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

Craig is on WGAN with Ken and Matt as they discussed the recent Marriott hack and the mysterious new tool that local law enforcement uses to unlock cellphones.

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 12/05/2018

New Information About Marriott Starwood Hack

Craig Peterson: 0:00

Hey good morning everybody I spent some time with the team yesterday working on that special report we should have done soon about how to protect your information online specifically your credit report how to freeze it how to find out how to use your credit report if you're one of the three and five Americans that have never even gotten your credit report so how to do it all for free what it means what you can do with it and how it's going to protect you so all of that's going to be available I will send an email out when it is we're working hard to get it done quickly make sure you are on my insiders email list you can do that by going to http:CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. http:CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. Once you're there, just enter your info, you're going to have to confirm it. So go back to your email, you look for an email from me click the link. This is the one time I tell you click the link in an email so that we can have that double opt in. We know it's really you. And then once this is done, I'm going to send out an email to you. Now don't worry about subscribing to that list. Because I don't abuse it. Believe me, I send out my show notes to you. Every week I send out special information, special announcements about some of the latest hacks that are going on some of the special reports we're doing and when I'm teaching different classes that you might want to join. So this isn't an overload heavy duty marketing thing. http:CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. So this morning I was on with Ken and Matt up in Maine. And we got to talk a little bit more about some of the newer things I found out from that Marriott hack and also spent a couple of minutes talking about two other tech topics that I think you might want to know about. So here we go with Ken and Matt.

Unknown 1:56
Alright, we're back again WGAN's Morning News with Ken and Matt on a Wednesday morning at 7:38. Which means Craig Peterson is with us right now.

Unknown 2:03
Craig, how are you, sir? Good morning. Wouldn't that be with Ken and Matt and Craig the next few minutes? Yeah,

Unknown 2:10
that would be true. Yeah, yeah.

Unknown 2:14
So I went to your website quick. Peterson car peters.com to find out what the latest post HTTP and I'm was shocked to find that Google is going to monitor our moods or movements and our children's behavior. That's particularly longing for man who is 17 children. So why don't you tell us about that

Unknown 2:35
Craig has way more

Unknown 2:38
say you weren't good to me. Oh,

Unknown 2:42
good point.

Unknown 2:42
Yeah. Yeah. You don't hear that very often. Yeah, there's so much in the news this week, you know, including the whole Mary breach, which is a really big deal. Google. This is kind of scary because we've talked before right. You were talking earlier this morning Ken about setting up an Echo and having a play that Cardi B, right. And I don't know if you guys heard this quote this week. I can't remember who it was attributed to. But they they were saying I don't know how you can listen to rap music and yet somehow be offended by Baby It's Cold Outside.

Unknown 3:21
That's true.

Unknown 3:23
Who said that? I can't. I'm not sure

Unknown 3:26
Actually that came up because the Princeton Boys Choir is also not doing KissGirl from The Little Mermaid anymore, because

Unknown 3:39
Baby It's Cold Outside is another one. They're not going to do anymore.

Unknown 3:42
So you set up that Echo. So that what so that you could listen in on the on the family?

Unknown 3:47
Evidently. Yes,

Unknown 3:48
that was your call. Let's run a lot of people are worried about right. And we've talked about the Echoes and the Google homes and some of these other devices that are out there. And Google just got a passing excuse me here about a month ago, but gives Google now a really kind of an interesting viewpoint. And no, speaking of viewpoints, if you have a smart TV, and we've talked a little bit about this before, some of these manufacturers, TVs are actually using built in cameras to identify people in the family who was watching TV, who was paying attention, what show was on one where they not watching and some of these TVs ended up getting tapped. Well, Google, and which means that bad guys could sit there and watch you hopefully watch TV, and nothing more, right. So Google's newest patent is taking their privacy's spying to a whole new level. Now, this doesn't mean Google's ultimately going to implement this or that this is part of Google Home. This is going to be part of Google Home anytime soon. But these patents allow them to do all kinds of monitoring of you and your home. So for instance, you have a Google Nest thermostat, which is one of these smart thermostats it's designed to measure the conditions in your home and it'll set the temperatures Well, it needs to know someone's in the room if there's activity in the room. And we've seen that for decades now. And businesses and buildings that light come on when someone enters the room, etc. Very basic monitoring. Well, Google's patent allows them to take this to a whole new level where they can recognize not just your face and who's in the room it will track you going from room to room but it can even recognize a T shirt that you might be wearing and it might recognize can that currently be picture on your T shirt as you walk into a room he certainly

Unknown 5:50
wearing that T shirt by the way it's I

Unknown 5:52
love Yeah, well, that make sense. You know, I get it it'll recognize that T shirt and that might be the reason that that Amazon Echo started playing Cardi B for you because Google has the patent now that can recognize the clothes you're wearing. The artists are movie stars that are on your T shirt and then it'll start playing ads for you for that movie stars latest movie that's coming out. So this is a patent it was issued and it's frankly more more than scary but I'm not sure it's too scary as the whole Marriott attack was

Unknown 6:31
indeed want to tell us a little bit of that Marriott hack is that's the second time you brought it up. Clearly you're dying talking about it Craig. Let's see what happens with Marriott.

Unknown 6:37
Oh, you got me figured out. Okay. So here's what's happened. If you are Marriott member you might remember back in 2015 Marriott's got hacked and credit cards were stolen and Marriott has been on an acquisition spree lately. And it went ahead then it's been buying up smaller hotel chains, including the most recent one where they purchase the whole what was the star would screw pride. Yes, Starwood Hotels and that included a few different hotels whose names you might recognize. But what ended up happening is Marriott merged all of their databases and from Starwood into Marriott's mainframes and they recently noticed a problem it turns out some 500 billion guest reservations had been stolen from Starwood database. Now it's not just the guest registration because that would be bad enough but if you bought if you read reserve something with Marriott, obviously they needed your credit card number. So apparently there's some 327-ish million people who not only who was credit card numbers were stolen, whose names and addresses and whose phone numbers were stolen. But of those people anyone that booked with one of these Marriott properties overseas and registered their passport with Marriott also had their passport data stolen. So basically, everything that you had with Marriott all of your data has been potentially stolen. lawsuits are already flying. So that's probably number one. And I want to talk about Marriott's response to this too. But this is huge. This is kind of on the order of the Equifax breach. Last year, 500 million people this is one of the biggest hacks ever.

Unknown 8:45
Wow, that's

Unknown 8:46
it's it's huge. Have you heard about this? It's just crazy. And then their response to it. Now we had a lot of complaints about Equifax and their terrible response to the hack they had last year. Well, Marriott had. They they sent out emails to people letting them know about the compromise and they did not send them from marriott.com. They sent them from a different domain email-marriott.com. They also did not have a web server shows associated with that domain. So if you typed into your browser, email-marriott.com, a website would not come up. It was not assigned email. It was not an encrypted email the domain doesn't load and what do we tell people all the time about hooking links in unknown emails do it do it all the time and often

Unknown 9:43
do it don't right and so here's this is Marriott's response to this there's only one mentioned about this other domain that Mary used in its in their data breach notification site. This is absolutely nuts. So now Marriott is as I mentioned, lawsuits filed yesterday in Oregon about the same you know data was breach. This is going to be huge under the GDPR which are the European regulations have updated privacy. Mary it could be facing a fine of almost $1 billion

Unknown 10:22
just for the data that was stolen relating to European citizens. The US doesn't have anything quite like GDPR yet. Although right now the Trump administration is looking at adopting it. Massachusetts has a similar law as does California yay, so we could see billion plus dollars in fines plus the lawsuits all coming Marriott's way because they acquired a company that had apparently had a breach since 2014.

Unknown 11:03
Wow. Wow. Wow. Indeed. Ladies and gentlemen. We're talking to Craig Peterson. If you want all this tech information in time you want go http:CraigPeterson.com, get it all instantly.

Unknown 11:15
You also listen on your page about local law enforcement using a tool to unlock cell phones. So I have to worry about our local police department unlocking my cell phone.

Unknown 11:28
Yeah, this has been know a bit of an issue for a while there's two companies and Israeli companies that have been able to unlock cell phones, Apple's made some changes to their phones to help block these unlocker. Apparently, there is a new tool out there that is being used by law enforcement a bottom line at this point. It's law enforcement that can unlock the phones we faint they can unlock the latest iPhones, but we're not absolutely sure. However, it's law enforcement. This is not something that you can expect criminals to really be using. Some businesses have purchased these devices because of the problem of having a disgruntled employee believe having, you know, business related data on the phone or the iPad and not giving the past code. So businesses have been using it to unlock iPhones and iPads and other devices will see this is a game of one have this device in some cases, they still have to get a word in other cases, they haven't secured warrants, this whole thing is still legally kind of up in the air

Unknown 12:38
market. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday. Craig, appreciate it. And we'll talk again next week.

Unknown 12:44
Hey gentlemen, take care. Thanks. Thanks a lot sir. All right, we're going to kick it

Otter 12:49
Hey thanks for listening everybody a couple of quick programming note I am going to be recording shows so we will have new shows every week week during December so those will be coming out on podcasts will also be aired on am FM radio in here in the northeast United States on Clear Channel so we're going to be talking about some probably not any real gift stuff I might do a little bit of gift stuff last minute shopping and the year in review a little bit of news and you might even talk about a couple of things that you can do to help keep yourself safe I want to thank everybody by the way that responded to me when my little call for feedback on what you like about these shows what you've gotten from them because that really helps me understand what I should be putting in these right this is for you guys this isn't for me so have well okay I get a little sanity break in doing this shows I guys is kind of for me but it's for you guys so continue to let me know what you think. What you like [email protected]. I don't always answer every email but I do see them all. It's just my the volume is little too high. So I apologize for that. If you wrote me and you didn't get a response. I I have a big queue of them. I've been slowly going through trying to respond to but it let me know [email protected]. What do you like? What would you like to see more of and when it comes to the master classes to that I've been doing let me know what you think about that as well. All right. Take care of we'll be back on Saturday with a whole new show. Take care. Bye bye.

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Craig is on WGAN with Ken and Matt as they discussed the recent Marriott hack and the mysterious new tool that local law enforcement uses to unlock cellphones.

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: 12/05/2018

New Information About Marriott Starwood Hack

Craig Peterson: 0:00

Hey good morning everybody I spent some time with the team yesterday working on that special report we should have done soon about how to protect your information online specifically your credit report how to freeze it how to find out how to use your credit report if you're one of the three and five Americans that have never even gotten your credit report so how to do it all for free what it means what you can do with it and how it's going to protect you so all of that's going to be available I will send an email out when it is we're working hard to get it done quickly make sure you are on my insiders email list you can do that by going to http:CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. http:CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. Once you're there, just enter your info, you're going to have to confirm it. So go back to your email, you look for an email from me click the link. This is the one time I tell you click the link in an email so that we can have that double opt in. We know it's really you. And then once this is done, I'm going to send out an email to you. Now don't worry about subscribing to that list. Because I don't abuse it. Believe me, I send out my show notes to you. Every week I send out special information, special announcements about some of the latest hacks that are going on some of the special reports we're doing and when I'm teaching different classes that you might want to join. So this isn't an overload heavy duty marketing thing. http:CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. So this morning I was on with Ken and Matt up in Maine. And we got to talk a little bit more about some of the newer things I found out from that Marriott hack and also spent a couple of minutes talking about two other tech topics that I think you might want to know about. So here we go with Ken and Matt.

Unknown 1:56
Alright, we're back again WGAN's Morning News with Ken and Matt on a Wednesday morning at 7:38. Which means Craig Peterson is with us right now.

Unknown 2:03
Craig, how are you, sir? Good morning. Wouldn't that be with Ken and Matt and Craig the next few minutes? Yeah,

Unknown 2:10
that would be true. Yeah, yeah.

Unknown 2:14
So I went to your website quick. Peterson car peters.com to find out what the latest post HTTP and I'm was shocked to find that Google is going to monitor our moods or movements and our children's behavior. That's particularly longing for man who is 17 children. So why don't you tell us about that

Unknown 2:35
Craig has way more

Unknown 2:38
say you weren't good to me. Oh,

Unknown 2:42
good point.

Unknown 2:42
Yeah. Yeah. You don't hear that very often. Yeah, there's so much in the news this week, you know, including the whole Mary breach, which is a really big deal. Google. This is kind of scary because we've talked before right. You were talking earlier this morning Ken about setting up an Echo and having a play that Cardi B, right. And I don't know if you guys heard this quote this week. I can't remember who it was attributed to. But they they were saying I don't know how you can listen to rap music and yet somehow be offended by Baby It's Cold Outside.

Unknown 3:21
That's true.

Unknown 3:23
Who said that? I can't. I'm not sure

Unknown 3:26
Actually that came up because the Princeton Boys Choir is also not doing KissGirl from The Little Mermaid anymore, because

Unknown 3:39
Baby It's Cold Outside is another one. They're not going to do anymore.

Unknown 3:42
So you set up that Echo. So that what so that you could listen in on the on the family?

Unknown 3:47
Evidently. Yes,

Unknown 3:48
that was your call. Let's run a lot of people are worried about right. And we've talked about the Echoes and the Google homes and some of these other devices that are out there. And Google just got a passing excuse me here about a month ago, but gives Google now a really kind of an interesting viewpoint. And no, speaking of viewpoints, if you have a smart TV, and we've talked a little bit about this before, some of these manufacturers, TVs are actually using built in cameras to identify people in the family who was watching TV, who was paying attention, what show was on one where they not watching and some of these TVs ended up getting tapped. Well, Google, and which means that bad guys could sit there and watch you hopefully watch TV, and nothing more, right. So Google's newest patent is taking their privacy's spying to a whole new level. Now, this doesn't mean Google's ultimately going to implement this or that this is part of Google Home. This is going to be part of Google Home anytime soon. But these patents allow them to do all kinds of monitoring of you and your home. So for instance, you have a Google Nest thermostat, which is one of these smart thermostats it's designed to measure the conditions in your home and it'll set the temperatures Well, it needs to know someone's in the room if there's activity in the room. And we've seen that for decades now. And businesses and buildings that light come on when someone enters the room, etc. Very basic monitoring. Well, Google's patent allows them to take this to a whole new level where they can recognize not just your face and who's in the room it will track you going from room to room but it can even recognize a T shirt that you might be wearing and it might recognize can that currently be picture on your T shirt as you walk into a room he certainly

Unknown 5:50
wearing that T shirt by the way it's I

Unknown 5:52
love Yeah, well, that make sense. You know, I get it it'll recognize that T shirt and that might be the reason that that Amazon Echo started playing Cardi B for you because Google has the patent now that can recognize the clothes you're wearing. The artists are movie stars that are on your T shirt and then it'll start playing ads for you for that movie stars latest movie that's coming out. So this is a patent it was issued and it's frankly more more than scary but I'm not sure it's too scary as the whole Marriott attack was

Unknown 6:31
indeed want to tell us a little bit of that Marriott hack is that's the second time you brought it up. Clearly you're dying talking about it Craig. Let's see what happens with Marriott.

