Apr 22, 2019
Craig is on with Jack Heath as they discussed presidential candidate Representative Delaney's plans to make some cyber changes in the government. They also discussed how much your tax information is worth in the dark web.
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Airing date: 04/22/2019
Rep Delaney Cybersecurity Cabinet Position - What Your Tax Info Is Worth
Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey everybody. Good morning, Craig Peterson here with another busy
week I had. I was on this morning with Mr. Jack Heath and we talked
a little bit about two things and I gotta say here I'm, I'm, I wish
I had more time with him. A little disappointed. But we talked
about Delaney, who's running for president right now,
representative Delaney wants to make some major cyber changes to
the federal government. And then we also talked a little bit about
the scammers that are out there right now with your tax info and
stuff. And I really wanted to give you some more information, but
he kind of cut me off but it's his radio show. I shouldn't have any
complaints. Anyways. Here we go with Mr. Heath and a bit of a
surprise to I think about exactly what Delaney's trying to do.
Jack Heath 0:51
Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy. His show airs on weekends. Tech
Talk on our iHeart News talk network. He joins us in the auto fair
listener lines. Good morning, Mr. Craig.
Craig 0:59
Hey good morning, Jack. Interesting, you're talking about Delaney
here who is running, of course, for the presidential slot and
what's been happening with our US Cyber Command, because there is a
lot going on right now. As you know, there are brightened held
somewhere around 2 million open jobs in cyber security. And in the
federal government, it's really scattered across a number of
different agencies. And President Trump eliminated the position of
what was called a cyber security coordinator, or maybe cyber
security is our and what's happening with Delaney is he is looking
to try and make a federal agency that everything comes underneath.
And I get concerned when I see that sort of thing, Jack, because
it's, it's difficult enough for businesses that can move quickly,
that can respond quickly to be able to handle cyber security. But
when you're talking about the federal government, that is a slow as
molasses at best, I start getting kind of concerned. But I can see
his point trying to pull it all together have a more holistic
approach, and maybe having a cabinet level agency to focus on
protecting cyberspace isn't a bad thing.
Jack 2:13
Well, I imagine, you know, you look at the future. And in fact, it
was a story I thought of you early early early this morning Craig
that one of the concerns with Russia right now. Is they either as a
government or their intelligence folks are working with more cyber
criminals right now.
Craig 2:33
Yeah, I read that as well.
Jack 2:33
That's not very encouraging. I mean, you know, it's not going to go
away. I mean, you know as everything grows online commerce,
retail information, the appetite for those who want to take
advantage of others. It's just, it's just a bigger bonanza, bigger
pool, right?
Craig 2:48
Well, it is. And remember what caused the fall of the Soviet Union,
ultimately, it was the spending, and they could not keep up with us
in the spending race when it came to military, right? There is
nothing cheaper for a government in a country than cyber attacks
compared to of course, building tanks and trying to hire people and
everything else. With a small team in North Korea has already
demonstrated this was a small team of just a few hundred people
maximum, you can cause incredible damage. And I saw that same
article and what's happening over there with Russia and, and
partnering with some of these criminals. It concerns me to no end.
And we just had evidence come out a few weeks ago, that there
again, have been attacks against some of our major pieces of
infrastructure. It didn't really hit the news very much. I saw it
in some of my internal security bulletins. But it's happening, it's
growing. And I have to say, I don't disagree at all, with
Representative Delaney, that we do need something at the top of the
Federal infrastructure to protect our federal network. But how far
does this go? And what kind of controls are they going to put in
place? And what sort of responsibilities are they going to expect
businesses to have with all of this? There's a lot of questions to
answer still.
Jack 4:12
All right, any other consumer tips or observations on this
Monday?
Craig 4:16
Well, hey, if you haven't found your tax reports, yet, your taxes,
there is, of course, a concerted effort still going on by the bad
guys. And what they'll do is they've already got your information
in many cases. They'll file a W-2, they'll file 1040s. They've
really gotten kind of crazy here. And they're trying to get your
tax return into your bank account, and then pull the money out. So
your W-2 or a 1040 is only worth between about $1 for right now on
the black market and maybe 20 bucks. So.
Jack 4:52
Yeah. Thanks. Great stuff Craig. Great, great stuff. And you know,
some of the scammers out there, if you'd just get a little more
conditioned to to be thinking cynically, you can pick up on it, but
your email, for example, you might get an email. And they'll go
after the biggest financial names. This is how simple and clever
they are, for example, like the biggest bank name you've heard of,
or big financial name, like Chase, or Wells Fargo, some household
name. And they'll send you something like to Erin Boss, they'll say
you know, an email to you Erin. Somehow they get your personal
email. This very look, very official looking bank thing saying they
just need to verify your Wells Fargo account or Chase, then you
might think, or DC, you might think I don't really have something
with oh, wait a minute, my car payment might be leased to them. So
people go online, and they click verify the account. And they want
you to give your account information and then pretend to tell you
something where your account's at risk. The whole thing's a scam.
The whole thing's a scam.
Craig 5:54
And I got something for the listeners Jack, don't let me go quick.
Yeah, Google put together a really good little website that you can
use that allows you to see how they are doing it. Gives you real
emails, lets you look at them and determine whether or not things
are false.
Jack 6:12
I got one. And I took it to my bank because it looked so official.
I go, oh my goodness, our logo, that a lot of times, you gotta look
at the return website.
Unknown 6:20
And it's not the actual institution. But again, the worst thing
that can happen is you ignore these things do nothing. And if it's
legit, you're going to get a call. But you know, it's exactly the
other thing is if you're trying to sell something online, like you
go to one of these sites like say, Erin, you're trying to sell some
clothing or you're trying to sell a piece of furniture. They even
try and get you there. They all just set that and then start
contacting you and say, well, we want you you know, we want this
but in order for us to buy it, we need you to send us this and
you're like no, no, no, that's not how it works. All right Craig
make it a good one. Next Monday. Make it a good Monday Craig thank
you very much Craig Peterson. Craig Peterson with an O-N.com.
Craig 6:54
Hey, I gotta add this in here. In case you did not get this before,
previously, what I was trying to get across to Jack was there
is a phishing quiz online that Google's provided. And the URL for
that is http://phishingquizwithGoogle.com.
That's spelled P-H-I-S-H-I-N-G-Q-U-I-Z. You already know how to
spell phishing, right? But it's phishingquiz one word, dot with
Google. One word, W-I-T-H-G-O-O-G-L-E.com. PhishingquizwithGoogle
com. There are two dots here. There's only one in front of com.
Anyways, take it, look at it. Have your friends and relatives look
at it. Have everybody inside your business organization look at it.
It is very, very helpful. Of course, yours truly got 100% on it.
But a lot of people I've pointed to it have gotten seven or eight
right. 70 or 80%. So you know, I guess that's normal. So if you
don't get a great mark on it a great score. Don't feel so bad
because the this technology really is kind of confusing. There's so
many things going on. You just don't know what to do what to trust,
just like Jack talked about with his own bank. Anyways, have a
great day. We'll be back tomorrow with Mr. Polito. Bye bye
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