Dec 5, 2018
Craig is on WGAN with Ken and Matt as they discussed the recent Marriott hack and the mysterious new tool that local law enforcement uses to unlock cellphones.
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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 12/05/2018
New Information About Marriott Starwood Hack
Craig Peterson: 0:00
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Unknown 1:56
Alright, we're back again WGAN's Morning News with Ken and Matt on
a Wednesday morning at 7:38. Which means Craig Peterson is with us
right now.
Unknown 2:03
Craig, how are you, sir? Good morning. Wouldn't that be with Ken
and Matt and Craig the next few minutes? Yeah,
Unknown 2:10
that would be true. Yeah, yeah.
Unknown 2:14
So I went to your website quick. Peterson car peters.com to find
out what the latest post HTTP and I'm was shocked to find that
Google is going to monitor our moods or movements and our
children's behavior. That's particularly longing for man who is 17
children. So why don't you tell us about that
Unknown 2:35
Craig has way more
Unknown 2:38
say you weren't good to me. Oh,
Unknown 2:42
good point.
Unknown 2:42
Yeah. Yeah. You don't hear that very often. Yeah, there's so much
in the news this week, you know, including the whole Mary breach,
which is a really big deal. Google. This is kind of scary because
we've talked before right. You were talking earlier this morning
Ken about setting up an Echo and having a play that Cardi B, right.
And I don't know if you guys heard this quote this week. I can't
remember who it was attributed to. But they they were saying I
don't know how you can listen to rap music and yet somehow be
offended by Baby It's Cold Outside.
Unknown 3:21
That's true.
Unknown 3:23
Who said that? I can't. I'm not sure
Unknown 3:26
Actually that came up because the Princeton Boys Choir is also not
doing KissGirl from The Little Mermaid anymore, because
Unknown 3:39
Baby It's Cold Outside is another one. They're not going to do
anymore.
Unknown 3:42
So you set up that Echo. So that what so that you could listen in
on the on the family?
Unknown 3:47
Evidently. Yes,
Unknown 3:48
that was your call. Let's run a lot of people are worried about
right. And we've talked about the Echoes and the Google homes and
some of these other devices that are out there. And Google just got
a passing excuse me here about a month ago, but gives Google now a
really kind of an interesting viewpoint. And no, speaking of
viewpoints, if you have a smart TV, and we've talked a little bit
about this before, some of these manufacturers, TVs are actually
using built in cameras to identify people in the family who was
watching TV, who was paying attention, what show was on one where
they not watching and some of these TVs ended up getting tapped.
Well, Google, and which means that bad guys could sit there and
watch you hopefully watch TV, and nothing more, right. So Google's
newest patent is taking their privacy's spying to a whole new
level. Now, this doesn't mean Google's ultimately going to
implement this or that this is part of Google Home. This is going
to be part of Google Home anytime soon. But these patents allow
them to do all kinds of monitoring of you and your home. So for
instance, you have a Google Nest thermostat, which is one of these
smart thermostats it's designed to measure the conditions in your
home and it'll set the temperatures Well, it needs to know
someone's in the room if there's activity in the room. And we've
seen that for decades now. And businesses and buildings that light
come on when someone enters the room, etc. Very basic monitoring.
Well, Google's patent allows them to take this to a whole new level
where they can recognize not just your face and who's in the room
it will track you going from room to room but it can even recognize
a T shirt that you might be wearing and it might recognize can that
currently be picture on your T shirt as you walk into a room he
certainly
Unknown 5:50
wearing that T shirt by the way it's I
Unknown 5:52
love Yeah, well, that make sense. You know, I get it it'll
recognize that T shirt and that might be the reason that that
Amazon Echo started playing Cardi B for you because Google has the
patent now that can recognize the clothes you're wearing. The
artists are movie stars that are on your T shirt and then it'll
start playing ads for you for that movie stars latest movie that's
coming out. So this is a patent it was issued and it's frankly more
more than scary but I'm not sure it's too scary as the whole
Marriott attack was
Unknown 6:31
indeed want to tell us a little bit of that Marriott hack is that's
the second time you brought it up. Clearly you're dying talking
about it Craig. Let's see what happens with Marriott.