Unknown 6:37
Oh, you got me figured out. Okay. So here's what's happened. If you are Marriott member you might remember back in 2015 Marriott's got hacked and credit cards were stolen and Marriott has been on an acquisition spree lately. And it went ahead then it's been buying up smaller hotel chains, including the most recent one where they purchase the whole what was the star would screw pride. Yes, Starwood Hotels and that included a few different hotels whose names you might recognize. But what ended up happening is Marriott merged all of their databases and from Starwood into Marriott's mainframes and they recently noticed a problem it turns out some 500 billion guest reservations had been stolen from Starwood database. Now it's not just the guest registration because that would be bad enough but if you bought if you read reserve something with Marriott, obviously they needed your credit card number. So apparently there's some 327-ish million people who not only who was credit card numbers were stolen, whose names and addresses and whose phone numbers were stolen. But of those people anyone that booked with one of these Marriott properties overseas and registered their passport with Marriott also had their passport data stolen. So basically, everything that you had with Marriott all of your data has been potentially stolen. lawsuits are already flying. So that's probably number one. And I want to talk about Marriott's response to this too. But this is huge. This is kind of on the order of the Equifax breach. Last year, 500 million people this is one of the biggest hacks ever.

Unknown 8:45
Wow, that's

Unknown 8:46
it's it's huge. Have you heard about this? It's just crazy. And then their response to it. Now we had a lot of complaints about Equifax and their terrible response to the hack they had last year. Well, Marriott had. They they sent out emails to people letting them know about the compromise and they did not send them from marriott.com. They sent them from a different domain email-marriott.com. They also did not have a web server shows associated with that domain. So if you typed into your browser, email-marriott.com, a website would not come up. It was not assigned email. It was not an encrypted email the domain doesn't load and what do we tell people all the time about hooking links in unknown emails do it do it all the time and often

Unknown 9:43
do it don't right and so here's this is Marriott's response to this there's only one mentioned about this other domain that Mary used in its in their data breach notification site. This is absolutely nuts. So now Marriott is as I mentioned, lawsuits filed yesterday in Oregon about the same you know data was breach. This is going to be huge under the GDPR which are the European regulations have updated privacy. Mary it could be facing a fine of almost $1 billion

Unknown 10:22
just for the data that was stolen relating to European citizens. The US doesn't have anything quite like GDPR yet. Although right now the Trump administration is looking at adopting it. Massachusetts has a similar law as does California yay, so we could see billion plus dollars in fines plus the lawsuits all coming Marriott's way because they acquired a company that had apparently had a breach since 2014.

Unknown 11:03
Wow. Wow. Wow. Indeed. Ladies and gentlemen. We're talking to Craig Peterson. If you want all this tech information in time you want go http:CraigPeterson.com, get it all instantly.

Unknown 11:15
You also listen on your page about local law enforcement using a tool to unlock cell phones. So I have to worry about our local police department unlocking my cell phone.

Unknown 11:28
Yeah, this has been know a bit of an issue for a while there's two companies and Israeli companies that have been able to unlock cell phones, Apple's made some changes to their phones to help block these unlocker. Apparently, there is a new tool out there that is being used by law enforcement a bottom line at this point. It's law enforcement that can unlock the phones we faint they can unlock the latest iPhones, but we're not absolutely sure. However, it's law enforcement. This is not something that you can expect criminals to really be using. Some businesses have purchased these devices because of the problem of having a disgruntled employee believe having, you know, business related data on the phone or the iPad and not giving the past code. So businesses have been using it to unlock iPhones and iPads and other devices will see this is a game of one have this device in some cases, they still have to get a word in other cases, they haven't secured warrants, this whole thing is still legally kind of up in the air

Unknown 12:38
market. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday. Craig, appreciate it. And we'll talk again next week.

Unknown 12:44
Hey gentlemen, take care. Thanks. Thanks a lot sir. All right, we're going to kick it

Otter 12:49
Hey thanks for listening everybody a couple of quick programming note I am going to be recording shows so we will have new shows every week week during December so those will be coming out on podcasts will also be aired on am FM radio in here in the northeast United States on Clear Channel so we're going to be talking about some probably not any real gift stuff I might do a little bit of gift stuff last minute shopping and the year in review a little bit of news and you might even talk about a couple of things that you can do to help keep yourself safe I want to thank everybody by the way that responded to me when my little call for feedback on what you like about these shows what you've gotten from them because that really helps me understand what I should be putting in these right this is for you guys this isn't for me so have well okay I get a little sanity break in doing this shows I guys is kind of for me but it's for you guys so continue to let me know what you think. What you like [email protected]. I don't always answer every email but I do see them all. It's just my the volume is little too high. So I apologize for that. If you wrote me and you didn't get a response. I I have a big queue of them. I've been slowly going through trying to respond to but it let me know [email protected]. What do you like? What would you like to see more of and when it comes to the master classes to that I've been doing let me know what you think about that as well. All right. Take care of we'll be back on Saturday with a whole new show. Take care. Bye bye.

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Thanks, everyone, for listening and sharing our podcasts. We're really hitting it out of the park. This will be a great year! 

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Have you heard about the recent Marriott and Quora hack? Craig discusses this with Jim on the Jim Polito Show. Find out more about this hack and about FitLoo, the smart toilet.

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 12/04/2018

Marriott Hack Quora Hack - What Does It Mean To Me - What To Do About It - Free Offer

Craig Peterson: 0:00
Hey, good morning everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning, we talked a lot about the Marriott hack what happened and not really why it happens. You don't have all the details yet. But what it means to you. Are you one of the people who hasn't even checked your credit report. Did you know three out of five Americans haven't even checked their credit report, let alone frozen their credit. The new Tax Act that was signed in by President Trump provides us with some amazing opportunity here. So we've got Equifax last year we've got this Marriott hack which really has been occurring for the last three to four years which is just crazy. So what should you be doing now I talked with Jim about that this morning I have after I hung up with Jim I've been on the horn with my team we are putting together a bang up special report here on what we need to do in a order to check our credit what does that mean how do we do it for free what are we looking for and then also how do we freeze our credit what does that mean what is that going to provide us with what can we do what can we do with our credit frozen same trick for the bad guys so that's going to be coming out as well so make sure you are signed up. I don't have the landing page ready yet for the special report we're going to be sending it out this week to our insiders. So if you are not on my insiders list make sure you go and subscribe immediately. Now I'm using what's called a double opt in which means you go to http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe and you give me your name and your email address. I will send you an email immediately and you have to click to confirm okay. So keep an eye out for that. That is legitimate because what I don't want to have happen is for people to sign, other people that don't want to be part of my insiders, okay and getting this type of information from me and I don't want to waste my time, my energy, my money to send that out these reports and things to people that didn't even want them in the first place. So it's called a double opt in. You go right now to http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, check your email within a minute or two it'll show up there. You'll see an email from [email protected], you're going to click the link in there to confirm you want it. And then later on this week, once we've got this special report finalized, we'll let you know and we'll send an email out to everybody. So keep an eye out for that in addition to my normal Saturday show notes email that you'll get from me and you will be able to click on that link it'll take you to a quick signup page so you can sign up for and I've got I mean some amazing special things for you that I am not announcing anywhere but you're going to love this okay you still gonna love this so again, http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. Do it now. Get on my insiders email list. And we've got a special website that we're going to be releasing, you get to be part of the early release program beta, if you will, where there's going to be incredible content, incredible content. Eventually I'm going to be charging for this, but you'll get in for free. So here we go with our friend, Mr. Jim Polito,

Unknown 3:38
The man with the plan and the giant brain. I'm talking about our Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson. Good morning sir. Hey good morning Craig this you got to help us with this we have so many different topics today but I want to start off with the most important the Marriott hack three on hundred and 27 million guests thank you very much Marriott Corporation What are these folks going to do?

Unknown 4:11
Oh boy this is this is crazy. There's quite a bit of stuff you haven't heard in the news but what what first of all I think the most important thing to remember is the bad guys have been in this database since about that looks like maybe 2014. So this is a really really bad deal and we got to give Marriott a little bit of a break because it was the Starwood groups that actually had been hacked and then Marriott bought them and as part of Marriott integration of their computer systems. Marriott figured out what had happened

Unknown 4:48
oh ok. So we Starwood and they they bought Starwood

Unknown 4:52
Exactly. So you know, that doesn't mean that they've heard well, right, yeah, it was so reminiscent of last year with the Equifax hack. It's It is really crazy here. They've done so many things wrong. For instance, they've sent out notices by email to people whose data was stolen. We'll talk about that data in a minute here. But they sent out the email. They didn't send them up from http://Marriott.com they didn't send them out from any official website. The domain they sent them out from if you try and go to the website of that domain. There is no website at that domain. It's email-marriott.com. No certificates. Yes, there's no identifying security certificate for the email. The email is not digitally signed to show that it is Marriott doing it the only way you can even figure out that this might be legitimate is Marriott on their data breach notification site has a small note saying yeah by the way a third party firm is sending you email What do we tell people day in day out about clicking on email Jim.

Unknown 6:08
Right. You tell them not to do it.

Unknown 6:13
Exactly. So I'm just I'm shaking my head here now as is the case with so many problems that you have in business you bring in these PR firms that know how to do with disaster response right that that's what so many businesses do well Marriott had set this domain up apparently earlier this year and it sent out to me email from there but there's no way for regular person to check and see hey wait a minute now is this email coming from a scammer into come from the Marriott Corporation? Email-Marriott.com. That's not where I normally get my email for Marriott. They blown this thing. It's crazy. And then now let's talk about the data that was stolen. k. You mentioned What? 300 million?

Unknown 7:03
327 million yeah,

Unknown 7:04
exactly. It could be as high as 500 million. But that number 327 is right now considered to be the most accurate and look at the list of stuff that was stolen as part of this hack. It includes all your personal information. And I mean, personal. Because if you traveled abroad and you were with Starwood, you had to give your passport number.

Unknown 7:35
OK, so now we've got scammers out there that are that have their passport, you know, bad guys pickers that have passport numbers for all of us have all of this information.

Unknown 7:51
My gosh, and so now we have to worry about a few things. First of all, you've got to worry about your credit and your credit being used your identity stolen, okay, you have to be okay. You have to worry about your passport. Now worried about your passport may not be as big a deal because when it comes to credit cards, for instance, all you really have to worry about is that somebody might use it and you have to know this and then you have to follow through. Okay. Yeah, having your identity stolen means that you could get pulled over for broken taillight on your car. And all of a sudden you are the subject Alba felony arrest and other words, all of a sudden, there's a half a dozen police cars, your face down in there in that very cool statement. Yeah, on the road. Right, right. And when it comes to your passport number, the bad guys have the number but it's not terribly useful to them. Because if you still have to have a physical passport, okay, now think about this. in the longer term. I just flew out of around Orlando airport a couple of weeks ago, I was down there for conference. And in the Orlando airport, they had these new identity machines that were biometric. And the federal government has in our passport, RFID chip, they've got these little chips that can be read in your passport, right? So the bad guys can reproduce a passport. But it's very expensive, very hard to do. So only the most determined bad guys, maybe bad guys like Al Qaeda, that will send their people to flight training school, you know, can use this thing can do it. It's it's not going to be your average run of the mill bad guy that's trying to steal your identity that's going to be able to really make use of the passport I get concerned because I see the federal government going closer and closer to having completely digital IDs, no paper and that concerns me more now. We've got the Marriott breach on top of Equifax last year. So we're talking about two of the biggest breaches in history. And many of us have our data not just on these sites. But in many other sites. Now, there is something really good that came out of the recent tax bill. And what came out of it from a security standpoint is you can get your credit frozen for no charge. Now from the

Unknown 10:28
right now you don't have to pay it all.

Unknown 10:31
Exactly. It used to be 10 bucks to lock it down. Lock all three of these credit agencies. So it was 30 bucks every time you turn around, basically, yeah, if you want to get new credit somewhere so right now bottom line is freeze your credit. Okay, just three and five Americans have ever even looked at their credit score. And you know, preaching a credit as a step beyond that. And we're seeing this happen more and more. There's no good solution for this. Thank God. Marriott caught this, you know, I wish it had been caught three, four years ago. But consider this, okay, it's not going to cost you anything. I've got a report that I can send out to you that goes step by step through exactly how to freeze your credit. You can ask me for that you can send me a text, you can email [email protected]. I'll make sure you get that report. If you're one of the people that's on my monthly subscription for watching the dark web. You already have that report because I send it out whenever I find a compromise to you. But I'm more than happy to send that to you. I advise everyone not only check your credit report, but freeze your credit. And then if if you want new credit, you can have to unfreeze it. But it leaves now thanks to the Trump sign tax bill. It's free.

Unknown 11:56
We're talking with Craig Peterson, our Tech Talk guru you heard there and at the end of this segment will give you a number you can text My name to that number. And Craig Peterson. If you're not already on his list will put you on his list. It's the nice list. Not the naughty list. Because he won't mess with you won't send you stuff you don't want won't bother you. And of course he won't sell your name. Alright, this one. I just have to go here.

Unknown 12:26
A high tech toilet. How can I say it tracking my every movement? I it's a family show, Craig. But what is this is your on the spot here. It says smart toilet.

