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

Craig is on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt as he does every Wednesday morning. They talked about a lot today from the Facebook and Apple feud, the AirBNBs spying on you, the shortage of cybersecurity workers, and the GDPR bagging its first tech giant Google.

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: 02/06/2019

Facebook Battle With Apple - GDPR Snares Google

Craig Peterson 0:00

Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, of course. And this morning I was on WGAN and all of their affiliates up throughout the state of Maine and covering the course that also covers parts of New Hampshire. But we talked about the Facebook program, the controversial one, what's happening here, there is a big fight going on between apple and Facebook. I mean a very big fight and it looks like Apple might end up being the police, at least for their platform. They've been trying to keep Of course, our data safe now they're trying to keep the companies like Facebook, in line with our privacy as well. So good for them. So we talked a little bit about what was happening there. In fact, we talked quite a bit about that. And we talked about the EU privacy law and how it has snared its first tech giants. So here we go. 

Unknown 1:00
It is the WGAN Morning news. It is Wednesday morning and it is time to talk to Craig Peterson. Craig, how are you this morning Hey, good morning guruing away. Guruing that a verb Can you

Unknown 1:09
gurus she gurus they grew all guru

Unknown 1:13
it's like French right? Yeah. Sweet to a new songs

Unknown 1:17
and French. We've just we've just raised the intelligent closure this this short clip wanted this. So let's talk about Facebook. Let's leave time at Facebook. And so there was a program to pay Apple users for data. Has that been changed now? Yeah this is interesting because I got a couple of different Facebook things in here this week including what I got from mass all new

Unknown 1:45
which is kind of cool that Facebook purity thing I checked it out after you mentioned it last week but yeah, Facebook really gotten nail here we found out just a few weeks ago that our Facebook of

Unknown 2:00
users were offered something that I kind of knew was going on here. Here's the bottom. I remember I mentioned Facebook had a VPN and don't trust it. Yes. Because VPN are supposed to be protecting your data. And I knew Facebook had a VPN and it was free, and they were tracking all of your data on it, right? So it's kind of the opposite world, right? For what you expected from VPN. Well, Facebook, apparently when a step beyond that and was paying users 20 bucks a month, I guess it was to use the VPN for research purposes. Now, personally, I don't have a big problem with that. But you guys if you know it's for research, you know, the monitor new and they're paying you 20 bucks, you kind of expect them to be monitoring what you doing right? I would assume so. I would assume so. Yeah, I don't think that's a real big deal. But as it turns out, Apple did a little bit of investigation into our friends.

Unknown 3:01
Zuckerbergville making up all kinds of words today. Zuckerbergville

Unknown 3:09
and what Apple found is that apparently Facebook has been kind of short circuiting some of the Well, some people would say lawyering some of the terms of its policy. And it looks like Apple might actually be forcing Facebook to be honest and not use our data in ways that are part of this overall agreement. That other words, Facebook's been collecting data. So Apple said, If you continue to collect data, we will see the platform. In other words, we won't let you use Apple stuff anymore.

Unknown 3:49
And so what they did is they pulled their keys, Apple pulled Facebook keys, so no, all of a sudden all of these geeks out there and Silicon Valley working

Unknown 4:00
for Facebook that are used to just pop it up their little internal Facebook app on their iPhones and having a Facebook bus come and pick them up in the morning for work along with their latte already warmed up for them in the bus. No, no, no Apple turned off their keys. So none of the apps worked on iOS anymore. And those portal Facebook we knees were I mean workers were out there waiting for their locked data show up at a bus and and messy work. So there is a big tug of war going on between apple and Facebook right now that looks like Apple might actually force it on iOS for Facebook. To be honest,

Unknown 4:46
it's something they're not really known for our right we're talking to Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us on Wednesdays at this time talking about the world of technology. Craig. Speaking of security and cyber security and whatnot. Is there a person

Unknown 5:00
Is there a problem, I guess out there in cyber security whereby we don't have enough human beings to even do the jobs to keep us all safe out there? Is this is this a problem? Well, yeah, it's a problem for a number of different angles

Unknown 5:14
right now, according to a study that was just released by

Unknown 5:18
it's a nonprofit association that that issues, some certifications and it's all about cyber security and cyber security professionals. According to this study,

Unknown 5:30
I was wrong. And you might remember I said that we were about one and a half million cybersecurity workers, Shawn and that's the number have been using for a while now they're saying that we are about 3 million cybersecurity worker shortage.

Unknown 5:47
And that's absolutely huge because what that means is two things one, we are of course, we were in great need of people who can keep our system safe from the federal government.

Unknown 6:00
All the way through the local mom and pop shops. So that's a problem. It might be good for you if you really wanted to get into the cyber security industry and get a better job better paying jobs, because these are some of the highest paying jobs in the tech field. But it's bad again now because that means everybody and their brother is going to start hanging up. I should go outside their little bio repair computer store to say I'm a computer computer security company. Now I do cyber security and I think that's going to be a problem as well. So it's always been hard to figure out who to hire to help you with your it and it's getting a lot harder to find out who can really do the cyber security for you

Unknown 6:47
to great data scientists are tech guru he's doing this morning and he's joining us as he does every Wednesday at 730 I saw on your website a a lamp that could have a hidden camera.

Unknown 7:00
And could be put in an Airbnb room. I mean is that can they do that? Well, you know can as a lawyer is you know about two party consent obviously his main considered a two party state I don't remember so one party state is Yeah, one party okay so one party state How about if I were to put a camera in your living room with the width depth somatic is a two party state means that both people have to consent to be recorded and one party state like main means if I'm on a phone call with you, I can record you without your consent. Right, right.

Unknown 7:37
I don't think so. Yeah, I think that's it. I don't think you can put a camera and then and then the other person not knowing about it. Well, this is a new a new lamp issue from Panasonic, I think is when you're talking about and it's called the HomeHawk, which is a little bit concerning. And the idea is that you can place it in

Unknown 8:00
Your home and it has this very wide angle lens it's 140 degrees. So it's basically takes one whole side of the home. It has a big camera and it streams at 180 red p resolution, which means it's considered to be high def. It's not like 4k or anything but it has a motion sensor built into it. It can detect movement, it has double A batteries to back it up in case there is a power failure. So it is kind of cool. And it's interesting to how they launched this camera. But it is designed to monitor your home. So from that standpoint, if you have it in your home to kind of keep track of maybe burglars breaking in or when the kids get home. We're probably on a good legal ground although you probably want to talk to your lawyer but how about when people might put that into an Airbnb where they're renting out their homes. We've already seen hidden cameras and Airbnb bees that are built into little clock, teddy bears, etc. These nanny cams are put into the homes. And in most cases, these things have been found to be illegal. So it's kind of cool. Maybe for your own home. It's kind of scary when you think about renting somebody else's home. And what kind of cameras might say how to get in the way in there.

Unknown 9:31
We're talking to Craig Peterson. Our tech guru joins us now as he does every Wednesday to talk about the world of technology. Craig. Another thing you have any website here is something I saw, I think last week myself, which is about those European Union policies, privacy laws that were recently instituted and they've apparently snag their first giant whale looks like Google as a huge trend that they're gonna have to pay doctors about those privacy laws, specifically in what happened with Google.

Unknown 9:58
Yeah, this is kind of interesting because they are coming here. Now California just put a similar line place. And these are called the GDPR, GDPR rules. It's I think it's a global or general data protection rules that are over there in the EU. And it's kind of scary for businesses. Because if you have any data on your team customers, and that means if they even visit your website, they can and will control the data that you have for them. You might ask, Well, how can they do anything? I'm just some little guy years and then main. Well, what they've been doing is they actually have put up a Great Firewall, kind of like the Great Firewall of China. And if you break their data, privacy rules, they block your website throughout the European Union that's already been happening. And for most people, most little businesses, who cares right that's not going to really be an impact to you but Google

Unknown 11:00
Nailed by French regulators it's not a big fight for company like Google it was 50 million euros which is a little over $50 million in real money but

Unknown 11:13
they they apparently violated these rules It was alphabetic charged under this and they said the company had not properly gained consent from users. Now I want to warn people who are here in the US who are doing email list to might be collecting some data online for people that might sign up for the email list. Even signing up to get something from you is not enough for this new generation of laws that are going to be the fact that in mass and California and other states in the feds are looking at this as well. Even just having them sign up is not considered consent under these laws. They have to take it affirmative action to say absolutely you can send me marketing message.

Unknown 12:00
So keep an eye out for this. Google is going to have to pay a fine Facebook's probably not far behind them. And if you're a business person, you might not be far behind them either because these laws already exist to some degree, and they're getting tightened up here in the US as well. So be careful with all of your online marketing and sales activities.

Unknown 12:21
Craig Peterson our guru joins us every Wednesday at 730 Guruing away. Thanks for joining us and we'll talk to you next week. Great day. Take care guys. Thanks. Thanks, Craig. All right. We're gonna take a quick break here and 

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Craig is on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt as he does every Wednesday morning. They talked about a lot today from the Facebook and Apple feud, the AirBNBs spying on you, the shortage of cybersecurity workers, and the GDPR bagging its first tech giant Google.

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

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Related Articles:

This Lamp With A Hidden Camera Could Be In Your Next Airbnb Nightmare

Facebook Shuts Controversial Program To Pay Apple Users For Data

Cybersecurity Worker Shortage Hits 3 Million

F.B. Purity Hides Annoying Facebook Applications And News Feed Updates

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 02/06/2019

Facebook Battle With Apple - GDPR Snares Google

Craig Peterson 0:00

Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, of course. And this morning I was on WGAN and all of their affiliates up throughout the state of Maine and covering the course that also covers parts of New Hampshire. But we talked about the Facebook program, the controversial one, what's happening here, there is a big fight going on between apple and Facebook. I mean a very big fight and it looks like Apple might end up being the police, at least for their platform. They've been trying to keep Of course, our data safe now they're trying to keep the companies like Facebook, in line with our privacy as well. So good for them. So we talked a little bit about what was happening there. In fact, we talked quite a bit about that. And we talked about the EU privacy law and how it has snared its first tech giants. So here we go. 

Unknown 1:00
It is the WGAN Morning news. It is Wednesday morning and it is time to talk to Craig Peterson. Craig, how are you this morning Hey, good morning guruing away. Guruing that a verb Can you

Unknown 1:09
gurus she gurus they grew all guru

Unknown 1:13
it's like French right? Yeah. Sweet to a new songs

Unknown 1:17
and French. We've just we've just raised the intelligent closure this this short clip wanted this. So let's talk about Facebook. Let's leave time at Facebook. And so there was a program to pay Apple users for data. Has that been changed now? Yeah this is interesting because I got a couple of different Facebook things in here this week including what I got from mass all new

Unknown 1:45
which is kind of cool that Facebook purity thing I checked it out after you mentioned it last week but yeah, Facebook really gotten nail here we found out just a few weeks ago that our Facebook of

Unknown 2:00
users were offered something that I kind of knew was going on here. Here's the bottom. I remember I mentioned Facebook had a VPN and don't trust it. Yes. Because VPN are supposed to be protecting your data. And I knew Facebook had a VPN and it was free, and they were tracking all of your data on it, right? So it's kind of the opposite world, right? For what you expected from VPN. Well, Facebook, apparently when a step beyond that and was paying users 20 bucks a month, I guess it was to use the VPN for research purposes. Now, personally, I don't have a big problem with that. But you guys if you know it's for research, you know, the monitor new and they're paying you 20 bucks, you kind of expect them to be monitoring what you doing right? I would assume so. I would assume so. Yeah, I don't think that's a real big deal. But as it turns out, Apple did a little bit of investigation into our friends.