Unknown 6:37
Oh, you got me figured out. Okay. So here's what's happened. If you
are Marriott member you might remember back in 2015 Marriott's got
hacked and credit cards were stolen and Marriott has been on an
acquisition spree lately. And it went ahead then it's been buying
up smaller hotel chains, including the most recent one where they
purchase the whole what was the star would screw pride. Yes,
Starwood Hotels and that included a few different hotels whose
names you might recognize. But what ended up happening is Marriott
merged all of their databases and from Starwood into Marriott's
mainframes and they recently noticed a problem it turns out some
500 billion guest reservations had been stolen from Starwood
database. Now it's not just the guest registration because that
would be bad enough but if you bought if you read reserve something
with Marriott, obviously they needed your credit card number. So
apparently there's some 327-ish million people who not only who was
credit card numbers were stolen, whose names and addresses and
whose phone numbers were stolen. But of those people anyone that
booked with one of these Marriott properties overseas and
registered their passport with Marriott also had their passport
data stolen. So basically, everything that you had with Marriott
all of your data has been potentially stolen. lawsuits are already
flying. So that's probably number one. And I want to talk about
Marriott's response to this too. But this is huge. This is kind of
on the order of the Equifax breach. Last year, 500 million people
this is one of the biggest hacks ever.
Unknown 8:45
Wow, that's
Unknown 8:46
it's it's huge. Have you heard about this? It's just crazy. And
then their response to it. Now we had a lot of complaints about
Equifax and their terrible response to the hack they had last year.
Well, Marriott had. They they sent out emails to people letting
them know about the compromise and they did not send them from
marriott.com. They sent them from a different domain
email-marriott.com. They also did not have a web server shows
associated with that domain. So if you typed into your browser,
email-marriott.com, a website would not come up. It was not
assigned email. It was not an encrypted email the domain doesn't
load and what do we tell people all the time about hooking links in
unknown emails do it do it all the time and often
Unknown 9:43
do it don't right and so here's this is Marriott's response to this
there's only one mentioned about this other domain that Mary used
in its in their data breach notification site. This is absolutely
nuts. So now Marriott is as I mentioned, lawsuits filed yesterday
in Oregon about the same you know data was breach. This is going to
be huge under the GDPR which are the European regulations have
updated privacy. Mary it could be facing a fine of almost $1
billion
Unknown 10:22
just for the data that was stolen relating to European citizens.
The US doesn't have anything quite like GDPR yet. Although right
now the Trump administration is looking at adopting it.
Massachusetts has a similar law as does California yay, so we could
see billion plus dollars in fines plus the lawsuits all coming
Marriott's way because they acquired a company that had apparently
had a breach since 2014.
Unknown 11:03
Wow. Wow. Wow. Indeed. Ladies and gentlemen. We're talking to Craig
Peterson. If you want all this tech information in time you want go
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Unknown 11:15
You also listen on your page about local law enforcement using a
tool to unlock cell phones. So I have to worry about our local
police department unlocking my cell phone.
Unknown 11:28
Yeah, this has been know a bit of an issue for a while there's two
companies and Israeli companies that have been able to unlock cell
phones, Apple's made some changes to their phones to help block
these unlocker. Apparently, there is a new tool out there that is
being used by law enforcement a bottom line at this point. It's law
enforcement that can unlock the phones we faint they can unlock the
latest iPhones, but we're not absolutely sure. However, it's law
enforcement. This is not something that you can expect criminals to
really be using. Some businesses have purchased these devices
because of the problem of having a disgruntled employee believe
having, you know, business related data on the phone or the iPad
and not giving the past code. So businesses have been using it to
unlock iPhones and iPads and other devices will see this is a game
of one have this device in some cases, they still have to get a
word in other cases, they haven't secured warrants, this whole
thing is still legally kind of up in the air
Unknown 12:38
market. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at this time every
Wednesday. Craig, appreciate it. And we'll talk again next
week.
Unknown 12:44
Hey gentlemen, take care. Thanks. Thanks a lot sir. All right,
we're going to kick it
Otter 12:49
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