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Have you had problems with a keyboard on your Mac?  If so, listen in as I discuss with Ken and Matt the design issues that cause it and what Apple is doing about it.

It's Apple Announcement day.  Ken and Matt and I talk about why there is not much innovation!  Just some new incremental improvements.

Did you know that even in this day and age -- Employees are sharing Passwords.  I explain to Matt and Ken why this is a practice that MUST stop.

Craig is putting up a new insider site (Yes, it is free, but you have to sign up)  On it will have all his special reports that he puts out and you will be the first to get them.

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: 09/12/2018

Poor Design is causing Mac Keyboard. Apple Announcements. Don't Share Email Passwords. 

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Howdy, Howdy, everybody. Craig Peterson, here. I was on this morning with Ken and Matt and we talked about a couple of different things. We talked about the Segway drift e-skate. Are these things, maybe, finally going to get Segway fully on the map. More about the business email fraud attacks and some of the things that go on there. What you have to watch for in your business when employees, maybe they're sharing their e-mails, maybe they're trying to do a couple of things they shouldn't do. And of course, a couple more things you never get away free with Ken and Matt. But, this morning they were a little bit more talkative, which is good. I tried to make them talk as opposed to just having me lecture them. You know, it's I don't know if you ever been in a studio before when our shows live like this, but if you have a guest like me that you know and you know can handle the whole segment by themselves with no problem oftentimes that's the time when you eat the donut or get the coffee or do more research for your next segment. So, I don't know if I did them a favor or if they're mad at me now, cause I made them respond to me in the middle of the segment, a few times. Anyway. I should mention that if you've had problems with a mac keyboard, one of these Mac Pro keyboards, boy they've been a real problem for a lot of people, and I talk with Ken about that as well, because his mac keyboard, kind of failed on him and he ended up having to leave it at the Apple store for a while. So 

[00:01:31] We talk about that as well. The Apple keyboard and the Apple announcement coming up today. 

[00:01:39] Ok, we're back again. It is 737 on the WGAN morning news, here on a Wednesday morning. Good morning to you. Ken and Matt here, and so is Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us at this time every Wednesday. Craig, how are you this morning? 

[00:01:52] Good morning y'all. 

[00:01:54] Y'all, are you down in Texas you must be down South somewhere. 

[00:01:59] No, Southern Maine in the south y'all. Y'all, all y'all both. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

[00:02:08] It's a word. I'm from Oklahoma and I know it's word. I never thought y'all was a friend of mine. You know you do. Do I understand that Apple's 'gonna have an announcement today, by the way, are they doing there. We could hear something new from Apple today, by the way.

[00:02:26] Yeah, you heard about that. I did 

[00:02:28] Yeah, there isn't a lot of rumors out there about that there company. Yeah, here's here's what we expect. Apple has been kind of sitting on their hands when it comes to a couple of their products. One of them is their Little Mac Mini, which I use. I use one in my studio. There great little devices, but it really hasn't been updated in years. Their Mac Pro has not been updated since 2013, and I have one those as well. So, we are hoping they're going to start making some announcements about that. Although the Mac Pro looks like it will probably be next year. But on top of that, they are going to have some phone announcements and those are going to be interesting. I'll be on top of that, we can talk about it more next week. But, they are expected to come up with a lower-priced iPhone. Which is going to be good for a lot of people that want an iPhone. Basically, want the reliability and the security, and they are talking about some of the rumors have them using both thumbprint and the face scanner on some of the phones. So it's going to be an interesting day. There's a lot of potential announcements, Apple might come up with. And I think one of the most interesting things is like you remember the iPhone. What was the Six SE?

[00:03:51] Which was the lower price phone that they came up with. 

[00:03:56] And, it didn't do very well in the market, but apparently they're planning on doing something similar with the iPhone 10 having an inexpensive version of it. So, we'll see if that does any good or not. But, yeah that will be coming up, midday today as Apple has all of their fall announcements.

[00:04:15] By the way, I should mention I have a MacbookPro that I just got about a year and a half ago and I had I had a horrible experience. And, I, you know I love Macs. But the key point your keys were falling off right and left, I brought it in and they replaced one and, then I had a guy in the Genius Bar who I happen to know, who said to me you know it's not really publicly known but they're replacing keyboards because they're really defective. So, and I think they had it for 10 days not me not having my computer for ten days. Like going through a heroin withdrawal. But, just like a divorce. Yes, exactly right but it's not. It wasn't really publicly known that these keyboards really defective. Oh yeah. 

[00:05:00] It's called the butterfly keyboard and it has to do with the mechanism and the keyboard. Now, Apple has been telling people that, you know if your keyboard isn't working properly, it's because you got food or something into the keyboard and technically, they're right because anything even two fat keyboards fail. Its frankly, between us, it's a bad design. And Apple has come to recognize that it's a bad design enough that their new MacBook Pro has a keyboard that has one little difference in it which is enough to keep all of the dust and crumbs from food out of the keyboard. So, in other words, they recognized its a problem, they fix the problem, but they are not usually very helpful about replacing your keyboards for free when they fail. So, I tend to think that it really is a design problem. Apple should replace all of them. I suspect eventually may end up replacing all of those keyboards. But there's you know about a year and a half, two years, where you got to be really careful with those keyboards because almost anything will make this silly thing fail, Ken. So, you're not imagining things and your genius friend is not either. 

[00:06:19] It is a real problem is getting reported all over the place we're talking to Craig Peterson our tech guru who joins us at this time every Wednesday to give us an eye on the world of technology. Do people share passwords?

[00:06:34] Yeah. They still do. Who falls for that in this day and age. Are these the same people that have joint Facebook accounts? You know like Tom and You know Jane. 

[00:06:42] Yeah, yeah, exactly. This is silly in this day and age. You'd think you'd know better. But this is true in a lot of small businesses, like Ken and Matt, you guys both have small offices, right.

[00:06:54] Right. And that means you've got a couple of people working there, a few people a handful, and in most cases, everybody knows everybody. 

[00:07:03] What could possibly go wrong? I'm going to be on vacation next week. Here's my password. So, somebody if someone e-mails. You can go ahead and follow up with them. Well, in this day and age, we've got this huge problem of business email compromise and the FBI came up with a new number on this, and they're showing now that we're over. This is crazy. Guys, I hope you sitting down, in the last two years more than 12 billion dollars has been stolen from small businesses. Cash was stolen -- 12 billion of it. It's incredible when you think about it. One of the things companies are doing their people are doing is sharing their e-mail passwords. This just makes it that much easier for the bad guys to get at your money. And here's what they're doing with a business e-mail compromise and we're seeing it all the time we keep getting called into companies saying something weird is going on with my e-mail. So, we come in we have a closer look and we find out, yes, you've been hacked. So, when you're going on vacation, people, do not share your passwords. Which means in advance of people being out for the day or on vacation, If you have an account for, let's say you've got somebody who is responsible for billing, or payroll or sales, or whatever it might be, Do not have a single e-mail account that people send the mail to in other words you don't send mail to Joan in accounting. 

[00:08:46] Ok, you send mail to town team and have accounting set up not as a shared mailbox but have accounting set up. So, Joan has an e-mail box that gets all of the accounting e-mails anything sent to accounting. That way when Joan goes on vacation John can go ahead and get those accounting e-mails delivered to him. Do not share them, take my word for it. We could go to a lot of detail on this. But there are a lot of reasons not to share passwords. You don't know if you are familiar with this Stat here, Matt, but we're talking about a lot of people. One in five employees on average, according to a new survey that just came out, of switch fast, one in five employees are sharing their e-mail passwords with co-workers. That's absolutely huge. When we're talking about small to medium business getting hit with nearly 4000 cyber attacks per day. 

[00:09:49] It's crazy. And, if you're in a couple of businesses, you guys know anybody that's in real estate, of course. Yeah, the number of attacks against real estate offices, small real estate offices, e-mail attacks has increased 1000 percent in the last year. 1000 percent and other categories of small businesses are up 400-500 percent and on average over everyone is up 25 percent. So, Matt, don't let your employees, Ken same things don't share e-mail passwords, get your e-mail set up the right way. Do not use shared e-mail boxes, either because you can't tell who did what? When did it happen? And, the biggest problem is, if you get an email from "quote" the CEO asking to have a vendor paid double check with the CEO. Make a phone call to them. make sure really is the CEO. Make sure she really did want to have that money transferred. Because nowadays it's almost as likely, that it's a scammer doing it, so be careful. Pay attention. It's not just anti-virus anymore, you've got to have just layers upon layers of security and people need to pay a lot more attention than we used to.

[00:11:12] We are talking to Craig Peterson, our Tech guru, who joins us Wednesdays at 730 and on Craig Peterson dot com and get all the information anytime you want. You know I've always wanted a Segway, and I've never gotten one, but it is now a Segway e-skate. So, I can have a hovercraft like Back to the Future. They promised us to have a hovercraft. Never. This is exciting news. 

[00:11:36] Yeah, that was a few years ago was supposed to be out. Yeah, this is kind of cool, because it's our neighbor, of course, to the west in New Hampshire in Manchester New Hampshire. Dean Kamen started the whole Segway thing and boy was that a big P.R. push. But Segway has come up with something that's better, even cheaper now within about a 300 dollar price point. You can get skates. Now, these are not rollerskates, OK. You don't strap these things onto your feet, but you stand on them, they've got nice wide wheels on them. They look like they would be pretty good for maybe a warehouse or someplace that doesn't have a lot of curbs or bumps or anything. But you just stand on these things and basically balance. If you can keep your balance standing on one foot. I would say, this is my opinion if you can stand on one foot and mostly keep your balance you'll do fine on these things. So you just stand on them and lean forward a little bit to go forward and you lean back to go backwards. You can step off of them very easily if you start to lose your balance you step off of one of them and they'll stop going forward. So, it's yet another Segway which is kind of cool. These things will go up to seven and a half miles per hour, which is kind of cool. Kind of scary, all at the same time. But you know kind of bicycle speeds, not race in a bicycle but a nice little place down the road. And they're hoping that these new little what they're calling drift e-skates are going to finally be one of the general popular populous adopts. Because instead of Costing you five grand these costs about 300 and they should be out very soon now. So, we might even see some in some stores by Christmas, this year.

[00:13:29] Wow. All right Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us at this time every Wednesday. Appreciate it, Craig. We're going to talk to you again next week.

[00:13:37] Gentlemen, take care. Bye-bye. Thanks. 

[00:13:40] Now his plan on making September here my nugget month is going to be releasing these little nugget videos that were very to the point nice and short talking about some of the main things that you should be doing and being aware of as a business person. But, I have had so many new clients that I just haven't had the time to do them. So I've been taking care of my clients I guess that's why I have to put the priority right. The people that are already paying me and everybody else we'll get to it. OK. I just haven't had the time. I have to apologize. But keep an eye out. I still plan on getting those nuggets going here within the next week. So, take care. And we will be back on Saturday, with my regularly scheduled Saturday radio show. 

[00:14:27] Take care. Have a great day and the rest of the week.

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Have you had problems with a keyboard on your Mac?  If so, listen in as I discuss with Ken and Matt the design issues that cause it and what Apple is doing about it.

It's Apple Announcement day.  Ken and Matt and I talk about why there is not much innovation!  Just some new incremental improvements.

Did you know that even in this day and age -- Employees are sharing Passwords.  I explain to Matt and Ken why this is a practice that MUST stop.

Craig is putting up a new insider site (Yes, it is free, but you have to sign up)  On it will have all his special reports that he puts out and you will be the first to get them.

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

---

Related Articles:

You’re Not Alone If Your Share Your Email Password – But There Are Hidden Dangers

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 09/12/2018

Poor Design is causing Mac Keyboard. Apple Announcements. Don't Share Email Passwords. 

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Howdy, Howdy, everybody. Craig Peterson, here. I was on this morning with Ken and Matt and we talked about a couple of different things. We talked about the Segway drift e-skate. Are these things, maybe, finally going to get Segway fully on the map. More about the business email fraud attacks and some of the things that go on there. What you have to watch for in your business when employees, maybe they're sharing their e-mails, maybe they're trying to do a couple of things they shouldn't do. And of course, a couple more things you never get away free with Ken and Matt. But, this morning they were a little bit more talkative, which is good. I tried to make them talk as opposed to just having me lecture them. You know, it's I don't know if you ever been in a studio before when our shows live like this, but if you have a guest like me that you know and you know can handle the whole segment by themselves with no problem oftentimes that's the time when you eat the donut or get the coffee or do more research for your next segment. So, I don't know if I did them a favor or if they're mad at me now, cause I made them respond to me in the middle of the segment, a few times. Anyway. I should mention that if you've had problems with a mac keyboard, one of these Mac Pro keyboards, boy they've been a real problem for a lot of people, and I talk with Ken about that as well, because his mac keyboard, kind of failed on him and he ended up having to leave it at the Apple store for a while. So 

[00:01:31] We talk about that as well. The Apple keyboard and the Apple announcement coming up today. 

