Dec 10, 2018
Jack is on with Jack Heath discussing the stock market drop, the most recent hacks and how to stay safe online.
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Airing date: 12/10/2018
Stock Market Drop - Staying Safe Online
Craig Peterson 0:00
Good morning everybody. Craig Peterson here. This morning I was on with Mr. Jack Heath covering big chunks of northern New England. And we talked about how to keep your data safe online. whole new thing I've got a product coming out it's going to be free. Make sure you go to http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, and I'll send it to you soon as it's done. We're working on it. Some of this stuff just takes too long as far as I'm concerned. Anyhow, we also talked about the big guys why the stock markets falling. It was actually kind of a pretty good conversation this morning. And hopefully I'll have my voice back by the end of the day today. I've got a couple of meetings, going out meeting with some companies see if I can help them a little bit, too. So here we go with Mr. Heath
Unknown 0:49
is now on the NFL Western allies. Our Tech Talk guy Craig Peterson.
A couple things caught my eye, Craig, and you can tell us what you
have on your docket. But I know you're not the stock market guy.
But markets have been going down. And some of the big tech high
tech giants aren't doing so well. And performance. But it's an
interesting time of year because so many people are shopping both
online and at stores. But Good morning, Craig, what's catching your
eye?
Unknown 1:12
Yeah, a couple of really good points right there. These massive
giants are starting to kind of make you fall a little bit to their
knees. We've got Apple and Facebook and of course, some others who
are really facing some hard times. Right now Facebook seems to have
kind of an internal rebellion going on where a number of their
employees have gotten pretty upset with the way things are going
over there with people's privacy and other things. We've got Apple
now who has made some great deals if you want one of these new
Apple iPhones like the XR now's the time to buy it, you can be
getting a few hundred dollars off with the trading of an old phone
is it it's really again, this cycle is that the business cycle, got
to remember that back in the 70s of course idea on the King of the
Hill, Microsoft kind of still is the king of a number of hills with
Vollmer gone, they're improving, but it's a cycle and like
everything else, although there are a lot of people find things
this season these companies that are currently at the top of the
heap Jack, they're just not going to stay there forever.
Unknown 2:25
Yeah, interesting. And a lot of you know ongoing concern about
shopping aware protecting your online purpose purchases, some porch
thieves It's a whole new industry when you know and you see people
so many deliveries now package sits on the porch of someone's home
or apartment, a condo for the day. And people are just literally
driving around snatching gifts and boxes right off a porch.
Unknown 2:50
The Amazon has a new feature people might have noticed, if you are
buying stuff online with Amazon, they now allow you to put a code
in with your so what they'll do is if you have one of these little
lock boxes on your porch, or maybe even a code to your front door.
One time use code is the way to do this. By the way, people they
will deliver your package but they'll open your door, put it right
inside or open the little lock box, put it right inside. Because
you're right. A lot of people are stealing these things. Be
careful. You also have the ability with Amazon to say here's our
launcher to put it so you can give them a code for the garage for
instance, they'll put it inside your garage door or stick it in the
shed. It's a problem people are spending a lot of money and they
aren't getting stolen. And you know you talk about the online
shopping I you know I do a lot of stuff with the FBI in there in
regard program which I really advise business people to look into.
If you're involved with security Look at him for guard.org but the
FBI has been wanting asked about the more than $12 billion that has
been stolen from businesses out there this time of year so watch
your emails everybody if you're shopping online whether your home
user whether your business they are trying to commit fraud in the
online world to criminals are hacking into folders a big article in
USA Today that I have up on my website talking about this one guy
who again he was using an Android phone and I people against that
but when he was at an airport his phone got hacked right into the
criminals ended up draining their he's checking account and make us
to email in order to do some of this stuff so there's a great
article on how Google Voice being a victim of this latest whole
series of cyber crime
Unknown 4:49
yeah I don't know how you totally avoided Craig I don't think you
know i mean really it's it's it's it seems that every every month
every week there's a different scam a different way and
Unknown 4:58
I got got to tell you Jack. Sorry to interrupt you real quickly.
But I'm excited about this one. We've been working for the last
week on what you do about it because there are new hacks. The
Marriott hack, the Quora hack over the last couple of weeks, but
announced so I'm putting together something right now jack again
free to anybody who asks And what it is is what to do about it.
Because now thanks to the new tax law that President Trump signed
into effect there are ways for you to freeze your credit unfreeze
your credit at the three out of five Americans have never even
checked their credit report so how do you do that? What does it
mean and it's beautiful because it lets you stop the bad guys
before they do anything to you so you can just send an email to
me@CraigPeterson .com more than glad to send this to you when it's
ready this is going to really help you out and help you sleep at
night because once you've done these things you cannot have your
money stolen out of your accounts that it's going to be really good
when it comes to your credit your credit card to everything you
track so just me@CraigPeterson.com
Unknown 6:09
and there's still think it's worth getting in. Is it a good
preventative? Even if it's not complete? You know, some some of the
security or the
Unknown 6:16
you know, you're the credit score folks, but like I know one was
hacked, but what about Lifelock for example, that's that's name has
been around. It's not too expensive. We stay alert you if there's
some activity be on your credit card, you think that's worth
having?
Unknown 6:28
Well, they do and they can be they do alert you but the problem
with those Jack is it's after the fact the bad guys already did
something with your identity. They already open new accounts with
your identity, etc. So there are ways to stop them from even doing
that. And now it's free for the first time ever. So that's why I'm
so excited about
Unknown 6:49
Thanks Craig. You know, all right. Take care guys.
Unknown 6:55
By the way, you can also just text me anytime. 855-385-5553.
855-385-5553.
Have a great day. Bye bye.
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