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

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Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning discussing How the logic in self-driving cars can kill. General Motors Car Rental plans and Coronavirus and the Death of Uber. Here we go with Jack.

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[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: Companies like general motors is betting the bank on not selling cars to individuals, but selling basically renting fleets of cars.

Yeah. If you're like me, I'm really disappointed about this new AAA study and our self-driving cars. Of course, this is Craig Peterson and I was on this morning with Mr. Jack Heath. We got into it this morning and a little bit about the problems we're facing and how some of our US automakers might be going down the completely wrong road.

Jack Heath: All right. Hey, with a tech talk update, we go to our own Craig Peterson, his show airs on the weekend's Tech Talk, Craig joins live on the AutoFair listener lines.

Good morning, Craig.

[00:01:00] Craig Peterson: Hey, good morning, Jack. What do you have? Did you hear the latest? About the parked cars and some of these automatic driving cars. There have been some tests that have been conducted here lately, showing that in recent years, some of these car companies like Tesla, for instance, have these driver assistance systems.  The whole idea behind them is to stay in the lane and they have these adaptive cruise controls. More and more companies are starting to come out with them. Well, there's an interesting study that is just happened here. A report from AAA has found that they do not stop or divert themselves for cars parked, even in the lane, in front of them. In other words, if there's a car broken down in front of you on the highway, these self-driving systems, none of them were tested, will avoid the car. They just ran right into it. And it has to do with the logic in the system saying, well, if it's a fixed object, if it's not moving, it's probably off the side of the road, so I don't need to worry about it. So there go my hopes for having a self-driving car in a couple of years.

[00:02:00] Jack Heath: Yeah. It might take a while.

Justin McIssac: It sounds like self-driving cars were designed in Massachusetts.

Jack Heath: Hey, we haven't talked about this in a while, but you know, before the quote-unquote COVID-19 thing, Uber was just coming into more places, more available and places like New Hampshire. How has the whole pandemic and the whole Uber thing? I mean, they, they weren't even profitable, to begin with, but I mean, Where's Uber at? I'm just curious.

Craig Peterson: Yeah. Uber is an interesting problem. They just lost. What was it? Like two, almost 2 billion. It might've been just over $1 billion, right?

Jack Heath: Just a couple of zeros. It’s a rounding error.

[00:03:00] Craig Peterson: Yeah, exactly. Compared to the US budget. So now they're in really bad shape. I just got from Uber this last week, three rides at 50% off offer. Now I haven't used Uber in probably a year, but they are getting very desperate.  Many of these companies like General Motors, is betting the bank on not selling cars to individuals, but basically renting fleets of cars.

So GM would have a car show up when you want it to show up. All automatically. I think all of these guys are going to be completely, really rethinking what they've been doing because frankly, a safe self-driving car, it’s just not here. It's not in the near future. So, this is really going to upset all of the manufacturers in cars worldwide.

Jack Heath: Yeah. And, uh, you know, it's, it's just one of these trends, people are not out and about not doing as much business travel and it's just interesting that it's going to all shake out. All right. Thank you, Craig Peterson. I appreciate it. You have a good one tech talk.

Craig Peterson: Thank you, sir.

Hey, take care. I'll be back Saturday at 1130.

Jack Heath: Alright, thanks, Craig.

Craig Peterson: Hey everybody.

[00:04:00] Thanks for so many kind comments here. I got dozens and dozens of them. We've been through a lot. And if you've been listening, you know, I kind of dropped the hint about my having had this whole WuHan virus and the COVID-19 symptoms and how that has knocked me on my but here.

I still have that muscle soreness. I feel like I just finished a big workout, which is kind of crazy. But anyway, that's the only thing left. Apparently, that residual of, I felt like I just worked out like crazy, last weeks or sometimes even months. They're saying. So, I have that to look forward to, I guess as well. But we did get a newsletter out and there's a little note in there from me and Karen helped a little bit with some of that, too. Of course, she put together all of the stuff on the articles that I had selected for this week. So, thanks to her as well for all of her help.

I will be back tomorrow, of course, on with Jim Polito on two powerhouse stations down in Mass that actually cover parts of Vermont and Rhode Island and Connecticut as well.

[00:05:00] I'm still doing all of this stuff. We're still reworking things in the studio. I'm meeting with my video guy this afternoon. Again, we've been getting together multiple times a week sometimes just trying to get together so we can do a lot more training for you guys. So have a great day and. Thanks again, guys, for all of those kind words and well wishes and prayers. I really do appreciate it.

Back tomorrow and visit online of course, as well.

Craig Peterson out.

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[00:00:00] We got a lot to cover as per usual. We're going to talk about data breaches today. We're gonna talk about cybercrime today. Election interference. What's going on with the big social media sites.

This is Craig Peterson. I'm so glad you guys have decided to join me today. I am doing a little bit more with video today. So if you are online, you might be able to find me. I am not putting this video up until later on, you get to hear me first here on all of our radio stations and affiliates throughout the Northeast, which is really kind of cool.

Now we keep expanding. Yes. And we're doing more in the Facebook realm and the YouTube realm. I got to start out with a little bit of an apology here. we were going back and looking at all of our numbers. We're trying to figure out what's going on because I was getting dozens and dozens and dozens of emails from listeners saying, why did you send me this email?

[00:01:00] Cause I've been opening all your emails. And they were really confused. Well, here's, here's what goes on. Okay. If you don't open my emails for a few weeks, then I'm kind of figuring that maybe you're really busy. Something's going on. Maybe you don't like the sorts of things that I've been saying or doing.

Maybe you want off the list and stuff. And so I sent out all of those emails to people. Well, it turns out we hadn't sent out an email since June 13th. And you might remember that's when one of my daughters got married and we went out to Kentucky then everything happened with the family is just been crazy.

Then I've been trying to get all of this video stuff together and that's been a lot of work. Two. So my apologies to you, if I sent you that email, and you're wondering why, why is he doing this to me? Cause he knows, I like him. So I think I was able to restore everybody back to proper balance here as synergy.

[00:02:00] We'll see how this all goes. And then the other thing that was messing up, this is what I get for not paying enough attention to some of these things is. All of our podcasts are definitely going out. We've been posting those and they're going out by the podcast mechanism. We've even still been including a transcript of the entire podcast.

Craig Peterson: So you can go back and search and everything. Well, they had not been. Going up onto my website since also about June 13th. So I don't know that we're going to catch up on those on the website. You can definitely get them by you're going to my podcast feed, which you'll find online as well. Craig peterson.com.

Slash podcast. And yeah, if you're an iTunes user, go to Craig peterson.com/itunes, uh, slash you know, wherever you'll find me on all your favorite podcast mediums. So it's there, it's not on my way website and the

[00:03:00] emails didn't go out. Yes. It has been one of those summers. And then, yeah, what happened this week?

We had our tornado. Two towns over from me from this, uh, latest storm. I F it's, it's a different name on, I can't remember what it is. Uh, it's like I say, uh, there are other, and, uh, we, so I ran outside. I was in a meeting. I said, Hey, listen, guys, I got to go. And I grabbed some straps and I wrapped them around the beehives and around the pallets the beehives are sitting on because I do keep rocks on top.

Take help them from blowing over in the light wind, but we get wind. We lost power. I had to bring all of the equipment back up in my studio, all of the computers and stuff. It, it just, wasn't a pleasant experience. Anyhow. That was my week, Hell. How was yours?

[00:04:00] Hey, I want to start by talking again about this new report that was put together by the Ponemon Institute. Now you may be familiar with these guys. You may not be familiar with these skies, but it was put together for IBM and IBM has published it. So I'm going to bring it up on the screen. For those of you who are watching this as a video. Uh, this is the cost of a data breach report for 2020. And this I'm showing here for those people who are watching for those that aren't.

If you want to look it up, just go and do a search for the Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020 IBM and you'll find it. So they did a study on over 500 data breaches. Very, very big. And, and this study was done by the Institute and then it was analyzed and published by IBM securities that say right there, the data breach costs are absolutely huge when you get right down to it, right.

[00:05:00] What kind of business are you with? You know, are you doing just a little guy and the data breach costs, won't be a lot while it could easily put you out of business. Most small businesses, really small businesses just fold within six months. It's bad. So this is showing us here.

Yeah. That the global average total cost of a database is 3.86. Million dollars. Now that's down a little bit from last year, one and a half percent. And what is really saving people, what's really saving businesses is automation. See one of the biggest mistakes businesses make when it comes to the computer security network security VPN security is they've got a veritable plethora.