Unknown 12:48
Why do I need a smart toilet? If a toilet was smart? You would no longer want to do the job it was designed for

Unknown 12:57
exactly Is that true? Or do you remember the movie The island I love that movie hi fi movie. And if you picked it a future where they were raising people duplicates of people shown so they can harvest organs. Right? Yep. And one of the things they had to do was make sure these clones were healthy. Yeah. And so it monitored their urine output. Yep. And so now researchers at the European Space Agency have teamed up with MIT sanitation specialists who thought MIT got into tenants

Unknown 13:34
and toilets. Yeah,

Unknown 13:36
yeah, it's called FitLoo.

Unknown 13:40
FitLoo.

Unknown 13:42
That's what the British in some Europeans call a toilet, the loo

Unknown 13:46
The loo. Exactly and it's located in the water closet

Unknown 13:50
Yes, in the water closet

Unknown 13:52
and it screens human waste for early signs of disease. This is really kind of a cool idea you know, I you know, I was in medicine for many years and her medicine and medical people are kind of strange. First of all, they smoke far more often than the regular public and secondly they tend to examine their excretion and

Unknown 14:18
because there are so many things you can gather from that human ways that data is gathered by sensors in the toilet bowl century your mobile phone you can see how your health is doing how it's changing you'll be able to see from this symptoms of early diabetes all the way through an intestinal bleed is phenomenal and I gotta say when it comes to intestinal belief I have a sister in law who has been in critical condition now for a week and a half they finally were breathing tube because she had a rupture in we're in testing

Unknown 14:57
something like this FitLoo might have helped them oh it's fun to choke out there's so many jokes

Unknown 15:04
yeah it is also true so okay I got a smart toilet watching my every moment no but if it detects disease, that's fine. Alright so if you would look there's a lot of other stuff that Craig got to me this week but we wanted to make sure we focused on that Marriott hack so if you text my name to this number

Unknown 15:30
855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553

Unknown 15:39
and standard data and text rates apply. You'll get on Craig Peterson's list he'll periodically send you information as he mentioned in this segment if there's some kind of a crisis you'll already have that information or if there's more information that's needed you'll get it and he will not sell your name he keeps you on the nice list and he won't put you on the naughty list Craig thank you so much look forward to talking with you next week

Unknown 16:07
alright thanks Jim and get that out to people that report on freezing your credits to people who have a little bit later on this morning

Unknown 16:14
excellent thanks Craig. Appreciate it. Craig Peterson everybody. All right when we return a final word. 

Unknown 16:22 

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Have you heard about the recent Marriott and Quora hack? Craig discusses this with Jim on the Jim Polito Show. Find out more about this hack and about FitLoo, the smart toilet.

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Airing date: 12/04/2018

Marriott Hack Quora Hack - What Does It Mean To Me - What To Do About It - Free Offer

Craig Peterson: 0:00
Hey, good morning everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning, we talked a lot about the Marriott hack what happened and not really why it happens. You don't have all the details yet. But what it means to you. Are you one of the people who hasn't even checked your credit report. Did you know three out of five Americans haven't even checked their credit report, let alone frozen their credit. The new Tax Act that was signed in by President Trump provides us with some amazing opportunity here. So we've got Equifax last year we've got this Marriott hack which really has been occurring for the last three to four years which is just crazy. So what should you be doing now I talked with Jim about that this morning I have after I hung up with Jim I've been on the horn with my team we are putting together a bang up special report here on what we need to do in a order to check our credit what does that mean how do we do it for free what are we looking for and then also how do we freeze our credit what does that mean what is that going to provide us with what can we do what can we do with our credit frozen same trick for the bad guys so that's going to be coming out as well so make sure you are signed up. I don't have the landing page ready yet for the special report we're going to be sending it out this week to our insiders. So if you are not on my insiders list make sure you go and subscribe immediately. Now I'm using what's called a double opt in which means you go to http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe and you give me your name and your email address. I will send you an email immediately and you have to click to confirm okay. So keep an eye out for that. That is legitimate because what I don't want to have happen is for people to sign, other people that don't want to be part of my insiders, okay and getting this type of information from me and I don't want to waste my time, my energy, my money to send that out these reports and things to people that didn't even want them in the first place. So it's called a double opt in. You go right now to http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, check your email within a minute or two it'll show up there. You'll see an email from [email protected], you're going to click the link in there to confirm you want it. And then later on this week, once we've got this special report finalized, we'll let you know and we'll send an email out to everybody. So keep an eye out for that in addition to my normal Saturday show notes email that you'll get from me and you will be able to click on that link it'll take you to a quick signup page so you can sign up for and I've got I mean some amazing special things for you that I am not announcing anywhere but you're going to love this okay you still gonna love this so again, http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. Do it now. Get on my insiders email list. And we've got a special website that we're going to be releasing, you get to be part of the early release program beta, if you will, where there's going to be incredible content, incredible content. Eventually I'm going to be charging for this, but you'll get in for free. So here we go with our friend, Mr. Jim Polito,

Unknown 3:38
The man with the plan and the giant brain. I'm talking about our Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson. Good morning sir. Hey good morning Craig this you got to help us with this we have so many different topics today but I want to start off with the most important the Marriott hack three on hundred and 27 million guests thank you very much Marriott Corporation What are these folks going to do?

Unknown 4:11
Oh boy this is this is crazy. There's quite a bit of stuff you haven't heard in the news but what what first of all I think the most important thing to remember is the bad guys have been in this database since about that looks like maybe 2014. So this is a really really bad deal and we got to give Marriott a little bit of a break because it was the Starwood groups that actually had been hacked and then Marriott bought them and as part of Marriott integration of their computer systems. Marriott figured out what had happened

Unknown 4:48
oh ok. So we Starwood and they they bought Starwood

Unknown 4:52
Exactly. So you know, that doesn't mean that they've heard well, right, yeah, it was so reminiscent of last year with the Equifax hack. It's It is really crazy here. They've done so many things wrong. For instance, they've sent out notices by email to people whose data was stolen. We'll talk about that data in a minute here. But they sent out the email. They didn't send them up from http://Marriott.com they didn't send them out from any official website. The domain they sent them out from if you try and go to the website of that domain. There is no website at that domain. It's email-marriott.com. No certificates. Yes, there's no identifying security certificate for the email. The email is not digitally signed to show that it is Marriott doing it the only way you can even figure out that this might be legitimate is Marriott on their data breach notification site has a small note saying yeah by the way a third party firm is sending you email What do we tell people day in day out about clicking on email Jim.

Unknown 6:08
Right. You tell them not to do it.

Unknown 6:13
Exactly. So I'm just I'm shaking my head here now as is the case with so many problems that you have in business you bring in these PR firms that know how to do with disaster response right that that's what so many businesses do well Marriott had set this domain up apparently earlier this year and it sent out to me email from there but there's no way for regular person to check and see hey wait a minute now is this email coming from a scammer into come from the Marriott Corporation? Email-Marriott.com. That's not where I normally get my email for Marriott. They blown this thing. It's crazy. And then now let's talk about the data that was stolen. k. You mentioned What? 300 million?

Unknown 7:03
327 million yeah,

Unknown 7:04
exactly. It could be as high as 500 million. But that number 327 is right now considered to be the most accurate and look at the list of stuff that was stolen as part of this hack. It includes all your personal information. And I mean, personal. Because if you traveled abroad and you were with Starwood, you had to give your passport number.

Unknown 7:35
OK, so now we've got scammers out there that are that have their passport, you know, bad guys pickers that have passport numbers for all of us have all of this information.

Unknown 7:51
My gosh, and so now we have to worry about a few things. First of all, you've got to worry about your credit and your credit being used your identity stolen, okay, you have to be okay. You have to worry about your passport. Now worried about your passport may not be as big a deal because when it comes to credit cards, for instance, all you really have to worry about is that somebody might use it and you have to know this and then you have to follow through. Okay. Yeah, having your identity stolen means that you could get pulled over for broken taillight on your car. And all of a sudden you are the subject Alba felony arrest and other words, all of a sudden, there's a half a dozen police cars, your face down in there in that very cool statement. Yeah, on the road. Right, right. And when it comes to your passport number, the bad guys have the number but it's not terribly useful to them. Because if you still have to have a physical passport, okay, now think about this. in the longer term. I just flew out of around Orlando airport a couple of weeks ago, I was down there for conference. And in the Orlando airport, they had these new identity machines that were biometric. And the federal government has in our passport, RFID chip, they've got these little chips that can be read in your passport, right? So the bad guys can reproduce a passport. But it's very expensive, very hard to do. So only the most determined bad guys, maybe bad guys like Al Qaeda, that will send their people to flight training school, you know, can use this thing can do it. It's it's not going to be your average run of the mill bad guy that's trying to steal your identity that's going to be able to really make use of the passport I get concerned because I see the federal government going closer and closer to having completely digital IDs, no paper and that concerns me more now. We've got the Marriott breach on top of Equifax last year. So we're talking about two of the biggest breaches in history. And many of us have our data not just on these sites. But in many other sites. Now, there is something really good that came out of the recent tax bill. And what came out of it from a security standpoint is you can get your credit frozen for no charge. Now from the

Unknown 10:28
right now you don't have to pay it all.

Unknown 10:31
Exactly. It used to be 10 bucks to lock it down. Lock all three of these credit agencies. So it was 30 bucks every time you turn around, basically, yeah, if you want to get new credit somewhere so right now bottom line is freeze your credit. Okay, just three and five Americans have ever even looked at their credit score. And you know, preaching a credit as a step beyond that. And we're seeing this happen more and more. There's no good solution for this. Thank God. Marriott caught this, you know, I wish it had been caught three, four years ago. But consider this, okay, it's not going to cost you anything. I've got a report that I can send out to you that goes step by step through exactly how to freeze your credit. You can ask me for that you can send me a text, you can email [email protected]. I'll make sure you get that report. If you're one of the people that's on my monthly subscription for watching the dark web. You already have that report because I send it out whenever I find a compromise to you. But I'm more than happy to send that to you. I advise everyone not only check your credit report, but freeze your credit. And then if if you want new credit, you can have to unfreeze it. But it leaves now thanks to the Trump sign tax bill. It's free.

Unknown 11:56
We're talking with Craig Peterson, our Tech Talk guru you heard there and at the end of this segment will give you a number you can text My name to that number. And Craig Peterson. If you're not already on his list will put you on his list. It's the nice list. Not the naughty list. Because he won't mess with you won't send you stuff you don't want won't bother you. And of course he won't sell your name. Alright, this one. I just have to go here.

Unknown 12:26
A high tech toilet. How can I say it tracking my every movement? I it's a family show, Craig. But what is this is your on the spot here. It says smart toilet.

Unknown 12:48
Why do I need a smart toilet? If a toilet was smart? You would no longer want to do the job it was designed for

Unknown 12:57
exactly Is that true? Or do you remember the movie The island I love that movie hi fi movie. And if you picked it a future where they were raising people duplicates of people shown so they can harvest organs. Right? Yep. And one of the things they had to do was make sure these clones were healthy. Yeah. And so it monitored their urine output. Yep. And so now researchers at the European Space Agency have teamed up with MIT sanitation specialists who thought MIT got into tenants

Unknown 13:34
and toilets. Yeah,

Unknown 13:36
yeah, it's called FitLoo.

Unknown 13:40
FitLoo.

Unknown 13:42
That's what the British in some Europeans call a toilet, the loo

Unknown 13:46
The loo. Exactly and it's located in the water closet

Unknown 13:50
Yes, in the water closet

Unknown 13:52
and it screens human waste for early signs of disease. This is really kind of a cool idea you know, I you know, I was in medicine for many years and her medicine and medical people are kind of strange. First of all, they smoke far more often than the regular public and secondly they tend to examine their excretion and

Unknown 14:18
because there are so many things you can gather from that human ways that data is gathered by sensors in the toilet bowl century your mobile phone you can see how your health is doing how it's changing you'll be able to see from this symptoms of early diabetes all the way through an intestinal bleed is phenomenal and I gotta say when it comes to intestinal belief I have a sister in law who has been in critical condition now for a week and a half they finally were breathing tube because she had a rupture in we're in testing

Unknown 14:57
something like this FitLoo might have helped them oh it's fun to choke out there's so many jokes

Unknown 15:04
yeah it is also true so okay I got a smart toilet watching my every moment no but if it detects disease, that's fine. Alright so if you would look there's a lot of other stuff that Craig got to me this week but we wanted to make sure we focused on that Marriott hack so if you text my name to this number

Unknown 15:30
855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553

Unknown 15:39
and standard data and text rates apply. You'll get on Craig Peterson's list he'll periodically send you information as he mentioned in this segment if there's some kind of a crisis you'll already have that information or if there's more information that's needed you'll get it and he will not sell your name he keeps you on the nice list and he won't put you on the naughty list Craig thank you so much look forward to talking with you next week

Unknown 16:07
alright thanks Jim and get that out to people that report on freezing your credits to people who have a little bit later on this morning

Unknown 16:14
excellent thanks Craig. Appreciate it. Craig Peterson everybody. All right when we return a final word. 

Unknown 16:22 

A quick reminder that URL again if you haven't done it yet http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe you will not regret this this is going to be big it's going to be fantastic we're doing a major launch next year you're will be a part of it and you're going to get in for free because you're a listener to me on the Jim Polito Show so and end the podcast right http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. Take care. Bye bye.

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This week there is some very cool stuff and very scary stuff going on in the world of technology.

We're going to talk about some Brain Implants that lets fully paralyzed people use tablets.  The project is called BrainGate2.  Listen in and then check it out.  It is very, cool use technology that can really help patients.

Did you hear about the new Patent that Google got?  You'll want to listen in because this is pretty scary for sure -- Google is planning to monitor our mood, our movement and even our children's behavior at home.

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Airing date: 12/01/2018

Brain Implant Lets Paralyzed People Use Tablets - Google And Amazon New Monitoring Patents

Craig Peterson: 0:00
Hey, good morning, Craig Peterson here. We have another show ahead of us. We're going to be talking about a few things as usual one, of course, security. That's kind of the big topic as it is every week. As we try and get more and more businesses and people more secure.