[00:01:39] Ok, we're back again. It is 737 on the WGAN morning news, here on a Wednesday morning. Good morning to you. Ken and Matt here, and so is Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us at this time every Wednesday. Craig, how are you this morning? 

[00:01:52] Good morning y'all. 

[00:01:54] Y'all, are you down in Texas you must be down South somewhere. 

[00:01:59] No, Southern Maine in the south y'all. Y'all, all y'all both. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

[00:02:08] It's a word. I'm from Oklahoma and I know it's word. I never thought y'all was a friend of mine. You know you do. Do I understand that Apple's 'gonna have an announcement today, by the way, are they doing there. We could hear something new from Apple today, by the way.

[00:02:26] Yeah, you heard about that. I did 

[00:02:28] Yeah, there isn't a lot of rumors out there about that there company. Yeah, here's here's what we expect. Apple has been kind of sitting on their hands when it comes to a couple of their products. One of them is their Little Mac Mini, which I use. I use one in my studio. There great little devices, but it really hasn't been updated in years. Their Mac Pro has not been updated since 2013, and I have one those as well. So, we are hoping they're going to start making some announcements about that. Although the Mac Pro looks like it will probably be next year. But on top of that, they are going to have some phone announcements and those are going to be interesting. I'll be on top of that, we can talk about it more next week. But, they are expected to come up with a lower-priced iPhone. Which is going to be good for a lot of people that want an iPhone. Basically, want the reliability and the security, and they are talking about some of the rumors have them using both thumbprint and the face scanner on some of the phones. So it's going to be an interesting day. There's a lot of potential announcements, Apple might come up with. And I think one of the most interesting things is like you remember the iPhone. What was the Six SE?

[00:03:51] Which was the lower price phone that they came up with. 

[00:03:56] And, it didn't do very well in the market, but apparently they're planning on doing something similar with the iPhone 10 having an inexpensive version of it. So, we'll see if that does any good or not. But, yeah that will be coming up, midday today as Apple has all of their fall announcements.

[00:04:15] By the way, I should mention I have a MacbookPro that I just got about a year and a half ago and I had I had a horrible experience. And, I, you know I love Macs. But the key point your keys were falling off right and left, I brought it in and they replaced one and, then I had a guy in the Genius Bar who I happen to know, who said to me you know it's not really publicly known but they're replacing keyboards because they're really defective. So, and I think they had it for 10 days not me not having my computer for ten days. Like going through a heroin withdrawal. But, just like a divorce. Yes, exactly right but it's not. It wasn't really publicly known that these keyboards really defective. Oh yeah. 

[00:05:00] It's called the butterfly keyboard and it has to do with the mechanism and the keyboard. Now, Apple has been telling people that, you know if your keyboard isn't working properly, it's because you got food or something into the keyboard and technically, they're right because anything even two fat keyboards fail. Its frankly, between us, it's a bad design. And Apple has come to recognize that it's a bad design enough that their new MacBook Pro has a keyboard that has one little difference in it which is enough to keep all of the dust and crumbs from food out of the keyboard. So, in other words, they recognized its a problem, they fix the problem, but they are not usually very helpful about replacing your keyboards for free when they fail. So, I tend to think that it really is a design problem. Apple should replace all of them. I suspect eventually may end up replacing all of those keyboards. But there's you know about a year and a half, two years, where you got to be really careful with those keyboards because almost anything will make this silly thing fail, Ken. So, you're not imagining things and your genius friend is not either. 

[00:06:19] It is a real problem is getting reported all over the place we're talking to Craig Peterson our tech guru who joins us at this time every Wednesday to give us an eye on the world of technology. Do people share passwords?

[00:06:34] Yeah. They still do. Who falls for that in this day and age. Are these the same people that have joint Facebook accounts? You know like Tom and You know Jane. 

[00:06:42] Yeah, yeah, exactly. This is silly in this day and age. You'd think you'd know better. But this is true in a lot of small businesses, like Ken and Matt, you guys both have small offices, right.

[00:06:54] Right. And that means you've got a couple of people working there, a few people a handful, and in most cases, everybody knows everybody. 

[00:07:03] What could possibly go wrong? I'm going to be on vacation next week. Here's my password. So, somebody if someone e-mails. You can go ahead and follow up with them. Well, in this day and age, we've got this huge problem of business email compromise and the FBI came up with a new number on this, and they're showing now that we're over. This is crazy. Guys, I hope you sitting down, in the last two years more than 12 billion dollars has been stolen from small businesses. Cash was stolen -- 12 billion of it. It's incredible when you think about it. One of the things companies are doing their people are doing is sharing their e-mail passwords. This just makes it that much easier for the bad guys to get at your money. And here's what they're doing with a business e-mail compromise and we're seeing it all the time we keep getting called into companies saying something weird is going on with my e-mail. So, we come in we have a closer look and we find out, yes, you've been hacked. So, when you're going on vacation, people, do not share your passwords. Which means in advance of people being out for the day or on vacation, If you have an account for, let's say you've got somebody who is responsible for billing, or payroll or sales, or whatever it might be, Do not have a single e-mail account that people send the mail to in other words you don't send mail to Joan in accounting. 

[00:08:46] Ok, you send mail to town team and have accounting set up not as a shared mailbox but have accounting set up. So, Joan has an e-mail box that gets all of the accounting e-mails anything sent to accounting. That way when Joan goes on vacation John can go ahead and get those accounting e-mails delivered to him. Do not share them, take my word for it. We could go to a lot of detail on this. But there are a lot of reasons not to share passwords. You don't know if you are familiar with this Stat here, Matt, but we're talking about a lot of people. One in five employees on average, according to a new survey that just came out, of switch fast, one in five employees are sharing their e-mail passwords with co-workers. That's absolutely huge. When we're talking about small to medium business getting hit with nearly 4000 cyber attacks per day. 

[00:09:49] It's crazy. And, if you're in a couple of businesses, you guys know anybody that's in real estate, of course. Yeah, the number of attacks against real estate offices, small real estate offices, e-mail attacks has increased 1000 percent in the last year. 1000 percent and other categories of small businesses are up 400-500 percent and on average over everyone is up 25 percent. So, Matt, don't let your employees, Ken same things don't share e-mail passwords, get your e-mail set up the right way. Do not use shared e-mail boxes, either because you can't tell who did what? When did it happen? And, the biggest problem is, if you get an email from "quote" the CEO asking to have a vendor paid double check with the CEO. Make a phone call to them. make sure really is the CEO. Make sure she really did want to have that money transferred. Because nowadays it's almost as likely, that it's a scammer doing it, so be careful. Pay attention. It's not just anti-virus anymore, you've got to have just layers upon layers of security and people need to pay a lot more attention than we used to.

[00:11:12] We are talking to Craig Peterson, our Tech guru, who joins us Wednesdays at 730 and on Craig Peterson dot com and get all the information anytime you want. You know I've always wanted a Segway, and I've never gotten one, but it is now a Segway e-skate. So, I can have a hovercraft like Back to the Future. They promised us to have a hovercraft. Never. This is exciting news. 

[00:11:36] Yeah, that was a few years ago was supposed to be out. Yeah, this is kind of cool, because it's our neighbor, of course, to the west in New Hampshire in Manchester New Hampshire. Dean Kamen started the whole Segway thing and boy was that a big P.R. push. But Segway has come up with something that's better, even cheaper now within about a 300 dollar price point. You can get skates. Now, these are not rollerskates, OK. You don't strap these things onto your feet, but you stand on them, they've got nice wide wheels on them. They look like they would be pretty good for maybe a warehouse or someplace that doesn't have a lot of curbs or bumps or anything. But you just stand on these things and basically balance. If you can keep your balance standing on one foot. I would say, this is my opinion if you can stand on one foot and mostly keep your balance you'll do fine on these things. So you just stand on them and lean forward a little bit to go forward and you lean back to go backwards. You can step off of them very easily if you start to lose your balance you step off of one of them and they'll stop going forward. So, it's yet another Segway which is kind of cool. These things will go up to seven and a half miles per hour, which is kind of cool. Kind of scary, all at the same time. But you know kind of bicycle speeds, not race in a bicycle but a nice little place down the road. And they're hoping that these new little what they're calling drift e-skates are going to finally be one of the general popular populous adopts. Because instead of Costing you five grand these costs about 300 and they should be out very soon now. So, we might even see some in some stores by Christmas, this year.

[00:13:29] Wow. All right Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us at this time every Wednesday. Appreciate it, Craig. We're going to talk to you again next week.

[00:13:37] Gentlemen, take care. Bye-bye. Thanks. 

[00:13:40] Now his plan on making September here my nugget month is going to be releasing these little nugget videos that were very to the point nice and short talking about some of the main things that you should be doing and being aware of as a business person. But, I have had so many new clients that I just haven't had the time to do them. So I've been taking care of my clients I guess that's why I have to put the priority right. The people that are already paying me and everybody else we'll get to it. OK. I just haven't had the time. I have to apologize. But keep an eye out. I still plan on getting those nuggets going here within the next week. So, take care. And we will be back on Saturday, with my regularly scheduled Saturday radio show. 

[00:14:27] Take care. Have a great day and the rest of the week.

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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! 

---

More stories and tech updates at:

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Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating:

www.craigpeterson.com/itunes

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For questions, call or text:

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Did you know that business losses have passed 10 billion dollars due to business email compromise? Find out more about this as well as why you should not be sharing your email password as Craig discusses this with Jim Polito.

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

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Business Email Fraud Attacks Jump 25%
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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 09/11/2018

The Increase In Business Email Compromise Passed 10 Billion Dollars - Why Not Share Passwords

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi, Craig Peterson, here. It's a bit of a sombre day today, of course. You know, you might put two and two together, here, and realize I'm recording this on 9/11, and I remember this well it was also Tuesday when the hijackers hit. It's a sad day of remembrance, of all of that, and of course at 8:46 this morning, 8:46:40 is when the first event, along with that long line of events, that morning took place. Where the flight I think it was Flight 11 took off from Boston Logan. So, my heart and thoughts go out to everybody, who lost anyone or knew someone who lost anyone on that day. So, we'll leave it at that. This morning, Jim Polito, and I talked about a couple of different things I talked more about business email compromise. The statistics, what's happening, how big this really is. Believe me, it's really, really big. We've got one industry where we're talking about a one thousand percent increase, in the number of attacks. And the FBI upped their numbers. It's now over a ten billion dollar industry. The actual money stolen from businesses, so it's a bad thing. So, we talked about that and we talked very briefly as while about sharing passwords but what are some ramifications, there. So, here we go with Jim Polito on this rather sombre morning. He is our favorite guy.

[00:01:45] He really is, Cause he gets us out of jams all the time and he gets you out of jams too when it comes to this digital age. I'm talking about our tech guru, Craig Peterson who joins us a little early today. Craig, thanks for being flexible. Hey, ditto. All right. So, I want to talk about the e-mail again. E-mail passwords, but I want to start with something quite frightening you've let me know about. Business e-mail fraud attacks are up 25 percent. What's that all about? 

[00:02:20] Yeah, isn't that huge. We've known for a while that there are problems here. And the biggest parts of this problem, at least as far as I'm concerned, is that businesses and this is according to the FBI, have now over the last two years lost some 12 billion dollars, because of this. Now, you know there's a lot of ways to lose money right. You wake up in the morning and you see the stock markets down, its bad, right. You could lose money because of all of bad investments. As a business person, you can lose money because you invest in a new way of doing something, and it just doesn't work for you. In this case, what we're talking about is a type of fraud where they get you to do something, and they do it via e-mail. So, here's what it is you open an e-mail and you see in there that the boss wants to pay a vendor. Well, you know that happens every day, right. You get directives from your boss telling you to do something, right or don't do something, probably. And so it happens all of the time. In this case what they're doing is they do a little bit of research on your business, and then send an e-mail into the business. It looks as if the boss and you now take action on that because the boss told you to pay this vendor. 

[00:03:51] Well, what we're finding now, and what businesses have found out, including in most cases, especially smaller businesses is it isn't the boss and billions of dollars over 10 billion now have been transferred by the employees to the bad guys. And these attacks are up about twenty-five percent, right now. Now there is one industry that's even worse than that, Jim. You probably can't guess that it has something to do with you know Leasing something one of the biggest expenditures of money we make. Of course, number one is our house right. Well, number two in the car, the car, the car the fraud in the business of car dealers where they're going after car dealers. Now, with these e-mail fraud attacks is up over one thousand percent, in the last six months. It's absolutely huge. Absolutely. It's crazy here. Now, we're seeing some industries where it's up 400 percent in the last quarter. So, this is a huge, huge, huge they're engineering these e-mails. They're spoofing e-mail addresses. We get calls from businesses every week, almost every day, now where they're saying something weird happening with our e-mail. And you know that they're not sure what up but one has to have a look at it which we do. Right. 

[00:05:28] And Danny we lose. All

[00:05:39] Right. You know that. 

[00:05:55] Craig. We've got Craig, Craig, I don't know, I don't know.