Unknown 3:01
Zuckerbergville making up all kinds of words today. Zuckerbergville

Unknown 3:09
and what Apple found is that apparently Facebook has been kind of short circuiting some of the Well, some people would say lawyering some of the terms of its policy. And it looks like Apple might actually be forcing Facebook to be honest and not use our data in ways that are part of this overall agreement. That other words, Facebook's been collecting data. So Apple said, If you continue to collect data, we will see the platform. In other words, we won't let you use Apple stuff anymore.

Unknown 3:49
And so what they did is they pulled their keys, Apple pulled Facebook keys, so no, all of a sudden all of these geeks out there and Silicon Valley working

Unknown 4:00
for Facebook that are used to just pop it up their little internal Facebook app on their iPhones and having a Facebook bus come and pick them up in the morning for work along with their latte already warmed up for them in the bus. No, no, no Apple turned off their keys. So none of the apps worked on iOS anymore. And those portal Facebook we knees were I mean workers were out there waiting for their locked data show up at a bus and and messy work. So there is a big tug of war going on between apple and Facebook right now that looks like Apple might actually force it on iOS for Facebook. To be honest,

Unknown 4:46
it's something they're not really known for our right we're talking to Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us on Wednesdays at this time talking about the world of technology. Craig. Speaking of security and cyber security and whatnot. Is there a person

Unknown 5:00
Is there a problem, I guess out there in cyber security whereby we don't have enough human beings to even do the jobs to keep us all safe out there? Is this is this a problem? Well, yeah, it's a problem for a number of different angles

Unknown 5:14
right now, according to a study that was just released by

Unknown 5:18
it's a nonprofit association that that issues, some certifications and it's all about cyber security and cyber security professionals. According to this study,

Unknown 5:30
I was wrong. And you might remember I said that we were about one and a half million cybersecurity workers, Shawn and that's the number have been using for a while now they're saying that we are about 3 million cybersecurity worker shortage.

Unknown 5:47
And that's absolutely huge because what that means is two things one, we are of course, we were in great need of people who can keep our system safe from the federal government.

Unknown 6:00
All the way through the local mom and pop shops. So that's a problem. It might be good for you if you really wanted to get into the cyber security industry and get a better job better paying jobs, because these are some of the highest paying jobs in the tech field. But it's bad again now because that means everybody and their brother is going to start hanging up. I should go outside their little bio repair computer store to say I'm a computer computer security company. Now I do cyber security and I think that's going to be a problem as well. So it's always been hard to figure out who to hire to help you with your it and it's getting a lot harder to find out who can really do the cyber security for you

Unknown 6:47
to great data scientists are tech guru he's doing this morning and he's joining us as he does every Wednesday at 730 I saw on your website a a lamp that could have a hidden camera.

Unknown 7:00
And could be put in an Airbnb room. I mean is that can they do that? Well, you know can as a lawyer is you know about two party consent obviously his main considered a two party state I don't remember so one party state is Yeah, one party okay so one party state How about if I were to put a camera in your living room with the width depth somatic is a two party state means that both people have to consent to be recorded and one party state like main means if I'm on a phone call with you, I can record you without your consent. Right, right.

Unknown 7:37
I don't think so. Yeah, I think that's it. I don't think you can put a camera and then and then the other person not knowing about it. Well, this is a new a new lamp issue from Panasonic, I think is when you're talking about and it's called the HomeHawk, which is a little bit concerning. And the idea is that you can place it in

Unknown 8:00
Your home and it has this very wide angle lens it's 140 degrees. So it's basically takes one whole side of the home. It has a big camera and it streams at 180 red p resolution, which means it's considered to be high def. It's not like 4k or anything but it has a motion sensor built into it. It can detect movement, it has double A batteries to back it up in case there is a power failure. So it is kind of cool. And it's interesting to how they launched this camera. But it is designed to monitor your home. So from that standpoint, if you have it in your home to kind of keep track of maybe burglars breaking in or when the kids get home. We're probably on a good legal ground although you probably want to talk to your lawyer but how about when people might put that into an Airbnb where they're renting out their homes. We've already seen hidden cameras and Airbnb bees that are built into little clock, teddy bears, etc. These nanny cams are put into the homes. And in most cases, these things have been found to be illegal. So it's kind of cool. Maybe for your own home. It's kind of scary when you think about renting somebody else's home. And what kind of cameras might say how to get in the way in there.

Unknown 9:31
We're talking to Craig Peterson. Our tech guru joins us now as he does every Wednesday to talk about the world of technology. Craig. Another thing you have any website here is something I saw, I think last week myself, which is about those European Union policies, privacy laws that were recently instituted and they've apparently snag their first giant whale looks like Google as a huge trend that they're gonna have to pay doctors about those privacy laws, specifically in what happened with Google.

Unknown 9:58
Yeah, this is kind of interesting because they are coming here. Now California just put a similar line place. And these are called the GDPR, GDPR rules. It's I think it's a global or general data protection rules that are over there in the EU. And it's kind of scary for businesses. Because if you have any data on your team customers, and that means if they even visit your website, they can and will control the data that you have for them. You might ask, Well, how can they do anything? I'm just some little guy years and then main. Well, what they've been doing is they actually have put up a Great Firewall, kind of like the Great Firewall of China. And if you break their data, privacy rules, they block your website throughout the European Union that's already been happening. And for most people, most little businesses, who cares right that's not going to really be an impact to you but Google

Unknown 11:00
Nailed by French regulators it's not a big fight for company like Google it was 50 million euros which is a little over $50 million in real money but

Unknown 11:13
they they apparently violated these rules It was alphabetic charged under this and they said the company had not properly gained consent from users. Now I want to warn people who are here in the US who are doing email list to might be collecting some data online for people that might sign up for the email list. Even signing up to get something from you is not enough for this new generation of laws that are going to be the fact that in mass and California and other states in the feds are looking at this as well. Even just having them sign up is not considered consent under these laws. They have to take it affirmative action to say absolutely you can send me marketing message.

Unknown 12:00
So keep an eye out for this. Google is going to have to pay a fine Facebook's probably not far behind them. And if you're a business person, you might not be far behind them either because these laws already exist to some degree, and they're getting tightened up here in the US as well. So be careful with all of your online marketing and sales activities.

Unknown 12:21
Craig Peterson our guru joins us every Wednesday at 730 Guruing away. Thanks for joining us and we'll talk to you next week. Great day. Take care guys. Thanks. Thanks, Craig. All right. We're gonna take a quick break here and 

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This morning Craig and Jim talked about the shortage of cybersecurity workers and its impact on the security side of things.

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

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Cybersecurity Worker Shortage Hits 3 Million

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 02/05/2019

Impacts Of The Cybersecurity Worker Shortage - Hiring Workers

Craig Peterson: 0:00

Hey, good morning, everybody. Patriots nation, of course, you know, Jim Polito right there in Mass. He covers of wow, about two thirds of the state. Maybe a little bit more. And Rhode Island, and parts of Connecticut and Vermont. And so what's he talking about? A courses the Patriots. So he went over time this morning, but I'll forgive them, right? I live in New Hampshire, and we're part of Patriots nation too. We claim them as our own. So this morning was a little bit shorter than usual. And I brought up some stuff. Have you ever wondered about the cyber security workers? Who do you hire? Who do the people that you hire to take care of your computers hire? Well, there are a bunch of problems right now. And it's because of the cybersecurity workers shortage so that's what I talked with Jim about this morning. So here we go. Also, of course, remember that we have this week, some of my best stuff should be going up today. I wanted to get up yesterday. But you know how that goes. Life, right. And so you'll probably see an email or a text from me as soon as it starts going up. But some phenomenal stuff on DIY security, how to secure your machines and your networks. And we're starting with Wi Fi. And then we're going on to firewall. So here we go with Jim. Make sure you visit http;//CraigPeterson.com to get signed up.

Jim Polito 1:36
Let's get right to it. Because he's going to tell us there's 3 million jobs out there in the world that need to be filled. And it's not being done. Joining us now, Tech Talk guru and good friend Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig 1:53
Hey, good morning, Jim. Yeah, this is presenting some real interesting problems that the most obvious problem of course, is if you're shy, 3 million people that there are literally 3 million open jobs for cyber security workers that, obviously means we're going to have some security problems. But there's a second kind of unintended consequences of this sort of thing that we've seen over the last at least 30 years, 40 years in the IT business, Jim. And that is what happens in the you know, we have a fairly capitalist society. But what happens in a society where the government is not saying that we have five open cybersecurity jobs, and the market is saying you have 3 million open jobs, there's usually a couple of things that are going to happen when there's a shortage of workers or shortage of anything, right? And what's that?

Jim 2:55
When you have a shortage of workers? Well, the salary goes up, I'll tell you that much.

Craig 3:02
You're absolutely right, the price goes up. And that makes it even more difficult because the good cyber security workers are already paid a lot of money. And we're talking about hundreds of dollars an hour on an ongoing basis. And a lot of people don't realize how, how expensive it really gets. So if you got some guy out there or gal who says, wow, man, I'd love to make 80 bucks an hour. 100 bucks an hour, I want to be a cyber security guy. So now we're starting to see ads and I'm seeing that now, I captured a couple because I just couldn't believe my eyes, but ads online for I've learned to be a cyber security worker in as little as three days.

Jim 3:53
Hold on. Stop the presses. I don't know if I want a cyber security person who's learned in three days any more than I want a doctor who's learned in three weeks

Craig 4:06
That sort of thing. Exactly. I've seen it all the way across the board Jim from become a cybersecurity expert in three days, all the way up through now, this might take you a while to do and, you know, maybe you want to find a career it's a little faster, but three days all the way up to six weeks.

Jim 4:28
Unless you're somebody like Craig Peterson, who was born with this gift, okay, called intelligence, but also is predisposed to be able to understand issues of IT. I don't know if I want somebody in six weeks. I mean, like, I know the, the boys when we ask them a question about one of our devices or something, you know, they can quickly answer it, like, Oh, you do this, this and this, you know, and so, they're they're like, of that they, you know, they're they're pretty, I still think six weeks, I mean, you need a little more, but it just goes to show you that crime does pay, you know, they say crime doesn't pay. I mean, it does if you're a crime fighter, especially in cyber security. We're talking about Craig Peterson, our Tech Talk guru. Don't forget at the end of the segment going to give you a way that you can get a lot of great free information from him. So go on, sir.

Craig 5:23
Yeah, well, so this is going to be a very big deal, a figure deal because this happened back in the late 1990s where everybody wanted a website and everybody wanted to be online. And everybody wanted to be an IT worker. And all of a sudden everybody was putting their shingle out, we're starting to see this now IT organizations who are just very basic fix it shots, you know, they can tell you how to do this on your iPhone or do that on your Windows machine. Yeah, and replace a bad hard disk and now they're putting out a sheet go same they are a security provider.