Craig Peterson 0:18
We're going to talk about Amazon, some kind of scary technology. They just got a patent on maybe, maybe you've seen movies that did this before the island was one of them. But these new high tech toilets are going to be monitoring, new privacy on LinkedIn. Google has now revealed some plans to monitor our moods, our movement and our children's behavior in our homes.

Craig Peterson 0:42
Yeah, you have one of those Google Home devices are you sure you want to keep that thing around? We've got more news now by the hackers of these NSA hacking tools we talked about last year, those that were stolen from the NSA or given away I'm not sure how you want to look at this, but these tools are now being used in more sophisticated ways and we're certainly seeing them every week and law enforcement is now using a new tool, kind of a mysterious tool, in order to unlock cell phones. We've talked about some of the tools before we'll get into that a little bit more. Facebook ads are urging Facebook staff to leak secrets on this is quite interesting.

Craig Peterson 1:27
A company was terminated over this Facebook says they're not tracking who is doing what but it looks like there might be some George Soros ties and all of that. If you want to read any of the articles, of course, this is all from the news just this week you can go right online to my website http://CraigPeterson.com. You'll see all of this stuff on the homepage or you can always go to http://CraigPeterson.com/radio-show. Hey, everybody that's listening on podcasts as well would really appreciate some feedback. It's nice to know people are listening and are hopefully getting some good useful information out of the show and I get comments every week but I like to hear from people we want to get reviews as well on iTunes because that's kind of the big place. I don't know what's going on with iHeart Media they carry my show live, and I have applied a few times to get the podcast up on the I heart app so you can listen to it there but for some reason, I don't know they just haven't been putting it up I'm not sure what's going on there with iHeart but anyways go to http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes. Just take a minute it's only going to take you a minute. http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes. Now my website's going to redirect you over to the Apple iTunes site, you'll see shouldn't come right up to my podcast. And you'll see the ability or you'll have the ability right there to hopefully give me a five-star rating. And as a part that rating, you're going to be able to put a little comment on him. So if you would let me know what you get the most out of the show from or with, or maybe something that was surprising and interesting to you as well. http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes. Take a couple of minutes to do that. That will also help me with the iHeart app. And way as my ratings go up in the iTunes Store, the iHeart app, people might pick it up from that to who knows, I've been doing podcasts for longer than almost anybody. And I went What about two, three years without really posting anything. So we're trying to get back into that, trying to get the information out and really help people out.

Craig Peterson 3:47
Hey, I want to thank also all of the people that are responded, I sent out an email two weeks ago now just talking about to get together. And I've been taking time every day to respond to people, I had so many responses. And I'm responding to them all individually. So forgive me, if you haven't heard from me yet, you will hear from me, I am putting some real time into this. And some thought. And of course, that takes time as well. You should have gotten my normal weekly show notes this morning. And of course, last Saturday morning as well. But this was just a thing about a get-together. And I'm trying to figure out what I can do best to help small businesses out. So if you haven't seen an email from me, I respond, I will be responding and I've been asking questions and trying to kind of figure out what people are thinking out there so that we can help them out. I'm just fed up with every week having more and more of these types of hacks to talk about. It's just been going crazy, frankly. So we're gonna start out here by not talking about a hack. Let's talk about well, I guess you could call this a hack. This is an absolutely amazing step forward.

Craig Peterson 5:05
You've probably seen people before on TV, Stephen Hawking is one of them who had physical problems, he had a disease, you, of course, paralyzed, he can just do some very basic things. You've probably heard his speech system that talks to him, it's very slow, it's very hard to do. But, he is able to mostly control a computer using that. Well, three people who are paralyzed from the neck down now have been able to use on modified computer tablets. Isn't this amazing. In this case, they were Android, but on modified Android tablets, to text their friends to browse the internet to stream music. Very cool stuff. So you know, typically, as you've seen with Hawking, I'm sure he has a thing that he puts into his mouth, and he uses his mouth in order to manipulate it and move things around. Sometimes these systems track the eyes of the paralyzed user as they look at things. And they'll select letters and compose words, put it all together. And all of that is really kind of cool. But they've always had to use very, very specialized hardware that computers themselves had to be designed to work with them, obviously, right, because they have to select letters and words. And it kind of does some predictive stuff with words to make it a little easier for them. Well, in this case, it is absolutely unmodified, I think it's phenomenal check it out online is called BrainGate2. B-R-A-I-N-G-A-T-E, the digit 2. BrainGate2. They have a lot of information there about the research projects that are underway, obviously undergoing some field trials right now. They accept donations if you want to help them out.

Craig Peterson 6:55
But this system uses some microelectrodes that are implanted into the brains of these paralyzed people. And in real time, the neural signals that are in the brain that are associated with the intention to move a limb like an arm or leg are intercepted and are used to allow them to type on a keyboard. It's just amazing. So there are three people who are involved in this trial, they have these electrical grids implanted over part of their motor cortex. Again, that's a part of the brain that helps control movement picked up the neural activity. And that neural activity then indicated that they were thinking about moving a cursor on the street screen. And guess what happened, the cursor moved on the screen. So it's just using their intentions. And they were able to perform all kinds of tasks. Now, some of the tasks like multi-touch that you might have on one of these tablets, they couldn't do but give a little time they'll get this workout. And ultimately, they're not going to have to these things that the thinking is that we'll be able to put sensors kind of like a hat that they were right on their head. And they'll have a brain-computer interface. So I thought that was a very cool way to start out the show again, it's called brain gate two. And this is for paraplegics. It's absolutely amazing. All they have to do is have a working brain and they can go online and just do all kinds of incredible things.

Craig Peterson 8:30
Well, we've been inviting Amazon Alexa as into our homes and the new Google Home. Some of us have that really good sounding series speaker from Apple, although app or Amazon is coming out with one as well, that they claim is really good. It's available right now, I think. But I think it's still limited quantities. They sound great, they answer your questions, we have an echo show in the kitchen.

Craig Peterson 8:57
And you can ask it for recipes. It'll show you the recipe, it'll play the videos, they're really, really helpful. Well, in both of these cases, Google and Amazon are doing some things that are a little bit scary. Now, we talked in weeks past that those machines, although they're listening are not streaming all of your audio up to the cloud, they do not retain all of your audio. So those are both important points to remember. And we talked about it in the context of police departments trying to do investigations. However, Google just got a patent here, when apparently, they're planning to monitor our mood, our movement and our children's behavior at home.

Craig Peterson 9:46
Those of us that have the Google Home, you know, again, they like it because you can and ask questions, Atlanta and stuff. But Google is totally into trying to get all of the information they can get their hands on about you about anybody. And to me, that is very, very scary. We've given up our privacy to Google. And obviously, Facebook, we've seen some of the things Facebook has done has done and others. Now, Amazon, of course, they track thoroughly what it is you buy them make suggestions, ways to save some money. So I not really knocking them for all of this. But in this case, the patents are revealing that Google's developing smart home products that are capable of eavesdropping on us throughout our homes.

Craig Peterson 10:40
They want to learn more about us, our families better target us with advertising. It goes even further than that. And further than the Google Home speaker that's promoted to just answer questions right now provide useful information, these nest thermostats that are measuring environmental conditions in our homes. Some of these devices in the patent also have cameras on them. And the patent describes how these cameras can recognize even recognize the image of a movie star on a t-shirt. So you're in your home, you're walking around, you've got a t-shirt on with your favorite movie star. And now all of a sudden, you're going to start seeing ads for that new movie that the stars in where's the line, right? How about when you're running around in your underwear in the house, you know what of that information is going to get out there, what's going to get hacked.

We don't have any good laws about this right now, no good rules or regulations, the companies themselves have not been doing a good job of policing themselves, they just keep pushing and pushing that envelope.

Craig Peterson 11:49
One of these patents says that the smart home environment may be provided with a smart device environment policies that use smart devices to monitor activities with their smart device environment, report on the activities and or provide smart device control based on these activities. So it's pretty clear from this. And what they want to do is monitor us and report back what we're doing. I the patent goes on a lot more detail here, but it may include image recognition technology to identify particular occupants or objects. In other words, the goal is to track us throughout the home observing who is in each room, because they also have the facial recognition technology where we are moving within the house and what we are doing alright, this patent was awarded by the way to want to Google's teams, the guys that developed the Nest thermostat, of course, Nest thermostat summit technology was purchased. But this is a breakthrough product with a microphone, you can talk to your Nest thermostat and have an answer questions.

Craig Peterson 12:54
I don't know, it gets kind of scary. And then Amazon what they're doing, they've got some new technology that recognizes accent. And the idea behind this is that Google will recognize your characteristics like voice feature. So in this particular case, this patent that was issued in October will recognize things like a language accent, the ethnic origin, your emotion, your sex, your age, and background noise.

Craig Peterson 13:29
So it's going to be immediately extracted is going to be tagged put in the user's data file, and it's going to be used for more targeted advertising. I don't think that's going to be a surprise to anybody, right. So what they're trying to do here, it's also apparently going to consider this is, according to the Amazon patent, consider a customer's physical location, and that's based on their IP address, the primary shipping address or browsing browser settings to help determine the accent will see, we'll see what happens. It's unclear how much accent detection they can do right now. But it's going to introduce all kinds of questions on our part about surveillance, privacy violations, maybe even discriminatory advertising or practices, civil rights issues that could be raised by this. And of course, the government might be interested in the accent data and technology as well. So if a voice-based accent detection in sitting there in whether it's Amazon or someone else, but if that detection can determine a person's ethnic background,

Craig Peterson 14:38
it opens up a whole new category of information that's very interesting to the government. You can find this article, it's from the intercept, you'll find it up on my website, and ttp://CraigPeterson.com. If you want to find out more Jennifer King, Director of consumer privacy over at Stanford Law, she had some very, very interesting comments whether people might speak Arabic or Arabic, accented English, are these users belonging to a religious or ethnic group, because it could be listening in here, your prayers here, other things going on, I'm not sure where that line should be drawn. But I don't think it should be drawn that far down the road, that's for sure. And we're going to talk about this, this other problem, because

Craig Peterson 15:26
when government gets this technology, when government gets us information, eventually it gets outlook at what just happened last month, with the government's Obamacare website, where 10s of thousands of people's personal private information was stolen, social security numbers, health information, names, addresses, everything was stolen from the government. So if they're starting to track all of this, what's going to happen? We had a break in Amazon. Also, this wasn't a break in this wasn't a hack, but right before Black Friday, this was like how I think it was Tuesday, right before Black Friday, Amazon lost a lot of people's names and email addresses due to a bug and anyone that had that information last they send an email, you should get an email from Amazon telling you what happened. And you know, they did fix that problem. But again, it's a big problem. How far should we let the government go when it comes to tracking us? And when you're talking about something like Obamacare, wow, that this next article really starts to come into play.

Craig Peterson 16:48
Even the hacking tools at the NSA had were stolen, right? You know, it's how far can this all go? Well, the island great movie, if you haven't seen it, in the alike side, You've got to see the island. But part of this was that the characters, the primary characters in this movie were monitored 24 seven, they wanted them to be the ultimate of health very, very healthy, and so they were monitoring the urine output of all of the resident. That's something we already do in our space program. Our astronauts that are up in the space station, their urine every time they use the toilet, it is taken a sample of it's taken and it is analyzed. So they know what's happening. Of course, we want to know more details and want to understand space exploration better. And, and that makes a whole lot of sense.

Craig Peterson 17:44
Well, our gear, arguably, our bathrooms are the last bastion of privacy, but it looks like there's a new high tech toilet that's coming our way that's going to track our every movement. We've got the European Space Agency teaming up with MIT and some sanitation specialists to create what's called the FitLoo, loo being British slang for the toilet. And this FitLoo screened human waste for early signs of disease. So they've got data sensors that are sitting there in the toilet bowl to gather information. I'm not sure how far this goes, I don't even want to think about some of it, right? But this really

Craig Peterson 18:34
provides an incredible opportunity for people to gain control of their health. And it's designed initially to go to the doctor when they're sick. So that data isn't it may be captured but it isn't shared with anybody you know, I want to go on and on here but the articles interesting because they're quoting a spokesperson from the toilet board coalition, if you can believe there is such a thing they're quoting the spokesperson is saying, you know, we just don't listen to our bodies. And, and I gotta say, I've seen that in my extended family. I have right now a sister in law who's in the hospital because she wasn't listening to her body is stuff that could have been taking care of a long time ago, but wasn't taking care of, and the toilet listens and free time, right, when we use it. And we flush I guess today it is technically it's not listening. But but it will be listening very soon. So take this and take what I was just mentioning of that website that was hacked, right? The Obamacare website, the government healthcare application site, what's going to happen if there is government controlled medicine even more control than it is right now? Or let's say that the HMM most want to go another step further?

Craig Peterson 20:01
What are they going to do? Look what's happening right now, with cars, I think it's Progressive Insurance will give you a discount, quote-unquote, discount if you put the put this little device into your car. So it links up with the car's computer, and it tracks how many miles you're driving, which of course, is your or their exposure to risk? And how you drive? Are you breaking hard? Are you accelerating harder, you're going around corners hard because the computers record all of us in our cars. And many times the computer data from our cars, the black boxes have been used in court cases to convict people of things. And it was maybe 10 years ago that I talked on this show about giving tickets out, there are, now, tickets being issued because of this data that's being collected. So Progressive says, hey, listen, you can save money, you just plug it in. And of course, I said, quote, save money, unquote, because if you are a bad driver, there's going to be a surcharge on your bill. So with government's involvement in health care with these Hmm. Most involvement with health care, what do you think's going to happen with these types of new toilets that are coming out, right? If if you have a FitLoo? Are they going to come back and say, Hey, listen, you got to stop eating bacon? Or you can have to change your lifestyle in this way. Or that way. Because of what your toilets been recording, right? Good question, isn't it?