[00:05:59] I don't know, Danny if he can hear me. But, can you make a reconnection with him? Something happened with that connection there. But what Craig's talking about is business e-mails, protecting businesses from having to protect themselves. But also this fraud that's going on and protecting yourself and leasing a car and things like that. And again, the car is your second greatest expense, after your house. Well, where are the bad guys gonna to go? The bad guys are going to go, where the money is, and the money is first in going after homes, you know taking out a second mortgage on your home without your knowledge or credit cards, too. So, Craig -  is Craig is back with us? I believe, Danny, we got him. 

[00:06:56] Down now. OK. 

[00:07:00] He's also going to be talking about your e-mail password sharing your e-mail password. All right, Craig, I'm sorry we lost you there. Toward the end, it started to drop off. 

[00:07:14] Sorry, about that. No problem. Now you blame, blame the tech blame the tech, people. 

[00:07:21] Yeah, exactly, right. This is a huge deal. We're talking about e-mails here. You know you've got be careful to make sure that your employees, your fellow employees your boss know that the simplest way to avoid this is if you get an e-mail that's a little suspicious. Like, I don't recognize that vendor and why should we be paying them? Pick up the phone, call the boss and say, Hey, I just wanted to make sure that this was legit or you know wasn't legit. And, in that case, FBI warning about this all over the place, we've been talking about it on the FBI infragard webinars. It is just rolling, like crazy because it's working. 

[00:08:09] Yeah, they're making money, I said while we lost you. If they're making money you know what I mean if there's money to be had there that's where the bad guys are going to go.

[00:08:20] Exactly right. 

[00:08:22] We're talking with Craig Peterson, our tech talk guru, at the end of this segment. We are going to give you a number that you can text my name to, standard data and text rates apply. And you'll get all this information, plus weekly updates. And if there's ever a crisis, a hack you'll have the information from Craig and what to do. Craig, don't share your e-mail password. I think that's obvious, but apparently, a lot of folks do it.

[00:08:53] Or Yeah you have your passwords on a post-it note stuck on your screen. No, No. Exactly. Well and that's because, well in your case, it's something like P A S S W O R D. You follow John Podesta's lead and make your password, password with a zero. Yeah pretty tricky, Yeah. Yeah, well one in five employees are sharing their passwords with co-workers. So, looking at it is an easy way, if they're out of the office that co-workers can check their e-mails for them. There are all kinds of liability problems with this. Don't do it. Don't share your password. You could be the subject of a criminal investigation if you share your password with another employee and let's say they leave the company or they're fired from the company. You don't remember that you shared your password with them and they now use your account to hack into company computers or to do other things, nefariously. What happens all the time. And, then to top it off if your username and password get stolen from another Website because you and your fellow employee knows it and they use it elsewhere. You could be liable.

[00:10:08] Yeah, yeah. See that's the part. Like all of you know, it's because I was careless with it. But, now if anything happens with it it's going to be my fault. It is your fault. 

[00:10:18] And nowadays we're talking about criminal prosecutions, Jim, yeah. Where they are going after you. So, don't share your password if you're in business. And let's say you have people working in the payables or receivables or whatever, sales. Set up a mail reflector. So, everybody gets that email. Be careful don't use shared e-mail accounts. There just all kinds of problems that you can't track down who did what when, and if they do it in sales you also have the problem of salesmen trying to leave the company with your customer list and going to a competitor. So, you know just to make sure that doesn't happen do not allow employees to share them and make sure you have certain types of reflectors, so that you can shut off their access, as soon as they leave the business. 

[00:11:10] Craig Peterson, you heard it there. He's he's got it all. He's got a lot of other stuff to talk about and share with you. And you can get it all for free, no obligation. He's not going to pester you, he's not going to sell your cell phone number so what you do is text my name to this number.

[00:11:28] 8 5 5 3 8 5 5 5 53 that's eight five five three eight five fifty five fifty three. 

[00:11:37] That's right. Standard data and text rates apply. You'll get this information and more, from our friend Craig Peterson you will also receive updates or alerts when something big is going on and he'll give you instructions on what you need to do to protect yourself. And, Craig I appreciate you coming in a little bit early for us. We appreciate the time and we can't wait to talk to you next week. 

[00:12:04] Thank you. Take care. Craig Peterson. everybody. Oh by the way. 

[00:12:10] After a while we.

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Did you know that business losses have passed 10 billion dollars due to business email compromise? Find out more about this as well as why you should not be sharing your email password as Craig discusses this with Jim Polito.

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Airing date: 09/11/2018

The Increase In Business Email Compromise Passed 10 Billion Dollars - Why Not Share Passwords

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi, Craig Peterson, here. It's a bit of a sombre day today, of course. You know, you might put two and two together, here, and realize I'm recording this on 9/11, and I remember this well it was also Tuesday when the hijackers hit. It's a sad day of remembrance, of all of that, and of course at 8:46 this morning, 8:46:40 is when the first event, along with that long line of events, that morning took place. Where the flight I think it was Flight 11 took off from Boston Logan. So, my heart and thoughts go out to everybody, who lost anyone or knew someone who lost anyone on that day. So, we'll leave it at that. This morning, Jim Polito, and I talked about a couple of different things I talked more about business email compromise. The statistics, what's happening, how big this really is. Believe me, it's really, really big. We've got one industry where we're talking about a one thousand percent increase, in the number of attacks. And the FBI upped their numbers. It's now over a ten billion dollar industry. The actual money stolen from businesses, so it's a bad thing. So, we talked about that and we talked very briefly as while about sharing passwords but what are some ramifications, there. So, here we go with Jim Polito on this rather sombre morning. He is our favorite guy.

[00:01:45] He really is, Cause he gets us out of jams all the time and he gets you out of jams too when it comes to this digital age. I'm talking about our tech guru, Craig Peterson who joins us a little early today. Craig, thanks for being flexible. Hey, ditto. All right. So, I want to talk about the e-mail again. E-mail passwords, but I want to start with something quite frightening you've let me know about. Business e-mail fraud attacks are up 25 percent. What's that all about? 

[00:02:20] Yeah, isn't that huge. We've known for a while that there are problems here. And the biggest parts of this problem, at least as far as I'm concerned, is that businesses and this is according to the FBI, have now over the last two years lost some 12 billion dollars, because of this. Now, you know there's a lot of ways to lose money right. You wake up in the morning and you see the stock markets down, its bad, right. You could lose money because of all of bad investments. As a business person, you can lose money because you invest in a new way of doing something, and it just doesn't work for you. In this case, what we're talking about is a type of fraud where they get you to do something, and they do it via e-mail. So, here's what it is you open an e-mail and you see in there that the boss wants to pay a vendor. Well, you know that happens every day, right. You get directives from your boss telling you to do something, right or don't do something, probably. And so it happens all of the time. In this case what they're doing is they do a little bit of research on your business, and then send an e-mail into the business. It looks as if the boss and you now take action on that because the boss told you to pay this vendor. 

[00:03:51] Well, what we're finding now, and what businesses have found out, including in most cases, especially smaller businesses is it isn't the boss and billions of dollars over 10 billion now have been transferred by the employees to the bad guys. And these attacks are up about twenty-five percent, right now. Now there is one industry that's even worse than that, Jim. You probably can't guess that it has something to do with you know Leasing something one of the biggest expenditures of money we make. Of course, number one is our house right. Well, number two in the car, the car, the car the fraud in the business of car dealers where they're going after car dealers. Now, with these e-mail fraud attacks is up over one thousand percent, in the last six months. It's absolutely huge. Absolutely. It's crazy here. Now, we're seeing some industries where it's up 400 percent in the last quarter. So, this is a huge, huge, huge they're engineering these e-mails. They're spoofing e-mail addresses. We get calls from businesses every week, almost every day, now where they're saying something weird happening with our e-mail. And you know that they're not sure what up but one has to have a look at it which we do. Right. 

[00:05:28] And Danny we lose. All

[00:05:39] Right. You know that. 

[00:05:55] Craig. We've got Craig, Craig, I don't know, I don't know.

[00:05:59] I don't know, Danny if he can hear me. But, can you make a reconnection with him? Something happened with that connection there. But what Craig's talking about is business e-mails, protecting businesses from having to protect themselves. But also this fraud that's going on and protecting yourself and leasing a car and things like that. And again, the car is your second greatest expense, after your house. Well, where are the bad guys gonna to go? The bad guys are going to go, where the money is, and the money is first in going after homes, you know taking out a second mortgage on your home without your knowledge or credit cards, too. So, Craig -  is Craig is back with us? I believe, Danny, we got him. 

[00:06:56] Down now. OK. 

[00:07:00] He's also going to be talking about your e-mail password sharing your e-mail password. All right, Craig, I'm sorry we lost you there. Toward the end, it started to drop off. 

[00:07:14] Sorry, about that. No problem. Now you blame, blame the tech blame the tech, people. 

[00:07:21] Yeah, exactly, right. This is a huge deal. We're talking about e-mails here. You know you've got be careful to make sure that your employees, your fellow employees your boss know that the simplest way to avoid this is if you get an e-mail that's a little suspicious. Like, I don't recognize that vendor and why should we be paying them? Pick up the phone, call the boss and say, Hey, I just wanted to make sure that this was legit or you know wasn't legit. And, in that case, FBI warning about this all over the place, we've been talking about it on the FBI infragard webinars. It is just rolling, like crazy because it's working. 

[00:08:09] Yeah, they're making money, I said while we lost you. If they're making money you know what I mean if there's money to be had there that's where the bad guys are going to go.

[00:08:20] Exactly right. 

[00:08:22] We're talking with Craig Peterson, our tech talk guru, at the end of this segment. We are going to give you a number that you can text my name to, standard data and text rates apply. And you'll get all this information, plus weekly updates. And if there's ever a crisis, a hack you'll have the information from Craig and what to do. Craig, don't share your e-mail password. I think that's obvious, but apparently, a lot of folks do it.

[00:08:53] Or Yeah you have your passwords on a post-it note stuck on your screen. No, No. Exactly. Well and that's because, well in your case, it's something like P A S S W O R D. You follow John Podesta's lead and make your password, password with a zero. Yeah pretty tricky, Yeah. Yeah, well one in five employees are sharing their passwords with co-workers. So, looking at it is an easy way, if they're out of the office that co-workers can check their e-mails for them. There are all kinds of liability problems with this. Don't do it. Don't share your password. You could be the subject of a criminal investigation if you share your password with another employee and let's say they leave the company or they're fired from the company. You don't remember that you shared your password with them and they now use your account to hack into company computers or to do other things, nefariously. What happens all the time. And, then to top it off if your username and password get stolen from another Website because you and your fellow employee knows it and they use it elsewhere. You could be liable.

[00:10:08] Yeah, yeah. See that's the part. Like all of you know, it's because I was careless with it. But, now if anything happens with it it's going to be my fault. It is your fault. 

[00:10:18] And nowadays we're talking about criminal prosecutions, Jim, yeah. Where they are going after you. So, don't share your password if you're in business. And let's say you have people working in the payables or receivables or whatever, sales. Set up a mail reflector. So, everybody gets that email. Be careful don't use shared e-mail accounts. There just all kinds of problems that you can't track down who did what when, and if they do it in sales you also have the problem of salesmen trying to leave the company with your customer list and going to a competitor. So, you know just to make sure that doesn't happen do not allow employees to share them and make sure you have certain types of reflectors, so that you can shut off their access, as soon as they leave the business. 

[00:11:10] Craig Peterson, you heard it there. He's he's got it all. He's got a lot of other stuff to talk about and share with you. And you can get it all for free, no obligation. He's not going to pester you, he's not going to sell your cell phone number so what you do is text my name to this number.

[00:11:28] 8 5 5 3 8 5 5 5 53 that's eight five five three eight five fifty five fifty three. 

[00:11:37] That's right. Standard data and text rates apply. You'll get this information and more, from our friend Craig Peterson you will also receive updates or alerts when something big is going on and he'll give you instructions on what you need to do to protect yourself. And, Craig I appreciate you coming in a little bit early for us. We appreciate the time and we can't wait to talk to you next week. 

[00:12:04] Thank you. Take care. Craig Peterson. everybody. Oh by the way. 

[00:12:10] After a while we.

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Do you or your Employees share passwords?  If so, STOP immediately and change them, now.  This week I will explain why.

Segway has some new fun Technology and I will discuss it today.

Business Email Compromise is on the Rise.  I will tell you why and how the hackers are going after small businesses.

People are still not patching their routers.  Also a new Router vulnerability this time against routers used worldwide by ISPs.  I will explain who, how and what you can do about it.  

Craig will be release some video securiy nuggets during the month of September.  Watch for them.

Craig is putting up a new membership site (Yes, it is free, but you have to sign up)  On it will have all his special reports that he puts out and you will be the first to get them.

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Airing date: 09/08/2018

Don't Share Passwords. Privacy is not Absolute. BEC the new hacker scam to beware of. Mikrotik ISP routers have been hacked.