[00:06:00] Of different pieces of equipment and software. So you've got what are called panes of glass. So you've got you whole five, 10 different systems that your analysts have to look at to figure out what's going on. Are the computers up to date? Did someone try to break in, is someone trying to break in right now?

Did they get in what data did they have access to any data exfiltrated did we catch it right? All of those types of questions. So. Automation, where you have one pane of glass, allows you to have all of these what's from your advanced malware prevention, the intrusion detection, intrusion prevention systems, the endpoint.

[00:07:00] Anti-malware that's sending on your computers, the, uh, the DNS that allows you to monitor where people are going and stop places as well as stop ransomware from getting out. Think about all of these different points inside your network. And then if you're a slightly bigger company, you know, small businesses, according to the small business administration go up to 500 employees, that is a lot of data to analyze.

Yeah. A lot of data to look at false reports, false negatives, real positives that you have to drill into. Well, you don't want to have to go to half a dozen. Different pieces of glass to figure out what happened. You don't want to have to go and look at the antivirus software, which failed too, by the way, because it always does.

Uh, and then look, and hopefully you can look at the firewall logs. Hopefully, you've got it. Detection, intrusion prevention. Oh, hopefully, you've got it all tied in. So it automatically, that's our fun machine. That's been compromised from the network. You know how many people have that. But what is being sent here in this IBM study is that there was a reduction in dramatic reduction when security automation was put in place.

[00:08:00] So that's what I'm talking about here, where it notices something that detects something and shuts it down. So we've got a client that has a location down in Mexico and they have their networks, or I should say, had their networks tied together. Now they didn't want to separate the networks because they had people in Mexico that were VPN in and then they could get on a server locally up here in the Northeast and then do all of the work from there.

And that way they don't have to keep these local servers up to date. Hopefully. Which they weren't, but, um, try and keep them up to date and control them through one exchange server. So all of the accounts and stuff would just be in one place. And, uh, what happened is one of these workstations in Mexico got infected and it hopped right, right through the network.

[00:09:00] Up to here in the Northeast here in the US that happens all the time. I've done pieces of training on VPNs and the right way to configure them and the right way to use them. Obviously, this was all wrong, but we had very advanced firepower. The firewall in there that was doing intrusion detection and prevention, and it noticed data starting to be taken out exfiltrated is what it's called via this link to Mexico.

And after a few megabytes, Of data going out. It might've been a gigabyte or so, uh, saying, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This isn't normal. And this isn't something that should be going on through to Mexico. Now they are in a different time zone. So the firewall was automatically taking that into account and figuring out how to tie it all together.

[00:10:00] Uh, so it shut it down, just bam and it no longer love that machine. Any access to the network up here in the U S. Now since then we have tightened things up even more. They said, Oh, okay. Well, we'll do what you told us to do 18 months ago. And it is now really quite secure, but that is because we had a fully integrated system.

That's why we use Cisco. Cisco was the only a company right now that has a soup to nuts platform and system that you can use that meat. All federal regulatory requirements. The only one, no, you look at Symantec, they got some really fun stuff. They've got some nice stuff. Doesn't meet the federal requirement.

You can look at SonicWall and they, man, it's like outcomes raiser, right? They, they really walk that fine tight line in what they say and what they provide. But. Having this type of automation in place, according to IBM study here now reduced the average total cost 3.5, $8 million from somebody trying to get in or getting in.

[00:11:00] Now we like to make sure they never get it in the first place, but typically all of these automated systems that we're using and that you could be used as well. We'll detect it almost immediately and we'll shut it down. So stick around. We've got more to talk about here. When it comes to this report, there are so many great stats about what's been happening.

So stick around. We'll be right back.

Thanks for listening and visit me online. Make sure you sign up. Craig peterson.com/subscribe and I promise, promise, promise.

Just started sending out that newsletter again.

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[00:00:00] We got a lot to cover as per usual. We're going to talk about data breaches today. We're gonna talk about cybercrime today. Election interference. What's going on with the big social media sites.

This is Craig Peterson. I'm so glad you guys have decided to join me today. I am doing a little bit more with video today. So if you are online, you might be able to find me. I am not putting this video up until later on, you get to hear me first here on all of our radio stations and affiliates throughout the Northeast, which is really kind of cool.

Now we keep expanding. Yes. And we're doing more in the Facebook realm and the YouTube realm.  I got to start out with a little bit of an apology here. we were going back and looking at all of our numbers. We're trying to figure out what's going on because I was getting dozens and dozens and dozens of emails from listeners saying, why did you send me this email?

[00:01:00] Cause I've been opening all your emails. And they were really confused. Well, here's, here's what goes on. Okay. If you don't open my emails for a few weeks, then I'm kind of figuring that maybe you're really busy. Something's going on. Maybe you don't like the sorts of things that I've been saying or doing.

Maybe you want off the list and stuff. And so I sent out all of those emails to people. Well, it turns out we hadn't sent out an email since June 13th. And you might remember that's when one of my daughters got married and we went out to Kentucky then everything happened with the family is just been crazy.

Then I've been trying to get all of this video stuff together and that's been a lot of work. Two. So my apologies to you, if I sent you that email, and you're wondering why, why is he doing this to me? Cause he knows, I like him. So I think I was able to restore everybody back to proper balance here as synergy.

[00:02:00] We'll see how this all goes. And then the other thing that was messing up, this is what I get for not paying enough attention to some of these things is. All of our podcasts are definitely going out. We've been posting those and they're going out by the podcast mechanism. We've even still been including a transcript of the entire podcast.

Craig Peterson: So you can go back and search and everything. Well, they had not been. Going up onto my website since also about June 13th. So I don't know that we're going to catch up on those on the website. You can definitely get them by you're going to my podcast feed, which you'll find online as well. Craig peterson.com.

Slash podcast. And yeah, if you're an iTunes user, go to Craig peterson.com/itunes, uh, slash you know, wherever you'll find me on all your favorite podcast mediums. So it's there, it's not on my way website and the

[00:03:00] emails didn't go out. Yes. It has been one of those summers. And then, yeah, what happened this week?

We had our tornado. Two towns over from me from this, uh, latest storm. I F it's, it's a different name on, I can't remember what it is. Uh, it's like I say, uh, there are other, and, uh, we, so I ran outside. I was in a meeting. I said, Hey, listen, guys, I got to go. And I grabbed some straps and I wrapped them around the beehives and around the pallets the beehives are sitting on because I do keep rocks on top.

Take help them from blowing over in the light wind, but we get wind. We lost power. I had to bring all of the equipment back up in my studio, all of the computers and stuff. It, it just, wasn't a pleasant experience. Anyhow. That was my week, Hell. How was yours?

[00:04:00] Hey, I want to start by talking again about this new report that was put together by the Ponemon Institute. Now you may be familiar with these guys. You may not be familiar with these skies, but it was put together for IBM and IBM has published it. So I'm going to bring it up on the screen. For those of you who are watching this as a video. Uh, this is the cost of a data breach report for 2020. And this I'm showing here for those people who are watching for those that aren't.

If you want to look it up, just go and do a search for the Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020 IBM and you'll find it. So they did a study on over 500 data breaches. Very, very big. And, and this study was done by the  Institute and then it was analyzed and published by IBM securities that say right there, the data breach costs are absolutely huge when you get right down to it, right.

[00:05:00] What kind of business are you with? You know, are you doing just a little guy and the data breach costs, won't be a lot while it could easily put you out of business. Most small businesses, really small businesses just fold within six months. It's bad. So this is showing us here.

Yeah. That the global average total cost of a database is 3.86. Million dollars. Now that's down a little bit from last year, one and a half percent. And what is really saving people, what's really saving businesses is automation. See one of the biggest mistakes businesses make when it comes to the computer security network security VPN security is they've got a veritable plethora.

[00:06:00] Of different pieces of equipment and software. So you've got what are called panes of glass. So you've got you whole five, 10 different systems that your analysts have to look at to figure out what's going on. Are the computers up to date? Did someone try to break in, is someone trying to break in right now?

Did they get in what data did they have access to any data exfiltrated did we catch it right? All of those types of questions. So. Automation, where you have one pane of glass, allows you to have all of these what's from your advanced malware prevention, the intrusion detection, intrusion prevention systems, the endpoint.

[00:07:00] Anti-malware that's sending on your computers, the, uh, the DNS that allows you to monitor where people are going and stop places as well as stop ransomware from getting out. Think about all of these different points inside your network. And then if you're a slightly bigger company, you know, small businesses, according to the small business administration go up to 500 employees, that is a lot of data to analyze.

Yeah. A lot of data to look at false reports, false negatives, real positives that you have to drill into. Well, you don't want to have to go to half a dozen. Different pieces of glass to figure out what happened. You don't want to have to go and look at the antivirus software, which failed too, by the way, because it always does.