Craig Peterson 21:38
So, you know, our privacy is going away a little bit at a time, a lot of bits here and there, frankly, and I think we got to be a lot more careful with it. And what we're allowing people to do with our data. So to that, and I'm not gonna have time to get into this. But there's a great article by Mike Epstein or on life hacker again, you'll find it at http://CraigPeterson.com. But this is how to protect your privacy on LinkedIn. Now, we've, of course, talked about Facebook before and protecting your privacy on Facebook, of course, to a degree, one degree or another, you need to be careful about the data you post on LinkedIn. Microsoft owns LinkedIn now, and they are doing some interesting things when it comes to privacy. We'll kind of leave it at that. But this article goes through in some detail about what you should do, what you shouldn't do what you want to be careful about when you're online with your data sharing and everything. So check that out how to protect your privacy on LinkedIn. That's the number one site for business people for contacts is kind of a social network, certainly not on the order of Facebook as far as a social network goes. But a lot of people use it to find jobs, to find employees, etc, etc. out there.

Craig Peterson 23:12
Now this I I don't know how to how to have everybody understand this, you guys you listen to the show, you're you're smarter than the average bear, you know more about security than the average bear, believe it or not, because if you've been listening regularly, I talk a lot about security. But more than a year after patches were released to thwart these NSA exploit people still have not applied them. So what we're talking about are the tools that our national security agency had developed. And we're using in order to break in and monitor computers. And of course, its design intent was, hey, listen, we have a legal right to monitor these people because of a Pfizer court order or some other court order. So we're going to monitor them. The easiest way to do that is to play some malware on their computers. And once a malware is on their computers will be able to see what they're sending what they're receiving, who they're talking to. The same trick when it comes to your phones, they have some workarounds for your phones. So there were patches that were released by all of the major software vendors that were affected. And of course, who's the major software vendor affected it is, of course, Microsoft and Microsoft Windows. So first, these tools were being used to spread ransomware I remember last summer the huge ransomware attack the knocked off so many businesses completely off the air, including multinational, huge corporation because they did not do the right thing with their security. Thank goodness, we were able to protect all of our clients so I didn't have to deal with it and try and restore from backups. But a lot of people didn't even have a backup. So that was number one use the NSA tools for that ransomware and then it was cryptocurrency mining, they decided they would use your computer to try and find bitcoins and other things in the cryptocurrency realm that they could then use and trade while now researchers are saying that hackers are using the leak tools to create an even bigger malicious proxy network. Now Akamai is the one who just published some of these new findings they see a lot of the internet traffic and they're saying that they're the bad guys are using these NSA tools to take over our routers and send data overseas we know about that we've talked about that here before if you haven't patched your router patch it now if you don't know how to patch your router buy a brand new one okay it's really good just that simple well now they've gone the next step and they're using even more powerful exploits are burrowing

Craig Peterson 26:07
through your router and they're infecting individual computers on your network and then they start spreading within your network so it's pretty bad they're using a couple of these major exploit were stolen from the NSA make sure you update your computer I had someone this week sent me an email asking about how to update How do they know if those patches are legitimate? If you're interested just email [email protected]. I will send you that information that I wrote up just [email protected] about how to tell which updates are legit which ones you should install because a lot of people are very confused about that and that's understandable so the last two articles I'm not really going to be able to get to but you'll find up on my website http://CraigPeterson.com. And if you're on my email list you should have gotten the show notes this morning make sure you subscribe if you haven't because I do keep you up to date. I don't pester you to believe me. This is a lot of great free information. http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe is a way to sign up. http://CraigPeterson.comc/subscribe. You will get my weekly show notes when there's a big hack underway I'll let you know when I'm holding the free master class I'll let you know about that as well and we have master classes coming up on how to do backups how to install patches how to use the free tools in order to keep your home computer safe and the tools you need to keep your businesses safe as well as some master courses which are paid but everything else absolutely free I just want to get this information out so have a great rate week. http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, and we will be back again next week. Take care bye bye.

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Airing date: 12/01/2018

Brain Implant Lets Paralyzed People Use Tablets - Google And Amazon New Monitoring Patents

Craig Peterson: 0:00
Hey, good morning, Craig Peterson here. We have another show ahead of us. We're going to be talking about a few things as usual one, of course, security. That's kind of the big topic as it is every week. As we try and get more and more businesses and people more secure.

Craig Peterson 0:18
We're going to talk about Amazon, some kind of scary technology. They just got a patent on maybe, maybe you've seen movies that did this before the island was one of them. But these new high tech toilets are going to be monitoring, new privacy on LinkedIn. Google has now revealed some plans to monitor our moods, our movement and our children's behavior in our homes.

Craig Peterson 0:42
Yeah, you have one of those Google Home devices are you sure you want to keep that thing around? We've got more news now by the hackers of these NSA hacking tools we talked about last year, those that were stolen from the NSA or given away I'm not sure how you want to look at this, but these tools are now being used in more sophisticated ways and we're certainly seeing them every week and law enforcement is now using a new tool, kind of a mysterious tool, in order to unlock cell phones. We've talked about some of the tools before we'll get into that a little bit more. Facebook ads are urging Facebook staff to leak secrets on this is quite interesting.

Craig Peterson 1:27
A company was terminated over this Facebook says they're not tracking who is doing what but it looks like there might be some George Soros ties and all of that. If you want to read any of the articles, of course, this is all from the news just this week you can go right online to my website http://CraigPeterson.com. You'll see all of this stuff on the homepage or you can always go to http://CraigPeterson.com/radio-show. Hey, everybody that's listening on podcasts as well would really appreciate some feedback. It's nice to know people are listening and are hopefully getting some good useful information out of the show and I get comments every week but I like to hear from people we want to get reviews as well on iTunes because that's kind of the big place. I don't know what's going on with iHeart Media they carry my show live, and I have applied a few times to get the podcast up on the I heart app so you can listen to it there but for some reason, I don't know they just haven't been putting it up I'm not sure what's going on there with iHeart but anyways go to http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes. Just take a minute it's only going to take you a minute. http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes. Now my website's going to redirect you over to the Apple iTunes site, you'll see shouldn't come right up to my podcast. And you'll see the ability or you'll have the ability right there to hopefully give me a five-star rating. And as a part that rating, you're going to be able to put a little comment on him. So if you would let me know what you get the most out of the show from or with, or maybe something that was surprising and interesting to you as well. http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes. Take a couple of minutes to do that. That will also help me with the iHeart app. And way as my ratings go up in the iTunes Store, the iHeart app, people might pick it up from that to who knows, I've been doing podcasts for longer than almost anybody. And I went What about two, three years without really posting anything. So we're trying to get back into that, trying to get the information out and really help people out.

Craig Peterson 3:47
Hey, I want to thank also all of the people that are responded, I sent out an email two weeks ago now just talking about to get together. And I've been taking time every day to respond to people, I had so many responses. And I'm responding to them all individually. So forgive me, if you haven't heard from me yet, you will hear from me, I am putting some real time into this. And some thought. And of course, that takes time as well. You should have gotten my normal weekly show notes this morning. And of course, last Saturday morning as well. But this was just a thing about a get-together. And I'm trying to figure out what I can do best to help small businesses out. So if you haven't seen an email from me, I respond, I will be responding and I've been asking questions and trying to kind of figure out what people are thinking out there so that we can help them out. I'm just fed up with every week having more and more of these types of hacks to talk about. It's just been going crazy, frankly. So we're gonna start out here by not talking about a hack. Let's talk about well, I guess you could call this a hack. This is an absolutely amazing step forward.

Craig Peterson 5:05
You've probably seen people before on TV, Stephen Hawking is one of them who had physical problems, he had a disease, you, of course, paralyzed, he can just do some very basic things. You've probably heard his speech system that talks to him, it's very slow, it's very hard to do. But, he is able to mostly control a computer using that. Well, three people who are paralyzed from the neck down now have been able to use on modified computer tablets. Isn't this amazing. In this case, they were Android, but on modified Android tablets, to text their friends to browse the internet to stream music. Very cool stuff. So you know, typically, as you've seen with Hawking, I'm sure he has a thing that he puts into his mouth, and he uses his mouth in order to manipulate it and move things around. Sometimes these systems track the eyes of the paralyzed user as they look at things. And they'll select letters and compose words, put it all together. And all of that is really kind of cool. But they've always had to use very, very specialized hardware that computers themselves had to be designed to work with them, obviously, right, because they have to select letters and words. And it kind of does some predictive stuff with words to make it a little easier for them. Well, in this case, it is absolutely unmodified, I think it's phenomenal check it out online is called BrainGate2. B-R-A-I-N-G-A-T-E, the digit 2. BrainGate2. They have a lot of information there about the research projects that are underway, obviously undergoing some field trials right now. They accept donations if you want to help them out.

Craig Peterson 6:55
But this system uses some microelectrodes that are implanted into the brains of these paralyzed people. And in real time, the neural signals that are in the brain that are associated with the intention to move a limb like an arm or leg are intercepted and are used to allow them to type on a keyboard. It's just amazing. So there are three people who are involved in this trial, they have these electrical grids implanted over part of their motor cortex. Again, that's a part of the brain that helps control movement picked up the neural activity. And that neural activity then indicated that they were thinking about moving a cursor on the street screen. And guess what happened, the cursor moved on the screen. So it's just using their intentions. And they were able to perform all kinds of tasks. Now, some of the tasks like multi-touch that you might have on one of these tablets, they couldn't do but give a little time they'll get this workout. And ultimately, they're not going to have to these things that the thinking is that we'll be able to put sensors kind of like a hat that they were right on their head. And they'll have a brain-computer interface. So I thought that was a very cool way to start out the show again, it's called brain gate two. And this is for paraplegics. It's absolutely amazing. All they have to do is have a working brain and they can go online and just do all kinds of incredible things.

Craig Peterson 8:30
Well, we've been inviting Amazon Alexa as into our homes and the new Google Home. Some of us have that really good sounding series speaker from Apple, although app or Amazon is coming out with one as well, that they claim is really good. It's available right now, I think. But I think it's still limited quantities. They sound great, they answer your questions, we have an echo show in the kitchen.

Craig Peterson 8:57
And you can ask it for recipes. It'll show you the recipe, it'll play the videos, they're really, really helpful. Well, in both of these cases, Google and Amazon are doing some things that are a little bit scary. Now, we talked in weeks past that those machines, although they're listening are not streaming all of your audio up to the cloud, they do not retain all of your audio. So those are both important points to remember. And we talked about it in the context of police departments trying to do investigations. However, Google just got a patent here, when apparently, they're planning to monitor our mood, our movement and our children's behavior at home.

Craig Peterson 9:46
Those of us that have the Google Home, you know, again, they like it because you can and ask questions, Atlanta and stuff. But Google is totally into trying to get all of the information they can get their hands on about you about anybody. And to me, that is very, very scary. We've given up our privacy to Google. And obviously, Facebook, we've seen some of the things Facebook has done has done and others. Now, Amazon, of course, they track thoroughly what it is you buy them make suggestions, ways to save some money. So I not really knocking them for all of this. But in this case, the patents are revealing that Google's developing smart home products that are capable of eavesdropping on us throughout our homes.

Craig Peterson 10:40
They want to learn more about us, our families better target us with advertising. It goes even further than that. And further than the Google Home speaker that's promoted to just answer questions right now provide useful information, these nest thermostats that are measuring environmental conditions in our homes. Some of these devices in the patent also have cameras on them. And the patent describes how these cameras can recognize even recognize the image of a movie star on a t-shirt. So you're in your home, you're walking around, you've got a t-shirt on with your favorite movie star. And now all of a sudden, you're going to start seeing ads for that new movie that the stars in where's the line, right? How about when you're running around in your underwear in the house, you know what of that information is going to get out there, what's going to get hacked.

We don't have any good laws about this right now, no good rules or regulations, the companies themselves have not been doing a good job of policing themselves, they just keep pushing and pushing that envelope.

Craig Peterson 11:49
One of these patents says that the smart home environment may be provided with a smart device environment policies that use smart devices to monitor activities with their smart device environment, report on the activities and or provide smart device control based on these activities. So it's pretty clear from this. And what they want to do is monitor us and report back what we're doing. I the patent goes on a lot more detail here, but it may include image recognition technology to identify particular occupants or objects. In other words, the goal is to track us throughout the home observing who is in each room, because they also have the facial recognition technology where we are moving within the house and what we are doing alright, this patent was awarded by the way to want to Google's teams, the guys that developed the Nest thermostat, of course, Nest thermostat summit technology was purchased. But this is a breakthrough product with a microphone, you can talk to your Nest thermostat and have an answer questions.

Craig Peterson 12:54
I don't know, it gets kind of scary. And then Amazon what they're doing, they've got some new technology that recognizes accent. And the idea behind this is that Google will recognize your characteristics like voice feature. So in this particular case, this patent that was issued in October will recognize things like a language accent, the ethnic origin, your emotion, your sex, your age, and background noise.

Craig Peterson 13:29
So it's going to be immediately extracted is going to be tagged put in the user's data file, and it's going to be used for more targeted advertising. I don't think that's going to be a surprise to anybody, right. So what they're trying to do here, it's also apparently going to consider this is, according to the Amazon patent, consider a customer's physical location, and that's based on their IP address, the primary shipping address or browsing browser settings to help determine the accent will see, we'll see what happens. It's unclear how much accent detection they can do right now. But it's going to introduce all kinds of questions on our part about surveillance, privacy violations, maybe even discriminatory advertising or practices, civil rights issues that could be raised by this. And of course, the government might be interested in the accent data and technology as well. So if a voice-based accent detection in sitting there in whether it's Amazon or someone else, but if that detection can determine a person's ethnic background,

Craig Peterson 14:38
it opens up a whole new category of information that's very interesting to the government. You can find this article, it's from the intercept, you'll find it up on my website, and ttp://CraigPeterson.com. If you want to find out more Jennifer King, Director of consumer privacy over at Stanford Law, she had some very, very interesting comments whether people might speak Arabic or Arabic, accented English, are these users belonging to a religious or ethnic group, because it could be listening in here, your prayers here, other things going on, I'm not sure where that line should be drawn. But I don't think it should be drawn that far down the road, that's for sure. And we're going to talk about this, this other problem, because

Craig Peterson 15:26
when government gets this technology, when government gets us information, eventually it gets outlook at what just happened last month, with the government's Obamacare website, where 10s of thousands of people's personal private information was stolen, social security numbers, health information, names, addresses, everything was stolen from the government. So if they're starting to track all of this, what's going to happen? We had a break in Amazon. Also, this wasn't a break in this wasn't a hack, but right before Black Friday, this was like how I think it was Tuesday, right before Black Friday, Amazon lost a lot of people's names and email addresses due to a bug and anyone that had that information last they send an email, you should get an email from Amazon telling you what happened. And you know, they did fix that problem. But again, it's a big problem. How far should we let the government go when it comes to tracking us? And when you're talking about something like Obamacare, wow, that this next article really starts to come into play.

