has always made its money off of selling the devices and selling us some services never selling your information. Disney is not the same. And I don't know that the two will be able to come to terms or not, I guess, guess we'll see.

Craig 23:30
Your personal data, according to Forbes, is 99.99% safer on a major cloud service than it is on the average companies private network. Isn't that amazing? This is an article in Forbes and they're taking a quote from the site called Quora. And it's really kind of a cool one. Matthew Lodge wrote this. He's a tech executive. And he's talking about, frankly, the fact that most businesses aren't storing the data properly. They're not backing it up properly. They're not securing it properly. Hence my course, right, that I just finished delivering or actually I'm finishing just this week delivering all of the final components as I go through all of that, right. The integrity of the data of the fact that you get bit rot, that companies don't keep track of it. They don't have proper multigenerational backups. They're not pushing the backups off site. They don't have it on on different types of media. They don't have active defenses that don't have security monitoring, right. So duh. Yeah, it's 99.999% safer if you put it up on Dropbox. And so that's really interesting. They, he goes through and he talks about Google as well. And Amazon and what they're doing, they'll have stored stuff. Dropbox is what I recommend for businesses. And in fact, I put together in my last coaching call a whole thing about Dropbox and which version to get because I got like a million of them. But that's I find that to be just fascinating.

Craig 25:15
And then our last article here this week is all about artificial intelligence, and the National Health Service over in the United Kingdom. If you've been listening for a while, you know that I and my family have suffered under the Canadian healthcare service for years, and the Supreme Court in Canada finally rolled that you can buy private health insurance, you don't have to get stuck with it. Well, much the same has happened in the UK because the healthcare, public health care is just so bad. It's just terrible. You know, everybody gets it.

Craig 25:51
But it's all terrible, right, kind of the bottom line, and I can tell you horror stories from every member of my family that's still in Canada. But in the UK, they've been using some artificial intelligence algorithms. They looked at a half a million people in the UK and then they task this AI with predicting of individuals who were at the risk of dying prematurely. In other words sooner than the average life expectancy from chronic disease and they had three different models that they task the AI with. And this article up on http://CraigPeterson.com that is originally from NBC News, I think you're really gonna like this is they look at different things with each one of the models. They looked at things like well they had the random forest model, which looked mostly a body fat percentage, waist circumference, amount of fruit and vegetables of people ate. They had the deep learning model, top factors there included exposure to job-related hazards, air pollution, alcohol intake, use of certain medications. You had another model called the Cox model that lean heavily on ethnicity and physical activity. So they took those three models, they looked at it, and they found that the best and most accurate predictions that correctly identified 76% of the subjects who died during the study period. Wow, okay. 84% accuracy on predicting Alzheimer's, the onset of autism and six months old babies. So all of this work by the UK National Health Service to figure out you know, basically death panels. Who should we spend money on? And who shouldn't we spend money on? Which is what that's what's happened I Obamacare ended up with death panels. Of course, they don't call them death panels, any of these cases, but you know, the panels that decide whether or not you're worthy to receive medical treatment, I think you can tell which side of the market come down on with that.

Craig 28:03
Alright, so this next week, of course, we're going to have some podcasts, probably only one because I am out of town. Very busy. But I'm releasing some stuff to those of you who signed up for my DIY cybersecurity course. And we will be back next Saturday. http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes, to sign up for the podcast. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye.

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