Uh, and then look, and hopefully you can look at the firewall logs. Hopefully, you've got it. Detection, intrusion prevention. Oh, hopefully, you've got it all tied in. So it automatically, that's our fun machine. That's been compromised from the network. You know how many people have that. But what is being sent here in this IBM study is that there was a reduction in dramatic reduction when security automation was put in place.

[00:08:00] So that's what I'm talking about here, where it notices something that detects something and shuts it down. So we've got a client that has a location down in Mexico and they have their networks, or I should say, had their networks tied together. Now they didn't want to separate the networks because they had people in Mexico that were VPN in and then they could get on a server locally up here in the Northeast and then do all of the work from there.

And that way they don't have to keep these local servers up to date. Hopefully. Which they weren't, but, um, try and keep them up to date and control them through one exchange server. So all of the accounts and stuff would just be in one place. And, uh, what happened is one of these workstations in Mexico got infected and it hopped right, right through the network.

[00:09:00] Up to here in the Northeast here in the US that happens all the time. I've done pieces of training on VPNs and the right way to configure them and the right way to use them. Obviously, this was all wrong, but we had very advanced firepower. The firewall in there that was doing intrusion detection and prevention, and it noticed data starting to be taken out exfiltrated is what it's called via this link to Mexico.

And after a few megabytes, Of data going out. It might've been a gigabyte or so, uh, saying, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This isn't normal. And this isn't something that should be going on through to Mexico. Now they are in a different time zone. So the firewall was automatically taking that into account and figuring out how to tie it all together.

[00:10:00] Uh, so it shut it down, just bam and it no longer love that machine. Any access to the network up here in the U S. Now since then we have tightened things up even more. They said, Oh, okay. Well, we'll do what you told us to do 18 months ago. And it is now really quite secure, but that is because we had a fully integrated system.

That's why we use Cisco. Cisco was the only a company right now that has a soup to nuts platform and system that you can use that meat. All federal regulatory requirements. The only one, no, you look at Symantec, they got some really fun stuff. They've got some nice stuff. Doesn't meet the federal requirement.

You can look at SonicWall and they, man, it's like outcomes raiser, right? They, they really walk that fine tight line in what they say and what they provide. But. Having this type of automation in place, according to IBM study here now reduced the average total cost 3.5, $8 million from somebody trying to get in or getting in.

[00:11:00] Now we like to make sure they never get it in the first place, but typically all of these automated systems that we're using and that you could be used as well. We'll detect it almost immediately and we'll shut it down. So stick around. We've got more to talk about here. When it comes to this report, there are so many great stats about what's been happening.

So stick around. We'll be right back.

Thanks for listening and visit me online. Make sure you sign up. Craig peterson.com/subscribe and I promise, promise, promise. 

Just started sending out that newsletter again.

We'll be right back.

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Welcome!

Craig discusses the Cost of Data Breaches and IBM/Ponemon Institute Study and why Credential theft is a pre-eminent form of Cybercrime.

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Heads roll at Intel after 7nm delay

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Electric car startup Lucid is challenging Tesla's anti-lidar stance

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[00:00:00] Welcome back, everybody we're talking right now about IBM's latest data breach report. What does it mean to businesses and you as a home user?

Of course, this is Craig Peterson that you're listening to. You can get my weekly report by just going online. I have a newsletter. We have a whole ton of great information available for you. So check that out, make sure you subscribe and I've got well, it's like four different free gifts. One of them is the most coveted gift that I've given out.

I've had so many great compliments on it and that's your security reboot guide, but you'll get that. If you sign up Craig Peterson.com/subscribe, I think you're really, really going to like it. So we were talking about the IBM report before the break.

[00:01:00] Let's complete that. Now, this is the cost of a data breach report, 2020, and it was done by the Ponemon Institute.

And then IBM did some analysis on it. So let's look at the average total cost by security automation level. Fully deployed 2.4, $5 million. So if you fully deploy your security, if you have everything, your security team tells you. Yeah, you need a breach is going to cost you about two and a half million dollars.

If you've partially deployed like My customer here who had the breach coming in via Mexico. And so we had some stuff there, but not everything that we had recommended. And there is actually required by the federal regulations he's supposed to be abiding by partially deployed the cost jumps from 2.4, 5 million

[00:02:00] to 4.1, $1 million, the cost of a breach.

So let me see right there. You save yourself almost $2 million, which is more than what it would cost you to do this, right? If you're a small business and then not deployed at all, a breach is going to cost you about $6.03 million. Absolutely incredible. Now, where are the main parts of this cost while the customers personally identifiable information. So that's things like there, their name, their email address, their phone number, a bank account numbers, maybe social security numbers maybe credit cards. Right? All of that is called PII and it's the stuff that should not ever be disclosed. So if you're a consumer, you kind of expect the business to keep that information confidential, right?

Well, Oh,

[00:03:00] here we go. Breaches that have customer identifiable information account for 80% of all of the breaches. Isn't that sad? So 80% of the time when there's a breach, somebody's personal information is stolen. And the average cost per record customer record in a malicious attack is about $175 in case you're not aware of it.

If you're a retailer. A retailer is to find incredible amounts. I think right now it's a minimum of $125 per credit card that they've taken. If it's breached and they have credit card information on their systems. That's a lot of money, but on average it costs about $175 per customer record. That's stolen next up here on the screen green, and you'll find this online

[00:04:00] again by searching for IBM and their 2020 data breach report, compromised credentials, and cloud misconfiguration.

Lead the way, well, compromised credentials. Hmm. What would those be? But how about you or username and password more and more businesses are moving to the cloud. And if you are using the same email address and you're using the same password yet, you knew what I was going to say. Didn't you for your accounts?

You're in trouble. And that's why I keep reminding people that they should go to have I been poned.com to check and see if their email address has been stolen and a breach I'm playing around, by the way, I almost guarantee it has unless you've got a very, very current email

[00:05:00] address. So 19% had these breaches came in through compromised credentials, other ways to do that.

Obviously nowadays fishing is a very, very big way that does some of this data is stolen, but these were the most expensive initial tech vectors, compromised credentials, and cloud misconfiguration. Now, you know how much I hate VPNs right now, there is a need for them. Don't get me wrong. But. Almost always, it's more of a problem than the problem you're trying to solve using a VPN.

So one of the things we were talked about here just a couple of weeks ago was how the VPN data from, I think it was eight different VPN providers. Was found online, like 1.2 terabytes

[00:06:00] worth of personal information. Now, these are all VPN services that said we don't log we're not logging. Don't worry.

We're great. Here. You can trust us. We're secure and we're not logging. We're not selling your data. What was discovered online in a misconfigured cloud server? All of the places you had been your password in the clear text your username. So they, they now, now that data are stolen anybody that was using one of them is free VPN services.

And I caution you against the paid ones as well, but anyone that was using one of these free VPN services is out of luck because the bad guys have your username that you use and your password. So again, that's why I keep stressing, get one password. It's the best bar, none one password. I don't make a dime off of this.

Right. Uh, but one password

[00:07:00] and make sure you use different passwords every time and have one password generate them for you. I have one password generate passwords that are usually four or five words along. And then I have special characters between each one of the words, and those are almost impossible to crack.

It would take over a hundred years in most cases unless I'm using one of these VPN services that doesn't bother encrypting my password. My day, wasn't doing some sort of a Shaw hash or an MD hash or anything? No, no, no, no clear text. Okay. Uh, so 19% were from compromised credentials. 19% were from cloud misconfiguration and 16%.

We're from vulnerability in third-party software. So the costliest initial attack, vectors compromised credentials, number one. So keep that in mind, everybody on you, with your home

[00:08:00] user, you're a business user on that rudder heaven forbid you're using a consumer router and firewall in a business. Don't do it.

And in most cases, people never bothered to change the default username and password on their firewall. So bad guys get in 4.7, 7 million in dollars is the average cost with compromised credentials, amazing vulnerability and third party software, four and a half million dollars. And what does that tell you?

Patch. Remember when you're talking about Microsoft and you've turned on the automatic updates on windows, all it's going to update is windows and the core windows utilities. It's not going to update your Adobe software, uh, you know, your photoshop and whatever third party. You know, engineering

[00:09:00] software, drafting, software, whatever.

It's not going to automatically update them. And then it's so many businesses are saying, well, okay, you have to run Windows XP or have to run windows seven because I can't and get the latest version of the software. The company went out of business or it's too expensive. And then number three, cloud misconfiguration.