Craig Peterson 16:48
Even the hacking tools at the NSA had were stolen, right? You know, it's how far can this all go? Well, the island great movie, if you haven't seen it, in the alike side, You've got to see the island. But part of this was that the characters, the primary characters in this movie were monitored 24 seven, they wanted them to be the ultimate of health very, very healthy, and so they were monitoring the urine output of all of the resident. That's something we already do in our space program. Our astronauts that are up in the space station, their urine every time they use the toilet, it is taken a sample of it's taken and it is analyzed. So they know what's happening. Of course, we want to know more details and want to understand space exploration better. And, and that makes a whole lot of sense.

Craig Peterson 17:44
Well, our gear, arguably, our bathrooms are the last bastion of privacy, but it looks like there's a new high tech toilet that's coming our way that's going to track our every movement. We've got the European Space Agency teaming up with MIT and some sanitation specialists to create what's called the FitLoo, loo being British slang for the toilet. And this FitLoo screened human waste for early signs of disease. So they've got data sensors that are sitting there in the toilet bowl to gather information. I'm not sure how far this goes, I don't even want to think about some of it, right? But this really

Craig Peterson 18:34
provides an incredible opportunity for people to gain control of their health. And it's designed initially to go to the doctor when they're sick. So that data isn't it may be captured but it isn't shared with anybody you know, I want to go on and on here but the articles interesting because they're quoting a spokesperson from the toilet board coalition, if you can believe there is such a thing they're quoting the spokesperson is saying, you know, we just don't listen to our bodies. And, and I gotta say, I've seen that in my extended family. I have right now a sister in law who's in the hospital because she wasn't listening to her body is stuff that could have been taking care of a long time ago, but wasn't taking care of, and the toilet listens and free time, right, when we use it. And we flush I guess today it is technically it's not listening. But but it will be listening very soon. So take this and take what I was just mentioning of that website that was hacked, right? The Obamacare website, the government healthcare application site, what's going to happen if there is government controlled medicine even more control than it is right now? Or let's say that the HMM most want to go another step further?

Craig Peterson 20:01
What are they going to do? Look what's happening right now, with cars, I think it's Progressive Insurance will give you a discount, quote-unquote, discount if you put the put this little device into your car. So it links up with the car's computer, and it tracks how many miles you're driving, which of course, is your or their exposure to risk? And how you drive? Are you breaking hard? Are you accelerating harder, you're going around corners hard because the computers record all of us in our cars. And many times the computer data from our cars, the black boxes have been used in court cases to convict people of things. And it was maybe 10 years ago that I talked on this show about giving tickets out, there are, now, tickets being issued because of this data that's being collected. So Progressive says, hey, listen, you can save money, you just plug it in. And of course, I said, quote, save money, unquote, because if you are a bad driver, there's going to be a surcharge on your bill. So with government's involvement in health care with these Hmm. Most involvement with health care, what do you think's going to happen with these types of new toilets that are coming out, right? If if you have a FitLoo? Are they going to come back and say, Hey, listen, you got to stop eating bacon? Or you can have to change your lifestyle in this way. Or that way. Because of what your toilets been recording, right? Good question, isn't it?

Craig Peterson 21:38
So, you know, our privacy is going away a little bit at a time, a lot of bits here and there, frankly, and I think we got to be a lot more careful with it. And what we're allowing people to do with our data. So to that, and I'm not gonna have time to get into this. But there's a great article by Mike Epstein or on life hacker again, you'll find it at http://CraigPeterson.com. But this is how to protect your privacy on LinkedIn. Now, we've, of course, talked about Facebook before and protecting your privacy on Facebook, of course, to a degree, one degree or another, you need to be careful about the data you post on LinkedIn. Microsoft owns LinkedIn now, and they are doing some interesting things when it comes to privacy. We'll kind of leave it at that. But this article goes through in some detail about what you should do, what you shouldn't do what you want to be careful about when you're online with your data sharing and everything. So check that out how to protect your privacy on LinkedIn. That's the number one site for business people for contacts is kind of a social network, certainly not on the order of Facebook as far as a social network goes. But a lot of people use it to find jobs, to find employees, etc, etc. out there.

Craig Peterson 23:12
Now this I I don't know how to how to have everybody understand this, you guys you listen to the show, you're you're smarter than the average bear, you know more about security than the average bear, believe it or not, because if you've been listening regularly, I talk a lot about security. But more than a year after patches were released to thwart these NSA exploit people still have not applied them. So what we're talking about are the tools that our national security agency had developed. And we're using in order to break in and monitor computers. And of course, its design intent was, hey, listen, we have a legal right to monitor these people because of a Pfizer court order or some other court order. So we're going to monitor them. The easiest way to do that is to play some malware on their computers. And once a malware is on their computers will be able to see what they're sending what they're receiving, who they're talking to. The same trick when it comes to your phones, they have some workarounds for your phones. So there were patches that were released by all of the major software vendors that were affected. And of course, who's the major software vendor affected it is, of course, Microsoft and Microsoft Windows. So first, these tools were being used to spread ransomware I remember last summer the huge ransomware attack the knocked off so many businesses completely off the air, including multinational, huge corporation because they did not do the right thing with their security. Thank goodness, we were able to protect all of our clients so I didn't have to deal with it and try and restore from backups. But a lot of people didn't even have a backup. So that was number one use the NSA tools for that ransomware and then it was cryptocurrency mining, they decided they would use your computer to try and find bitcoins and other things in the cryptocurrency realm that they could then use and trade while now researchers are saying that hackers are using the leak tools to create an even bigger malicious proxy network. Now Akamai is the one who just published some of these new findings they see a lot of the internet traffic and they're saying that they're the bad guys are using these NSA tools to take over our routers and send data overseas we know about that we've talked about that here before if you haven't patched your router patch it now if you don't know how to patch your router buy a brand new one okay it's really good just that simple well now they've gone the next step and they're using even more powerful exploits are burrowing

Craig Peterson 26:07
through your router and they're infecting individual computers on your network and then they start spreading within your network so it's pretty bad they're using a couple of these major exploit were stolen from the NSA make sure you update your computer I had someone this week sent me an email asking about how to update How do they know if those patches are legitimate? If you're interested just email [email protected]. I will send you that information that I wrote up just [email protected] about how to tell which updates are legit which ones you should install because a lot of people are very confused about that and that's understandable so the last two articles I'm not really going to be able to get to but you'll find up on my website http://CraigPeterson.com. And if you're on my email list you should have gotten the show notes this morning make sure you subscribe if you haven't because I do keep you up to date. I don't pester you to believe me. This is a lot of great free information. http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe is a way to sign up. http://CraigPeterson.comc/subscribe. You will get my weekly show notes when there's a big hack underway I'll let you know when I'm holding the free master class I'll let you know about that as well and we have master classes coming up on how to do backups how to install patches how to use the free tools in order to keep your home computer safe and the tools you need to keep your businesses safe as well as some master courses which are paid but everything else absolutely free I just want to get this information out so have a great rate week. http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, and we will be back again next week. Take care bye bye.

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Airing date: 11/28/2018

Yubikey - No Password Logins - Staying Safe - Online Shopping

Craig Peterson: 0:00

Hey, good morning everybody. Craig Peterson, here this morning. We talked about Yubikey. Have you heard of this thing? This is going to be a game changer for so many people next year. It's a great security tool. And we also talked a little bit more about some of the things you can do to help keep yourself safe online different than yesterday with Mr. Polito. So here we go with Ken and Matt. 

Unknown 0:28
All right back again. 738 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. Happy to have you with us here again. It's time to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now.

Unknown 0:40
Hey, good morning, gentlemen. That little controversy there not just friendly banter.

Unknown 0:50
Craig. I was tempted to start talking first about the porn watching employee then affected the government networks because that's the most common and I was talking about the Yubikey. And I want to talk to you you about two factor authentication. However, since it is was Cyber Monday, and now it's cyber Wednesday, I think you should give us the chips for online shopping before more people get scammed. So let's start there.

Unknown 1:16
Yeah, it's a big deal can it always has been. And it's more of a deal this year than in past because, again, more people are shopping online. The deals started early. It wasn't just Black Friday, right? That I did shopping on Thanksgiving Day on Wednesday as well. If you guys have been on you notice the deals are kind of everywhere they are.

Unknown 1:38
Yeah, they are indeed.

Unknown 1:40
And there's a lot of money to be saved. You never get how much money I shaved today, honey. But here's the bottom line can when it comes to safety online. There's a few things you need to keep an eye out for. I've got 10 of them up on my website. But the first one that has to do with how pay online there are new ways to pay online. A lot of people aren't aware of Obviously, we've talked for years about skipping the debit card, because if the money stolen for your debit card, it comes right out of your bank account. But now you can pay online on websites, many of them using Apple Pay now. So can you've got an iPhone, you've had them for a long time that you use Apple Pay me at all just Yes. And how do you like it?

Unknown 2:32
Yes, you go wrong. We walk up. You push a button. And it works.

Unknown 2:37
Yeah. And now with your your new phone. It uses the face ID right? To correct her. Right. Yeah. So it's designed to be very safe. So if you go into a merchant, and you buy something, you just hold your phone right up to their card reader, basically. And it verifies who you are using biometrics or your pass code, and it's now gives that merchant transaction ID that they use to get paid from Apple. So the merchant never get your credit card information. They never get any of that information. So it can't be stolen if they don't have it. Well, that same technology now can be used online at various websites. So if you can do use Apple Pay, and then Matt, have you used Samsung Pay before? No, I've actually never used it.

Unknown 3:28
Yeah, it's not as good You're such a homework to go use it right now just to spite you.

Unknown 3:38
But it's something for people to consider, because you don't have to give your credit cards etc. Another thing to consider if you don't have one of these smartphones, is to go ahead and use PayPal, which has a very good record of not having the data stolen from a much better than the vendors and we should, you know, hundreds of vendors as recently inside one of our favorites websites, healthcare.gov just cut preached again, 75,000 people lost all of their information, social security numbers, everything sold by the government. So we know that there's problems with using our information online. That's just a real quick and easy tip for people use PayPal or use Apple Pay or use Samsung Pay when you're online use sites that are sites that you know a little bit about, you know that we've got Secure Site out there. That doesn't mean your data is secure. But you know, shop at the big guys make sure all of your software is up to date before you go online. There's something that I do and Edward Snowden does as well. And that is don't use your regular computer for doing online shopping. If you can, right now, this can get expensive, obviously. But the idea is, if your machines infected, you could lose your banking or other information. So if you can't afford a separate computer, make sure all of your software's patch shop up today. I just had a listener yesterday, reach out, I wrote a little thing for him about how to even make sure that your software is being properly updated, right. But be careful, don't click on links, emails, scan, have good passwords, all the stuff we always talked about, don't use public Wi-Fi, the shopping apps, you know, some of them are good, some of them are bad, basically use apps that the store itself has, if you're going to do a little bit of shopping, and you just all over this very careful don't give them more information than you need to. Because remember, it could be stolen. They don't need necessarily your date of birth or other things. And so only given the data that they need can just keep it simple. Speaking of

Unknown 5:58
only giving things that people need, people are the worst enemy of themselves. I went on a prolonged Facebook re yesterday about that new, that new hack thing that everybody thinks is happening. And all they're doing is getting a message from somebody that says, hey, you've been asked for this message and tell all your friends. And then they're telling all their friends that they've been hacked, even though they haven't done so they spread this thing virally forever, because they are the worst people ever. So my point here is that people are sort of unknowingly spreading stuff and making mistakes and leaving themselves vulnerable and so on and so forth. Which I think dovetails nicely into a security hack I know that you want to talk about that millions of people are actually installing themselves they're they're doing they're doing the work for the hackers for that basically,

Unknown 6:41
ya know, we we are security our computer is better than we have before. Now that's not saying that our computers are properly secured right, but we are doing a better job now the FBI is estimating about 60% in NFC and some other stats say maybe as much as 80 percent of all of the hacks are exactly what you said that it's us being our own worst enemies is clicking on the links that you really shouldn't click on and in this case what we're talking about is these little browser extensions so you go to some website and while that this is really cool extension that you can use for shopping it'll tell you when there's something on that page that's cheaper there's a extensions that give you immediate direct access to Google all of these extensions you know think about it for a second everybody have you installed some of these browser add ons because these extensions are in a prime position for hackers to use against you people are installing them voluntarily they are being used by hackers and the same is true even for simple things like one of the biggest hacks schemes that have been going on for a long time again sorry Matt Android phones with their backgrounds you know wallpaper and wallpaper that was stealing people's contact list and the other information including even banking information so don't install these plugins these add ons these extensions don't download wallpaper if you don't need it don't put it on your phone your device because too many of us are hacking ourselves our computers store the bad guys and don't even realize what we're doing but I like I have a really beautiful wallpaper then I downloaded I got delete it now yeah yeah actually you should but if you're on an iPhone

Unknown 8:49
it's so attractive it's beautiful It's the whole universe and it's in through dm you touch it and it's great

Unknown 8:57
no you depress me I'm we've done a great place on her decks the guru correct Peterson comedy comedy want to get a direct information and I'm going to go on there because you have you have some of the cyber deals on I and I want this is an aside when I was in New Jersey I set up my sister in law's Alexa and i i love it. That was cool. But But and I don't, I gotta find out about all the plugins that she'll turn on your lights for you. But But I don't want talking about that. I want to talk about the Yuba key. Because you know, I'm I mean, I have lots of different passwords, probably not those great ones, and probably haven't changed them enough time. So is there's gonna be something so I don't need to do passwords anymore ever had.

Unknown 9:39
Have you heard of this before?