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here and we've got a lot to cover today as usual. I don't  if you've been getting some of my e-mails. Hopefully, you do, if you're not subscribed go to Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. We keep all kinds of great information there and we send out alerts about Hacks and about some of the latest things including I am now producing a whole bunch of what I'm calling nuggets. These are pieces of information short videos that I think are going to make a big difference in your life particularly in your business. So, keep an eye out for those wonderful nuggets. Those are videos I'm kind of releasing all over the place including on my Web site. Today we're going to talk about something that really concerns me and this is about the Five I's. If you haven't heard about them they are affecting your life in potentially a very big way in the future. Segway has some real cool new devices out. We're going to talk about the latest one that they have and I don't know if I'd buy this, but there are some other ones I might buy but, 

[00:01:06] this is really cool. If you are an employer or an employee you're not alone, if you share your e-mail password with co-workers. By the way, it's a dangerous thing to do. Hackers are trying to scam you again, and this is all about the e-mail scams business e-mail compromises that the FBI has been warning about, and, of course, that's a very, very big deal too. Unpatched router's Yeah, yeah, a huge proxy army spying on networks and it turns out it's not just your home routers anymore that they have control over. No, no, no. The bad guys have control over some of the routers that your Internet service provider may have provided to you. So, all of that and more stick around. Here we go. Well, the Five I's are countries that cooperate together. And they've been cooperating for a long time. In fact, some of this has come up as part of this so-called Russian investigation that's been going on, because apparently the British were being used to spy on President Trump and feed information back to the Department of Justice, the FBI, and maybe even the Hillary Clinton campaign. 

[00:02:34] Well, what are the five I's and what are they doing. Bottom line, we're talking about the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These five countries that cooperate on spying on each other's citizens. Now, that's a very, very, big deal of course. Some of these countries also spy on their own citizens, as well. We're finding out more as the in-depth analysis is being done of the Mueller probe. But, the whole idea here is, if I'm in the United States and I have somebody who is a citizen of the U.S. that I suspect might be a bad guy, they might be bringing drugs in, they might be part of a terrorist network. I can't do a whole lot. Unless they call outside of the country, or they call into the country from outside. Once the communications leave the borders in the United States it's no longer considered. well kind of like privileged, right. They cannot just willy-nilly grab that data, grab your voice, et cetera. But, another country can and that's what's been happening. So, for instance in the case of these so-called Russian collusion operations, the U.K. apparently was spying on, wire tapping some of President Trumps communications, and some of his campaign workers communications as well. So, it's a very, very, big deal because they are gathering all of this.

[00:04:09] They are gathering stuff that, even they admit is illegal. You remember the story I talked about here just a few weeks ago, where the National Security Agency went ahead and deleted three years worth of telephone intercept data because they weren't sure if some of it was legally obtained or not. So, it's frankly a very, very big deal and it's a scary thing. Well, they came out with a statement after they met, and they just met, and that you know that part is a little concerning to what they're doing but they are spying worldwide, and they're very concerned because they cannot decrypt a lot of the communications. Now, they can intercept them obviously. That's why the Five I's exist so they can spy on each other's citizens, which is a problem right there, right. So, they can spy on each other citizens. But, here's where the big problems come in, and for them they can certainly intercept communications that are encrypted, but they cannot do much with them. In fact, they can't do anything with some of them. So, they met, and they came up with a statement. Now, this is really interesting. Here's a statement on privacy or part of it, privacy laws must prevent arbitrary or unlawful interference, but privacy is not absolute. The increasing gap between the ability of law enforcement to lawfully access data and their ability to acquire, and use the content of that data is a pressing international concern.

[00:05:48] Each of the Five Eyes jurisdictions will consider how to best implement the principles of this statement, including with voluntary cooperation of industry partners. Any response be it legislative or otherwise will adhere to requirements for proper authorization and oversight. Now we've had this debate before. You might remember, if you're old enough, during the Clinton administration, they were trying to force these clipper chips down everybody's throat, they are oh so safe, it's all so wonderful. And, it turned out that in fact there were back doors in them. So, the government could listen in. So, this is something we'll keep an eye on. We're going to watch see what happens. There are veiled threats to businesses in there, saying, hey basically if you don't comply, with you know, law enforcement, if they want to gain access to something, then bad things going to happen to you. It's really scary. But, next up let's talk about something kind of fun. OK, let's move into the fun category now. I know the guy who who started this company, right here in Manchester, New Hampshire. The company is called Segway. I've met him a few times, I've interviewed him a couple of times, and been very involved with U.S. First which I think is an absolutely fantastic program for kids to learn and get inspired. 

[00:07:15] It really is. In fact, that's kind of their whole thing now is inspiring kids. So, it's a really good thing. Remember, there was all of this hype about the Segway. How it's going to change the world? And, we certainly have seen Segway's around. I went on a tour over in France, in Lyon, in southern France and it was really very cool because we were on Segways we could go very quickly, when we needed to, or wanted to. And, then we could kind of stop and talk and look around at everything. I loved it. I want to go on more Segway tours, now. If you haven't done one, you should try it because it's it's very easy and it's rather intuitive. I think you might well enjoy it. Well, they have come up with a few different models over the Segway. You have some now that just kind of fit between your legs so you're not even standing, fully. They have one with kind of a seat, I've seen before. I think that's not actually a Segway. Now, they have roller skates. I guess they're calling them e-skates. The drift, is what they're calling them now drift w-one it's going to be available in stores sometime soon. 

[00:08:37] But these skates use the same self balancing technology as Segway's other better known products. So, shifting your body weight controls acceleration and deceleration. Now, if you've worn roller skates before or roller blades you know you strap them on your feet and sometimes you get out of control and you fall. And, I've taken a couple of big spills on those as well and I had protection on at the time, but you fall. That's because you're feet are strapped and you can't do much about it. If you lose your balance, et cetera. Well, these E-skates you just stand on. So you are standing on one on each foot. So they are independent they are individual. I saw some video of somebody using these, which is really kind of cool, because you can step off of it very easily. Much like you can with a regular Segway. Just step off the skate if you're starting to lose your balance you can take one foot off and put it on the ground. But, it is really, really neat. So, they can only tilt forward and backwards just that single access. So, there's no risk at all of rolling your ankles, like there are for roller blades etc. And, it's really kind of cool. 

[00:09:53] The attendants who were at this show, that just happened, where they were shown, over in Berlin, the IFA, that show. It's a really cool show, but we'll get into that right now. But, the really cool thing about these roller skates is the attendants were able to just say. Just get on it and do what comes naturally. Because, they really have got the right sensors in these skates now too to detect what you're trying to do. So, much like a regular Segway you kind of lean forward a little bit to go forward. You, can go backwards on these things if you lean back a little bit and apparently it just takes a few minutes to get relaxed in control which is about what it took me to get used to the Segway over there in France. My 80 year old father's even gone, for the very first time, on a Segway tour. This was in southern Utah. He went down very, very pretty area and perfect again for a Segway tour because you just zoom around and enjoy the sights as you're going. But, he didn't have too many problems I guess he fell off once said 80 years old, that's not bad. But he really enjoyed it absolutely would do it again. I don't know if I want to try these little, little E-skates again. Keep an eye out for them. The called the drift Segway drift. But, I can tell you I probably would try them. They're only going to be a few hundred bucks, apparently, versus the thousands for the big Segways. But, it should be kind of fun. All right, a few of you are sharing passwords. You're not alone.

[00:11:39] Now, we we know a lot of people over the years that are sharing passwords, and obviously that's a problem, right. And you know sharing your password with your computer is one thing, and it's it's bad. OK, it's pretty bad. But sharing your password with someone for your e-mail account, it looks like it's even badder than than just sharing your basic password. Now, for your computer and here's why, people don't choose great passwords for their e-mail accounts. And, a lot of times that workers will kind of share and say OK here listen while I'm gone here's my password. Get on check because I'm expecting this from a client, or that from a vendor, et cetera. And so people share their passwords, and you hope there's no real ramification certainly nothing as bad as missing an order, or missing the delivery problem, right. Doesn't that make sense to you? 

[00:12:41] Well, there are ways to have group and shared accounts. We do this. I've got to tell you every time we've gone into a business to clean up after there's been a hack and wow it's really bad. 100 percent of the time they've been sharing passwords, 100 percent of the time. And, one of the ways that these bad guys get in is, let's say there's a problem with a hack on a big company, and they're able to steal usernames and passwords. Guess what they now have, they have a username and password that they know worked at this company that just stole it from, right. So Yahoo, for instance, because we know they lost more than a billion accounts information. So, let's just say Yahoo for the lack of another example, right now. But Yahoo has usernames passwords are stolen, or some other small Web site out there that you're using. Most people are using the exact same password for their accounts on every site. So, they use the same username which is often their business e-mail, unless it's obviously just a straight up personal thing that might have a personal e-mail, but most people just have the two e-mails. 

[00:14:11] So, they their business e-mail is shared now with another person along with a password for that account. 

[00:14:21] So, now that other person gets in and starts using it. Now, remember that that password has been compromised in this scenario so, somebody else out there, a bad guy knows it. So, now someone internal to your company knows it and maybe even multiple people, now know it. And, what's been turning out is that there have been a number of kind of vengeance hacks where someone who knows someone else's password gets into the network, after the fact. So, make sure companies use set up group mails when it comes to your accounts receivable, accounts payable, any sort of customer transactions use a group mailbox, use of forwarder, there's lots of ways to do it. We do it all of the time for customers. So, make sure that happens. Don't allow employees to share passwords. If you're an employee insist that the manager set up a group password or group account, I should say, a group email account. Set up some sort of group e-mail account so, you're not held liable. So, your username and password are not used to hack the company at a later point in time, by one of your former fellow employees or potentially even worse. By the way, this survey found that three out of five small businesses that suffered a breach are likely to go out of business within six months. 

[00:15:52] Ok, that's a pretty standard statistic, I've seen. Usually, it's around 50 percent. In this case, they're showing 60 percent. So, you do not want to have a breach. There's all kinds of stats, and if you want to go to my Web site Craig Peterson dot com, you'll see it right there. Now, here's our next our article here. It's another scam that's been very successful for the hackers. Now, cyber criminals have been out there since the days of computers, really. You know initially, initially, initially probably not so many, but there have been over the years, a whole lot of these bad guys. While they're now turning more and more of their efforts to business email compromise scams, as well as, telephone scams, and they're using these to steal funds that are causing billions of dollars in fraud losses over the past few years according to statistics from the FBI. And, I get reports from the FBI almost every day, certainly every week, about new variations of these e-mails scams. Now, the scammers are typically targeting employees with access to company finances, payroll data, and other personally identifiable information. So, this particular report looked at 3000 randomly selected business e-mail compromise attacks. 

[00:17:25] Now, it said type of spam, spam e-mail. Obviously it's been called spear phishing before, and now it's called a business email compromise, because they're doing some amazing things here. They're trying to trick the e-mail recipients into doing a wire transfer to a bank owned by the attacker in half of the cases. Isn't that amazing? So, once the money's out of your bank account because you're just wired it, bam it's in the attackers account within 90 seconds. And, if they own the bank, they are not going to cooperate with any sort of investigation. So, some other types of attacks include getting recipients to click on a malicious link, that's 40 percent of the time, and those malicious links are then used to install spyware on your computer, or to verify that you are who they think you are. They also use them to establish rapport with the victim, and stealing personal identifiable information, that makes up the last 13 percent here. So, very simple e-mails. So, a subject like vendor payment. Hey, Joe, are you around? I need to send a wire transfer ASAP to a vendor from Jane. 

[00:18:44] Now, they're going to find who the CEO is or a high level executive. In this case that company had a high level executive a CEO, COO named Jane. So, they figured that out. How do they figure that out? Well, they probably just went to the company's Web page. Go to my company's Web page Mainstream dot net there you will not find any information about any of the officers, who they are. and then Hey Joe, obviously, they know who Joe is and they can find that also probably on the company's Web page, right under officers. It's crazy what people put up there. And the other easy way to find it is just to go to LinkedIn. You can scan around you can find tons of stuff about businesses, small businesses and otherwise. So, about 60 percent of these business e-mail attacks do not involve a malicious link. So, it's just a plain text e-mail attempting to trick them into performing a wire transfer, or some other sensitive information. It's really scary. So, here's the people there are attacking, right. Forty-three-percent of the time they are impersonating, the CEO or founder and they are attacking the CFOs, finance, H.R. people, C-level executives, CEOs and others across the companies, is about half. So, why would they go after H.R. person? We'll so they can get the W-2 information so they now have Social Security numbers, names, addresses.

[00:20:20] Think of everything H.R. has. So, here's what you should do to keep company safe. All of this is up on my Web site, by the way, Craig Peterson dot com. Prohibit wire transfers from going out without an in-person conversation or phone call. That means contact the CEO, right if Jane sent you that e-mail you've got Jane's number, call her. I don't care if she's on vacation, in fact, that's often when they will target someone they see on Facebook. Hey, Jane's going on vacation she's going to be in Bermuda's, she's going to be on her ship, She's not going to be able to have communications. And that's when they go after it. Take caution with e-mails from the CEO. All right. Because they're the most likely ones to be impersonated. So, if they make a request that seems a little unusual pick up the phone and call them. Obviously, if you are responsible for training in a company, make sure that you've got a training program in place, deploying an e-mail protection system that stops these type of spear phishing attacks, Cyber fraud attacks. So, it goes on and on. Very good, Very interesting and there's a lot of information about this. If you go to Craig Peterson dot com slash security, you might be overwhelmed. 