So both vulnerability and third-party software. And club misconfiguration accounts for about a four and a half million dollar breach each real big deal.

So stick around, we're going to go through some more here.

I enjoy being with you. Thanks for being with me. We will be right back.

You're listening to Craig Peterson.

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[00:00:00] Welcome back, everybody we're talking right now about IBM's latest data breach report. What does it mean to businesses and you as a home user?

Of course, this is Craig Peterson that you're listening to. You can get my weekly report by just going online. I have a newsletter. We have a whole ton of great information available for you. So check that out, make sure you subscribe and I've got well, it's like four different free gifts. One of them is the most coveted gift that I've given out.

I've had so many great compliments on it and that's your security reboot guide, but you'll get that. If you sign up Craig Peterson.com/subscribe, I think you're really, really going to like it. So we were talking about the IBM report before the break.

[00:01:00] Let's complete that. Now, this is the cost of a data breach report, 2020, and it was done by the Ponemon Institute.

And then IBM did some analysis on it. So let's look at the average total cost by security automation level. Fully deployed 2.4, $5 million. So if you fully deploy your security, if you have everything, your security team tells you. Yeah, you need a breach is going to cost you about two and a half million dollars.

If you've partially deployed like My customer here who had the breach coming in via Mexico. And so we had some stuff there, but not everything that we had recommended. And there is actually required by the federal regulations he's supposed to be abiding by partially deployed the cost jumps from 2.4, 5 million

[00:02:00] to 4.1, $1 million, the cost of a breach.

So let me see right there. You save yourself almost $2 million, which is more than what it would cost you to do this, right? If you're a small business and then not deployed at all, a breach is going to cost you about $6.03 million. Absolutely incredible. Now, where are the main parts of this cost while the customers personally identifiable information. So that's things like there, their name, their email address, their phone number, a bank account numbers, maybe social security numbers maybe credit cards. Right? All of that is called PII and it's the stuff that should not ever be disclosed. So if you're a consumer, you kind of expect the business to keep that information confidential, right?

Well, Oh,

[00:03:00] here we go. Breaches that have customer identifiable information account for 80% of all of the breaches. Isn't that sad? So 80% of the time when there's a breach, somebody's personal information is stolen. And the average cost per record customer record in a malicious attack is about $175 in case you're not aware of it.

If you're a retailer. A retailer is to find incredible amounts. I think right now it's a minimum of $125 per credit card that they've taken. If it's breached and they have credit card information on their systems. That's a lot of money, but on average it costs about $175 per customer record. That's stolen next up here on the screen green, and you'll find this online

[00:04:00] again by searching for IBM and their 2020 data breach report, compromised credentials, and cloud misconfiguration.

Lead the way, well, compromised credentials. Hmm. What would those be? But how about you or username and password more and more businesses are moving to the cloud. And if you are using the same email address and you're using the same password yet, you knew what I was going to say. Didn't you for your accounts?

You're in trouble. And that's why I keep reminding people that they should go to have I been poned.com to check and see if their email address has been stolen and a breach I'm playing around, by the way, I almost guarantee it has unless you've got a very, very current email

[00:05:00] address. So 19% had these breaches came in through compromised credentials, other ways to do that.

Obviously nowadays fishing is a very, very big way that does some of this data is stolen, but these were the most expensive initial tech vectors, compromised credentials, and cloud misconfiguration. Now, you know how much I hate VPNs right now, there is a need for them. Don't get me wrong. But. Almost always, it's more of a problem than the problem you're trying to solve using a VPN.

So one of the things we were talked about here just a couple of weeks ago was how the VPN data from, I think it was eight different VPN providers. Was found online, like 1.2 terabytes

[00:06:00] worth of personal information. Now, these are all VPN services that said we don't log we're not logging. Don't worry.

We're great. Here. You can trust us. We're secure and we're not logging. We're not selling your data. What was discovered online in a misconfigured cloud server? All of the places you had been your password in the clear text your username. So they, they now, now that data are stolen anybody that was using one of them is free VPN services.

And I caution you against the paid ones as well, but anyone that was using one of these free VPN services is out of luck because the bad guys have your username that you use and your password. So again, that's why I keep stressing, get one password. It's the best bar, none one password. I don't make a dime off of this.

Right. Uh, but one password

[00:07:00] and make sure you use different passwords every time and have one password generate them for you. I have one password generate passwords that are usually four or five words along. And then I have special characters between each one of the words, and those are almost impossible to crack.

It would take over a hundred years in most cases unless I'm using one of these VPN services that doesn't bother encrypting my password. My day, wasn't doing some sort of a Shaw hash or an MD hash or anything? No, no, no, no clear text. Okay. Uh, so 19% were from compromised credentials. 19% were from cloud misconfiguration and 16%.

We're from vulnerability in third-party software. So the costliest initial attack, vectors compromised credentials, number one. So keep that in mind, everybody on you, with your home

[00:08:00] user, you're a business user on that rudder heaven forbid you're using a consumer router and firewall in a business. Don't do it.

And in most cases, people never bothered to change the default username and password on their firewall. So bad guys get in 4.7, 7 million in dollars is the average cost with compromised credentials, amazing vulnerability and third party software, four and a half million dollars. And what does that tell you?

Patch. Remember when you're talking about Microsoft and you've turned on the automatic updates on windows, all it's going to update is windows and the core windows utilities. It's not going to update your Adobe software, uh, you know, your photoshop and whatever third party. You know, engineering

[00:09:00] software, drafting, software, whatever.

It's not going to automatically update them. And then it's so many businesses are saying, well, okay, you have to run Windows XP or have to run windows seven because I can't and get the latest version of the software. The company went out of business or it's too expensive. And then number three, cloud misconfiguration.

So both vulnerability and third-party software. And club misconfiguration accounts for about a four and a half million dollar breach each real big deal.

So stick around, we're going to go through some more here.

I enjoy being with you. Thanks for being with me. We will be right back.

You're listening to Craig Peterson.

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[00:00:00] We've been going through the IBM data breach and we're bound to talk about nation States. What are they doing to us?

Stick around. Here we go.

Hey, Craig Peterson here. I want to thank you guys for joining me. If you are interested in this sort of thing in security in general, whether you're a home user. You're a small business owner. Maybe you're the person responsible for cybersecurity in the organization. Right? Who am I? I'm the operations manager, I am the general business manager and you got stuck with security as part of your job description. Hey, this is the place to be and make sure you are on. My email list, Craigpeterson.com/subscribe, because I want to keep everybody up to date on that. I also enjoy talking about

[00:01:00] some of the cool stuff that's out there and the consumer. So, you know, it's there for kind of everybody that likes the technology. I am somebody that tends to go kind of deep. I don't go so deep here I go a lot deeper in my courses, but I go deeper than anybody else on the radio. I get comments every week from people just so thankful that I do that, right?

It's a bit of a risk. You gotta be really good at explaining things. If you are going to be able to go deep at all, especially on some of these technical topics.

So let's get back to our friends here over at IBM and the latest report that they have released. And let's talk about nation-state attacks. These are a little less common than they used to be. But they come and they go, and I think they're less common because the COVID-19 frankly, but they are also the costliest. IBM saying that

[00:02:00] nation-state actors caused 13% of malicious breaches while 50. 3% were caused by financially motivated attackers, but again, nation-States were the costliest.

So here's what we're looking at here. This is the average total cost in US dollars. And over on the side of you watching this on the video side, you'll see the share malicious breaches per thread, actor type. So nation-States four and a half million dollars average cost. Unknown where it came from. Right.

And the nation-States are pretty good about hiding who they are. A 4.2, $9 million hacktivists 4.28 million. And these are the people who are trying to push their agenda. Right. They have a religion about, uh, you name it global warming or socialism, communism, fascism. Right?

[00:03:00] Those are the hacktivist people and financially motivated.

Right? 4.2, 3 million. Now you notice that although the nation-state actors are the most costly, it's not by much. Okay. So what do we learn from this? Any sort of compromise where they have broken into your systems and stolen data is going to cost you no matter who does it now, the effectiveness of incident response grew over the last year and that's really good.

Really good thing. You should have an incident response team. And I have, if you're interested, I have a handout that we put together. It's I can't remember. It's like eight or 10 pages, just kind of high level, who should be on that incident response team. And I'd be glad to send that to you can just email me M [email protected], but it explains incident response in

[00:04:00] case this again is kind of new to you.

What the titles of the people who are part of this should be how you should integrate legal human resources. The business owner or CEO. Okay. So I'd be glad to send that to you. M [email protected], but, uh, you know, organizations that had an incident response team and tested it, average breach costs of 3.29 million.