Jim 6:04
Yeah. I don't know about that.

Craig 6:07
I started in New England, very first managed security services provider back in the early 90s because I got hit. I had already been on the internet for more than a decade. I started on the internet in '81. Al Gore and I were buds back then.

Jim 6:25
Yeah, I never knew that. I mean, I know you wrote some of the language, some of the code for the internet, which is the truth folks. And some of the code that runs the internet was written by Craig Peterson, but I did not know that what got you going that way was a cyber attack.

Craig 6:43
I did. I got nailed. And at that time I was what the huge web hosting company we're building site to build some of the largest properties in the country. Like you've probably heard of big yellow or super pages, and the Vendee International, a lot of work for them.

Jim 7:02
I do remember these. I guess I'm showing my age that I knew all these. Yeah.

Craig 7:07
Well, that was all me working with my clients. And so we got nailed. And I was using the anti viruses tried to do the right thing. And I couldn't find anybody that really knew security. And so that's when my kinds of career my business kind of took a bit of a dogleg and we went a different angle because I just couldn't stand seeing people who had worked all their lives to build their businesses who had tried to build a nice career who had all the retirement tied up and then have bad guys come along and take it away from them sometimes, literally, nowadays. So that's why I started that that's when I started letting people know about this and doing the radio stuff and and that's why this week I'm doing some special training on how to do the basic self security yourself for your business. I'm giving away some of my best stuff this week for free and it's so important Jim. And this 3 million cybersecurity worker shortage gets me kind of worried from a lot of angles,

Jim 8:16
And then it just goes to show you if you need 3 million people to work in cyber security, how many people does that translate to on the other side of the equation? Those who are creating the need for cyber security. Think about it. I mean, exponentially. How many more people there are working there. Craig, let's let's get the number out there to folks so that they can get this information. Plus there was a lot of other great stuff that we could have talked about today, just in the interest of time, and we can't but Craig really provides a lot of stuff free to you. This is no obligation no nothing. All you have to do is text my name to?

Craig 9:01
855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553

Jim 9:12
And a standard standard data and text rates apply. You will get great stuff from Craig Peterson, you know if there's a big hack or a big cyber crime and you need to protect yourself. Just like last week, we talked about changing passwords for your email, that kind of stuff. He gets that information right to you, Craig. It is always a pleasure to catch up with you, buddy. We really appreciate appreciate these Tuesdays with you. And we'll talk to you next week.

Craig 9:41
Hey, thanks, Jim. Take care. 

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This morning Craig and Jim talked about the shortage of cybersecurity workers and its impact on the security side of things.

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Airing date: 02/05/2019

Impacts Of The Cybersecurity Worker Shortage - Hiring Workers

Craig Peterson: 0:00

Hey, good morning, everybody. Patriots nation, of course, you know, Jim Polito right there in Mass. He covers of wow, about two thirds of the state. Maybe a little bit more. And Rhode Island, and parts of Connecticut and Vermont. And so what's he talking about? A courses the Patriots. So he went over time this morning, but I'll forgive them, right? I live in New Hampshire, and we're part of Patriots nation too. We claim them as our own. So this morning was a little bit shorter than usual. And I brought up some stuff. Have you ever wondered about the cyber security workers? Who do you hire? Who do the people that you hire to take care of your computers hire? Well, there are a bunch of problems right now. And it's because of the cybersecurity workers shortage so that's what I talked with Jim about this morning. So here we go. Also, of course, remember that we have this week, some of my best stuff should be going up today. I wanted to get up yesterday. But you know how that goes. Life, right. And so you'll probably see an email or a text from me as soon as it starts going up. But some phenomenal stuff on DIY security, how to secure your machines and your networks. And we're starting with Wi Fi. And then we're going on to firewall. So here we go with Jim. Make sure you visit http;//CraigPeterson.com to get signed up.

Jim Polito 1:36
Let's get right to it. Because he's going to tell us there's 3 million jobs out there in the world that need to be filled. And it's not being done. Joining us now, Tech Talk guru and good friend Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig 1:53
Hey, good morning, Jim. Yeah, this is presenting some real interesting problems that the most obvious problem of course, is if you're shy, 3 million people that there are literally 3 million open jobs for cyber security workers that, obviously means we're going to have some security problems. But there's a second kind of unintended consequences of this sort of thing that we've seen over the last at least 30 years, 40 years in the IT business, Jim. And that is what happens in the you know, we have a fairly capitalist society. But what happens in a society where the government is not saying that we have five open cybersecurity jobs, and the market is saying you have 3 million open jobs, there's usually a couple of things that are going to happen when there's a shortage of workers or shortage of anything, right? And what's that?

Jim 2:55
When you have a shortage of workers? Well, the salary goes up, I'll tell you that much.

Craig 3:02
You're absolutely right, the price goes up. And that makes it even more difficult because the good cyber security workers are already paid a lot of money. And we're talking about hundreds of dollars an hour on an ongoing basis. And a lot of people don't realize how, how expensive it really gets. So if you got some guy out there or gal who says, wow, man, I'd love to make 80 bucks an hour. 100 bucks an hour, I want to be a cyber security guy. So now we're starting to see ads and I'm seeing that now, I captured a couple because I just couldn't believe my eyes, but ads online for I've learned to be a cyber security worker in as little as three days.

Jim 3:53
Hold on. Stop the presses. I don't know if I want a cyber security person who's learned in three days any more than I want a doctor who's learned in three weeks

Craig 4:06
That sort of thing. Exactly. I've seen it all the way across the board Jim from become a cybersecurity expert in three days, all the way up through now, this might take you a while to do and, you know, maybe you want to find a career it's a little faster, but three days all the way up to six weeks.

Jim 4:28
Unless you're somebody like Craig Peterson, who was born with this gift, okay, called intelligence, but also is predisposed to be able to understand issues of IT. I don't know if I want somebody in six weeks. I mean, like, I know the, the boys when we ask them a question about one of our devices or something, you know, they can quickly answer it, like, Oh, you do this, this and this, you know, and so, they're they're like, of that they, you know, they're they're pretty, I still think six weeks, I mean, you need a little more, but it just goes to show you that crime does pay, you know, they say crime doesn't pay. I mean, it does if you're a crime fighter, especially in cyber security. We're talking about Craig Peterson, our Tech Talk guru. Don't forget at the end of the segment going to give you a way that you can get a lot of great free information from him. So go on, sir.

Craig 5:23
Yeah, well, so this is going to be a very big deal, a figure deal because this happened back in the late 1990s where everybody wanted a website and everybody wanted to be online. And everybody wanted to be an IT worker. And all of a sudden everybody was putting their shingle out, we're starting to see this now IT organizations who are just very basic fix it shots, you know, they can tell you how to do this on your iPhone or do that on your Windows machine. Yeah, and replace a bad hard disk and now they're putting out a sheet go same they are a security provider.

Jim 6:04
Yeah. I don't know about that.

Craig 6:07
I started in New England, very first managed security services provider back in the early 90s because I got hit. I had already been on the internet for more than a decade. I started on the internet in '81. Al Gore and I were buds back then.

Jim 6:25
Yeah, I never knew that. I mean, I know you wrote some of the language, some of the code for the internet, which is the truth folks. And some of the code that runs the internet was written by Craig Peterson, but I did not know that what got you going that way was a cyber attack.

Craig 6:43
I did. I got nailed. And at that time I was what the huge web hosting company we're building site to build some of the largest properties in the country. Like you've probably heard of big yellow or super pages, and the Vendee International, a lot of work for them.

Jim 7:02
I do remember these. I guess I'm showing my age that I knew all these. Yeah.

Craig 7:07
Well, that was all me working with my clients. And so we got nailed. And I was using the anti viruses tried to do the right thing. And I couldn't find anybody that really knew security. And so that's when my kinds of career my business kind of took a bit of a dogleg and we went a different angle because I just couldn't stand seeing people who had worked all their lives to build their businesses who had tried to build a nice career who had all the retirement tied up and then have bad guys come along and take it away from them sometimes, literally, nowadays. So that's why I started that that's when I started letting people know about this and doing the radio stuff and and that's why this week I'm doing some special training on how to do the basic self security yourself for your business. I'm giving away some of my best stuff this week for free and it's so important Jim. And this 3 million cybersecurity worker shortage gets me kind of worried from a lot of angles,

Jim 8:16
And then it just goes to show you if you need 3 million people to work in cyber security, how many people does that translate to on the other side of the equation? Those who are creating the need for cyber security. Think about it. I mean, exponentially. How many more people there are working there. Craig, let's let's get the number out there to folks so that they can get this information. Plus there was a lot of other great stuff that we could have talked about today, just in the interest of time, and we can't but Craig really provides a lot of stuff free to you. This is no obligation no nothing. All you have to do is text my name to?

Craig 9:01
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Jim 9:12
And a standard standard data and text rates apply. You will get great stuff from Craig Peterson, you know if there's a big hack or a big cyber crime and you need to protect yourself. Just like last week, we talked about changing passwords for your email, that kind of stuff. He gets that information right to you, Craig. It is always a pleasure to catch up with you, buddy. We really appreciate appreciate these Tuesdays with you. And we'll talk to you next week.

Craig 9:41
Hey, thanks, Jim. Take care. 

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Airing date: 02/04/2019

Super Bowl Technology - Why Are Advertisers Wasting Their Money

Craig Peterson 0:00

Hey we want to welcome everybody Craig Peterson here. Of course living in New England the Patriots are our team. In fact that you know, we take it kind of personally here, but it wouldn't. Interesting game wasn't it. And I talked this morning with Jack  Heath, a little bit about some of the tech involved. And if they had just an amazing opportunity here to use some of the world's most advanced technology to really connect with the consumers. They didn't. It was to me, it was shocking. It was shocking. They they had some 8K broadcasts and other things. But why didn't they use the tech they could have used to engage the audience and the looks like from all of the social media online that that that's just playing right. That's a good observation. I think I got right again, hey, this week. Make sure you keep your eyes out today. Tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday day I have some of my best ideas. Some of the best training in the industry available for the SMB marketplace. small medium business. This is of course, all about security. It's free stuff. I will have an offer at the end of all of this for people who are interested in taking it further. But this is my best stuff. It's going to be available for you. It is not a pitch fast. Believe me make sure you sign up just visit http://CraigPeterson.com right now. It is right there on my homepage. You can sign up right there. And I you know I'm putting a lot of work into this. This is taken a few months to put together I've got some amazing stuff. I've got a whole package of stuff for people who might have been hacked or want to know if they've been hacked. All of this stuff is going to be included so make sure you visit http://CraigPeterson.com. And here we go with Mr. Heath

Jack Heath 1:56
Craig Peterson our tech talk guy joins us I believe in the Auto Fair listener lines. Craig you know so much of this now is an online game versus you know the other way the people get the information as we get into this post Super Bowl Monday morning.