[00:21:34] But, that's what our golden nuggets are all about. I'm producing now throughout the month of September. These nugget nuggets of information about how to stay safe. And we're going to lead all of that up to an offer that I'm going to have in October. So, we'll talk about that as well to help you completely clean up all of these problems, but keep an eye out for my nuggets. You'll be seeing them on Craig Peterson dot com in fact, to put it up a little Coming soon thing on the site. So, next stop you'd think we were past this point. Now unpatched Routers. OK. We've got multiple malware campaigns right now, and they're spreading the hacks of gear from a company called microtik. Now this is probably not a name you're familiar, if you're a business person hopefully you're using current Cisco gear, not old stuff. Hopefully, it's patched and kept up to date, as well. Right. If you're a regular old home user you might be familiar with companies like D-link or Netgear, neither of which I use in my home, because of all of the problems they've had over the years. You definitely should not be using those in your business. Well, microtik posted a software update for a vulnerability that was found earlier this year. 

[00:23:11] But, researchers have found themselves, that more than almost 400,000 of these routers they've identified on the Internet were still vulnerable. People are not applying the patches. Now, here's what's kind of really scary about them. We've got 7500, that we know of, that are being actively spied on by attackers, they are actively forwarding full captures of all to the network traffic to a number of remote servers, OK. Just crazy. Another quarter million, of these hacked routers, have been turned into proxies. So, they are being used to again send the data off to the bad guys. So what data, all of your data. Now, here's the part that is the part that basically explains, why you don't know about these guys. They are providing hardware for Internet services providers, including campus network infrastructure at schools. They provide equipment for outdoor fiber routers, wireless backbones, OK. It goes on and on. Now, these routers are all over the world. Some of the largest concentration are in Brazil and Russia, here. A lot of the ISP's are using Cisco gear, but there's 14,000 they've already identified here in the U.S. So, again can you trust the hardware that you get from your ISP? Probably not, 100 percent. So, what are you going to do about it.? I can tell you what we do. We don't use the hardware that they give us.

[00:24:54] Right. So, they've they've got Modem of some sort or terminal device. We feed that directly into some really good hardware, that we've installed, that we control, that providing high levels of Firewall. So, it's a very big deal. Microtik, keep an eye out, if you are again a business, and this is really important or if you have quite a bit of money that you want to protect. Make sure you get rid of that router at the edge of your network, that's provided by Internet service provider. Get rid of it. Let's go ahead and do something reasonable. Contact a company that knows what they're doing with security firewalls et cetera. And, unfortunately I got to tell you that 99 percent of them, we have not met very many companies, and we deal with them all over the country, here, that really know what they're doing most most of them have no clue, they're just selling a box and pushing it. But, anyhow that's what's going to happen in October. Keep an eye out for my nuggets. Make sure you sign up at Craig Peterson dot com. We'll be all kinds of good security nuggets we're going to be putting out. Have a great week, and we'll be back again, next week with more tech talk with Craig Peterson, see you then.

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Airing date: 09/08/2018

Don't Share Passwords. Privacy is not Absolute. BEC the new hacker scam to beware of. Mikrotik ISP routers have been hacked.

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here and we've got a lot to cover today as usual. I don't  if you've been getting some of my e-mails. Hopefully, you do, if you're not subscribed go to Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. We keep all kinds of great information there and we send out alerts about Hacks and about some of the latest things including I am now producing a whole bunch of what I'm calling nuggets. These are pieces of information short videos that I think are going to make a big difference in your life particularly in your business. So, keep an eye out for those wonderful nuggets. Those are videos I'm kind of releasing all over the place including on my Web site. Today we're going to talk about something that really concerns me and this is about the Five I's. If you haven't heard about them they are affecting your life in potentially a very big way in the future. Segway has some real cool new devices out. We're going to talk about the latest one that they have and I don't know if I'd buy this, but there are some other ones I might buy but, 

[00:01:06] this is really cool. If you are an employer or an employee you're not alone, if you share your e-mail password with co-workers. By the way, it's a dangerous thing to do. Hackers are trying to scam you again, and this is all about the e-mail scams business e-mail compromises that the FBI has been warning about, and, of course, that's a very, very big deal too. Unpatched router's Yeah, yeah, a huge proxy army spying on networks and it turns out it's not just your home routers anymore that they have control over. No, no, no. The bad guys have control over some of the routers that your Internet service provider may have provided to you. So, all of that and more stick around. Here we go. Well, the Five I's are countries that cooperate together. And they've been cooperating for a long time. In fact, some of this has come up as part of this so-called Russian investigation that's been going on, because apparently the British were being used to spy on President Trump and feed information back to the Department of Justice, the FBI, and maybe even the Hillary Clinton campaign. 

[00:02:34] Well, what are the five I's and what are they doing. Bottom line, we're talking about the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These five countries that cooperate on spying on each other's citizens. Now, that's a very, very, big deal of course. Some of these countries also spy on their own citizens, as well. We're finding out more as the in-depth analysis is being done of the Mueller probe. But, the whole idea here is, if I'm in the United States and I have somebody who is a citizen of the U.S. that I suspect might be a bad guy, they might be bringing drugs in, they might be part of a terrorist network. I can't do a whole lot. Unless they call outside of the country, or they call into the country from outside. Once the communications leave the borders in the United States it's no longer considered. well kind of like privileged, right. They cannot just willy-nilly grab that data, grab your voice, et cetera. But, another country can and that's what's been happening. So, for instance in the case of these so-called Russian collusion operations, the U.K. apparently was spying on, wire tapping some of President Trumps communications, and some of his campaign workers communications as well. So, it's a very, very, big deal because they are gathering all of this.

[00:04:09] They are gathering stuff that, even they admit is illegal. You remember the story I talked about here just a few weeks ago, where the National Security Agency went ahead and deleted three years worth of telephone intercept data because they weren't sure if some of it was legally obtained or not. So, it's frankly a very, very big deal and it's a scary thing. Well, they came out with a statement after they met, and they just met, and that you know that part is a little concerning to what they're doing but they are spying worldwide, and they're very concerned because they cannot decrypt a lot of the communications. Now, they can intercept them obviously. That's why the Five I's exist so they can spy on each other's citizens, which is a problem right there, right. So, they can spy on each other citizens. But, here's where the big problems come in, and for them they can certainly intercept communications that are encrypted, but they cannot do much with them. In fact, they can't do anything with some of them. So, they met, and they came up with a statement. Now, this is really interesting. Here's a statement on privacy or part of it, privacy laws must prevent arbitrary or unlawful interference, but privacy is not absolute. The increasing gap between the ability of law enforcement to lawfully access data and their ability to acquire, and use the content of that data is a pressing international concern.

[00:05:48] Each of the Five Eyes jurisdictions will consider how to best implement the principles of this statement, including with voluntary cooperation of industry partners. Any response be it legislative or otherwise will adhere to requirements for proper authorization and oversight. Now we've had this debate before. You might remember, if you're old enough, during the Clinton administration, they were trying to force these clipper chips down everybody's throat, they are oh so safe, it's all so wonderful. And, it turned out that in fact there were back doors in them. So, the government could listen in. So, this is something we'll keep an eye on. We're going to watch see what happens. There are veiled threats to businesses in there, saying, hey basically if you don't comply, with you know, law enforcement, if they want to gain access to something, then bad things going to happen to you. It's really scary. But, next up let's talk about something kind of fun. OK, let's move into the fun category now. I know the guy who who started this company, right here in Manchester, New Hampshire. The company is called Segway. I've met him a few times, I've interviewed him a couple of times, and been very involved with U.S. First which I think is an absolutely fantastic program for kids to learn and get inspired. 

[00:07:15] It really is. In fact, that's kind of their whole thing now is inspiring kids. So, it's a really good thing. Remember, there was all of this hype about the Segway. How it's going to change the world? And, we certainly have seen Segway's around. I went on a tour over in France, in Lyon, in southern France and it was really very cool because we were on Segways we could go very quickly, when we needed to, or wanted to. And, then we could kind of stop and talk and look around at everything. I loved it. I want to go on more Segway tours, now. If you haven't done one, you should try it because it's it's very easy and it's rather intuitive. I think you might well enjoy it. Well, they have come up with a few different models over the Segway. You have some now that just kind of fit between your legs so you're not even standing, fully. They have one with kind of a seat, I've seen before. I think that's not actually a Segway. Now, they have roller skates. I guess they're calling them e-skates. The drift, is what they're calling them now drift w-one it's going to be available in stores sometime soon. 

[00:08:37] But these skates use the same self balancing technology as Segway's other better known products. So, shifting your body weight controls acceleration and deceleration. Now, if you've worn roller skates before or roller blades you know you strap them on your feet and sometimes you get out of control and you fall. And, I've taken a couple of big spills on those as well and I had protection on at the time, but you fall. That's because you're feet are strapped and you can't do much about it. If you lose your balance, et cetera. Well, these E-skates you just stand on. So you are standing on one on each foot. So they are independent they are individual. I saw some video of somebody using these, which is really kind of cool, because you can step off of it very easily. Much like you can with a regular Segway. Just step off the skate if you're starting to lose your balance you can take one foot off and put it on the ground. But, it is really, really neat. So, they can only tilt forward and backwards just that single access. So, there's no risk at all of rolling your ankles, like there are for roller blades etc. And, it's really kind of cool. 

[00:09:53] The attendants who were at this show, that just happened, where they were shown, over in Berlin, the IFA, that show. It's a really cool show, but we'll get into that right now. But, the really cool thing about these roller skates is the attendants were able to just say. Just get on it and do what comes naturally. Because, they really have got the right sensors in these skates now too to detect what you're trying to do. So, much like a regular Segway you kind of lean forward a little bit to go forward. You, can go backwards on these things if you lean back a little bit and apparently it just takes a few minutes to get relaxed in control which is about what it took me to get used to the Segway over there in France. My 80 year old father's even gone, for the very first time, on a Segway tour. This was in southern Utah. He went down very, very pretty area and perfect again for a Segway tour because you just zoom around and enjoy the sights as you're going. But, he didn't have too many problems I guess he fell off once said 80 years old, that's not bad. But he really enjoyed it absolutely would do it again. I don't know if I want to try these little, little E-skates again. Keep an eye out for them. The called the drift Segway drift. But, I can tell you I probably would try them. They're only going to be a few hundred bucks, apparently, versus the thousands for the big Segways. But, it should be kind of fun. All right, a few of you are sharing passwords. You're not alone.

[00:11:39] Now, we we know a lot of people over the years that are sharing passwords, and obviously that's a problem, right. And you know sharing your password with your computer is one thing, and it's it's bad. OK, it's pretty bad. But sharing your password with someone for your e-mail account, it looks like it's even badder than than just sharing your basic password. Now, for your computer and here's why, people don't choose great passwords for their e-mail accounts. And, a lot of times that workers will kind of share and say OK here listen while I'm gone here's my password. Get on check because I'm expecting this from a client, or that from a vendor, et cetera. And so people share their passwords, and you hope there's no real ramification certainly nothing as bad as missing an order, or missing the delivery problem, right. Doesn't that make sense to you? 

[00:12:41] Well, there are ways to have group and shared accounts. We do this. I've got to tell you every time we've gone into a business to clean up after there's been a hack and wow it's really bad. 100 percent of the time they've been sharing passwords, 100 percent of the time. And, one of the ways that these bad guys get in is, let's say there's a problem with a hack on a big company, and they're able to steal usernames and passwords. Guess what they now have, they have a username and password that they know worked at this company that just stole it from, right. So Yahoo, for instance, because we know they lost more than a billion accounts information. So, let's just say Yahoo for the lack of another example, right now. But Yahoo has usernames passwords are stolen, or some other small Web site out there that you're using. Most people are using the exact same password for their accounts on every site. So, they use the same username which is often their business e-mail, unless it's obviously just a straight up personal thing that might have a personal e-mail, but most people just have the two e-mails. 

[00:14:11] So, they their business e-mail is shared now with another person along with a password for that account. 

[00:14:21] So, now that other person gets in and starts using it. Now, remember that that password has been compromised in this scenario so, somebody else out there, a bad guy knows it. So, now someone internal to your company knows it and maybe even multiple people, now know it. And, what's been turning out is that there have been a number of kind of vengeance hacks where someone who knows someone else's password gets into the network, after the fact. So, make sure companies use set up group mails when it comes to your accounts receivable, accounts payable, any sort of customer transactions use a group mailbox, use of forwarder, there's lots of ways to do it. We do it all of the time for customers. So, make sure that happens. Don't allow employees to share passwords. If you're an employee insist that the manager set up a group password or group account, I should say, a group email account. Set up some sort of group e-mail account so, you're not held liable. So, your username and password are not used to hack the company at a later point in time, by one of your former fellow employees or potentially even worse. By the way, this survey found that three out of five small businesses that suffered a breach are likely to go out of business within six months. 