Unknown 9:40
No, no, no, no, I have not.

Unknown 9:42
Okay, well, they just came out with a new version. Here's what it is. It's a little USB fall. It's just kind of like that some type almost they make them so that they're very small as well. And yes, can it will help you depending on the website. I'm not everybody's supporting this technology right now. But this is part of the whole move towards two factor authentication. And I use USB keys, we everyone in my business uses them whenever we're doing something for one of our clients and what it does in our cases, it provides high levels of encryption, but where it really could help you out here can it and it's not a bad idea to use it because you of course have clients information being an attorney that you don't want to have stolen and I worked with a couple of Law Offices who apparently were hacked by other people maybe law offices that were opposing them in court trying to steal everything that they had about the case it was just amazing the stuff that's gone on but this is a physical token the best security you can have this something you know along with something that you have and that's what you use for it's a new standard that has come out now that these new up keys are supporting called fight out to Microsoft is adopting that Google's adopting

Unknown 11:12
protect people magazine your computer or is it when you go on a website and they asked for your password you it if somehow it's more it's better encryption is

Unknown 11:24
is it's both Okay, so so here's what it can do. You can use the UB key in order to decrypt files on your machine, decrypt your machine give you access to your machine. So if your machines stolen and they don't have you up key and your password, they have no way of getting the data that's on it. So that's one level that you can use you be key for the other one is a password free side where you still have a password on your computer but you only have one to remember. So the idea is it will be a better password and then on top of it. The USB key is used to authenticate you to these websites. So you're no longer have to log in to websites you be key will do it for you. These things started 45 bucks they go up to $60 and this is going to be big next year is going to be very big next year because it will be password less you won't have to have them anymore and all of the major sites are already starting to support it or do support it so it's why you be I why you be IU be key have a look at it.

Unknown 12:35
Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us at this time everyone's day and he made today. no exception to that. So appreciated. Craig, thanks so much for the updates. And we will talk to you again next week.

Unknown 12:45
Hey, gentlemen. Take care. Bye bye.

Unknown 12:47
All right. Craig Peterson.

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10 Cybersecurity Tips for Online Shopping

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 11/28/2018

Yubikey - No Password Logins - Staying Safe - Online Shopping

Craig Peterson: 0:00

Hey, good morning everybody. Craig Peterson, here this morning. We talked about Yubikey. Have you heard of this thing? This is going to be a game changer for so many people next year. It's a great security tool. And we also talked a little bit more about some of the things you can do to help keep yourself safe online different than yesterday with Mr. Polito. So here we go with Ken and Matt. 

Unknown 0:28
All right back again. 738 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. Happy to have you with us here again. It's time to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now.

Unknown 0:40
Hey, good morning, gentlemen. That little controversy there not just friendly banter.

Unknown 0:50
Craig. I was tempted to start talking first about the porn watching employee then affected the government networks because that's the most common and I was talking about the Yubikey. And I want to talk to you you about two factor authentication. However, since it is was Cyber Monday, and now it's cyber Wednesday, I think you should give us the chips for online shopping before more people get scammed. So let's start there.

Unknown 1:16
Yeah, it's a big deal can it always has been. And it's more of a deal this year than in past because, again, more people are shopping online. The deals started early. It wasn't just Black Friday, right? That I did shopping on Thanksgiving Day on Wednesday as well. If you guys have been on you notice the deals are kind of everywhere they are.

Unknown 1:38
Yeah, they are indeed.

Unknown 1:40
And there's a lot of money to be saved. You never get how much money I shaved today, honey. But here's the bottom line can when it comes to safety online. There's a few things you need to keep an eye out for. I've got 10 of them up on my website. But the first one that has to do with how pay online there are new ways to pay online. A lot of people aren't aware of Obviously, we've talked for years about skipping the debit card, because if the money stolen for your debit card, it comes right out of your bank account. But now you can pay online on websites, many of them using Apple Pay now. So can you've got an iPhone, you've had them for a long time that you use Apple Pay me at all just Yes. And how do you like it?

Unknown 2:32
Yes, you go wrong. We walk up. You push a button. And it works.

Unknown 2:37
Yeah. And now with your your new phone. It uses the face ID right? To correct her. Right. Yeah. So it's designed to be very safe. So if you go into a merchant, and you buy something, you just hold your phone right up to their card reader, basically. And it verifies who you are using biometrics or your pass code, and it's now gives that merchant transaction ID that they use to get paid from Apple. So the merchant never get your credit card information. They never get any of that information. So it can't be stolen if they don't have it. Well, that same technology now can be used online at various websites. So if you can do use Apple Pay, and then Matt, have you used Samsung Pay before? No, I've actually never used it.

Unknown 3:28
Yeah, it's not as good You're such a homework to go use it right now just to spite you.

Unknown 3:38
But it's something for people to consider, because you don't have to give your credit cards etc. Another thing to consider if you don't have one of these smartphones, is to go ahead and use PayPal, which has a very good record of not having the data stolen from a much better than the vendors and we should, you know, hundreds of vendors as recently inside one of our favorites websites, healthcare.gov just cut preached again, 75,000 people lost all of their information, social security numbers, everything sold by the government. So we know that there's problems with using our information online. That's just a real quick and easy tip for people use PayPal or use Apple Pay or use Samsung Pay when you're online use sites that are sites that you know a little bit about, you know that we've got Secure Site out there. That doesn't mean your data is secure. But you know, shop at the big guys make sure all of your software is up to date before you go online. There's something that I do and Edward Snowden does as well. And that is don't use your regular computer for doing online shopping. If you can, right now, this can get expensive, obviously. But the idea is, if your machines infected, you could lose your banking or other information. So if you can't afford a separate computer, make sure all of your software's patch shop up today. I just had a listener yesterday, reach out, I wrote a little thing for him about how to even make sure that your software is being properly updated, right. But be careful, don't click on links, emails, scan, have good passwords, all the stuff we always talked about, don't use public Wi-Fi, the shopping apps, you know, some of them are good, some of them are bad, basically use apps that the store itself has, if you're going to do a little bit of shopping, and you just all over this very careful don't give them more information than you need to. Because remember, it could be stolen. They don't need necessarily your date of birth or other things. And so only given the data that they need can just keep it simple. Speaking of

Unknown 5:58
only giving things that people need, people are the worst enemy of themselves. I went on a prolonged Facebook re yesterday about that new, that new hack thing that everybody thinks is happening. And all they're doing is getting a message from somebody that says, hey, you've been asked for this message and tell all your friends. And then they're telling all their friends that they've been hacked, even though they haven't done so they spread this thing virally forever, because they are the worst people ever. So my point here is that people are sort of unknowingly spreading stuff and making mistakes and leaving themselves vulnerable and so on and so forth. Which I think dovetails nicely into a security hack I know that you want to talk about that millions of people are actually installing themselves they're they're doing they're doing the work for the hackers for that basically,

Unknown 6:41
ya know, we we are security our computer is better than we have before. Now that's not saying that our computers are properly secured right, but we are doing a better job now the FBI is estimating about 60% in NFC and some other stats say maybe as much as 80 percent of all of the hacks are exactly what you said that it's us being our own worst enemies is clicking on the links that you really shouldn't click on and in this case what we're talking about is these little browser extensions so you go to some website and while that this is really cool extension that you can use for shopping it'll tell you when there's something on that page that's cheaper there's a extensions that give you immediate direct access to Google all of these extensions you know think about it for a second everybody have you installed some of these browser add ons because these extensions are in a prime position for hackers to use against you people are installing them voluntarily they are being used by hackers and the same is true even for simple things like one of the biggest hacks schemes that have been going on for a long time again sorry Matt Android phones with their backgrounds you know wallpaper and wallpaper that was stealing people's contact list and the other information including even banking information so don't install these plugins these add ons these extensions don't download wallpaper if you don't need it don't put it on your phone your device because too many of us are hacking ourselves our computers store the bad guys and don't even realize what we're doing but I like I have a really beautiful wallpaper then I downloaded I got delete it now yeah yeah actually you should but if you're on an iPhone

Unknown 8:49
it's so attractive it's beautiful It's the whole universe and it's in through dm you touch it and it's great

Unknown 8:57
no you depress me I'm we've done a great place on her decks the guru correct Peterson comedy comedy want to get a direct information and I'm going to go on there because you have you have some of the cyber deals on I and I want this is an aside when I was in New Jersey I set up my sister in law's Alexa and i i love it. That was cool. But But and I don't, I gotta find out about all the plugins that she'll turn on your lights for you. But But I don't want talking about that. I want to talk about the Yuba key. Because you know, I'm I mean, I have lots of different passwords, probably not those great ones, and probably haven't changed them enough time. So is there's gonna be something so I don't need to do passwords anymore ever had.

Unknown 9:39
Have you heard of this before?

Unknown 9:40
No, no, no, no, I have not.

Unknown 9:42
Okay, well, they just came out with a new version. Here's what it is. It's a little USB fall. It's just kind of like that some type almost they make them so that they're very small as well. And yes, can it will help you depending on the website. I'm not everybody's supporting this technology right now. But this is part of the whole move towards two factor authentication. And I use USB keys, we everyone in my business uses them whenever we're doing something for one of our clients and what it does in our cases, it provides high levels of encryption, but where it really could help you out here can it and it's not a bad idea to use it because you of course have clients information being an attorney that you don't want to have stolen and I worked with a couple of Law Offices who apparently were hacked by other people maybe law offices that were opposing them in court trying to steal everything that they had about the case it was just amazing the stuff that's gone on but this is a physical token the best security you can have this something you know along with something that you have and that's what you use for it's a new standard that has come out now that these new up keys are supporting called fight out to Microsoft is adopting that Google's adopting

Unknown 11:12
protect people magazine your computer or is it when you go on a website and they asked for your password you it if somehow it's more it's better encryption is

Unknown 11:24
is it's both Okay, so so here's what it can do. You can use the UB key in order to decrypt files on your machine, decrypt your machine give you access to your machine. So if your machines stolen and they don't have you up key and your password, they have no way of getting the data that's on it. So that's one level that you can use you be key for the other one is a password free side where you still have a password on your computer but you only have one to remember. So the idea is it will be a better password and then on top of it. The USB key is used to authenticate you to these websites. So you're no longer have to log in to websites you be key will do it for you. These things started 45 bucks they go up to $60 and this is going to be big next year is going to be very big next year because it will be password less you won't have to have them anymore and all of the major sites are already starting to support it or do support it so it's why you be I why you be IU be key have a look at it.

Unknown 12:35
Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us at this time everyone's day and he made today. no exception to that. So appreciated. Craig, thanks so much for the updates. And we will talk to you again next week.

Unknown 12:45
Hey, gentlemen. Take care. Bye bye.

Unknown 12:47
All right. Craig Peterson.

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Craig is on with Jim on the Jim Polito show as they talked about how to shop online safely securely especially during the holidays as well as a recent breach on the Healthcare.gov website by a porn-watching employee.

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 11/27/2018

How To Use Cash Online - Secure Shopping Tips - Govt Employee Watching Porn Infected Network Russian Malware

Craig Peterson: 0:00

Hey everybody. Craig Peterson here this morning I talked about how to use cash online. Did you know you can do that for this shopping season. Little bit of a safety tip there and go into some detail about it all. I think you will enjoy my conversation with Mr. Jim Polito, hope you had a great Thanksgiving. And this shopping season is going wild. And of course, the holidays, get together with some family. Get together. Some friends. Just just have a great time. That's what I really enjoy about this time of year. And frankly, most of the year I guess that's one of the advantage to having a kids there's always a birthday going on. All right here we go with Jim.

Unknown 0:42
He is always here on Tuesdays. But we appreciate he was here last Friday, Black Friday with a lot of great advice about getting the best deals will now he's here today to tell us a couple of things. One, we'll start with that how to protect yourself while shopping online. Yes, Cyber Monday isn't over yet. Joining us now. Our Tech Talk guru and good friend Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Unknown 1:10
Good morning, Jim. No, you're right. It is not just Black Friday or Cyber Monday anymore. Now. It's a whole season. It actually started within a week ago. All of last week. You saw to keep seeing them until the end of the year. This year.

Unknown 1:26
Yeah. And I would imagine, you know, like everything else when people are out in the streets in the old days, and they were going Christmas shopping and most of them Ed cash. You know, the pickpockets were out in force. Well, now we're all out there online with our credit or debit cards buying and I imagine the modern day pickpockets are all out there

Unknown 1:52
where they are in the world, frankly, in the online space. If really you want to send passionate use credit cards. And other thing I was that way for a long time. Jim I went to almost 20 years without a credit card. And for about five years of those I have a debit card. And then I finally came late. There are some ways that you can spend cash online nowadays that have come into a bit more popularity rightfully Jim. Wow. One of them. Yeah. Did you know that?

Unknown 2:26
I hadn't. Craig No idea. We better give this. This just in in the Jim Polito show newsroom. You can shop online with cash. Here's special correspondent Craig Peterson. Craig.

Unknown 2:42
Hey, good morning, Jim. We've got news coming out of Washington talking about how the government's putting their fingers in your pockets in many more ways than they ever have before.

Unknown 2:52
So how do you use I never heard this how to use cash online.