Craig 2:13
Good morning Jack. The technology that was there at the Super Bowl this year was just absolutely incredible least behind the scenes you had 4000 miles of fiber cable in there you had over 2000 strands of additional fiber 330 recording channels with their plane watching if you came it was just incredible 16 cameras there were a number of augmented reality sensors in fact sick network cameras where they're tracking the AR graphics they were used you know all of this text is just incredible for a game that I'm looking at all of these means that we're social media was an absolute bore and one of the ones I love the most about it was Yahoo Sports and they posted a picture on their Twitter feed of just a piece of paper that said Patriots and Rams three to three and they said our graphics team fell asleep it was it was quite an interesting game that dichotomy with all of this great tech with the new TVs there was an eight k broadcast from the field it was absolutely phenomenal you could watch multiple angles on some of these newest TVs you could do automatic replays that the tech was just incredible Jack But the game itself on much show so sure it was so great I thought kind of the highlight was Spongebob coming out but he was only there for about five seconds.

Jack 3:47
And then yeah Tony Romo trying to call a game. No it. Yeah, they look at all the matters is a W but I guess Justin and Craig Peterson, Justin and Craig. I guess if you're just if you're in a neutral state if there is such a thing because there's so many anti New England patriot fans. But if you're in another market you're watching that game just for the pure football entertainment with the NFL being all about offense I guess it kind of was you know, not as exciting

Craig 4:16
Yeah, that's absolutely true. It wasn't I don't think it was a Saturday night and I'm not a big football fan I got to admit it but you were mentioning the ads as well and how expensive they were and social media definitely had a winner the number one ad from all of the means of repost it and comment was one of the Bud Light ad that was the one that was tied in with the HBO showing the dragon for the final season of Game of Thrones. That was a huge winner last night and probably can continue to be that second incredible series. But you know, from a business standpoint, you know, I talked to Jack up in new business for years and in entrepreneur started a few different businesses over the years and, and you look at how much is spent on these and you really have to wonder what they get out of it. Now Budweiser, I get it right if they've got a name they're building a bit more of a name but there's no call to action there there's nothing that these commercials were doing using technology that would have gotten people kind of offer their seats and doing something making a positive step to get their product or anything you know that type of interaction interactivity where you can have an ad and your your clients can or prospects can they can buy your product right then and there it's not there yet it isn't radio on like on the I heart app, you can advertise to people and they can just shake their phone and it'll connect to the website that that type of interaction again, will not seen on TV we are seeing on radio with I heart and I think it's just showing the the lack of connectivity that I think is really starting to go on now. The TV guys just don't get it and they're wasting their money. My opinion, right on spending other $5 million for a 32nd commercial.

Jack 6:22
Yeah, I haven't checked the ratings course knowing when you know, you're gonna have high but nationally haven't checked them. But one of the headlines I saw overnight earlier this morning was the last great live TV event.

Craig 6:35
Yeah, yeah, that's probably not too far off from the truth that just keeps going down and down.

Jack 6:42
All right. Craig Peterson, excellent stuff. A high tech look at the big game. Last night from Atlantic. Craig Peterson. http://CraigPeterson.com. Thanks Craig.

Craig 6:50
Hey take care. Bye. Bye.

Again. Guys. Don't miss my series. This week. We'll be doing different ones. This is the one that's really going to teach you about the basics. What do you need to do for security, whether you're Soho, small, medium business. Okay. I've got some great things planned for this year. And I appreciate your signing up http://CraigPeterson.com. Take care. Have a great day. be back tomorrow with Mr. Polito. 

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Super Bowl Technology - Why Are Advertisers Wasting Their Money

Craig Peterson 0:00

Hey we want to welcome everybody Craig Peterson here. Of course living in New England the Patriots are our team. In fact that you know, we take it kind of personally here, but it wouldn't. Interesting game wasn't it. And I talked this morning with Jack  Heath, a little bit about some of the tech involved. And if they had just an amazing opportunity here to use some of the world's most advanced technology to really connect with the consumers. They didn't. It was to me, it was shocking. It was shocking. They they had some 8K broadcasts and other things. But why didn't they use the tech they could have used to engage the audience and the looks like from all of the social media online that that that's just playing right. That's a good observation. I think I got right again, hey, this week. Make sure you keep your eyes out today. Tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday day I have some of my best ideas. Some of the best training in the industry available for the SMB marketplace. small medium business. This is of course, all about security. It's free stuff. I will have an offer at the end of all of this for people who are interested in taking it further. But this is my best stuff. It's going to be available for you. It is not a pitch fast. Believe me make sure you sign up just visit http://CraigPeterson.com right now. It is right there on my homepage. You can sign up right there. And I you know I'm putting a lot of work into this. This is taken a few months to put together I've got some amazing stuff. I've got a whole package of stuff for people who might have been hacked or want to know if they've been hacked. All of this stuff is going to be included so make sure you visit http://CraigPeterson.com. And here we go with Mr. Heath

Jack Heath 1:56
Craig Peterson our tech talk guy joins us I believe in the Auto Fair listener lines. Craig you know so much of this now is an online game versus you know the other way the people get the information as we get into this post Super Bowl Monday morning.

Craig 2:13
Good morning Jack. The technology that was there at the Super Bowl this year was just absolutely incredible least behind the scenes you had 4000 miles of fiber cable in there you had over 2000 strands of additional fiber 330 recording channels with their plane watching if you came it was just incredible 16 cameras there were a number of augmented reality sensors in fact sick network cameras where they're tracking the AR graphics they were used you know all of this text is just incredible for a game that I'm looking at all of these means that we're social media was an absolute bore and one of the ones I love the most about it was Yahoo Sports and they posted a picture on their Twitter feed of just a piece of paper that said Patriots and Rams three to three and they said our graphics team fell asleep it was it was quite an interesting game that dichotomy with all of this great tech with the new TVs there was an eight k broadcast from the field it was absolutely phenomenal you could watch multiple angles on some of these newest TVs you could do automatic replays that the tech was just incredible Jack But the game itself on much show so sure it was so great I thought kind of the highlight was Spongebob coming out but he was only there for about five seconds.

Jack 3:47
And then yeah Tony Romo trying to call a game. No it. Yeah, they look at all the matters is a W but I guess Justin and Craig Peterson, Justin and Craig. I guess if you're just if you're in a neutral state if there is such a thing because there's so many anti New England patriot fans. But if you're in another market you're watching that game just for the pure football entertainment with the NFL being all about offense I guess it kind of was you know, not as exciting

Craig 4:16
Yeah, that's absolutely true. It wasn't I don't think it was a Saturday night and I'm not a big football fan I got to admit it but you were mentioning the ads as well and how expensive they were and social media definitely had a winner the number one ad from all of the means of repost it and comment was one of the Bud Light ad that was the one that was tied in with the HBO showing the dragon for the final season of Game of Thrones. That was a huge winner last night and probably can continue to be that second incredible series. But you know, from a business standpoint, you know, I talked to Jack up in new business for years and in entrepreneur started a few different businesses over the years and, and you look at how much is spent on these and you really have to wonder what they get out of it. Now Budweiser, I get it right if they've got a name they're building a bit more of a name but there's no call to action there there's nothing that these commercials were doing using technology that would have gotten people kind of offer their seats and doing something making a positive step to get their product or anything you know that type of interaction interactivity where you can have an ad and your your clients can or prospects can they can buy your product right then and there it's not there yet it isn't radio on like on the I heart app, you can advertise to people and they can just shake their phone and it'll connect to the website that that type of interaction again, will not seen on TV we are seeing on radio with I heart and I think it's just showing the the lack of connectivity that I think is really starting to go on now. The TV guys just don't get it and they're wasting their money. My opinion, right on spending other $5 million for a 32nd commercial.

Jack 6:22
Yeah, I haven't checked the ratings course knowing when you know, you're gonna have high but nationally haven't checked them. But one of the headlines I saw overnight earlier this morning was the last great live TV event.

Craig 6:35
Yeah, yeah, that's probably not too far off from the truth that just keeps going down and down.

Jack 6:42
All right. Craig Peterson, excellent stuff. A high tech look at the big game. Last night from Atlantic. Craig Peterson. http://CraigPeterson.com. Thanks Craig.

Craig 6:50
Hey take care. Bye. Bye.

Again. Guys. Don't miss my series. This week. We'll be doing different ones. This is the one that's really going to teach you about the basics. What do you need to do for security, whether you're Soho, small, medium business. Okay. I've got some great things planned for this year. And I appreciate your signing up http://CraigPeterson.com. Take care. Have a great day. be back tomorrow with Mr. Polito. 

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Facebook and Apple are fielding in a big way. It looks like Apple's taking this into their own hands is just fantastic. Today we are going to talk more about that.

There is a new plug-in that can help you clean up your Facebook feed. Listen in and you can learn more about that.

Hidden cameras again at Airbnb's. This thing is scary as heck. We will talk about the good and proper uses and when their use crosses the line.

We've got a cybersecurity worker shortage is all that to surprise 3 million people is where that's at right now. So we'll talk a little bit about that.

Did you know many of the Fortune 500 companies you deal with are have vulnerabilities that can compromise your personal information? Today, I will talk about their use of vulnerable server software. Yes, it is the same software that allowed hackers to steal personal data from Equifax.

I will talk about the Three, cybersecurity must-haves for small businesses. Leading up to the free training I am offering next week. 

Do you use a Mac? I will go over some basic must-haves for small business Mac users. Remember, you are not invulnerable, and there is a targeted piece of malware being used against you. Listen in to learn more.

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Airing date: 02/02/2019

Apple Holding Facebook Accountable For Privacy - Cybersecurity Tips For SMB - FBPurity Plugin For Facebook

Craig Peterson: 0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. And of course, we are going to talk about tech, some of the latest things, some latest articles, some of the nastiest things that are happening out there. I don't know if you've seen about this feud. But our friends at Facebook and Apple are fielding in a big way. You know, I'm asked if you listen to this radio show and if you listen to me appearing as a featured guest on some of these other shows, you know, I'm asked all the time about security and what we're going to do about our friends at Facebook. It looks like Apple's taking this into their own hands is just fantastic. So we'll talk about that and that's all due to a an article that came out that really kind of nailed them I got a really cool little tool in fact I learned it from a couple of friends of mine up in Maine who host a radio show that I'm on every week but Matt and Ken do this was actually Matt's idea but plugin you are going to love and this is going to clean up your Facebook feed.

Hidden cameras again, AirBNB. This thing is scary as heck. The Fortune 100 you know about Equifax you know above the breach. While this is not very fun. We've got a cyber security worker shortage is all that to surprise a 3 million people is where that's at right now. So we'll talk a little bit about that. Three, cybersecurity must haves for small businesses. That kind of ties into what I'm doing here next week. I've got just a ton of training for small businesses. Make sure you visit my website. http://CraigPeterson.com. This stuff is all free. I'm giving away my best stuff. absolute best stuff for free this week. So make sure you sign up. http://CraigPeterson.com.

But here's some basic must haves for small business Mac users. You are not in vulnerable, you're being targeted by piece of malware. So we got a lot going on today. And that's what we're going to be talking about right here. Of course, this is Craig Peterson. And this is Tech Talk.

There's another guy I just don't I just don't get it. But little confusion. He calls himself Craig Peterson. I've been doing this for what, 25 years now. And then he said, Craig Peterson Tech Talk. What that's me. That's not you. Anyways, here we go.