[00:15:52] Ok, that's a pretty standard statistic, I've seen. Usually, it's around 50 percent. In this case, they're showing 60 percent. So, you do not want to have a breach. There's all kinds of stats, and if you want to go to my Web site Craig Peterson dot com, you'll see it right there. Now, here's our next our article here. It's another scam that's been very successful for the hackers. Now, cyber criminals have been out there since the days of computers, really. You know initially, initially, initially probably not so many, but there have been over the years, a whole lot of these bad guys. While they're now turning more and more of their efforts to business email compromise scams, as well as, telephone scams, and they're using these to steal funds that are causing billions of dollars in fraud losses over the past few years according to statistics from the FBI. And, I get reports from the FBI almost every day, certainly every week, about new variations of these e-mails scams. Now, the scammers are typically targeting employees with access to company finances, payroll data, and other personally identifiable information. So, this particular report looked at 3000 randomly selected business e-mail compromise attacks. 

[00:17:25] Now, it said type of spam, spam e-mail. Obviously it's been called spear phishing before, and now it's called a business email compromise, because they're doing some amazing things here. They're trying to trick the e-mail recipients into doing a wire transfer to a bank owned by the attacker in half of the cases. Isn't that amazing? So, once the money's out of your bank account because you're just wired it, bam it's in the attackers account within 90 seconds. And, if they own the bank, they are not going to cooperate with any sort of investigation. So, some other types of attacks include getting recipients to click on a malicious link, that's 40 percent of the time, and those malicious links are then used to install spyware on your computer, or to verify that you are who they think you are. They also use them to establish rapport with the victim, and stealing personal identifiable information, that makes up the last 13 percent here. So, very simple e-mails. So, a subject like vendor payment. Hey, Joe, are you around? I need to send a wire transfer ASAP to a vendor from Jane. 

[00:18:44] Now, they're going to find who the CEO is or a high level executive. In this case that company had a high level executive a CEO, COO named Jane. So, they figured that out. How do they figure that out? Well, they probably just went to the company's Web page. Go to my company's Web page Mainstream dot net there you will not find any information about any of the officers, who they are. and then Hey Joe, obviously, they know who Joe is and they can find that also probably on the company's Web page, right under officers. It's crazy what people put up there. And the other easy way to find it is just to go to LinkedIn. You can scan around you can find tons of stuff about businesses, small businesses and otherwise. So, about 60 percent of these business e-mail attacks do not involve a malicious link. So, it's just a plain text e-mail attempting to trick them into performing a wire transfer, or some other sensitive information. It's really scary. So, here's the people there are attacking, right. Forty-three-percent of the time they are impersonating, the CEO or founder and they are attacking the CFOs, finance, H.R. people, C-level executives, CEOs and others across the companies, is about half. So, why would they go after H.R. person? We'll so they can get the W-2 information so they now have Social Security numbers, names, addresses.

[00:20:20] Think of everything H.R. has. So, here's what you should do to keep company safe. All of this is up on my Web site, by the way, Craig Peterson dot com. Prohibit wire transfers from going out without an in-person conversation or phone call. That means contact the CEO, right if Jane sent you that e-mail you've got Jane's number, call her. I don't care if she's on vacation, in fact, that's often when they will target someone they see on Facebook. Hey, Jane's going on vacation she's going to be in Bermuda's, she's going to be on her ship, She's not going to be able to have communications. And that's when they go after it. Take caution with e-mails from the CEO. All right. Because they're the most likely ones to be impersonated. So, if they make a request that seems a little unusual pick up the phone and call them. Obviously, if you are responsible for training in a company, make sure that you've got a training program in place, deploying an e-mail protection system that stops these type of spear phishing attacks, Cyber fraud attacks. So, it goes on and on. Very good, Very interesting and there's a lot of information about this. If you go to Craig Peterson dot com slash security, you might be overwhelmed. 

[00:21:34] But, that's what our golden nuggets are all about. I'm producing now throughout the month of September. These nugget nuggets of information about how to stay safe. And we're going to lead all of that up to an offer that I'm going to have in October. So, we'll talk about that as well to help you completely clean up all of these problems, but keep an eye out for my nuggets. You'll be seeing them on Craig Peterson dot com in fact, to put it up a little Coming soon thing on the site. So, next stop you'd think we were past this point. Now unpatched Routers. OK. We've got multiple malware campaigns right now, and they're spreading the hacks of gear from a company called microtik. Now this is probably not a name you're familiar, if you're a business person hopefully you're using current Cisco gear, not old stuff. Hopefully, it's patched and kept up to date, as well. Right. If you're a regular old home user you might be familiar with companies like D-link or Netgear, neither of which I use in my home, because of all of the problems they've had over the years. You definitely should not be using those in your business. Well, microtik posted a software update for a vulnerability that was found earlier this year. 

[00:23:11] But, researchers have found themselves, that more than almost 400,000 of these routers they've identified on the Internet were still vulnerable. People are not applying the patches. Now, here's what's kind of really scary about them. We've got 7500, that we know of, that are being actively spied on by attackers, they are actively forwarding full captures of all to the network traffic to a number of remote servers, OK. Just crazy. Another quarter million, of these hacked routers, have been turned into proxies. So, they are being used to again send the data off to the bad guys. So what data, all of your data. Now, here's the part that is the part that basically explains, why you don't know about these guys. They are providing hardware for Internet services providers, including campus network infrastructure at schools. They provide equipment for outdoor fiber routers, wireless backbones, OK. It goes on and on. Now, these routers are all over the world. Some of the largest concentration are in Brazil and Russia, here. A lot of the ISP's are using Cisco gear, but there's 14,000 they've already identified here in the U.S. So, again can you trust the hardware that you get from your ISP? Probably not, 100 percent. So, what are you going to do about it.? I can tell you what we do. We don't use the hardware that they give us.

[00:24:54] Right. So, they've they've got Modem of some sort or terminal device. We feed that directly into some really good hardware, that we've installed, that we control, that providing high levels of Firewall. So, it's a very big deal. Microtik, keep an eye out, if you are again a business, and this is really important or if you have quite a bit of money that you want to protect. Make sure you get rid of that router at the edge of your network, that's provided by Internet service provider. Get rid of it. Let's go ahead and do something reasonable. Contact a company that knows what they're doing with security firewalls et cetera. And, unfortunately I got to tell you that 99 percent of them, we have not met very many companies, and we deal with them all over the country, here, that really know what they're doing most most of them have no clue, they're just selling a box and pushing it. But, anyhow that's what's going to happen in October. Keep an eye out for my nuggets. Make sure you sign up at Craig Peterson dot com. We'll be all kinds of good security nuggets we're going to be putting out. Have a great week, and we'll be back again, next week with more tech talk with Craig Peterson, see you then.

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Airing date: 09/05/2018

Internet Speeds have doubled in the US due to Net Neutrality Repeal. Small Businesses are the targets of Hackers.  Facial Recognition at Airport's first Imposter.  

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning. Craig Peterson, Here on in Maine. I talked a little bit this morning, again, just like I did yesterday with Jim. I guess this is a big story about the U.S. Internet speed where our ranking has doubled, which is just absolutely amazing just how much faster we've gotten. And, also a little bit about AT&T and their investments into the Internet. This new facial recognition system, catching our first imposter at the airport, and we talk about how many airports it's in place. It's surprising we caught one, Half of all small businesses believe they are not Cybercrime targets, and frankly that's not a good thing. So, that's what we talked about this morning stick around here we go. 

[00:00:49] Well it's that time of the week again, Craig Peterson joins us, once again, to go over what's happening in the world of technology. Craig, how are you this morning? Hey, Good Morning. Doing well.

[00:00:59] So, when I went in and looked at your Web site, Craig Peterson dot com,  my internet speed is just so much better. Is this a result of the end of net neutrality?

[00:01:11] Craig, Yeah well for those who don't remember, of course, net neutrality was an Obama era FCC thing, where they were trying to bring the Internet into the same rules and regulations that have been in place since the 1930s for the telephone companies. And as you know for, jeepers since the early 70s, really, what became the Internet had been pretty much unregulated and had been completely unregulated since 1991. Other than of course the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC, was regulating it and has been regulating it pretty heavily. So, we had net neutrality in place for a while, and there are a lot of people who were out there yelling and screaming that we needed it because we needed fairness, we need equal access. In other words, the kid sitting there with me in front of their computer who is playing video games streaming live all day long. Plus they've got Netflix playing over on the side and maybe they've got music playing as well and this happens and it happens quite frequently. So, they use a lot of bandwidth. They wanted it to be fair. So, he would pay the same price as the grandma who was sitting at home hoping to get an e-mail from the grandkids. You know which is of course totally crazy. And to top it all off we had you know businesses out there who wanted to get some money back from their investments into network infrastructure. So they put it in place in the very first thing that came in front of the FCC net neutrality the very first time and this was terrible.

[00:02:56] That's not a good thing. It was in place because what they were doing is the FCC denied a company that wanted to give away free streaming video because it would be unfair to their competition. You know, heaven forbid you've got a startup company that wants to go up against Verizon and offer a better deal, right. So, net neutrality, absolute failure and we have the Trump administration with the new chairman of the FCC who got rid of this net neutrality thing and when they got rid of it, of course, we still had people who were out there screaming hey, we've got to we've got to put it back in place its terrible the world we're going to come to an end. The Internet never existed without the FCC regulations, of course, you know I'm kind of going a little overboard here to come up with a point, but that's basically what is happening. In fact, it has gotten so bad that the chairman of the FCC has had to get armed protection for himself because of the death threats and armed protection for his kids. So, now we've got people like Ken out there who are we have noticed something which is since the repeal of net neutrality took effect just this spring.

[00:04:14] The internet has a ranking of the U.S. and the Internet has changed. The Internet has sped up in the U.S. and the U.S. has gone from being the twelfth fastest Internet in the world, average, average speed to people's homes so, we were 12th. And since this spring since net neutrality went away we're now the six fastest Internet in the world. We've basically halved our rank which is a very good thing. AT&T is investing nearly 120 million dollars just in Iowa to improve their network. So, now the businesses know they can get their money back out of it. That they can charge the kid sitting there using up all of their bandwidth. That they can charge Netflix, that's using half of the Internet bandwidth, at times, in the U.S. That the backbone carriers who have paid for the infrastructure can say hey Netflix you owe money, in order for us to carry all of these movies for everyone. Now, that's in place, we've got companies reinvesting in the Internet. We're seeing internet speeds improving and we're also seeing improvements for consumers. I just switched my mobile phone plan, my cell plan. I've had the same company for about 20 years now and I switched it because I'm now getting twice the speed for half of the cost. 

[00:05:38] And with net neutrality, in place it would have had to get permission from the FCC to lower their prices or to improve their performance or speed. So, thank goodness it's gone. I predicted this would be the case. if it did go in place and if it was removed. So, it is great. I know there's a lot of people who don't like it, and I want to warn those people who are more on the conservative side, who are now starting to call for more regulation of the Internet, because of what's been happening with Facebook and Twitter and other places where they are apparently censoring some of the conservative speech. So, we've got conservatives now out there saying oh we've got to have this regulation in place including just yesterday the new chairman of the FCC the guy that got rid of net neutrality really seem a kind of a personal statement if you will saying hey listen we may have to regulate the MAGAF companies. You know again Microsoft and Amazon Google Apple and Facebook we may have to regulate those companies because they are not treating all information fairly. So, it is kind of interesting here is the pendulum sways. Maybe, that should be a name of a new soap opera or something guys.

[00:07:02] Craig Peterson, our tech guru, joins us right now to give us an eye on the world of technology and before I move onto the next topic I should mention, speaking of net neutrality and whatnots, Ajit Pai, is going to be here, next Friday, coming to an event at the Maine Heritage Policy Center. So, if anybody's interested in that, Maine policy dot org, ladies and gentlemen Not interested. Yes, I know you're not. But maybe the great crowd out there listening to this might be. So Craig, now that I've done my little disclaimer. 

[00:07:26] Yeah, he's the FCC chairman for those who didn't know who that was.

[00:07:29] Correct. Basically, the one who is responsible for killing it, killing net neutrality, in the first place. So, anyway moving on to other topics. You know, if I were a small business owner right now I may be, I might be a target for cybercrime, but I'm just a small fish, right. So, I'm probably not. Am I wrong about that?

[00:07:50] That's one of the things that you hear all the time isn't it. No. I would say go after me. Why did Willie Sutton rob banks? Because that's where the money was. And, so many people are assuming that the bad guys are going after the big businesses which they are, and they are going after the banks online trying to hack them. They're trying to break into their networks into the computers get all kinds of information. But the big banks and the big businesses can afford to do security and do security right. And, now they are spending money on that. They're spending real money on trying to keep things secure, while small businesses and the home users don't have that money. So, where are they going to go. Well obviously, they're still going to hit some small people and you know in their homes. But, now the FBI is saying that small businesses are the biggest target, right now for the bad guys, for hackers. And, unfortunately, a lot of small business people are thinking that they're really not going to be coming after me. But, when you look at the numbers that are involved here, where an average hack can cost 130,000 dollars. We just picked up a client that had been hacked and they lost 180,000 dollars in cash. So, you know you've got to be careful business owners, just like you were indicating Matt, Don't think they are the target but they are the target. And, you've got to start using real multifactor authentication or two-factor authentication for your business e-mail accounts because that's where they're usually going to ask you, they're using something called a business email compromise. It's something the FBI has been warning a lot about. It's something that's been very effective and very cost effective for them and unfortunately has literally stolen the livelihood and the businesses, that people are working their whole lives for. It's been stolen from them. So, it's a big deal. Don't think that just because you're a small business you're not a target. Because in fact, you are the target. 