And. If you didn't have an incident response team or you weren't drilling your incident response within the organization, it costs you $2 million more, 5.29 million for business organizations with neither incident response teams nor testing. That's pretty darn big. A mega-breach. Oh, I should point out too, by the way, the car savings for having an incident response team and I are testing $2 million.

Right. And that's,

[00:05:00] that's the number I just gave you, but I wanted to drive that point. Home is not going to cost you $2 million. I have a good incident response team and to practice incident response drills with everybody in the organization, mega breaches. Now, these are where you have more than one.

Million records that are stolen. That's called a mega breach. It doesn't happen very often, but it happens every year, multiple times. So the average cost for a mega breach of 50 million records, which is nothing. Look at Equifax, right? It was over 200 million people's personally identifiable information. So the average cost of a mega-breach is.

Through almost $400 million. So we'll leave it there. Um, This goes into how many records. So if you just have one to 10 million records that are breached well, that's a $50 million cost to you. Uh, and it goes up from

[00:06:00] there. Okay. So you can find all of this. I've got it up on the screen at the ibm.com/data breach.

I hope you do check it out. Cause this is important information for everybody. Okay. So data breaches are a very, very big deal. And we have to understand them. We have to work with them. And as consumers let's put on a different hat, you really need to be looking and something else. So let me show you something here.

Uh, okay. So I'm going to pull this up. I'm going to put it on the camera so that those people. Who is watching this on video can see it, but this is a site called have I been pawned? So let me pull up puppy here and you can put in your own email address. Now. Some people. Pay for services that are like this.

And you know, if you want to pay for

[00:07:00] them, I guess. Yeah. Go ahead and makes you feel better. Uh, this is absolutely free. In fact, you can sign up and get alerts when things happen. I remember I told you 12th, these mega breaches look at these largest breaches. This particular one had 772 million records. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to enter my Craig.

At Craig peterson.com email address. Okay. And a, you could certainly send me an email there if you do. I may or may not see it, right. You're better off using me at Craig Peterson, but this is my old address that had been up there for a long time. So have I been pawned is all spelled out, but I shouldn't say pwned, it's spelled Let H A V E I B E EN like, have I been, and then pwned misspelled, P w N E D P w N E D. So, check it out right now! How have I been

[00:08:00] poned.com? So I'm going to check and see, has my email address shown up? So it's saying, Oh no, pwned okay. So it says there were four breached sites and no pastes. Now the pace is a completely different thing, but it's just a different way, of the bad guys sharing your information online.

So it's telling you who I'll look at this one. The password is what you should use. You should have two-factor authentication, which I talk about all the time as well, and subscribe to notifications. Cause he will. Provide with notifications. I suspect his start using one password.com button is probably, he makes a couple of bucks off of it.

So why not? Right. Because poor guy doing all of this, he's trying to sell the company, but he says you're if you buy it, the, have I been pwned you have to continue to make free. So it's saying that Apollo in July 2018, the sales engagement

[00:09:00] startup Apollo luck database containing billions of data points publicly exposed without a password.

There's a subset of the data that had 126 million unique email addresses. And it tells you also what data was compromised. So email addresses, employers, geographical locations, job titles, all kinds of stuff. B2B USA, business data, enrichment exposure from PDL and verifications dot I O. All right. So that's it for now, but we're going to be, be right back.

And we're going to be talking about our next topic for the day, which is going to be. The future and cybercrime. Did you know that the biggest threat may already be here?

Listening to Craig Peterson, stick around. We'll be right back.

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[00:00:00] We've been going through the IBM data breach and we're bound to talk about nation States. What are they doing to us?

Stick around. Here we go.

Hey, Craig Peterson here. I want to thank you guys for joining me. If you are interested in this sort of thing in security in general, whether you're a home user. You're a small business owner. Maybe you're the person responsible for cybersecurity in the organization. Right? Who am I? I'm the operations manager, I am the general business manager and you got stuck with security as part of your job description. Hey, this is the place to be and make sure you are on. My email list, Craigpeterson.com/subscribe, because I want to keep everybody up to date on that. I also enjoy talking about

[00:01:00] some of the cool stuff that's out there and the consumer. So, you know, it's there for kind of everybody that likes the technology. I am somebody that tends to go kind of deep. I don't go so deep here I go a lot deeper in my courses, but I go deeper than anybody else on the radio. I get comments every week from people just so thankful that I do that, right?

It's a bit of a risk. You gotta be really good at explaining things. If you are going to be able to go deep at all, especially on some of these technical topics.

So let's get back to our friends here over at IBM and the latest report that they have released. And let's talk about nation-state attacks. These are a little less common than they used to be. But they come and they go, and I think they're less common because the COVID-19 frankly, but they are also the costliest. IBM saying that

[00:02:00] nation-state actors caused 13% of malicious breaches while 50. 3% were caused by financially motivated attackers, but again, nation-States were the costliest.

So here's what we're looking at here. This is the average total cost in US dollars. And over on the side of you watching this on the video side, you'll see the share malicious breaches per thread, actor type. So nation-States four and a half million dollars average cost. Unknown where it came from. Right.

And the nation-States are pretty good about hiding who they are. A 4.2, $9 million hacktivists 4.28 million. And these are the people who are trying to push their agenda. Right. They have a religion about, uh, you name it global warming or socialism, communism, fascism. Right?

[00:03:00] Those are the hacktivist people and financially motivated.

Right? 4.2, 3 million. Now you notice that although the nation-state actors are the most costly, it's not by much. Okay. So what do we learn from this? Any sort of compromise where they have broken into your systems and stolen data is going to cost you no matter who does it now, the effectiveness of incident response grew over the last year and that's really good.

Really good thing. You should have an incident response team. And I have, if you're interested, I have a handout that we put together. It's I can't remember. It's like eight or 10 pages, just kind of high level, who should be on that incident response team. And I'd be glad to send that to you can just email me M [email protected], but it explains incident response in

[00:04:00] case this again is kind of new to you.

What the titles of the people who are part of this should be how you should integrate legal human resources. The business owner or CEO. Okay. So I'd be glad to send that to you. M [email protected], but, uh, you know, organizations that had an incident response team and tested it, average breach costs of 3.29 million.

And. If you didn't have an incident response team or you weren't drilling your incident response within the organization, it costs you $2 million more, 5.29 million for business organizations with neither incident response teams nor testing. That's pretty darn big. A mega-breach. Oh, I should point out too, by the way, the car savings for having an incident response team and I are testing $2 million.

Right. And that's,

[00:05:00] that's the number I just gave you, but I wanted to drive that point. Home is not going to cost you $2 million. I have a good incident response team and to practice incident response drills with everybody in the organization, mega breaches. Now, these are where you have more than one.

Million records that are stolen. That's called a mega breach. It doesn't happen very often, but it happens every year, multiple times. So the average cost for a mega breach of 50 million records, which is nothing. Look at Equifax, right? It was over 200 million people's personally identifiable information. So the average cost of a mega-breach is.

Through almost $400 million. So we'll leave it there. Um, This goes into how many records. So if you just have one to 10 million records that are breached well, that's a $50 million cost to you. Uh, and it goes up from

[00:06:00] there. Okay. So you can find all of this. I've got it up on the screen at the ibm.com/data breach.

I hope you do check it out. Cause this is important information for everybody. Okay. So data breaches are a very, very big deal. And we have to understand them. We have to work with them. And as consumers let's put on a different hat, you really need to be looking and something else. So let me show you something here.

Uh, okay. So I'm going to pull this up. I'm going to put it on the camera so that those people. Who is watching this on video can see it, but this is a site called have I been pawned? So let me pull up puppy here and you can put in your own email address. Now. Some people. Pay for services that are like this.

And you know, if you want to pay for

[00:07:00] them, I guess. Yeah. Go ahead and makes you feel better. Uh, this is absolutely free. In fact, you can sign up and get alerts when things happen. I remember I told you 12th, these mega breaches look at these largest breaches. This particular one had 772 million records. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to enter my Craig.

At Craig peterson.com email address. Okay. And a, you could certainly send me an email there if you do. I may or may not see it, right. You're better off using me at Craig Peterson, but this is my old address that had been up there for a long time. So have I been pawned is all spelled out, but I shouldn't say pwned, it's spelled Let H A V E I B E EN like, have I been, and then pwned misspelled, P w N E D P w N E D. So, check it out right now! How have I been

[00:08:00] poned.com? So I'm going to check and see, has my email address shown up? So it's saying, Oh no, pwned okay. So it says there were four breached sites and no pastes. Now the pace is a completely different thing, but it's just a different way, of the bad guys sharing your information online.