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Facebook had this controversial program. And this is really what's gotten this little bit of a war started. And the war is between Apple and Facebook. Now we all know that Facebook, their founder thought that we were idiots for giving him our information. And that now been documented in a court case over in Europe thinks we are idiots. In fact, he used a swear word an expletive in they're describing what kind of idiots he thought we were. Well, Apple is now ratcheting up its tug of war over privacy this week, you might have seen a little bit about it. But now we're going to explain what it's really about what's really going on. But there was a report that talked about Facebook collecting data on users. In fact, they were paying users for this data. Remember, I mentioned that Facebook has a free VPN and that you should never use it. Because typically, when you're thinking about a VPN, you're thinking about privacy, right? You thinking about security, hey, and people aren't going to be able to track me, have you ever used a VPN before, if you're a business person, you probably should. But you need to understand more about them. Well, Facebook had this whole VPN setup that was tracking you were you are going what you were doing what you were saying it was really just a piece of nasty spyware just crazy what they were doing. Well, they offered a $20 a month, I think it was kind of a bounty for anybody that would use their VPN. And they made it very obvious that what they were doing is tracking you they're trying to track people age 13 to 35 as much as $20 a month or it install this Facebook research app.

Now, if that's what is called a Facebook research app, and it's designed to track phone and web usage habit. And this was reported by TechCrunch. This became a bit of a big deal when they started looking into it a little bit further, because it turned out the TechCrunch report said that Google's running a data collector that also similar to Facebook's app on Apple system. So you got Google doing something that collecting all this data, and you got Facebook doing something? Well, apparently, Google pulled the plug on their little project, Apple did not pull the excuse me, Facebook did not pull the plug on their little project. And so gate Facebook. So Facebook did not get nailed, and Google did get nailed.

So this app is discontinued on Apple iOS, how those can continue to run on Android devices. Doesn't that figure, right? Android? Yeah, yeah, again, spying on you, man, Facebook's finally going to suffer some consequences for their actions. This is kind of interesting when you think about it. Because what's happened is, Apple completely pulled the plug on Facebook's development. Now, if you don't know much about the Apple ecosystem, let me explain a couple of things. Even if you're an Apple user, you might not be aware of this, if you are developing, you're trying to develop apps for iOS, you apply you pain money, and you get from Apple, a special key you can use to sign your applications. And then that key is used by Apple to verify Yes, and D. This is assigned application by developer x. And therefore it will run it'll be accepted on iOS. And Apple has some similar things in place for Mac OS, that's part of the reason Mac OS is so much safer than Windows is, well, one of the things you have to do if you write software is tested. And a lot of people do a lot of testing. And so with that developer license, you can now make your app available to people who kind of sign into your developer account, right? They don't have to have your credentials or anything, but they associate with your account, they can now use your software. So now it's kind of an alpha and beta stages before it gets its final release. So if you don't have one of these keys, if you cannot sign the software, you can't distribute it
at all, basically. So you are kind of out of business. And that's what Apple did, Apple polled Facebook's developer key. And a one more big problem. You might not be aware of this, you know, there's one millions of apps in the app stores now. It's just it's it's incredible. How many I think it's over a million just an apple store itself. And I'm sure someone's about to text me with how many. 855-385-5553, 855-385-5553. Let me know how many there are. But there's at least a million apps in the app store. But did you know that there are more apps that are not in the App Store, then are in the app store? Now, you got to ask yourself, why would that be? Well, you know, I think Craig must be talking about development, right? developer apps, not real apps that people are using everyday. Well, obviously, there's a lot of developer apps that never ever hit the App Store. But there are more internally used business apps out there. Then there are apps that are for sale in the App Store. So companies like Facebook, for instance, will develop apps to be used internally by their staff to do different things. Now, in Facebook's case, it includes things like send a bus my way a bus to work, or maybe it's pick up my clothes from the triangle, and whatever might be all of the internal apps. And Facebook was using on iOS got shot in the head, they are all down. So now there's these people who work for Facebook are used to somebody in their little bus. And that bus is not showing up anymore. There's somebody in the bus and the app doesn't work. And they're trying to get in to an office by using an app. And that's not working.

So this is very, very big. And Apple did this to basically punish Facebook for doing things that violated Apple's privacy. Apple has a whole thing they have to sign. I'm an Apple developer for iOS as well as for Mac. And when you get your developers license, you then have to accept their terms. You have to accept their contract, very big deal. No, and their contract says that you will keep our users data safe, and they did not do it. So Facebook, shut it all
down.

And we'll see where this ends up going. I'm sure they'll reach some sort of terms. I also wonder now if Facebook's going to switch from you in iOS is its primary development target and maybe switch to Android, which I think would be a mistake, but this is from Apple. They said the permission was intended solely for internal distribution of apps within an organization. Facebook has been using their membership to distribute a data collecting app to consumers, which is a clear breach of their agreement with Apple. So you know, Tim Cook hadn't been involved in this decision, Mark Zuckerberg was criticized over his handling of Cambridge Analytica over his handling of the whole Obama campaign where they gave Obama access to everything makes Cambridge Analytica look like just ridiculous bikers. They just don't know what they're doing right now, news to ask me, oh, wait a minute, you're Republican, I'm not going to give it to you. So it goes on and on extremely glib is how this was how this was described here, and Zuckerberg. So we'll, we'll see what happens. Hey, mentioned, apps and apple. So we're going to talk now about something if you have an Apple Mac, there is some new malware out there, you need to be aware of,

Hey, as I was just mentioning, we're talking about security. Apple has a lot of things in place to help secure our devices and Mojave on the desktop added a bunch of stuff that it's just phenomenal what Apple's doing. And they're doing it, I think, basically the right way. And, and it is going to provide security that we're just we can't get in any other platform. So good for them. But there is a new sneaky piece of malware out back out there that's going after Mac users. And this one is image based. Now we've seen image based attacks before. But in this case, it's a little bit different. It seems like a key piece of data that used to launch the attack has been hidden in this harmless looking white triangle. There's a little image now we saw something like this late last year, when researchers discovered criminal hackers were controlling malware using Twitter means now how's that for an interesting way to do it. So what happens is a malware got on your computer. And then it monitored a trip a Twitter feed, and then looked at the means that were placed in the Twitter feed. And hidden inside those means were the control codes for the malware, yes, they are getting very tricky.

So this new piece of malware is called VeryMal. And the image it's been linked to is using some parameters that get added to our URL in order to try and control malware. And you've seen this, I'm sure if you're an Apple user, where you go to a website, what comes up, it comes up and says, hey, you've got to update your flash bright, it's a fake Adobe Flash update, or, and of course, Adobe Flash, highly recommended to not use it, never use it, that don't use it for the last at least five to 10 years, really don't use it. And we had our friend Steve Jobs back in the day who saying we will never support Adobe Flash. And he had a lot of good reasons for it, not the least of which was he didn't like Adobe and what they were doing. But this is a fake flash up data, it's being pushed by this very mail campaign. And here's the bottom line Mac users, you don't want this app, you don't want to update your flash buy a little pop up that comes when you visit a website. legit flash up dates for Chrome comes straight from Google, they get pushed automatically with other browser updates, right.

So ignore anything that says you have to upgrade and update flash, because you don't want to even have it on your machine. And if you're using Chrome, it's going to get updated automatically. Now, if you ignore that, by the way, you might be in trouble. Because just in two days in January this year, there were more than 190,000 impressions of this image.

So that's a lot of people that might have been hit by this researchers are estimating as many as 5 million users per day have been exposed to the malware, fewer than a third the anti malware engines on the virus, total scanning service detect very mouse payload as of this morning. And these attacks, of course, they can be expensive. And we're going to be talking about that this week as well. But bottom line, a single round of attacks in January probably cost about $1.2 million to businesses. And that's on a per business basis. Now, if you're a small business, it's going to cost you less, but on average, right now it's about $120,000 per attack.

So I want to make sure that you're aware of this. I've been sending out emails this week. If you didn't see them and you didn't see my invite in this morning's email make sure you sign up next week I'm going to be holding I'm going to have four different classes I'm going to be holding a live online class we're going to be going through kind of the DIY What do you need to do to protect your business online what's your drew be watching for what kind of software can you install for free some of the stuff that you should be using this paid that's all this week we're going to give you some of my best stuff and I'm not going to charge you a dime probably have an offer for you for people who really want to go the next level but this is absolutely mandatory must attend go to Craig Peterson comments right there on my homepage. So we're going to get right now into three cybersecurity must have here some things you've got to do if you are a small business and kind of a little bit of flash ahead to what we'll be talking a lot more about this coming week on my con shares page and in the live webinars as well.

Alright, we got cybersecurity must haves for small businesses. Pop quiz, what percentage of small businesses in the United States, what percentage of small businesses in the US suffered a cyber attack in 2017? This is from an article from security today. And I've seen these stats before. So I know they're pretty much right. What would you estimate 10% of small businesses had a cyber attack 25% maybe higher?

The answer is 47% of small businesses had their networks breached at least once by cyber criminals in 2017. In other words, half of all small businesses had their networks breached in 2017. Now, almost half of those businesses that were breached once were breached twice or more. Now, that's according to a survey though, that was reported in 2018 USA Today story. So when you look at all of the data from this is the he can only really draw one conclusion. And the researchers team concluded that only about three intend small businesses would be able to even handle a cyber attack. If they were hit with one today.

So 3 in 10 could handle it, they'd be able to survive, and half of the small businesses were hit. So those numbers are pretty scary, frankly. And I want to ask you a couple of questions here. Why are you not prepared for a cyber attack? If you're a small business person, whether you own the business or you work in the small medium business, you know, maybe a $10 million a year business still considered to be a small business. But why? Well, there's a lot of reasons. Of course, small companies have limited budgets, that you don't have the IT resources you can't afford the professionals.

I got another article here from Fox Business that is saying that data breaches of course, a big problem, but they're going to get even bigger and 2019 and there is a shortage of cybersecurity professionals. There's growing globally. And right now it's at about 3 million people. That's a pretty big shortage. And then we've got all the infrastructure, get all the software we've got it all been very confusing, right? You probably spend some time on YouTube, trying to figure it out some time on Google searching around again, trying to figure it out. And it's just hard to tell what to do. And of course, that's why next week, in fact, this whole year I'm dedicating to try and help you out but this next week is the week I have a bunch of training, a bunch of video training and stuff you can watch all for free, I'm giving my best stuff away.

So I'm trying to take away the excuses because you've got to pull up your socks. You know, as I said, my email this week, a lot of small medium businesses thinks that their businesses are so small, so insignificant compared to these giant multi billion dollar companies and banks and agencies, you know, these these big names that we all know I'm not Equifax I'm not any of these. I'm not going to get hit. But in fact, you are. You are the real target because what I just said you have a limited budget, you lack the IT resources you can find the staff that know cyber security well enough. Sure you can talk to people who know more than you do. But do they really know enough to be able to protect you even these outsourced it firms. I'm just shocked every time I see them. When I talked to them about how little they actually know and how little they can do there just is not a whole lot of competence out there.

So anyhow. Bad news, hackers know that small medium businesses don't prioritize cyber security and that's precisely why the targeting them of your burglar makes sense, right? Go to the house with the weakest locker no lock or the windows open. And unfortunately, that's what your business looks like to them. So keep keep an eye on your email. If you haven't signed up make sure you do right now. Go to http://CraigPeterson.com. It's right there on the homepage today because we start on Monday, you can sign up you can get a free ticket to this whole event. Absolutely free.