[00:10:03] We're talking to our tech guru, who joins us Wednesdays at seven thirty-eight. So, facial-recognition which works on my iPhone really well. Is it becoming more viable for security issues in airports?

[00:10:18] Yeah. What's in your iPhone is really interesting because it's close up. It's able to measure multiple points on your face simultaneously, to figure out if it's really you. And, by the way, Apple's expected to release some more information about their phones coming up here, next week. But, yeah facial recognition is interesting when you're talking about it for a crowd. We've used it at major events, major sporting events for about a decade now. And, we've had a lot of false positives which is OK, because it was new technology and the police understood that. What I'm concerned about is in the future. What happens when people are falsely identified, as well? Well, down in Washington D.C. Their main airport down there which is Washington Dulles is now using an interesting form of facial recognition. What they're doing is the computer looks at their passport photo and is able to use that photo without training like you have to train your iPhone, right.

[00:11:26] Can you see your face Yeah exactly.

[00:11:31] This is just training? So, he presented a French passport as his I.D. the computer scanned it. The computer used a camera that's sitting there. And, they do film all of your interactions at these international airports and was able to identify a man with a fake passport, just using this new facial recognition system. So, you can expect this is going to grow as time goes on is going to be used more and more. There are 14 airports, right now, using facial recognition technology. It is being used to help screen these people and this was the very first one ever caught using facial recognition and it was just a couple of weeks ago. So, it's kind of interesting and we're going to see more of it, as time goes on.

[00:12:17] All right Craig Peterson, our tech guru, joins us at this time every Wednesday to give us technology around the world. Craig, thank you very much, sir. We will talk again next Wednesday.

[00:12:27] Hey, thanks, gentlemen. Take care. All right.

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

Airing date: 09/05/2018

Internet Speeds have doubled in the US due to Net Neutrality Repeal. Small Businesses are the targets of Hackers.  Facial Recognition at Airport's first Imposter.  

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning. Craig Peterson, Here on in Maine. I talked a little bit this morning, again, just like I did yesterday with Jim. I guess this is a big story about the U.S. Internet speed where our ranking has doubled, which is just absolutely amazing just how much faster we've gotten. And, also a little bit about AT&T and their investments into the Internet. This new facial recognition system, catching our first imposter at the airport, and we talk about how many airports it's in place. It's surprising we caught one, Half of all small businesses believe they are not Cybercrime targets, and frankly that's not a good thing. So, that's what we talked about this morning stick around here we go. 

[00:00:49] Well it's that time of the week again, Craig Peterson joins us, once again, to go over what's happening in the world of technology. Craig, how are you this morning? Hey, Good Morning. Doing well.

[00:00:59] So, when I went in and looked at your Web site, Craig Peterson dot com,  my internet speed is just so much better. Is this a result of the end of net neutrality?

[00:01:11] Craig, Yeah well for those who don't remember, of course, net neutrality was an Obama era FCC thing, where they were trying to bring the Internet into the same rules and regulations that have been in place since the 1930s for the telephone companies. And as you know for, jeepers since the early 70s, really, what became the Internet had been pretty much unregulated and had been completely unregulated since 1991. Other than of course the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC, was regulating it and has been regulating it pretty heavily. So, we had net neutrality in place for a while, and there are a lot of people who were out there yelling and screaming that we needed it because we needed fairness, we need equal access. In other words, the kid sitting there with me in front of their computer who is playing video games streaming live all day long. Plus they've got Netflix playing over on the side and maybe they've got music playing as well and this happens and it happens quite frequently. So, they use a lot of bandwidth. They wanted it to be fair. So, he would pay the same price as the grandma who was sitting at home hoping to get an e-mail from the grandkids. You know which is of course totally crazy. And to top it all off we had you know businesses out there who wanted to get some money back from their investments into network infrastructure. So they put it in place in the very first thing that came in front of the FCC net neutrality the very first time and this was terrible.

[00:02:56] That's not a good thing. It was in place because what they were doing is the FCC denied a company that wanted to give away free streaming video because it would be unfair to their competition. You know, heaven forbid you've got a startup company that wants to go up against Verizon and offer a better deal, right. So, net neutrality, absolute failure and we have the Trump administration with the new chairman of the FCC who got rid of this net neutrality thing and when they got rid of it, of course, we still had people who were out there screaming hey, we've got to we've got to put it back in place its terrible the world we're going to come to an end. The Internet never existed without the FCC regulations, of course, you know I'm kind of going a little overboard here to come up with a point, but that's basically what is happening. In fact, it has gotten so bad that the chairman of the FCC has had to get armed protection for himself because of the death threats and armed protection for his kids. So, now we've got people like Ken out there who are we have noticed something which is since the repeal of net neutrality took effect just this spring.

[00:04:14] The internet has a ranking of the U.S. and the Internet has changed. The Internet has sped up in the U.S. and the U.S. has gone from being the twelfth fastest Internet in the world, average, average speed to people's homes so, we were 12th. And since this spring since net neutrality went away we're now the six fastest Internet in the world. We've basically halved our rank which is a very good thing. AT&T is investing nearly 120 million dollars just in Iowa to improve their network. So, now the businesses know they can get their money back out of it. That they can charge the kid sitting there using up all of their bandwidth. That they can charge Netflix, that's using half of the Internet bandwidth, at times, in the U.S. That the backbone carriers who have paid for the infrastructure can say hey Netflix you owe money, in order for us to carry all of these movies for everyone. Now, that's in place, we've got companies reinvesting in the Internet. We're seeing internet speeds improving and we're also seeing improvements for consumers. I just switched my mobile phone plan, my cell plan. I've had the same company for about 20 years now and I switched it because I'm now getting twice the speed for half of the cost. 

[00:05:38] And with net neutrality, in place it would have had to get permission from the FCC to lower their prices or to improve their performance or speed. So, thank goodness it's gone. I predicted this would be the case. if it did go in place and if it was removed. So, it is great. I know there's a lot of people who don't like it, and I want to warn those people who are more on the conservative side, who are now starting to call for more regulation of the Internet, because of what's been happening with Facebook and Twitter and other places where they are apparently censoring some of the conservative speech. So, we've got conservatives now out there saying oh we've got to have this regulation in place including just yesterday the new chairman of the FCC the guy that got rid of net neutrality really seem a kind of a personal statement if you will saying hey listen we may have to regulate the MAGAF companies. You know again Microsoft and Amazon Google Apple and Facebook we may have to regulate those companies because they are not treating all information fairly. So, it is kind of interesting here is the pendulum sways. Maybe, that should be a name of a new soap opera or something guys.

[00:07:02] Craig Peterson, our tech guru, joins us right now to give us an eye on the world of technology and before I move onto the next topic I should mention, speaking of net neutrality and whatnots, Ajit Pai, is going to be here, next Friday, coming to an event at the Maine Heritage Policy Center. So, if anybody's interested in that, Maine policy dot org, ladies and gentlemen Not interested. Yes, I know you're not. But maybe the great crowd out there listening to this might be. So Craig, now that I've done my little disclaimer. 

[00:07:26] Yeah, he's the FCC chairman for those who didn't know who that was.

[00:07:29] Correct. Basically, the one who is responsible for killing it, killing net neutrality, in the first place. So, anyway moving on to other topics. You know, if I were a small business owner right now I may be, I might be a target for cybercrime, but I'm just a small fish, right. So, I'm probably not. Am I wrong about that?

[00:07:50] That's one of the things that you hear all the time isn't it. No. I would say go after me. Why did Willie Sutton rob banks? Because that's where the money was. And, so many people are assuming that the bad guys are going after the big businesses which they are, and they are going after the banks online trying to hack them. They're trying to break into their networks into the computers get all kinds of information. But the big banks and the big businesses can afford to do security and do security right. And, now they are spending money on that. They're spending real money on trying to keep things secure, while small businesses and the home users don't have that money. So, where are they going to go. Well obviously, they're still going to hit some small people and you know in their homes. But, now the FBI is saying that small businesses are the biggest target, right now for the bad guys, for hackers. And, unfortunately, a lot of small business people are thinking that they're really not going to be coming after me. But, when you look at the numbers that are involved here, where an average hack can cost 130,000 dollars. We just picked up a client that had been hacked and they lost 180,000 dollars in cash. So, you know you've got to be careful business owners, just like you were indicating Matt, Don't think they are the target but they are the target. And, you've got to start using real multifactor authentication or two-factor authentication for your business e-mail accounts because that's where they're usually going to ask you, they're using something called a business email compromise. It's something the FBI has been warning a lot about. It's something that's been very effective and very cost effective for them and unfortunately has literally stolen the livelihood and the businesses, that people are working their whole lives for. It's been stolen from them. So, it's a big deal. Don't think that just because you're a small business you're not a target. Because in fact, you are the target. 

[00:10:03] We're talking to our tech guru, who joins us Wednesdays at seven thirty-eight. So, facial-recognition which works on my iPhone really well. Is it becoming more viable for security issues in airports?

[00:10:18] Yeah. What's in your iPhone is really interesting because it's close up. It's able to measure multiple points on your face simultaneously, to figure out if it's really you. And, by the way, Apple's expected to release some more information about their phones coming up here, next week. But, yeah facial recognition is interesting when you're talking about it for a crowd. We've used it at major events, major sporting events for about a decade now. And, we've had a lot of false positives which is OK, because it was new technology and the police understood that. What I'm concerned about is in the future. What happens when people are falsely identified, as well? Well, down in Washington D.C. Their main airport down there which is Washington Dulles is now using an interesting form of facial recognition. What they're doing is the computer looks at their passport photo and is able to use that photo without training like you have to train your iPhone, right.

[00:11:26] Can you see your face Yeah exactly.

[00:11:31] This is just training? So, he presented a French passport as his I.D. the computer scanned it. The computer used a camera that's sitting there. And, they do film all of your interactions at these international airports and was able to identify a man with a fake passport, just using this new facial recognition system. So, you can expect this is going to grow as time goes on is going to be used more and more. There are 14 airports, right now, using facial recognition technology. It is being used to help screen these people and this was the very first one ever caught using facial recognition and it was just a couple of weeks ago. So, it's kind of interesting and we're going to see more of it, as time goes on.

[00:12:17] All right Craig Peterson, our tech guru, joins us at this time every Wednesday to give us technology around the world. Craig, thank you very much, sir. We will talk again next Wednesday.

[00:12:27] Hey, thanks, gentlemen. Take care. All right.

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Airing date: 09/04/2018

The Stats On Net Neutrality Are Out - We Are All Winning

Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey, Craig Peterson here. You guys remember the whole quote, debate, unquote, about net neutrality? I never thought there was a debate here. There was no sense in this whole idea of net neutrality. It just when you played it out, it was absolutely ridiculous. So any how we got some stats, some hard numbers, what has happened since the end of net neutrality, and that's where I talked about this morning with Jim. So here we go.

0:30
He is the man. He is our tech talk guru. And he's our good friend. I'm talking about Craig Peterson. Got some important stuff to discuss today. Good morning, sir. How are you? Hey,

0:44
Good morning, Jim. Doing well this morning. You know, it's almost the end of the heat wave like this. And they get good again. Yeah, that

0:52
for a Canadian? Yes, absolutely. For Canadian. This is heatstroke. weather. So,

1:00
you know, I'm an American now, right?

1:03
Oh, no, no, no, no, I know that. I meant more like, you know, like, we, which we're very happy about that you did, because you're a wonderful addition to the country. I just met, like, you know, being a Canadian coming from Canada being raised. They're not necessarily the customs. I'm talking about the climate

1:23
and all that. Yeah. Yeah, like a please. You know, like half an hour of sunlight a day. You know, all that stuff. That's it. Well, actually, now, were you not where you came from? But, you know,

1:38
yeah, well, in the summertime, the sun never actually quite set. It was worse. It was Twilight though. And my daughter's in worse shape. Right now. She's up in Norway. And she's saying that the days are already getting cold. It's below freezing.

1:54
Yeah, that's, it's nice to go there in the summer.

2:00
If you wanted to come visit, I'm not so sure.

2:04
You just tell her dad. He's got a big new contract. He's working on me. Can't I'll be there. I'll be there in June.

2:13
Exactly.

2:15
Well, we need your help today. Because two things have come up net neutrality and an actual increase in internet speed ranking. So in the US. So remember, we I think we just need a refresher on what net neutrality was. And now we were told that the sky would fall if net neutrality went away. It did go away and the sky hasn't fallen. So could you lay it out for me, please?

