Oct 16, 2019
Good morning everybody!
I was on with Ken and Matt per usual their base is expanding which is really kind of cool. They are adding stations and things which is quite exciting. Anyhow, I had a good conversation with them about our privacy security or what to do about it and what's in the news right now that the statistics are really getting scary frankly. Especially when I when it comes to small businesses, and of course, we discussed a little bit about what they are doing, what their bosses are doing over there at the Portland radio group, and what maybe you shouldn't be doing if you're that de facto IT person in your organization. I think what the Portland radio group is doing is a great step and it's going to make a huge difference for them.
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Craig
Good morning everybody! Craig Peterson here.
I was on with Ken and Matt per usual their base is expanding which is really kind of cool. They are adding stations and things, which is quite exciting. Anyhow, I had a good conversation with them about our privacy security or what to do about it and what's in the news right now that the statistics are really getting scary frankly. Especially when I when it comes to small businesses, and of course, we discussed a little bit about what they are doing, what their bosses are doing over there at the Portland radio group, and what maybe you shouldn't be doing if you're that de facto IT person in your organization. I think what the Portland radio group is doing is a great step and it's going to make a huge difference for them.
Matt Gagnon
Gentlemen, it's his time once again, Craig Peterson tech guru
extraordinaire, and host of the Craig Peterson show on this Very
Radio Network joins us now as he always does at this time on
Wednesdays what's happening, Craig?
Craig
Hey, good morning. I don't get it here. The Red Sox are not in the
playoffs now. But you guys are saying.
Ken Altschuler
That is correct, sir. That is correct. I did, however, win the
World Series last year. So
Craig
it's okay. Isn't it kind of a weird thing, though, because you'd
think if they were such a powerhouse last year, how come they
didn't even make it into the playoffs? You know, I'm not a sports
guy. You can tell.
Matt
I could give you lots of answers. But we're not here to hear me
talk about baseball our way.
Ken
Would you rather talk about Jethro Tull?
Matt
As long as that conversation could go?
Ken
Do you agree with me that the Jethro Tull should absolutely be in
the rock Hall of Fame and it's a travesty that they're not?
Craig
I absolutely agree. I don't get it. Why are they putting country
music people in and other
Ken
Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston,
Craig
Whitney Houston. I can see like some of the blues and Some of the
old some of that eventually turned into rock and roll that makes
sense. I can see that one. Well, you know, pop music gab Jessel
told definitely, but anyway.
Ken
Yeah. So I was gonna ask you a question about lying on your
password recovery questions but before we but but I want you to
explain to me how AI systems are going to cause phones to
disappear.
Craig
Yeah, this isn't going to be an eventual type of thing. What what's
happening is we're putting microphones everywhere. They're in our
cars. Our cars now of course have built into the many of them, you
know, Wi Fi, it's time into the cellular data network, where we've
started to see the rollout of 5g, which is really designed to allow
pretty much everything ever manufactured to be on the Internet at
very, very high speeds at very low cost. So what we're going to see
over the course of the next five years, certainly the next 10 Yours
is there will be internet available everywhere via every device you
can think of. You know, we've got Levi's with their trucker jacket
that has built in internet. Basically, it has remote controls and
things, but right into it. So this is what the eventuality is now,
tie that into artificial intelligence, and tie all of that into the
ability for these systems to understand what we're saying. Now, in
reality, it's going to take a while before they really understand
it, but they are pretty darn good right now just talking to Alexa.
We know that. So put all of this into a big pot and stir it up.
Since it's Halloween. We'll call it a big cauldron. And stir it all
up. You're going to end up with these artificial intelligence
systems that are also just continually getting better and better.
With the internet connectivity everywhere microphones everywhere,
so to the point where you won't carry Any sort of a device that you
would identify as a phone, you might have a little pin on your
lapel that talks to you when you talk to it, etc. That might be a
little projectors, here, there and everywhere so you can see things
as kind of a screen. By the eventually this is all going to be tied
right into our brains, it's going to be going into our optic
nerves. We are going to become a little bored is when it kind of
boils down to But before that, we're just going to be talking to
devices and having them read our messages and send our messages and
use it as as our communicator with no more phones.
Matt
We are talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now as
he always does on Wednesdays at this time. Craig they force us here
at the WGA and morning news to watch these security videos trying
desperately to drag the employees not just this radio station but
all Portland radio group radio stations. into being more secure
with their email and stuff. Clicking on those things that say that
their downloads and downloading them onto your computer and having
a virus and so on and so forth. I believe that we have to watch
those videos because more people are falling for it and more
attacks are happening from outside. And this is a problem that's
getting worse. Am I wrong about that? Am I right about that? Are we
seeing a rise in email attacks?