So it's telling you who I'll look at this one. The password is what you should use. You should have two-factor authentication, which I talk about all the time as well, and subscribe to notifications. Cause he will. Provide with notifications. I suspect his start using one password.com button is probably, he makes a couple of bucks off of it.

So why not? Right. Because poor guy doing all of this, he's trying to sell the company, but he says you're if you buy it, the, have I been pwned you have to continue to make free. So it's saying that Apollo in July 2018, the sales engagement

[00:09:00] startup Apollo luck database containing billions of data points publicly exposed without a password.

There's a subset of the data that had 126 million unique email addresses. And it tells you also what data was compromised. So email addresses, employers, geographical locations, job titles, all kinds of stuff. B2B USA, business data, enrichment exposure from PDL and verifications dot I O. All right. So that's it for now, but we're going to be, be right back.

And we're going to be talking about our next topic for the day, which is going to be. The future and cybercrime. Did you know that the biggest threat may already be here?

Listening to Craig Peterson, stick around. We'll be right back.

---

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[00:00:00] I can't believe it's been an hour. Hey, we're going to talk right now about the futures, biggest cybercrime threat. And guess what? It's already here.

Hey, you're listening to Craig Peterson. I really appreciate you being with me and I enjoy being here on the radio. You can also hear me during the week, so make sure you listen to morning drive time. Those appearances as well.

Well, we're going to get into really the future here. What is the future? What does it contain? It's a crystal ball, right? Well, in reality, there is no crystal ball, but this is a great article that I want to review with you guys. It's from a site. Called dark reading. And if you are someone who is involved in cybersecurity, it really is a must-follow site. There's just so much great stuff in here, [

00:01:00] but this is about the future of cybercrime.

And what does that mean? So let's, uh, I'm going to kind of zoom in a little bit here on this, so you can see it on the screen. If you're watching this in the video, um, Bottom line, the bad guys are paying a lot of attention to what we're doing. They're paying attention to what the FBI is doing, what cybersecurity professionals are doing.

What's being done also by the businesses out there. The responses. To these crimes. And sometimes they'll even get really advanced and start poking. And see if you notice we had a law firm, a big law firm, one of the biggest in the state and they reached out and we went in and talked to them and said that, well, they said, Oh, we're all set.

We're all set. Right. Which is what we hear every time. And yet we've never walked into a business that was really all set. Right.

[00:02:00] So we were working with our, it people, their security people. And we said, Hey, is it okay here? Let's just do a test. If can I try and drive a freight train through your front door and, uh, do a little bit of a white hat backing here.

And they said, yeah, absolutely. Let's have a look. Let's see if, if our security provider even notices. We drove, not afraid train, but I am a multitude of freight trains, including cross Continentals. Through the front door. Uh, and guess what nobody noticed it, nobody noticed at all, because we went back and talked to them and, uh, Dick, who was the guy we were dealing with there, who was our it, the head of it said, yeah, you know, we didn't get any calls.

I said, okay. So that's great. Let's get down to work here. We'd be more than glad to clean things up for you and have a look at what you got and maybe help backfill a little bit. And.

[00:03:00] No, no, there's no budget for it. You're only a loft, right? With w with incredible amounts of PII. Plus all of the case histories, we, we had another small, this was a one-man practice where someone had.

Paid to hack into his computers. Uh, apparently his ex-wife and she charged it on his credit card. So that's part of what we're going to talk about here right now. We've, we've all known about the fake news and the propaganda that's going on and sometimes see something new, but you know what it is, it's not that much different from what had happened with the Nigerian scam, right.

Although. They were just broadcasting to everybody trying to get somebody to bite today. It's the same thing but refined it's refined down to what we call phishing or spear-phishing attacks. So as they're saying right here, they are growing

[00:04:00] in sophistication. They're looking to focus on what works best and when it does work best.

Now, this is the part that I think is very, very, very. Concerning to me, and it should be for everybody else. And that is that you can get hackers for hire. How long ago was that law? That small law firm, about two years ago. Um, and back then, I think it was 50 bucks and fed, uh, that was paid on this lawyer's credit card by his ex-wife that apparently was for hacker services.

Well, now they're way more complicated and professional. So. The hackers start now at $300 to hack an individual for $300. You can have a person hacked and get at their data. And in the case, so the small law firm is a one-man operation. They ended up deleting.

[00:05:00] All of his court documents that had to be filed, all got deleted.

Any pictures of his kid got deleted or, or his ex-wife got deleted. That one. It's what they do. And union 300 bucks. Yeah. Yeah. Deal. Right. So when a young adult over in Eurasia can get $7,000 per month. $7,000 is enough to support a family in many of those countries for a year, a year. Okay. That's how much money they can make so they can get $7,000 a month.

By conducting cyber extortions sound like a big deal to you. What's cyber extortion while it can be a number of things nowadays, again, they just refine the techniques. Ransomware has been around a long time, but it's still refined now. So extortion could be something as simple as old fashioned ransomware, where they encrypt all of

[00:06:00] your data and then they demand money from you.

To get your data back. And according to the FBI, the odds are about 50% that you'll get all your data back if you pay the ransom. Okay. So the odds aren't that great if you do pay so on the other side, Uh, if you don't pay, what do you have to do? Well, you have to restore from backups. Did your backups work?

Will your backups take months to download? Because it's up in the cloud somewhere. Most backups take at least a week to download. And does your backup provider have the option to put all your files on a hard disk and ship it to you? So that you can now restore those files. Right. Uh, and so the other way they're doing extortion is failing, pop up.

This is so clear are so refined, right? They'll get on your machine and they'll take control. No, no, no, it's not. It doesn't mean that they're controlling and your

[00:07:00] mouse and your senior mouse move when you're not expecting it and things type being program's coming up on your screen. No, they do it in the background.

So they will install are basically a remote control. And then within a couple of weeks, weeks, one, or their people will hop onto your machine and see what files you have there. Now, if there are great financial files or maybe there are designs of intellectual property, maybe there's personally identifiable information of your customers.

They'll say, Oh, okay, well, this is actually pretty good. And they will upload all of those files. He'll grab them off the machine. Now there's still a copy on your machine. Your machine's still working really well. There's no problem here. And then they will pop up a message for you. Kind of like a ransomware message.

It says if you don't pay up. We're going to release all of this data and they'll give you some samples of some of your data, right? And

[00:08:00] so people start freaking out. Well, there you go. That's another example of cyber extortion that's happening right now. So these guys and gals over there they're in Eurasia can make almost a million dollars a year.

It's readily achievable. According to this article here, and I believe it over on dark reading.com. So it's a very, very lucrative proposition because if you make a million dollars in those countries, you, your family, your extended family is set for maybe the rest of their lives, certainly for a decade.

And you're just a rich American who cares, right. If we steal that money from you. Now it goes on to talk about the weakest link here. Okay. And they talk about the human firewall. I refer to where right? You've got hardware. Do you know what that is? You got the software, you know what that is? You've

[00:09:00] got firmware.

Which is software that's embedded in the hardware? And then you've got wetware, which is us, right. Mostly water, as said, in, in that star Trek episode, right. Bags of water, I think is how that alien referred to us. So we're wetware and we are. The biggest problem. In many, many cases, remember we went through the statistics from IBM on attack vectors and compromised passwords and usernames compromised accounts were the number one way to get in.

And also the most costly when it came to a breach. So these phishing attempts, which again, think of the old Nigerian scams, how they've morphed today into a, it's a note from Bank of America telling you that your account has been frozen. You need to click through and do an update or. Very recent here.

I've been getting these for the last few weeks. It's a note from

[00:10:00] Amazon saying that your prime membership has been suspended because your credit card didn't work when it was charged. And if you want your prime membership to continue, you have to go onto their website. No, no, no, you don't type it in, just click this link, right?

Those efficient attempts. Now the shocking part of this is 70 to 90. Percent of these successful breaches come from. Social engineering, phishing attacks, one type of social engineering. There's a number of others. What just happened to Twitter, where Barack Obama was telling you to send him a Bitcoin. So send me a thousand dollars in Bitcoin.

I'll send you back 2000 as part of payback for you, right? Because you deserve that money. And it was, I think over 120,000 toddlers people sent this hacker. Well, how did they get in. How'd they get into Twitter to take over all of these big accounts, big named accounts?

[00:11:00] Well, they use social engineering.

They called on the phone and they got people inside Twitter to believe they were from it. Very very big deal. So the criminals have a lot of ways to do stuff. They've got a lot of tools. We're starting to see artificial intelligence. We had another one called vishing and this was an interesting one that happened over in the UK.

