Jun 17, 2019
Craig is on with Jack Heath this Monday morning. Today they talked about the Microsoft vulnerabilities, their newest vulnerability and why and the NSA issued a specific warning and said you must patch. We also talked about the Iranians and their attacks on infrastructure, The New York Times revelation that ticked off President Trump and what he had to say about them.
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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 06/17/2019
Craig 0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody, Craig Peterson here. We are getting
ready for our security summer, this is going to be a whole summer's
worth of, well it will really be kind of a summit. There will be
lessons twice a week. You can attend the live sessions, or you can
also go ahead and get yourself a golden ticket if you'd like to, so
you will be able to go through it all. This summer, we are getting
back to the brass tacks, the basics of what you need to do. We're
going go through all of the basics, that's what the security summer
is all about. Make sure you keep an eye out for that or send an
email to me at Craig Peterson dot com. If you're interested in
participating. As I said, it is absolutely free. I'm concerned
about people who just don't have the money and are, you know,
really in need of help. In my 30 years of doing computer security
stuff. I have never been in a business where we did any sort of an
audit, or we took over the IT or the security, that did not have
security problems. No matter the business, the size, or how good
their people supposedly were. That is why I know there are smaller
companies out there that just can't afford to pay for one of my
more prominent courses. That is why this is free. Now you can
upgrade, right, if you want to. But it is excellent information and
free. I've done these types of courses in the past, and the
responses have been fantastic. I want to help everybody out, I want
to make this affordable, and affordable equals free. Then we are
going to make it available as well via the golden ticket that way
you can get the whole security summer and keep the security summer
information. I am doing this information will be going away right
as soon as the summer's over and we're only leaving the individual
classes up for two weeks. So once the summer's over, it'll be taken
down, unless you upgrade to the golden ticket. However, you will
have two weeks to watch each one of these videos before I take them
down. And I think it's important to, to watch them right to pay
attention. And I'm doing the two-week thing so that people will
have the motivation to take action if we do that, right? We all
have our lives and are just so busy, so many things going on, that
many will say hey, listen, I'll do this in three weeks, I'll do it
at the end of the summer, I'll have time in September, but it never
gets done. It is one of the most critical things you can do for
your family and for your business. If you are breached, man, oh man
and not just hacked into, but you end up with one of these new
zero-day attacks. Or maybe it's something like Equifax had, the
patches have been out for more than six months, and they hadn't
done the updates they needed to do. Any of those things can cause
great heartache on your part. If your business, it can put you out
of business. And we've got some new statistics will be talking
about coming out of some further studies showing how things really
have gotten worse, but how it will affect you. So all of that's
part of our security summer, it's going to be absolutely free. Send
email to me at Craig Peterson dot com. We will have a sign up
ready, here pretty shortly, probably next week for you. So, I'll
give you that link. And if you want to kind of poke around, it's
going to be at security summer.com. How's that for simple, right?
It's not there yet. You try and go there. It's not going to go
anywhere, as it is not yet released. We're putting it up, at
security summer summit, I think is what we're going to call it
security summer summit dot com. It is going to be me teaching a lot
of this stuff. We're going to have a few guests on talking about
things talking about their hardware and software, and how it works,
so that you can make some informed decisions about what you might
want to use and what you might want to do. We'll be having all of
those guys and gals on our Security Summer summit.com. That's where
it'll be.
Anyhow, here we go. This morning, I was on with Mr. Jack Heath. And as usual, we talked about a couple of different things, including a high-security alert came up from the NSA this week. And I kind of went off at a bit of a tangent too, because I thought it was necessary. So, here we go with, Jack.
Jack Heath
All right, Craig Peterson, our Tech Talk guy on this Monday
morning. And Craig. Good morning. How are you? Hey, good morning,
doing well. Good. What's up, what do we have this morning on our
tech talk side? You always tell us how to kind of avoid being
victims of scam or spam or you name it.
Craig
Yeah, exactly. A lot is going on out there. Well, you might
remember about 18 months ago, the world was hit with one of the
worst attacks ever. It brought down huge corporations and
government offices, it was a terrible thing. Well, we've got some
significant warnings out there right now. Even the NSA has stepped
in and been providing some notifications of their own. I want to
warn everybody I know this sounds like a broken record. Right? Make
sure you're patched up. We have something even newer, Iran has been
in the news, of course, a lot recently. There was just a break in,
apparently of Iranian bad tech guys, their hacker groups, and the
Iranian tools were released. Now you might remember back that the
NSA tools have been stolen, and were used for hacking as well. And
you might think that these incidences are kind of dropping off,
Jack. But they are accelerating because we're getting more and more
government involved now, as well as organized crime hacking each
other. And then we had just over the weekend, President Trump
coming out and talking about the New York Times, saying that what
they did was traitorous, when they came out and said that we, the
United States, was hacking Russian power plants, and have been
putting malware into them. So, this whole thing is getting crazy,
and unfortunately, it's just the very beginning, Jack.
Jack Heath
Yeah, there's been some reports over the weekend on that. Of
course, you know, it just seems that we're not going to be able to,
you know stop it. And those speaking of the power grid, and I'm not
saying it was any kind of malware but in Argentina, the 10s of
millions of pounds 10s of millions of people without power in the
in the dark because of a problem with their grid. So, scary stuff.
All right, Craig, anything else before we let you get on with your
Monday?
Craig
Well, I want to say to everybody, just get back to the brass tacks
here. That's what matters. Get back to the basics. Make sure you're
patching, make sure you're up to date. That's going to help protect
you. We have got some really cool stuff going on as well. Some more
news and the autonomous systems that are out there. And I've got a
couple of articles about that up on my website as well, at Craig
Peterson dot com.
Jack Heath
Craig, thanks for the Tech Talk check and thank you, Craig
Peterson.
Craig
Take care, Jack
Craig
All right, everybody, remember is not up yet. It will be up soon.
But you can always email me at Craig Peterson dot com, we'll make
sure you find out about this. Again, a complete series of free
training this summer. You can upgrade and get the whole summit if
you want to keep it, as well. However, it's available for free
because I want to get this information out to as many people as we
possibly can. It's that important. Yes, it is. Security summer
summit dot com is where it will be, but it's not there yet. We've
had a busy year. Take care, everybody an I'll be back tomorrow.
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