I want to mention this study a little bit more. Studied by ISC squared, the world's largest nonprofit Association of Certified global or cyber security pros. And they're saying that we're really close to 3 million people short in the cyber security biz. And a lot of people, a lot of organizations are at risk. And of course, that's part of what I'm doing here on the radio and on the podcasts. And with these courses that we're teaching bring you up to date on cybersecurity.

This one is shocking, out of TechCrunch. It's been two years almost since Equifax had their massive breach. And we know that it expose the personal data of almost every American and a lot of Europeans and Canadians etc. It was a terrible breach. We also know that it was caused because they were using vulnerable software that was not up to date. Now, if they had upgraded it, it's called Apache Struts, if they had patched it if they had been paying attention. There was a patch released six months prior to that. Six months they had to fix it and they didn't fix it.

Well, another little study that came out of a company called Sonatype, and they monitor open source software which are patchy structure struts is a piece of open source software. And they're saying that in the last last six months or 2018, two thirds of the Fortune 100 companies downloaded a vulnerable version of Apache Struts. That's the same vulnerable server software used by hackers to steal the personal data and close to 150 million customers. Isn't that bad. All in all, by the way, more than 18,000 businesses downloaded vulnerable versions of Struts. So if you have a website and you are have a slightly larger one, if you are using Java, take a look no matter what it is.

I found three WordPress sites just simple WordPress, right. Who cares about WordPress, just this last week, three WordPress sites. I found that and I helped their owners fix them. They'd all been hacked and they were all being used for malicious purposes. They still worked as well as websites for the owners, but they were hacked. So keep your software up to date, especially software that is facing the public Internet.

Panasonic released a new home security camera earlier this month. And it looks like a floor lamp. It's one of those floor lamps that shoots right up at the roof, you know, and you get the reflective light which is really kind of nice. The long thin one I've had those for ages. In fact, those are some of the first lamps I forgot. It's called HomeHawk Floor. And it's designed to be discreet. The whole idea is you can monitor the inside of your house. There's no obvious cameras. This thing even has batteries and has local storage. They started an Indiegogo campaign and the lamp you could buy on Indiegogo 485 bucks, Panasonic just suddenly had the time.

Well, we already have reports of Airbnb owners hiding the cameras in the homes capturing the activities of the renter. So it's not exactly a new concern. But keep an eye out because this is going to be a hard one to spot.

Two more quick things here. We talked about the tug of war over privacy with Facebook that Apple is involved in and this all started with a TechCrunch article. But I wanted to mention too that you know, Facebook's been under fire for months Facebook settled they came to an arrangement with the federal government about privacy been What about a decade since that happened. And now the US Federal Trade Commission is likely to impose a record fine against Facebook for failing to protect users personal information. The District of Columbia also sued Facebook and this FTC finds going to come because of the settlement that apparently they have not been honoring.

Now another Facebook tip I learned this week about a plugin for Chrome called FBPurity, look it up online. I have it on my website. http://CraigPeterson.com. But FBPurity has been around since 2009. It's one of the top 150 highest rated Firefox extensions and I like the Firefox browser. By the way, half a million happy users. Check it out. It will let you block all of the crap that comes up in your Facebook feed. You are going to love it FB purity online. http://CraigPeterson.com. Make sure you sign up for my training this week. Okay, there's going to be three training videos I'm releasing there's going to be a live webinar we are going to be discussing small business security, do it yourself. This is all about teaching you exactly what you need to do how you need to do it and backing you up slowly. You can get your small business Small, Medium Business secure. I've helped everybody from a little mom and pop Soho all web to fortune 100 companies. We're security I'm going to help you as well. http://CraigPeterson.com. Have a great week and we will chat next week. Bye bye.

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Airing date: 02/02/2019

Apple Holding Facebook Accountable For Privacy - Cybersecurity Tips For SMB - FBPurity Plugin For Facebook

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Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. And of course, we are going to talk about tech, some of the latest things, some latest articles, some of the nastiest things that are happening out there. I don't know if you've seen about this feud. But our friends at Facebook and Apple are fielding in a big way. You know, I'm asked if you listen to this radio show and if you listen to me appearing as a featured guest on some of these other shows, you know, I'm asked all the time about security and what we're going to do about our friends at Facebook. It looks like Apple's taking this into their own hands is just fantastic. So we'll talk about that and that's all due to a an article that came out that really kind of nailed them I got a really cool little tool in fact I learned it from a couple of friends of mine up in Maine who host a radio show that I'm on every week but Matt and Ken do this was actually Matt's idea but plugin you are going to love and this is going to clean up your Facebook feed.

Hidden cameras again, AirBNB. This thing is scary as heck. The Fortune 100 you know about Equifax you know above the breach. While this is not very fun. We've got a cyber security worker shortage is all that to surprise a 3 million people is where that's at right now. So we'll talk a little bit about that. Three, cybersecurity must haves for small businesses. That kind of ties into what I'm doing here next week. I've got just a ton of training for small businesses. Make sure you visit my website. http://CraigPeterson.com. This stuff is all free. I'm giving away my best stuff. absolute best stuff for free this week. So make sure you sign up. http://CraigPeterson.com.

But here's some basic must haves for small business Mac users. You are not in vulnerable, you're being targeted by piece of malware. So we got a lot going on today. And that's what we're going to be talking about right here. Of course, this is Craig Peterson. And this is Tech Talk.

There's another guy I just don't I just don't get it. But little confusion. He calls himself Craig Peterson. I've been doing this for what, 25 years now. And then he said, Craig Peterson Tech Talk. What that's me. That's not you. Anyways, here we go.

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Facebook had this controversial program. And this is really what's gotten this little bit of a war started. And the war is between Apple and Facebook. Now we all know that Facebook, their founder thought that we were idiots for giving him our information. And that now been documented in a court case over in Europe thinks we are idiots. In fact, he used a swear word an expletive in they're describing what kind of idiots he thought we were. Well, Apple is now ratcheting up its tug of war over privacy this week, you might have seen a little bit about it. But now we're going to explain what it's really about what's really going on. But there was a report that talked about Facebook collecting data on users. In fact, they were paying users for this data. Remember, I mentioned that Facebook has a free VPN and that you should never use it. Because typically, when you're thinking about a VPN, you're thinking about privacy, right? You thinking about security, hey, and people aren't going to be able to track me, have you ever used a VPN before, if you're a business person, you probably should. But you need to understand more about them. Well, Facebook had this whole VPN setup that was tracking you were you are going what you were doing what you were saying it was really just a piece of nasty spyware just crazy what they were doing. Well, they offered a $20 a month, I think it was kind of a bounty for anybody that would use their VPN. And they made it very obvious that what they were doing is tracking you they're trying to track people age 13 to 35 as much as $20 a month or it install this Facebook research app.

Now, if that's what is called a Facebook research app, and it's designed to track phone and web usage habit. And this was reported by TechCrunch. This became a bit of a big deal when they started looking into it a little bit further, because it turned out the TechCrunch report said that Google's running a data collector that also similar to Facebook's app on Apple system. So you got Google doing something that collecting all this data, and you got Facebook doing something? Well, apparently, Google pulled the plug on their little project, Apple did not pull the excuse me, Facebook did not pull the plug on their little project. And so gate Facebook. So Facebook did not get nailed, and Google did get nailed.

So this app is discontinued on Apple iOS, how those can continue to run on Android devices. Doesn't that figure, right? Android? Yeah, yeah, again, spying on you, man, Facebook's finally going to suffer some consequences for their actions. This is kind of interesting when you think about it. Because what's happened is, Apple completely pulled the plug on Facebook's development. Now, if you don't know much about the Apple ecosystem, let me explain a couple of things. Even if you're an Apple user, you might not be aware of this, if you are developing, you're trying to develop apps for iOS, you apply you pain money, and you get from Apple, a special key you can use to sign your applications. And then that key is used by Apple to verify Yes, and D. This is assigned application by developer x. And therefore it will run it'll be accepted on iOS. And Apple has some similar things in place for Mac OS, that's part of the reason Mac OS is so much safer than Windows is, well, one of the things you have to do if you write software is tested. And a lot of people do a lot of testing. And so with that developer license, you can now make your app available to people who kind of sign into your developer account, right? They don't have to have your credentials or anything, but they associate with your account, they can now use your software. So now it's kind of an alpha and beta stages before it gets its final release. So if you don't have one of these keys, if you cannot sign the software, you can't distribute it
at all, basically. So you are kind of out of business. And that's what Apple did, Apple polled Facebook's developer key. And a one more big problem. You might not be aware of this, you know, there's one millions of apps in the app stores now. It's just it's it's incredible. How many I think it's over a million just an apple store itself. And I'm sure someone's about to text me with how many. 855-385-5553, 855-385-5553. Let me know how many there are. But there's at least a million apps in the app store. But did you know that there are more apps that are not in the App Store, then are in the app store? Now, you got to ask yourself, why would that be? Well, you know, I think Craig must be talking about development, right? developer apps, not real apps that people are using everyday. Well, obviously, there's a lot of developer apps that never ever hit the App Store. But there are more internally used business apps out there. Then there are apps that are for sale in the App Store. So companies like Facebook, for instance, will develop apps to be used internally by their staff to do different things. Now, in Facebook's case, it includes things like send a bus my way a bus to work, or maybe it's pick up my clothes from the triangle, and whatever might be all of the internal apps. And Facebook was using on iOS got shot in the head, they are all down. So now there's these people who work for Facebook are used to somebody in their little bus. And that bus is not showing up anymore. There's somebody in the bus and the app doesn't work. And they're trying to get in to an office by using an app. And that's not working.

So this is very, very big. And Apple did this to basically punish Facebook for doing things that violated Apple's privacy. Apple has a whole thing they have to sign. I'm an Apple developer for iOS as well as for Mac. And when you get your developers license, you then have to accept their terms. You have to accept their contract, very big deal. No, and their contract says that you will keep our users data safe, and they did not do it. So Facebook, shut it all
down.

And we'll see where this ends up going. I'm sure they'll reach some sort of terms. I also wonder now if Facebook's going to switch from you in iOS is its primary development target and maybe switch to Android, which I think would be a mistake, but this is from Apple. They said the permission was intended solely for internal distribution of apps within an organization. Facebook has been using their membership to distribute a data collecting app to consumers, which is a clear breach of their agreement with Apple. So you know, Tim Cook hadn't been involved in this decision, Mark Zuckerberg was criticized over his handling of Cambridge Analytica over his handling of the whole Obama campaign where they gave Obama access to everything makes Cambridge Analytica look like just ridiculous bikers. They just don't know what they're doing right now, news to ask me, oh, wait a minute, you're Republican, I'm not going to give it to you. So it goes on and on extremely glib is how this was how this was described here, and Zuckerberg. So we'll, we'll see what happens. Hey, mentioned, apps and apple. So we're going to talk now about something if you have an Apple Mac, there is some new malware out there, you need to be aware of,

Hey, as I was just mentioning, we're talking about security. Apple has a lot of things in place to help secure our devices and Mojave on the desktop added a bunch of stuff that it's just phenomenal what Apple's doing. And they're doing it, I think, basically the right way. And, and it is going to provide security that we're just we can't get in any other platform. So good for them. But there is a new sneaky piece of malware out back out there that's going after Mac users. And this one is image based. Now we've seen image based attacks before. But in this case, it's a little bit different. It seems like a key piece of data that used to launch the attack has been hidden in this harmless looking white triangle. There's a little image now we saw something like this late last year, when researchers discovered criminal hackers were controlling malware using Twitter means now how's that for an interesting way to do it. So what happens is a malware got on your computer. And then it monitored a trip a Twitter feed, and then looked at the means that were placed in the Twitter feed. And hidden inside those means were the control codes for the malware, yes, they are getting very tricky.