They were owned by a German company and they got a phone call from the owner. There's a German company. Right? I think it was supposedly the CEO and he told them to wire some money over. And this is the amount. These are the account numbers. The voice was entirely generated. It was not a real human being.

Okay. So we gotta be careful here. There are so many examples of it happening, but we'll see what happens with five G coming down the pike here.

We're really starting to look at the internet

[00:12:00] of forgotten things. How many pieces of the internet of things hardware do you have? That you've forgotten about how many of them have patches available? How many of them ever had a single patch available? Have you been patching your light bulbs, people? Cause that's what it comes down to.

Alright. Stick around. We're losing some stations. Now either's going to stick with us, make sure you visit me online. So you get all of this stuff. Craig peterson.com/subscribe. I love to hear from you and try and keep you a little bit up to date on the goings-on.

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[00:00:00] I can't believe it's been an hour. Hey, we're going to talk right now about the futures, biggest cybercrime threat. And guess what? It's already here.

Hey, you're listening to Craig Peterson. I really appreciate you being with me and I enjoy being here on the radio. You can also hear me during the week, so make sure you listen to morning drive time. Those appearances as well.

Well, we're going to get into really the future here. What is the future? What does it contain? It's a crystal ball, right? Well, in reality, there is no crystal ball, but this is a great article that I want to review with you guys. It's from a site. Called dark reading. And if you are someone who is involved in cybersecurity, it really is a must-follow site. There's just so much great stuff in here, [

00:01:00] but this is about the future of cybercrime.

And what does that mean? So let's, uh, I'm going to kind of zoom in a little bit here on this, so you can see it on the screen. If you're watching this in the video, um, Bottom line, the bad guys are paying a lot of attention to what we're doing. They're paying attention to what the FBI is doing, what cybersecurity professionals are doing.

What's being done also by the businesses out there. The responses. To these crimes. And sometimes they'll even get really advanced and start poking. And see if you notice we had a law firm, a big law firm, one of the biggest in the state and they reached out and we went in and talked to them and said that, well, they said, Oh, we're all set.

We're all set. Right. Which is what we hear every time. And yet we've never walked into a business that was really all set. Right.

[00:02:00] So we were working with our, it people, their security people. And we said, Hey, is it okay here? Let's just do a test. If can I try and drive a freight train through your front door and, uh, do a little bit of a white hat backing here.

And they said, yeah, absolutely. Let's have a look. Let's see if, if our security provider even notices. We drove, not afraid train, but I am a multitude of freight trains, including cross Continentals. Through the front door. Uh, and guess what nobody noticed it, nobody noticed at all, because we went back and talked to them and, uh, Dick, who was the guy we were dealing with there, who was our it, the head of it said, yeah, you know, we didn't get any calls.

I said, okay. So that's great. Let's get down to work here. We'd be more than glad to clean things up for you and have a look at what you got and maybe help backfill a little bit. And.

[00:03:00] No, no, there's no budget for it. You're only a loft, right? With w with incredible amounts of PII. Plus all of the case histories, we, we had another small, this was a one-man practice where someone had.

Paid to hack into his computers. Uh, apparently his ex-wife and she charged it on his credit card. So that's part of what we're going to talk about here right now. We've, we've all known about the fake news and the propaganda that's going on and sometimes see something new, but you know what it is, it's not that much different from what had happened with the Nigerian scam, right.

Although. They were just broadcasting to everybody trying to get somebody to bite today. It's the same thing but refined it's refined down to what we call phishing or spear-phishing attacks. So as they're saying right here, they are growing

[00:04:00] in sophistication. They're looking to focus on what works best and when it does work best.

Now, this is the part that I think is very, very, very. Concerning to me, and it should be for everybody else. And that is that you can get hackers for hire. How long ago was that law? That small law firm, about two years ago. Um, and back then, I think it was 50 bucks and fed, uh, that was paid on this lawyer's credit card by his ex-wife that apparently was for hacker services.

Well, now they're way more complicated and professional. So. The hackers start now at $300 to hack an individual for $300. You can have a person hacked and get at their data. And in the case, so the small law firm is a one-man operation. They ended up deleting.

[00:05:00] All of his court documents that had to be filed, all got deleted.

Any pictures of his kid got deleted or, or his ex-wife got deleted. That one. It's what they do. And union 300 bucks. Yeah. Yeah. Deal. Right. So when a young adult over in Eurasia can get $7,000 per month. $7,000 is enough to support a family in many of those countries for a year, a year. Okay. That's how much money they can make so they can get $7,000 a month.

By conducting cyber extortions sound like a big deal to you. What's cyber extortion while it can be a number of things nowadays, again, they just refine the techniques. Ransomware has been around a long time, but it's still refined now. So extortion could be something as simple as old fashioned ransomware, where they encrypt all of

[00:06:00] your data and then they demand money from you.

To get your data back. And according to the FBI, the odds are about 50% that you'll get all your data back if you pay the ransom. Okay. So the odds aren't that great if you do pay so on the other side, Uh, if you don't pay, what do you have to do? Well, you have to restore from backups. Did your backups work?

Will your backups take months to download? Because it's up in the cloud somewhere. Most backups take at least a week to download. And does your backup provider have the option to put all your files on a hard disk and ship it to you? So that you can now restore those files. Right. Uh, and so the other way they're doing extortion is failing, pop up.

This is so clear are so refined, right? They'll get on your machine and they'll take control. No, no, no, it's not. It doesn't mean that they're controlling and your

[00:07:00] mouse and your senior mouse move when you're not expecting it and things type being program's coming up on your screen. No, they do it in the background.

So they will install are basically a remote control. And then within a couple of weeks, weeks, one, or their people will hop onto your machine and see what files you have there. Now, if there are great financial files or maybe there are designs of intellectual property, maybe there's personally identifiable information of your customers.

They'll say, Oh, okay, well, this is actually pretty good. And they will upload all of those files. He'll grab them off the machine. Now there's still a copy on your machine. Your machine's still working really well. There's no problem here. And then they will pop up a message for you. Kind of like a ransomware message.

It says if you don't pay up. We're going to release all of this data and they'll give you some samples of some of your data, right? And

[00:08:00] so people start freaking out. Well, there you go. That's another example of cyber extortion that's happening right now. So these guys and gals over there they're in Eurasia can make almost a million dollars a year.

It's readily achievable. According to this article here, and I believe it over on dark reading.com. So it's a very, very lucrative proposition because if you make a million dollars in those countries, you, your family, your extended family is set for maybe the rest of their lives, certainly for a decade.

And you're just a rich American who cares, right. If we steal that money from you. Now it goes on to talk about the weakest link here. Okay. And they talk about the human firewall. I refer to where right? You've got hardware. Do you know what that is? You got the software, you know what that is? You've

[00:09:00] got firmware.

Which is software that's embedded in the hardware? And then you've got wetware, which is us, right. Mostly water, as said, in, in that star Trek episode, right. Bags of water, I think is how that alien referred to us. So we're wetware and we are. The biggest problem. In many, many cases, remember we went through the statistics from IBM on attack vectors and compromised passwords and usernames compromised accounts were the number one way to get in.

And also the most costly when it came to a breach. So these phishing attempts, which again, think of the old Nigerian scams, how they've morphed today into a, it's a note from Bank of America telling you that your account has been frozen. You need to click through and do an update or. Very recent here.

I've been getting these for the last few weeks. It's a note from

[00:10:00] Amazon saying that your prime membership has been suspended because your credit card didn't work when it was charged. And if you want your prime membership to continue, you have to go onto their website. No, no, no, you don't type it in, just click this link, right?

Those efficient attempts. Now the shocking part of this is 70 to 90. Percent of these successful breaches come from. Social engineering, phishing attacks, one type of social engineering. There's a number of others. What just happened to Twitter, where Barack Obama was telling you to send him a Bitcoin. So send me a thousand dollars in Bitcoin.

I'll send you back 2000 as part of payback for you, right? Because you deserve that money. And it was, I think over 120,000 toddlers people sent this hacker. Well, how did they get in. How'd they get into Twitter to take over all of these big accounts, big named accounts?

[00:11:00] Well, they use social engineering.

They called on the phone and they got people inside Twitter to believe they were from it. Very very big deal. So the criminals have a lot of ways to do stuff. They've got a lot of tools. We're starting to see artificial intelligence. We had another one called vishing and this was an interesting one that happened over in the UK.

They were owned by a German company and they got a phone call from the owner. There's a German company. Right? I think it was supposedly the CEO and he told them to wire some money over. And this is the amount. These are the account numbers. The voice was entirely generated. It was not a real human being.