Craig
No, you're absolutely right. In fact, we'll be talking a little bit
more about that next week, because there's some new statistics are
just coming out right now on that. But we're seeing right now that
76% of us businesses have been attacked, they've experienced a
cyber attack in the last year. 76% is absolutely crazy how many
organizations have been attacked and 63% of businesses reported the
loss of some type of corporate or customer information in the last
12 months. It's absolutely huge and, and frankly, too many
businesses are ostrich, ostrich. You're such a work. They're
sticking their heads into sand, right? They're saying they're gonna
it's not going to happen to me. Now bigger businesses, when you get
out of the SMB space, the bigger ones over 500 employees are taking
this seriously. They are doing the right things. They're doing what
the Portland radio group is doing. They're making sure their
employees are trained in what to watch for because most of these
bad really bad cyber attacks that have happened besides ransomware
have happened because of things employees do and have done and that
includes opening emails. So the bad guys are good. They've come a
long way from the days when it was you know And my heart goes out
to that poor Nigerian prince who lost all his money. And all he
needs is Us Bank Account to transfer the money through. And all you
have to do is you know, keep a little commission but a lot of use
your bank account. Today what they're doing is they are breaking
into websites for businesses. And they're stealing all of the data
they can get their Well, some of the data that they're stealing and
they're going after are your password recovery questions. And they
can from that find out all kinds of information. Now this goes back
to of course, our friend Sarah Palin. Remember this back in 2008, a
20 year old college student broke into her Yahoo account and stole
a bunch of emails from there. How does he do it? While he googled
her password recovery question answers. He found out what her zip
code was her birthday people will you The name of their dog, their
child's birthday wedding date, social security number, but use all
of these things to break into account. So the bottom line here is
Portland Raider groups doing the right thing by making you watch
videos. They should make you watch my videos because they're much
more interesting. But, but it is the right thing. Because that is
the primary way your email that the bad guys are using to
manipulate you by using things like your password recovery
questions, to be able to get into your accounts and it's a very,
very bad thing. And that's what I'm saying right now. Everybody,
you should lie on your bank password recovery questions absolutely
should lie on them. When it says what high school did you graduate
from? Makeup something don't just use Scooby Doo his high school
graduation. But you know poolesville that's not a great one.
Completely make something up what high school? Did you graduate
from college ended software? And you have to remember all of these
answers because you shouldn't be using different answers on
every website. So put them all into a password management
management program. That's what I do. Use different password
recovery questions every time. You can get my password recovery. I
have a 10 page thing on passwords. Okay. 10 page special report. So
it uncovers password recovery stuff, but what software should you
buy? Which ones are free? What should you do? But this is all part
of the same thing. And you can get that by the way, just like Craig
peterson.com slash password password and get that password recovery
thing. But this is complicated. You need to do training with your
employees and email. According to the FBI. His latest report is the
number one way the bad guys are stealing from our businesses.
Matt
Wouldn't it be easier to just not have computers
anymore?
Ken
Seriously, it would be what would it be like if there was no
internet? I was a very good typewriter. I mean, I could type again,
if I had to. Yeah. People have to use a phone. Although they were
scams that way too. Is it done? Okay. Craig Peterson joins us every
Wednesday at 738. And you can hear him on Saturday from one to
three on WGAN.
Matt
So 76% of us businesses have experienced a cyber attack in the past
year.
Craig
Yeah, definitely. You know, it ties all in and it's it's very,
very, very big. The SMB space is the space of going after that
small medium businesses. Some people call the mass and the, you
know, small medium enterprises. And the reason they're going after
these smaller businesses, which are basically the under 500
employees, isn't because necessarily that's where the money is, but
it's Because that's where they are least prepared for the attack,
they're least ready for it. And they leave their money laying
around. I picked up some new clients that have had their entire
operating account stolen can imagine that you rely on your
operating account to pay your bills to pay the vendors, maybe you
are using it for payroll as well. And all of a sudden, it's empty.
That is a killer for businesses that especially small medium
businesses, and so now you're stuck you're in big trouble and
they're going after them because they are not ready. Now the some
of the stats here also are amazing that it okay 76% of cyber
businesses or businesses that cyber attack and 63% of them lost
their intellectual property as we mentioned, or customer
information the last 12 months but those businesses 63% 50% of them
will be out of business in six months. So it's 63% over 76%. And
they take 50% of that they will be out of business within six
months. And the really scary part is of those somewhere around 30%
file for bankruptcy. The week it happens, because they realize that
they just can't pay their bills. They're incomplete trouble. So
everybody, do what Ken and Matt have been doing. Make sure your
employees get training on email, email handling. If you are a home
user, a small office, Home Office retiree, make sure you are very
careful, basically, nowadays never clicked on anything in the
emails is that one of the popular things right now is they're
trying to get you to do something. So they'll save things like hey,
we've got video of you visiting a porn site. And here's your
password. Here's your username and be Cuz you're reusing passwords,
it is one of your password. So anyways, I know we're out of time
here. But this I can't stress this enough because I've seen so many
people, it just breaks my heart that that aren't ready for this. If
you're a small business, you have to address this. And you got to
take some time and maybe one of the ways to start, if you're
interested. Grab it right now, which is Craig peterson.com slash
password. That's a great place to start playing some training, do
it with your employees and, and protect your business. It's your
investment. And if you're the defacto IT person in your
organization, you're going to get blamed when this happens to
you.
Matt
Well, on that cheery note, ladies, gentlemen, Craig Peterson, our
tech guru who has been joining us as he always does on Wednesday
morning is is done for the day. So thank you, Craig. Appreciate it
as always, and we will talk again next week.
Craig,
Hey guys, thanks a lot. Alright.
Matt
So we're going to take a quick break we'll be back on the other side of the break coming up next on WGAN
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