So this new piece of malware is called VeryMal. And the image it's been linked to is using some parameters that get added to our URL in order to try and control malware. And you've seen this, I'm sure if you're an Apple user, where you go to a website, what comes up, it comes up and says, hey, you've got to update your flash bright, it's a fake Adobe Flash update, or, and of course, Adobe Flash, highly recommended to not use it, never use it, that don't use it for the last at least five to 10 years, really don't use it. And we had our friend Steve Jobs back in the day who saying we will never support Adobe Flash. And he had a lot of good reasons for it, not the least of which was he didn't like Adobe and what they were doing. But this is a fake flash up data, it's being pushed by this very mail campaign. And here's the bottom line Mac users, you don't want this app, you don't want to update your flash buy a little pop up that comes when you visit a website. legit flash up dates for Chrome comes straight from Google, they get pushed automatically with other browser updates, right.

So ignore anything that says you have to upgrade and update flash, because you don't want to even have it on your machine. And if you're using Chrome, it's going to get updated automatically. Now, if you ignore that, by the way, you might be in trouble. Because just in two days in January this year, there were more than 190,000 impressions of this image.

So that's a lot of people that might have been hit by this researchers are estimating as many as 5 million users per day have been exposed to the malware, fewer than a third the anti malware engines on the virus, total scanning service detect very mouse payload as of this morning. And these attacks, of course, they can be expensive. And we're going to be talking about that this week as well. But bottom line, a single round of attacks in January probably cost about $1.2 million to businesses. And that's on a per business basis. Now, if you're a small business, it's going to cost you less, but on average, right now it's about $120,000 per attack.

So I want to make sure that you're aware of this. I've been sending out emails this week. If you didn't see them and you didn't see my invite in this morning's email make sure you sign up next week I'm going to be holding I'm going to have four different classes I'm going to be holding a live online class we're going to be going through kind of the DIY What do you need to do to protect your business online what's your drew be watching for what kind of software can you install for free some of the stuff that you should be using this paid that's all this week we're going to give you some of my best stuff and I'm not going to charge you a dime probably have an offer for you for people who really want to go the next level but this is absolutely mandatory must attend go to Craig Peterson comments right there on my homepage. So we're going to get right now into three cybersecurity must have here some things you've got to do if you are a small business and kind of a little bit of flash ahead to what we'll be talking a lot more about this coming week on my con shares page and in the live webinars as well.

Alright, we got cybersecurity must haves for small businesses. Pop quiz, what percentage of small businesses in the United States, what percentage of small businesses in the US suffered a cyber attack in 2017? This is from an article from security today. And I've seen these stats before. So I know they're pretty much right. What would you estimate 10% of small businesses had a cyber attack 25% maybe higher?

The answer is 47% of small businesses had their networks breached at least once by cyber criminals in 2017. In other words, half of all small businesses had their networks breached in 2017. Now, almost half of those businesses that were breached once were breached twice or more. Now, that's according to a survey though, that was reported in 2018 USA Today story. So when you look at all of the data from this is the he can only really draw one conclusion. And the researchers team concluded that only about three intend small businesses would be able to even handle a cyber attack. If they were hit with one today.

So 3 in 10 could handle it, they'd be able to survive, and half of the small businesses were hit. So those numbers are pretty scary, frankly. And I want to ask you a couple of questions here. Why are you not prepared for a cyber attack? If you're a small business person, whether you own the business or you work in the small medium business, you know, maybe a $10 million a year business still considered to be a small business. But why? Well, there's a lot of reasons. Of course, small companies have limited budgets, that you don't have the IT resources you can't afford the professionals.

I got another article here from Fox Business that is saying that data breaches of course, a big problem, but they're going to get even bigger and 2019 and there is a shortage of cybersecurity professionals. There's growing globally. And right now it's at about 3 million people. That's a pretty big shortage. And then we've got all the infrastructure, get all the software we've got it all been very confusing, right? You probably spend some time on YouTube, trying to figure it out some time on Google searching around again, trying to figure it out. And it's just hard to tell what to do. And of course, that's why next week, in fact, this whole year I'm dedicating to try and help you out but this next week is the week I have a bunch of training, a bunch of video training and stuff you can watch all for free, I'm giving my best stuff away.

So I'm trying to take away the excuses because you've got to pull up your socks. You know, as I said, my email this week, a lot of small medium businesses thinks that their businesses are so small, so insignificant compared to these giant multi billion dollar companies and banks and agencies, you know, these these big names that we all know I'm not Equifax I'm not any of these. I'm not going to get hit. But in fact, you are. You are the real target because what I just said you have a limited budget, you lack the IT resources you can find the staff that know cyber security well enough. Sure you can talk to people who know more than you do. But do they really know enough to be able to protect you even these outsourced it firms. I'm just shocked every time I see them. When I talked to them about how little they actually know and how little they can do there just is not a whole lot of competence out there.

So anyhow. Bad news, hackers know that small medium businesses don't prioritize cyber security and that's precisely why the targeting them of your burglar makes sense, right? Go to the house with the weakest locker no lock or the windows open. And unfortunately, that's what your business looks like to them. So keep keep an eye on your email. If you haven't signed up make sure you do right now. Go to http://CraigPeterson.com. It's right there on the homepage today because we start on Monday, you can sign up you can get a free ticket to this whole event. Absolutely free.

I want to mention this study a little bit more. Studied by ISC squared, the world's largest nonprofit Association of Certified global or cyber security pros. And they're saying that we're really close to 3 million people short in the cyber security biz. And a lot of people, a lot of organizations are at risk. And of course, that's part of what I'm doing here on the radio and on the podcasts. And with these courses that we're teaching bring you up to date on cybersecurity.

This one is shocking, out of TechCrunch. It's been two years almost since Equifax had their massive breach. And we know that it expose the personal data of almost every American and a lot of Europeans and Canadians etc. It was a terrible breach. We also know that it was caused because they were using vulnerable software that was not up to date. Now, if they had upgraded it, it's called Apache Struts, if they had patched it if they had been paying attention. There was a patch released six months prior to that. Six months they had to fix it and they didn't fix it.

Well, another little study that came out of a company called Sonatype, and they monitor open source software which are patchy structure struts is a piece of open source software. And they're saying that in the last last six months or 2018, two thirds of the Fortune 100 companies downloaded a vulnerable version of Apache Struts. That's the same vulnerable server software used by hackers to steal the personal data and close to 150 million customers. Isn't that bad. All in all, by the way, more than 18,000 businesses downloaded vulnerable versions of Struts. So if you have a website and you are have a slightly larger one, if you are using Java, take a look no matter what it is.

I found three WordPress sites just simple WordPress, right. Who cares about WordPress, just this last week, three WordPress sites. I found that and I helped their owners fix them. They'd all been hacked and they were all being used for malicious purposes. They still worked as well as websites for the owners, but they were hacked. So keep your software up to date, especially software that is facing the public Internet.

Panasonic released a new home security camera earlier this month. And it looks like a floor lamp. It's one of those floor lamps that shoots right up at the roof, you know, and you get the reflective light which is really kind of nice. The long thin one I've had those for ages. In fact, those are some of the first lamps I forgot. It's called HomeHawk Floor. And it's designed to be discreet. The whole idea is you can monitor the inside of your house. There's no obvious cameras. This thing even has batteries and has local storage. They started an Indiegogo campaign and the lamp you could buy on Indiegogo 485 bucks, Panasonic just suddenly had the time.

Well, we already have reports of Airbnb owners hiding the cameras in the homes capturing the activities of the renter. So it's not exactly a new concern. But keep an eye out because this is going to be a hard one to spot.

Two more quick things here. We talked about the tug of war over privacy with Facebook that Apple is involved in and this all started with a TechCrunch article. But I wanted to mention too that you know, Facebook's been under fire for months Facebook settled they came to an arrangement with the federal government about privacy been What about a decade since that happened. And now the US Federal Trade Commission is likely to impose a record fine against Facebook for failing to protect users personal information. The District of Columbia also sued Facebook and this FTC finds going to come because of the settlement that apparently they have not been honoring.

Now another Facebook tip I learned this week about a plugin for Chrome called FBPurity, look it up online. I have it on my website. http://CraigPeterson.com. But FBPurity has been around since 2009. It's one of the top 150 highest rated Firefox extensions and I like the Firefox browser. By the way, half a million happy users. Check it out. It will let you block all of the crap that comes up in your Facebook feed. You are going to love it FB purity online. http://CraigPeterson.com. Make sure you sign up for my training this week. Okay, there's going to be three training videos I'm releasing there's going to be a live webinar we are going to be discussing small business security, do it yourself. This is all about teaching you exactly what you need to do how you need to do it and backing you up slowly. You can get your small business Small, Medium Business secure. I've helped everybody from a little mom and pop Soho all web to fortune 100 companies. We're security I'm going to help you as well. http://CraigPeterson.com. Have a great week and we will chat next week. Bye bye.

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SecurityThing - Zero Day Attacks - How To Protect

Craig Peterson 0:00

Hey guys. Good morning, Craig Peterson here, we got another security thing to talk about right now, as usual, right? They get bigger and bigger. And this Thursday and Friday podcast, kind of a series, if you will. I'm going to delve a little bit more into real world problems that people and businesses a face that we're all facing things to do, how to detect it, how to clean it up, and that that's really what it's all about. And of course, we're also starting our new series where we're going to be going through using a little bit of webinar technology and kind of explaining things even more getting deeper into it.

Now, we talked yesterday a little bit about some ransomware attack that happened just a couple of weeks ago down in Salisbury, Maryland. And you know, that's a pretty bad thing that happened to a police department and I see this sort of stuff all the time, my local police department has an IT guy that is you know, he's seems to be a pretty reasonable guy. But the problem is you just doesn't have enough experience. And I've seen again and again, just not handling the basic so I want to get into that right now on the opposite end of the spectrum.

Let's talk about zero day attack. So we heard of these before you will see it sometimes in the news. Oftentimes it will mention a zero day attack because it's a little bit techie. And that's what we do here on Thursdays and Fridays, this is all about a major health care hospital and their downtime. This is a hospital up in Canada. This happened on January 18. So a couple of weeks ago now, we were talking about the Salisbury, Maryland. This is Sudbury Ontario. The company is called Health Sciences North and it was infected by a zero-day virus. They had to shut down its EHR to contain the infection. And this is all based on stuff we're seeing from CBC Radio Canada.