Okay. So we gotta be careful here. There are so many examples of it happening, but we'll see what happens with five G coming down the pike here.

We're really starting to look at the internet

[00:12:00] of forgotten things. How many pieces of the internet of things hardware do you have? That you've forgotten about how many of them have patches available? How many of them ever had a single patch available? Have you been patching your light bulbs, people? Cause that's what it comes down to.

Alright. Stick around. We're losing some stations. Now either's going to stick with us, make sure you visit me online. So you get all of this stuff. Craig peterson.com/subscribe. I love to hear from you and try and keep you a little bit up to date on the goings-on.

Take care of everybody. If you're leaving, have a great week.

Hey, you're gonna have a great week, even if you're not leaving and we will be back after the top of the hour.

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Read More:

Average Cost of a Data Breach: $3.86 Million

The Future's Biggest Cybercrime Threat May Already Be Here

Election Interference: Google Purges Breitbart from Search Results

Google Has Been Purging Breitbart Content from Search Results Since the 2016 Election

Heads roll at Intel after 7nm delay

Out-of-Date and Unsupported Cloud Workloads Continue as a Common Weakness

Three people have been charged for Twitter's huge hack, and a Florida teen is in jail

Remote Work Isn't Working? Maybe Your Company Is Doing It Wrong

FBI Releases Flash Alert on Netwalker Ransomware

Electric car startup Lucid is challenging Tesla's anti-lidar stance

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[00:00:00] Hey right now, we're going to talk about election interference. What's really going on with Google, not Russia. They're the ones that are interfering and we got evidence

Hey everybody, Craig Peterson here on WGAN. Thanks for joining me today. I really appreciate it. I appreciate your time and all of the emails that I've received. Yeah.

If you heard the first hour, you know, I have received a lot of them and many of them were questioning. Why did you send me this email about not opening your emails? Cause I love your emails. Don't drop me, please.

Um, yeah. Well, it turns out, due to circumstances beyond my control. We've just been so busy. We had the wedding, we had to go to Kentucky and then there's the whole COVID thing, other family issues, and just stuff going on. Including the all-new video

[00:01:00] stuff that I've been working on that we're going to be doing some pieces of training and everything.

It's just been crazy. So I apologize. I apologize, apologize. I think we're going to be able to get this all into control.

So if you've got one of those emails from me, you can ignore them. If you did click on the link for the surprise bonuses for reactivating your account. You got some very cool stuff.

And I want to mention too, if you're not on my email list where you get my newsletter and you will get indications about the upcoming pieces of training and stuff if you want to get on that, I have even more surprises for you. One of them, I guess it wouldn't be a surprise if I told you, I'm going to tell you, because I'm excited about this, right?

One of them is the security, reboot guide, something everybody needs. It's great for home users. It is great for, or businesses as well, small and large. I focus on small and medium businesses. That is out there and you can get that

[00:02:00] easily by going to Craig peterson.com/subscribe, Craig peterson.com/subscribe.

And you will get my, hopefully, back to normal, weekly newsletter, plus a bunch of bonuses. So keep an eye on email box for a couple of weeks afterward, cause I'll be dropping some things off to you. Appreciate you guys.

That's how I'm letting you know we put a lot of work into the show and a lot of work into everything we do, because we care. Right.

Well, that's what it's all about here. I do need to obviously make money to keep the lights on. But most people don't need the types of security services that I offer. So I'm offering all of these free services that I possibly can to help people out. The services that I offer, a lot of businesses need them that are in government contracting. So the new CMMC regulations.

[00:03:00] Those are the guys that I help and I help them every day and help them get along and move forward. By the way, the federal government now has decided, I think this is kind of a great idea that since they are requiring our small businesses to comply with the CMMC regulations, which have, by the way, criminal penalties, including 10 years of jail time and millions of dollars in fines.

Well, they're putting that sword of Damocles over your head. They're also saying, "Hey, we'll pay for it. Just pass on your cost upstream." Keep that in mind if you're interested in that. If you're not sure send me a note. M [email protected] [email protected]. And I can send you a couple of records.

You can probably find it if you Google it as well, but I think that's a great idea. They are putting costs. No, it, it

[00:04:00] depends, but basically it can be a hundred thousand dollars a year, fairly easily on these small businesses. And the federal government said, Hey, you can pass these along and we'll pay him so good news there.

So let's get into our next topic here. And this is fascinating. You know, we heard for years that Russia was interfering with our election years. And it always really bothered me because there was no evidence of it. And now we found out that those same people that we're walking out of congressional testimony meetings, you know, the secret hearings that were held by representative Schiff down in the basement, in a skiff and in a secure room that no one could, could listen in on.

Well, now those transcripts have come out. And it turns out every last one of those people who were on

[00:05:00] TV, the saying, uh, yeah, president of drama, he's colluding with the Russians. We have absolute proof of it. Including chairman Schiff himself. We have absolute proof of it and people are going to go to jail and everything else.

In the, in the closed-door hearings, when they were sworn in and giving testimony, all of them denied that there was any evidence that the administration was colluding with Russia. So, what has Russia been doing? Well, they, I definitely have been trying to interfere in the elections, but they've been really mess something awful.

One of their biggest ads on Facebook by the Russians was after the election was over. If you can believe that. Oh, what good did that do? Right. And really what they're trying to do is just stir things up and really confuse people. So they had ads supporting Trump. They had ads supporting

[00:06:00] Clinton and just really kind of mixing it up.

So that's what they're into, that's their game. And they had relatively little impact on the election. Then there are social media sites. And what we're going to talk about right now is a claim from Breitbart news. Now, if you don't know who Breitbart is, they are a conservative website that has reporters and just all kinds of great stuff.

Breitbart himself passed some years back, but it has continued on and a few days after the 2016 election, and the internal meeting was leaked to Breitbart news. So there were top Google executives, including Sundar P Shai, Sergey, Brin, and Kent Walker. And they were just horrified that president Trump had

[00:07:00] won and the top Google executives were comparing Trump voters to extremists and they discussed in the meeting, how they could make Trump's election and the populist movement, a blip in the history.

Now. This is all documented. Now Google top executives on record saying, uh, yeah. We're, we're just, uh, yeah. Yeah. We're gonna make sure that Trump doesn't get reelected basically. So now it's four years later and Google is now deliberately working to interfere with the reelection of President Trump. And apparently there are several ways that Google's interfering.

Now. This is all from Breitbart. I checked on some of these stats they do appear to be correct. Okay. But the, uh, the article call that I'm referring to here that you'll find on my website is focusing primarily

[00:08:00] on political search bias. So if you're a business or you're a political campaign, how are we going to get the word out?

What are you going to get the word out by putting up a website, maybe doing some advertising, trying to drive people to your website, all of the big political campaigns I'm doing that for a long time. Of course, smaller ones can't necessarily afford some of those things. So, what does Breitbart do? Well, they do the exact same thing.

They have a website and they have run some ads in the past. I don't think they're running them right now for reasons. I think that will become apparent to you as we go through this a little bit more, but there are search results are King here. Now, remember Google owns the two top search engines in the world.

Yeah. You heard it right. Google owns not just Google,

[00:09:00] but YouTube. How much of the market do they have? When it comes to searches, it is absolutely amazing. It is absolutely huge. So they have a collective share between Google and yeah. YouTube of about nothing. 92% of all searches performed in the world.

Can you believe that? Absolutely amazing. 92%. So if you want to go online and you want to find out about, well, let's say, vice president, Joe Biden, who's running for the Democrats this time around, you're going to get all kinds of results on Joe Biden. And if I look them up right now and just type in Joe Biden here into Google, I get an ad from old Joe Biden, official team Biden, and another one, Joe

[00:10:00] Biden for president donate.

Now, this is from the act blue website. I get some top stories. Uh, let's see, Washington post Republicans are still trying to frame Joe Biden with Ukraine, uh, political. Even further left than the Washington post-Biden, Latino community is diverse. Unlike the African American community K N surprisingly enough, Fox news Ben Shapiro Warren's Biden falling apart after bizarre interview.

Maybe that's because they know my leanings here. Okay. And then they give a few different things on Twitter here for Biden, Joe Biden for president official campaign website. So you're going to come into this. You're going to look at it and say, Oh, there's a Wikipedia entry, which by the way, Wikipedia is political as well.

Very left-wing. Uh, CNN is coming up here. New York Times. Facebook's uh, Joe [

00:11:00] Biden's homepage on Facebook, the Hill, uh, political and another one. So that's the first page of web results for Joe Biden. When we get back, we're going to talk, talk more about this, and look at the statistics from Breitbart. When it comes to searches for Joe Biden.

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