Unknown 2:56
Yeah, this is very interesting. A lot of people know about a hotel. And many people have PayPal account. Yeah, but did you know with PayPal, the first of all, their security has been extraordinary. Their record of keeping your data safe is incredible. But PayPal allows you to deposit money into a case how account kind of like a bank, all all of your money there is protected as well, which is really kind of nice. At least you know, to what degree PayPal has a better record for safety than most banks who was well, so that's one way you can do what you can also link your PayPal account into a bank account. And if you're going to do that, in order to really just kind of use cash, you don't want the credit card, make sure you open a separate bank account for you transfer some funds into your PayPal bank account. And then you can use PayPal online. And then Apple has a new way for you to send and receive and even family cash on line with Apple Pay. Now, if you have a more recent Apple phone, you'll find that that phone has the ability now to use up near field communications to use Apple Pay. And you can send people money. For instance, your kiddos you're 25 show or your kids calling you from his phone, because he's trying to buy gas somewhere. And he does Yeah, because, you know, you can stand with using your Apple phone. And there are some Android apps for this as well. But I really liked the way Apple does this, you can send him money right in a text message, it goes immediately to him. And now he can use that at the gas station using Apple Pay. So there are ways to not have a credit card now to tie them into bank accounts. Or even with Apple Pay. And Samsung Pay has some of these features as well to maintain cash balances with Apple that you can use to pay and you can use these apps websites. Now more and more as a website you go to, if they have an Apple Pay option is the safest way to spend money online. And all you have to do now is you go to the website, you have to be on your Apple browser. Yeah, you're on safari playing on your Apple Computer, and you go to check out and you select Apple Pay. Now what will happen is it will come up on your phone, it'll use either your phone's pass code, or your face ID, or your thumbprint. Some biometric verify, you do want to pay and you can pay using pairs that you put into your app. Or you can pay using a bank account, or you can pay using a credit card and the vendor that you're buying from never gets your banking information. So your banking information is completely protected. And all you're doing is no different than going up to a cat year and giving cash. It's the virtual basically equivalent of that. Yeah,

Unknown 6:06
yeah, it really yeah. And you don't need a credit card. For any of this, you, you don't need to use a debit card, which you should not be using online, you should not use debit card. But again, you can use Apple Pay to protect your debit card, which is really nice. All the merchant get when you buy something from them is a verified transaction, IP. And that's it. And that they don't have information about you unless you give it to them.

Unknown 6:34
Right. So I don't have to worry, the bottom line is I don't have to worry about this organization being hacked that that be, you know, and then and then finding out a year later, like they always do, oh, by the way, we got hacked. And all of this information came out, like the credit like them, the credit monitoring services, you know, whoa, oh, we got hacked when about a year ago. You know, that's, that's great. That's, that's very, very interesting. And that is the way we're talking with Greg Peterson, our tech talk guru, great guy, and at the end of this segment will give you a number the text My name to it, Craig will get you on his list. And you'll get all of this information plus more and standard data and text rates apply. So you really want to skip the debit card, you want to shop secure sites only. How do I know if a site is secure?

Unknown 7:32
So big trick, right? You saw this, this this one here. But if you don't healthcare.gov got breached?

Unknown 7:40
Really. Really?

Unknown 7:41
Yeah.

Unknown 7:43
Well, listen, wasn't that the plan? Wasn't that the plan where I could keep my doctor keep my insurance and save 20, $500 a year? So I'm not surprised that it kept preached?

Unknown 7:55
Yeah, well, you know, it was so cheap, they just didn't have the money that have shared all that. That's what happened

Unknown 8:04
that gov is considered to be a secure site now at that, frankly, is a misnomer. Jeff. Yeah. Because all Secure Site means is that there is encrypted data between you and the site. So if the web URL as they asked, that means that you are probably talking to the website you think you're talking to, and that your data is secure. But that doesn't mean that once it gets there, that whatever the site is, is actually going to be able to keep your data safe. So bit of a misnomer, but it's kind of the low with far. But look for that little lock up on your web browser when you visit.

Unknown 8:47
And I guess you would say that it's time to beef up the passwords. That's an important thing, right?

Unknown 8:54
Yeah, absolutely is you should be using a different password for every way. I use different email addresses for almost every website out there as well. Use a good password generator. my number one recommendation is one password. And this might be a great little New Year's resolution for everyone. But certainly a great shopping resolution, one password and last pass in the other one says the digit one password, it's a little bit more sensitive, it is great for businesses, it's great for teams. And the last pass all one word last pass works well for individuals works well for team and you can get pre versions. Both of those are going to help you select good passwords and remember them as you go from ISIS like problem stuff that people write them down. I

Unknown 9:51
quickly before we go. I mean, I know I've seen reports in the past on the number of federal employees viewing adult material at work, and for how long they were viewing them the hours. But the problem is, we had one particular I'll say guy watching adult material, which basically invited the Russians into our computer systems, correct?

Unknown 10:22
Yeah, absolutely. This is a good lesson for everyone. If you're at work, only use work related web because in this case, it was on government employee at the US Geological Survey, he had apparently visited some 9000 adult websites, videos, site 9000, that one guy alone, he was downloading essentially malware, right? He was going to the site is grabbing porn. He was putting on a thumb drive on his Android cell phone plan. It's amazing, isn't it. And the auditors found that that his fitness source of some Russian malware that had Greg throughout the US Geological surveys network and computers, it was a forensic investigation that lasted a while. But we've got to remember as business people, you have to have standards in place that they the employees don't use any of these other sites as the standard because people don't always pay attention to what's new employee handbook when you have to be told not to look at porn at work. I mean, I think there's a greater issue there.

Unknown 11:40
It's almost like the you know, when you see the commercial and it says, stunt man, do not attempt this at home. Of course, I'm not going to jump off a bridge. But you know, when you have to say, hey, by the way, don't look at porn at work, and is a bigger issue there. Anyway, Craig, the number, please, that folks can text my name to J.I.M, Jim and get this information.

Unknown 12:07
855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553.

Unknown 12:16
That's great. And standard data and text rates apply. Craig will not bother. You will not pester you will not hack you and Craig Thank you so much. This is a this was a great segment.

Unknown 12:28
Hey, thanks again. Take care. Take care.

Unknown 12:31
Craig Peterson everybody. Don't go anywhere. Final word when we return.

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Craig is on with Jim on the Jim Polito show as they talked about how to shop online safely securely especially during the holidays as well as a recent breach on the Healthcare.gov website by a porn-watching employee.

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 11/27/2018

How To Use Cash Online - Secure Shopping Tips - Govt Employee Watching Porn Infected Network Russian Malware

Craig Peterson: 0:00

Hey everybody. Craig Peterson here this morning I talked about how to use cash online. Did you know you can do that for this shopping season. Little bit of a safety tip there and go into some detail about it all. I think you will enjoy my conversation with Mr. Jim Polito, hope you had a great Thanksgiving. And this shopping season is going wild. And of course, the holidays, get together with some family. Get together. Some friends. Just just have a great time. That's what I really enjoy about this time of year. And frankly, most of the year I guess that's one of the advantage to having a kids there's always a birthday going on. All right here we go with Jim.

Unknown 0:42
He is always here on Tuesdays. But we appreciate he was here last Friday, Black Friday with a lot of great advice about getting the best deals will now he's here today to tell us a couple of things. One, we'll start with that how to protect yourself while shopping online. Yes, Cyber Monday isn't over yet. Joining us now. Our Tech Talk guru and good friend Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Unknown 1:10
Good morning, Jim. No, you're right. It is not just Black Friday or Cyber Monday anymore. Now. It's a whole season. It actually started within a week ago. All of last week. You saw to keep seeing them until the end of the year. This year.

Unknown 1:26
Yeah. And I would imagine, you know, like everything else when people are out in the streets in the old days, and they were going Christmas shopping and most of them Ed cash. You know, the pickpockets were out in force. Well, now we're all out there online with our credit or debit cards buying and I imagine the modern day pickpockets are all out there

Unknown 1:52
where they are in the world, frankly, in the online space. If really you want to send passionate use credit cards. And other thing I was that way for a long time. Jim I went to almost 20 years without a credit card. And for about five years of those I have a debit card. And then I finally came late. There are some ways that you can spend cash online nowadays that have come into a bit more popularity rightfully Jim. Wow. One of them. Yeah. Did you know that?

Unknown 2:26
I hadn't. Craig No idea. We better give this. This just in in the Jim Polito show newsroom. You can shop online with cash. Here's special correspondent Craig Peterson. Craig.

Unknown 2:42
Hey, good morning, Jim. We've got news coming out of Washington talking about how the government's putting their fingers in your pockets in many more ways than they ever have before.

Unknown 2:52
So how do you use I never heard this how to use cash online.

Unknown 2:56
Yeah, this is very interesting. A lot of people know about a hotel. And many people have PayPal account. Yeah, but did you know with PayPal, the first of all, their security has been extraordinary. Their record of keeping your data safe is incredible. But PayPal allows you to deposit money into a case how account kind of like a bank, all all of your money there is protected as well, which is really kind of nice. At least you know, to what degree PayPal has a better record for safety than most banks who was well, so that's one way you can do what you can also link your PayPal account into a bank account. And if you're going to do that, in order to really just kind of use cash, you don't want the credit card, make sure you open a separate bank account for you transfer some funds into your PayPal bank account. And then you can use PayPal online. And then Apple has a new way for you to send and receive and even family cash on line with Apple Pay. Now, if you have a more recent Apple phone, you'll find that that phone has the ability now to use up near field communications to use Apple Pay. And you can send people money. For instance, your kiddos you're 25 show or your kids calling you from his phone, because he's trying to buy gas somewhere. And he does Yeah, because, you know, you can stand with using your Apple phone. And there are some Android apps for this as well. But I really liked the way Apple does this, you can send him money right in a text message, it goes immediately to him. And now he can use that at the gas station using Apple Pay. So there are ways to not have a credit card now to tie them into bank accounts. Or even with Apple Pay. And Samsung Pay has some of these features as well to maintain cash balances with Apple that you can use to pay and you can use these apps websites. Now more and more as a website you go to, if they have an Apple Pay option is the safest way to spend money online. And all you have to do now is you go to the website, you have to be on your Apple browser. Yeah, you're on safari playing on your Apple Computer, and you go to check out and you select Apple Pay. Now what will happen is it will come up on your phone, it'll use either your phone's pass code, or your face ID, or your thumbprint. Some biometric verify, you do want to pay and you can pay using pairs that you put into your app. Or you can pay using a bank account, or you can pay using a credit card and the vendor that you're buying from never gets your banking information. So your banking information is completely protected. And all you're doing is no different than going up to a cat year and giving cash. It's the virtual basically equivalent of that. Yeah,

Unknown 6:06
yeah, it really yeah. And you don't need a credit card. For any of this, you, you don't need to use a debit card, which you should not be using online, you should not use debit card. But again, you can use Apple Pay to protect your debit card, which is really nice. All the merchant get when you buy something from them is a verified transaction, IP. And that's it. And that they don't have information about you unless you give it to them.

Unknown 6:34
Right. So I don't have to worry, the bottom line is I don't have to worry about this organization being hacked that that be, you know, and then and then finding out a year later, like they always do, oh, by the way, we got hacked. And all of this information came out, like the credit like them, the credit monitoring services, you know, whoa, oh, we got hacked when about a year ago. You know, that's, that's great. That's, that's very, very interesting. And that is the way we're talking with Greg Peterson, our tech talk guru, great guy, and at the end of this segment will give you a number the text My name to it, Craig will get you on his list. And you'll get all of this information plus more and standard data and text rates apply. So you really want to skip the debit card, you want to shop secure sites only. How do I know if a site is secure?

Unknown 7:32
So big trick, right? You saw this, this this one here. But if you don't healthcare.gov got breached?

Unknown 7:40
Really. Really?

Unknown 7:41
Yeah.

Unknown 7:43
Well, listen, wasn't that the plan? Wasn't that the plan where I could keep my doctor keep my insurance and save 20, $500 a year? So I'm not surprised that it kept preached?

Unknown 7:55
Yeah, well, you know, it was so cheap, they just didn't have the money that have shared all that. That's what happened

Unknown 8:04
that gov is considered to be a secure site now at that, frankly, is a misnomer. Jeff. Yeah. Because all Secure Site means is that there is encrypted data between you and the site. So if the web URL as they asked, that means that you are probably talking to the website you think you're talking to, and that your data is secure. But that doesn't mean that once it gets there, that whatever the site is, is actually going to be able to keep your data safe. So bit of a misnomer, but it's kind of the low with far. But look for that little lock up on your web browser when you visit.

Unknown 8:47
And I guess you would say that it's time to beef up the passwords. That's an important thing, right?

Unknown 8:54
Yeah, absolutely is you should be using a different password for every way. I use different email addresses for almost every website out there as well. Use a good password generator. my number one recommendation is one password. And this might be a great little New Year's resolution for everyone. But certainly a great shopping resolution, one password and last pass in the other one says the digit one password, it's a little bit more sensitive, it is great for businesses, it's great for teams. And the last pass all one word last pass works well for individuals works well for team and you can get pre versions. Both of those are going to help you select good passwords and remember them as you go from ISIS like problem stuff that people write them down. I

Unknown 9:51
quickly before we go. I mean, I know I've seen reports in the past on the number of federal employees viewing adult material at work, and for how long they were viewing them the hours. But the problem is, we had one particular I'll say guy watching adult material, which basically invited the Russians into our computer systems, correct?

Unknown 10:22
Yeah, absolutely. This is a good lesson for everyone. If you're at work, only use work related web because in this case, it was on government employee at the US Geological Survey, he had apparently visited some 9000 adult websites, videos, site 9000, that one guy alone, he was downloading essentially malware, right? He was going to the site is grabbing porn. He was putting on a thumb drive on his Android cell phone plan. It's amazing, isn't it. And the auditors found that that his fitness source of some Russian malware that had Greg throughout the US Geological surveys network and computers, it was a forensic investigation that lasted a while. But we've got to remember as business people, you have to have standards in place that they the employees don't use any of these other sites as the standard because people don't always pay attention to what's new employee handbook when you have to be told not to look at porn at work. I mean, I think there's a greater issue there.

Unknown 11:40
It's almost like the you know, when you see the commercial and it says, stunt man, do not attempt this at home. Of course, I'm not going to jump off a bridge. But you know, when you have to say, hey, by the way, don't look at porn at work, and is a bigger issue there. Anyway, Craig, the number, please, that folks can text my name to J.I.M, Jim and get this information.

Unknown 12:07
855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553.

Unknown 12:16
That's great. And standard data and text rates apply. Craig will not bother. You will not pester you will not hack you and Craig Thank you so much. This is a this was a great segment.

Unknown 12:28
Hey, thanks again. Take care. Take care.

Unknown 12:31
Craig Peterson everybody. Don't go anywhere. Final word when we return.

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Don't miss any episode from Craig. Visit http://CraigPeterson.com/itunes. Subscribe and give us a rating!

Thanks, everyone, for listening and sharing our podcasts. We're really hitting it out of the park. This will be a great year! 

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