So the staff discovered the hack on Thursday morning, prompting that system downtime to prevent the virus from spreading. See, this doesn't say what his title is, Dominic Giroux, that he said that the virus came from another hospital in the region and there's been no request for ransom. Now that does happen where there will be a kind of a ransomware attack but no ransom note. Oftentimes you get the ransom note come up on your screen and it'll have a Bitcoin number it'll have a code that used in order to generate the random encryption and it might even have a phone number of these places have some pretty good tech support that you can use in this case they're saying that other this was a zero day attack, which means that hasn't been seen in the wild before.

Now, I always kind of cringe when I hear that because so many times people use zero day attack as an excuse for having really failed and they failed because they didn't have all the stuff in place that prevent zero day attacks. If you don't allow malicious looking stuff into your network, you're much less likely to have one of these hit you. So it hasn't been seen in the wild. So none of the anti virus companies have seen it. But here's the thing that's anti virus and how many times have I said that antivirus just doesn't work anymore. I've quoted John McAfee. I've quoted the the president of Symantec. It just does not work anymore. You have to have so much more than it has to be reactive. It has to be adaptive. You have to monitored thousands of endpoints simultaneously. And what I do is i'm using Cisco and some of their top people, and they're monitoring a billion. And point four things that are happening to look a little bit weird. Now, in this case, all 24 hospitals in the region rely on HSM. And that's a very, very big deal. They are an information technology platform for these hospitals one way or the other.

Now, in order to protect the hospitals, they did stuff they should have done in the first place. Officials have implemented this is from health, health IT, security officials have implemented other preventative measures, including shutting down some systems. He explained that out of its 24 hospitals, 21 are currently operating with the main Electronic Health Record system on down time. Now for a hospital. That's a very big deal because EHR these electronic health records of course are the lifeblood of a hospital, the lifeblood of any doctor's office and to have those things down is huge. It says further 12 hospitals have the cancer system on downtime while 10 have turned off medical imaging systems.

Now all of these hospitals are relying on this one system. It the virus entered from one of the other hospitals into the system, which means they obviously had some sort of a wider area network involved here. Maybe they were using VPN for but it was too flat. And we see this every time we go into a business. I don't care what how big it is, we've had Fortune 100 companies we've gone into and their network was too flat. It wasn't segmented enough to stop an event occurring at one of their clients to not be able to get it through. In other words, it happened at one of their clients, in this case, one of these hospitals, two dozen hospitals and that then spread to the provider of all of these medical record. That's a very big deal.

So today, little lesson is make sure if you are connected to your customers or your vendors that you have the proper controls in place at your network edge because that would have stopped the the spread of this two years ago when we had that world destroying piece of malware that was crawling its way through the systems. One of our multinational client caught hit and every one of their locations had to get shut down every one of them except for the locations we were protecting. Because we did it properly again, HSM up in Sudbury, Ontario did not do it properly.

And it just goes to show this shortage of 3 million security workers isn't I don't think it's how do I put this it's important to know and it's important to have more security workers but we are in a bit of a panic now. Because we can't find the right security work. It's not we, as in my company, not Mainstream, that's in a panic because we have a very close control on who we will help because frankly, we can't help everybody. If you're not swimming towards us, we are not going to rescue from the times because it's just not worth our time. I've been doing this for too many years, I'm not going to do that anymore.

So for the people that come to us, we try and make sure that we can have the right resources for them. And here's your problem. Have you ever watched Gold Rush? Gold Rush is kind of a cool show and it's on I think it's Discovery Channel and it's about these guys up in northern Canada for the most part who are mining for gold. And if you notice from season to season, the value of the  gold changes so they get an ounce one season is worth $1,000 and other seasons were 1200, 1300, then it's worth $1,050 and it just keeps moving around. Why does it move around? Well, it's supply and demand.

So here's what's happening right now with our IT security worker force in the US and around the world. Everybody's hanging a shingle up, yeah, yeah, I'm a security guy, cuz I got this certificate from whatever it was. And yet security is so much more than completing the course, or getting a certificate from even from Cisco or anybody else. There are many, many aspects to security that people just don't understand. And, and over the course of the next few weeks and months, I will be telling you some horror stories about some of our customers. But keep in mind that if you have just a worker who's VPN in you have the same potential problem that EHR has in Sudbury, Ontario, and that my multinational unnamed client had as well they have a network connection to you.

Yes, you probably have a firewall but know that firewall just like these major corporations had firewalls, then firewalls not going to stop the malicious code unless everything's done properly. And the next gen firewalls now that's that's another thing, right everybody? Oh, we got a next gen firewall Oh yeah. All that's all well and good for you. But what does it mean what does it do? How does it integrate? How does it tie to get together with other firewalls even outside of the organization so that you know that your data is pretty darn safe it's this is all kind of technical I got to admit it but hey it's a security thing and if you're listening you appreciate the security so keep your eye open make sure you get my email every week I'm putting together all kinds of great training this year and you can subscribe by going to http://CraigPeterson.com/Subscribe.

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SecurityThing - Zero Day Attacks - How To Protect

Craig Peterson 0:00

Hey guys. Good morning, Craig Peterson here, we got another security thing to talk about right now, as usual, right? They get bigger and bigger. And this Thursday and Friday podcast, kind of a series, if you will. I'm going to delve a little bit more into real world problems that people and businesses a face that we're all facing things to do, how to detect it, how to clean it up, and that that's really what it's all about. And of course, we're also starting our new series where we're going to be going through using a little bit of webinar technology and kind of explaining things even more getting deeper into it.

Now, we talked yesterday a little bit about some ransomware attack that happened just a couple of weeks ago down in Salisbury, Maryland. And you know, that's a pretty bad thing that happened to a police department and I see this sort of stuff all the time, my local police department has an IT guy that is you know, he's seems to be a pretty reasonable guy. But the problem is you just doesn't have enough experience. And I've seen again and again, just not handling the basic so I want to get into that right now on the opposite end of the spectrum.

Let's talk about zero day attack. So we heard of these before you will see it sometimes in the news. Oftentimes it will mention a zero day attack because it's a little bit techie. And that's what we do here on Thursdays and Fridays, this is all about a major health care hospital and their downtime. This is a hospital up in Canada. This happened on January 18. So a couple of weeks ago now, we were talking about the Salisbury, Maryland. This is Sudbury Ontario. The company is called Health Sciences North and it was infected by a zero-day virus. They had to shut down its EHR to contain the infection. And this is all based on stuff we're seeing from CBC Radio Canada.

So the staff discovered the hack on Thursday morning, prompting that system downtime to prevent the virus from spreading. See, this doesn't say what his title is, Dominic Giroux, that he said that the virus came from another hospital in the region and there's been no request for ransom. Now that does happen where there will be a kind of a ransomware attack but no ransom note. Oftentimes you get the ransom note come up on your screen and it'll have a Bitcoin number it'll have a code that used in order to generate the random encryption and it might even have a phone number of these places have some pretty good tech support that you can use in this case they're saying that other this was a zero day attack, which means that hasn't been seen in the wild before.

Now, I always kind of cringe when I hear that because so many times people use zero day attack as an excuse for having really failed and they failed because they didn't have all the stuff in place that prevent zero day attacks. If you don't allow malicious looking stuff into your network, you're much less likely to have one of these hit you. So it hasn't been seen in the wild. So none of the anti virus companies have seen it. But here's the thing that's anti virus and how many times have I said that antivirus just doesn't work anymore. I've quoted John McAfee. I've quoted the the president of Symantec. It just does not work anymore. You have to have so much more than it has to be reactive. It has to be adaptive. You have to monitored thousands of endpoints simultaneously. And what I do is i'm using Cisco and some of their top people, and they're monitoring a billion. And point four things that are happening to look a little bit weird. Now, in this case, all 24 hospitals in the region rely on HSM. And that's a very, very big deal. They are an information technology platform for these hospitals one way or the other.

Now, in order to protect the hospitals, they did stuff they should have done in the first place. Officials have implemented this is from health, health IT, security officials have implemented other preventative measures, including shutting down some systems. He explained that out of its 24 hospitals, 21 are currently operating with the main Electronic Health Record system on down time. Now for a hospital. That's a very big deal because EHR these electronic health records of course are the lifeblood of a hospital, the lifeblood of any doctor's office and to have those things down is huge. It says further 12 hospitals have the cancer system on downtime while 10 have turned off medical imaging systems.

Now all of these hospitals are relying on this one system. It the virus entered from one of the other hospitals into the system, which means they obviously had some sort of a wider area network involved here. Maybe they were using VPN for but it was too flat. And we see this every time we go into a business. I don't care what how big it is, we've had Fortune 100 companies we've gone into and their network was too flat. It wasn't segmented enough to stop an event occurring at one of their clients to not be able to get it through. In other words, it happened at one of their clients, in this case, one of these hospitals, two dozen hospitals and that then spread to the provider of all of these medical record. That's a very big deal.

So today, little lesson is make sure if you are connected to your customers or your vendors that you have the proper controls in place at your network edge because that would have stopped the the spread of this two years ago when we had that world destroying piece of malware that was crawling its way through the systems. One of our multinational client caught hit and every one of their locations had to get shut down every one of them except for the locations we were protecting. Because we did it properly again, HSM up in Sudbury, Ontario did not do it properly.

And it just goes to show this shortage of 3 million security workers isn't I don't think it's how do I put this it's important to know and it's important to have more security workers but we are in a bit of a panic now. Because we can't find the right security work. It's not we, as in my company, not Mainstream, that's in a panic because we have a very close control on who we will help because frankly, we can't help everybody. If you're not swimming towards us, we are not going to rescue from the times because it's just not worth our time. I've been doing this for too many years, I'm not going to do that anymore.

So for the people that come to us, we try and make sure that we can have the right resources for them. And here's your problem. Have you ever watched Gold Rush? Gold Rush is kind of a cool show and it's on I think it's Discovery Channel and it's about these guys up in northern Canada for the most part who are mining for gold. And if you notice from season to season, the value of the  gold changes so they get an ounce one season is worth $1,000 and other seasons were 1200, 1300, then it's worth $1,050 and it just keeps moving around. Why does it move around? Well, it's supply and demand.

So here's what's happening right now with our IT security worker force in the US and around the world. Everybody's hanging a shingle up, yeah, yeah, I'm a security guy, cuz I got this certificate from whatever it was. And yet security is so much more than completing the course, or getting a certificate from even from Cisco or anybody else. There are many, many aspects to security that people just don't understand. And, and over the course of the next few weeks and months, I will be telling you some horror stories about some of our customers. But keep in mind that if you have just a worker who's VPN in you have the same potential problem that EHR has in Sudbury, Ontario, and that my multinational unnamed client had as well they have a network connection to you.

Yes, you probably have a firewall but know that firewall just like these major corporations had firewalls, then firewalls not going to stop the malicious code unless everything's done properly. And the next gen firewalls now that's that's another thing, right everybody? Oh, we got a next gen firewall Oh yeah. All that's all well and good for you. But what does it mean what does it do? How does it integrate? How does it tie to get together with other firewalls even outside of the organization so that you know that your data is pretty darn safe it's this is all kind of technical I got to admit it but hey it's a security thing and if you're listening you appreciate the security so keep your eye open make sure you get my email every week I'm putting together all kinds of great training this year and you can subscribe by going to http://CraigPeterson.com/Subscribe.

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