2:46
Sure. Absolutely. I had a request to do exactly that. Another station and another station today, Craig, can you come on, I want you to take net neutrality from both sides. I want you to be productive neutrality and anti net neutrality. And I said, you know, I'm not sure I can take the pro side. But I can tell you what they're saying. And what they were saying, Jim, was that we need a way for the government to regulate the internet very, very closely. We need to make sure that the federal government has control over everything that's online, so that we can enforce free speech rights. But you know, more burden than ever, what we need to do is make sure that these big bad evil companies are not over charging their constituents never word your your internet service provider, whether it be you know, Comcast or whoever it might be even your phone provider, make sure that they have to obey the same rules that were put in place in the 1930s on top of the telephone companies. So that's what they were doing. They said, if we don't have net neutrality, everything's going to fall apart, the speeds are going to slow down and people going to get charged way more is just going to be a terrible, horrific thing. Of course, this was during the Obama administration. And they didn't bother mentioning that, in fact, the internet and it survive just fine without the FCC regulating it for more than 20 years. He back the internet internet had grown immensely over that time.

4:26
So it's this big monster.

4:30
Yeah, we need control over and you know, what I get concerned about right now is we've got the right wing voices and libertarian voices, basically everything except for socialist, slash communist, socialist, fascist voices, all of the other voices out there are getting squashed. And I'm getting concerned. Because we have a lot of people who are saying, whoa, wait a minute. Now, we need to regulate the internet. And the voices that are saying that today are tend to be on the right hand side of the aisle, the left hand side,

5:03
which is a flip,

5:05
yeah, it's a big flip. And, and I'm kind of wondering if this isn't the manipulation. But I was against to the whole idea of so called net neutrality, because here's, here's the bottom line problem. You've got some kid sitting in the basement of his mom's house, like the typical picture, right. And he's sitting there playing these streaming video games with a dozen of his closest friends around the world. He's got Netflix movie playing over here, and he's got his streaming music playing over there. And he's just using bandwidth coming out of the kazoo. And the people who are pro net battle net neutrality were saying, Hey, listen, he shouldn't have to pay more than the grandmother next door who's living off of social security and all she's looking for is a nice little picture of the great grand kids or grandkids to come in on a piece of email. So in their mind those were equivalent in their mind Netflix which uses more than half of all of the Internet bandwidth in this country that Netflix we should be paying the same and should not be charged by the backbone providers any more than your local soccer team was in the gym? Yeah,

6:23
because they were vacuuming it up

6:28
exactly and why would they have to be responsible for why would someone that pain Netflix to watch movies Why would they have to pay more if they have a plane movies all day long and someone that never opens a movie never streams video right it was insanity so I was absolutely against it. And I told everybody about it on my show on your show and they listen this is this is just stupid. And worst of all, what it's going to do is it's going to stop expansion the growth we had seen on the internets going to stop because you had to go to the FCC and kiss the ring, pardon me,

7:10
and and say, Hey, listen, I have a whole new model for doing business. And in fact, the very first case that was brought in front of the FCC for for arbitration was a company that wanted to give free streaming movies to people. And the FCC said, No, you can't do that. Because, you know, lines and isn't doing that. And it just wouldn't be fair to these other companies out there if you give stuff away for free. So under Obama's net neutrality rules, they were stopping us from getting free stuff. So it's it's absolutely wonderful now that President Trump put in a new chairman for the FCC, whose life has been threatened, whose children's arrives had been threatened by apparently left wingers because he did the see it's crazy. He now has armed security guards, but the new chairman of the FCC got rid of his net neutrality rules. And the beauty of this gym is exactly what I predicted would happen did happen. And that is the companies started to invest in the internet again, because they realize they could charge people based on what they were using. So now they could afford to improve the internet. It's like them well, maybe it's not like the mass pike. But you know, with a pipe if you use it more, you pay more

8:39
Yeah. And and they can, of course, do the repairs and make the better roads to handle the trucks, etc, etc. Right. So now the internet we have doubled in our position here. And since the end of net neutrality, the United States average internet speed has gone from in the world to six in the world. See, that's impossible, because the liberals are telling us that wasn't gonna happen. No, it's gonna get worse. Yeah, that's

9:08
it. That's impossible. You're lying. You're lying.

9:14
I have this stat you go online, you can see it right there. We've got some tweets that people will put the now basically say almost the same thing. But it's showing a dramatic increase. In fact, my I switched my carrier, my telephone carrier over and the for the first time in like almost 30 years, I got cell service 25 years ago. And I stuck with the same company the whole time and I just switched over because I found another carrier now that's given me twice the speed for half the cost under net neutrality they would have had to go to the FCC they would have had to beg permission to charge less and deliver more thank goodness it didn't happen and I morning the conservatives and out there don't to fall for the trap here of trying to regulate the internet in order to stop these left wingers from blocking free speech because if they will get what they want, and they will get all of this regulation and we'll go back to some of the insanity that we had in the 80s and 90s with the so called fairness doctrine that just backfired on everybody so it's gone thank goodness things are getting better dairy is

10:30
folks right there Craig Peterson explaining a said it before and he was right now if you want to get other information from Craig Peterson, you can without any hassle. The only thing is that the standard data and text rates apply. But I will if you text My name him to this number 855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553.

11:01
You will get all of this information plus more. Plus, if there's ever a big hack. He will notify you and tell you what to do. He will never sell your name. And he will never try to sell you anything and he will protect you, Craig. Always a pleasure. That was an excellent explanation and vindication of really a position you took quite a while ago. Oh, yes. Oh, thanks. Yeah, thanks, Craig. All right. Don't go anywhere.

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 09/04/2018

The Stats On Net Neutrality Are Out - We Are All Winning

Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey, Craig Peterson here. You guys remember the whole quote, debate, unquote, about net neutrality? I never thought there was a debate here. There was no sense in this whole idea of net neutrality. It just when you played it out, it was absolutely ridiculous. So any how we got some stats, some hard numbers, what has happened since the end of net neutrality, and that's where I talked about this morning with Jim. So here we go.

0:30
He is the man. He is our tech talk guru. And he's our good friend. I'm talking about Craig Peterson. Got some important stuff to discuss today. Good morning, sir. How are you? Hey,

0:44
Good morning, Jim. Doing well this morning. You know, it's almost the end of the heat wave like this. And they get good again. Yeah, that

0:52
for a Canadian? Yes, absolutely. For Canadian. This is heatstroke. weather. So,

1:00
you know, I'm an American now, right?

1:03
Oh, no, no, no, no, I know that. I meant more like, you know, like, we, which we're very happy about that you did, because you're a wonderful addition to the country. I just met, like, you know, being a Canadian coming from Canada being raised. They're not necessarily the customs. I'm talking about the climate

1:23
and all that. Yeah. Yeah, like a please. You know, like half an hour of sunlight a day. You know, all that stuff. That's it. Well, actually, now, were you not where you came from? But, you know,

1:38
yeah, well, in the summertime, the sun never actually quite set. It was worse. It was Twilight though. And my daughter's in worse shape. Right now. She's up in Norway. And she's saying that the days are already getting cold. It's below freezing.

1:54
Yeah, that's, it's nice to go there in the summer.

2:00
If you wanted to come visit, I'm not so sure.

2:04
You just tell her dad. He's got a big new contract. He's working on me. Can't I'll be there. I'll be there in June.

2:13
Exactly.

2:15
Well, we need your help today. Because two things have come up net neutrality and an actual increase in internet speed ranking. So in the US. So remember, we I think we just need a refresher on what net neutrality was. And now we were told that the sky would fall if net neutrality went away. It did go away and the sky hasn't fallen. So could you lay it out for me, please?

2:46
Sure. Absolutely. I had a request to do exactly that. Another station and another station today, Craig, can you come on, I want you to take net neutrality from both sides. I want you to be productive neutrality and anti net neutrality. And I said, you know, I'm not sure I can take the pro side. But I can tell you what they're saying. And what they were saying, Jim, was that we need a way for the government to regulate the internet very, very closely. We need to make sure that the federal government has control over everything that's online, so that we can enforce free speech rights. But you know, more burden than ever, what we need to do is make sure that these big bad evil companies are not over charging their constituents never word your your internet service provider, whether it be you know, Comcast or whoever it might be even your phone provider, make sure that they have to obey the same rules that were put in place in the 1930s on top of the telephone companies. So that's what they were doing. They said, if we don't have net neutrality, everything's going to fall apart, the speeds are going to slow down and people going to get charged way more is just going to be a terrible, horrific thing. Of course, this was during the Obama administration. And they didn't bother mentioning that, in fact, the internet and it survive just fine without the FCC regulating it for more than 20 years. He back the internet internet had grown immensely over that time.

4:26
So it's this big monster.

4:30
Yeah, we need control over and you know, what I get concerned about right now is we've got the right wing voices and libertarian voices, basically everything except for socialist, slash communist, socialist, fascist voices, all of the other voices out there are getting squashed. And I'm getting concerned. Because we have a lot of people who are saying, whoa, wait a minute. Now, we need to regulate the internet. And the voices that are saying that today are tend to be on the right hand side of the aisle, the left hand side,

5:03
which is a flip,

5:05
yeah, it's a big flip. And, and I'm kind of wondering if this isn't the manipulation. But I was against to the whole idea of so called net neutrality, because here's, here's the bottom line problem. You've got some kid sitting in the basement of his mom's house, like the typical picture, right. And he's sitting there playing these streaming video games with a dozen of his closest friends around the world. He's got Netflix movie playing over here, and he's got his streaming music playing over there. And he's just using bandwidth coming out of the kazoo. And the people who are pro net battle net neutrality were saying, Hey, listen, he shouldn't have to pay more than the grandmother next door who's living off of social security and all she's looking for is a nice little picture of the great grand kids or grandkids to come in on a piece of email. So in their mind those were equivalent in their mind Netflix which uses more than half of all of the Internet bandwidth in this country that Netflix we should be paying the same and should not be charged by the backbone providers any more than your local soccer team was in the gym? Yeah,

6:23
because they were vacuuming it up

6:28
exactly and why would they have to be responsible for why would someone that pain Netflix to watch movies Why would they have to pay more if they have a plane movies all day long and someone that never opens a movie never streams video right it was insanity so I was absolutely against it. And I told everybody about it on my show on your show and they listen this is this is just stupid. And worst of all, what it's going to do is it's going to stop expansion the growth we had seen on the internets going to stop because you had to go to the FCC and kiss the ring, pardon me,

7:10
and and say, Hey, listen, I have a whole new model for doing business. And in fact, the very first case that was brought in front of the FCC for for arbitration was a company that wanted to give free streaming movies to people. And the FCC said, No, you can't do that. Because, you know, lines and isn't doing that. And it just wouldn't be fair to these other companies out there if you give stuff away for free. So under Obama's net neutrality rules, they were stopping us from getting free stuff. So it's it's absolutely wonderful now that President Trump put in a new chairman for the FCC, whose life has been threatened, whose children's arrives had been threatened by apparently left wingers because he did the see it's crazy. He now has armed security guards, but the new chairman of the FCC got rid of his net neutrality rules. And the beauty of this gym is exactly what I predicted would happen did happen. And that is the companies started to invest in the internet again, because they realize they could charge people based on what they were using. So now they could afford to improve the internet. It's like them well, maybe it's not like the mass pike. But you know, with a pipe if you use it more, you pay more

8:39
Yeah. And and they can, of course, do the repairs and make the better roads to handle the trucks, etc, etc. Right. So now the internet we have doubled in our position here. And since the end of net neutrality, the United States average internet speed has gone from in the world to six in the world. See, that's impossible, because the liberals are telling us that wasn't gonna happen. No, it's gonna get worse. Yeah, that's

9:08
it. That's impossible. You're lying. You're lying.

9:14
I have this stat you go online, you can see it right there. We've got some tweets that people will put the now basically say almost the same thing. But it's showing a dramatic increase. In fact, my I switched my carrier, my telephone carrier over and the for the first time in like almost 30 years, I got cell service 25 years ago. And I stuck with the same company the whole time and I just switched over because I found another carrier now that's given me twice the speed for half the cost under net neutrality they would have had to go to the FCC they would have had to beg permission to charge less and deliver more thank goodness it didn't happen and I morning the conservatives and out there don't to fall for the trap here of trying to regulate the internet in order to stop these left wingers from blocking free speech because if they will get what they want, and they will get all of this regulation and we'll go back to some of the insanity that we had in the 80s and 90s with the so called fairness doctrine that just backfired on everybody so it's gone thank goodness things are getting better dairy is

10:30
folks right there Craig Peterson explaining a said it before and he was right now if you want to get other information from Craig Peterson, you can without any hassle. The only thing is that the standard data and text rates apply. But I will if you text My name him to this number 855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553.

11:01
You will get all of this information plus more. Plus, if there's ever a big hack. He will notify you and tell you what to do. He will never sell your name. And he will never try to sell you anything and he will protect you, Craig. Always a pleasure. That was an excellent explanation and vindication of really a position you took quite a while ago. Oh, yes. Oh, thanks. Yeah, thanks, Craig. All right. Don't go anywhere.

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