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Did Your Computer Have "Intel Inside"? It Won't For long!
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - November 29, 2021 01:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsDid Your Computer Have "Intel Inside"? It Won't For long! We're going to talk a little bit about shopping right now. Then we'll get into our chip crunch, and why Intel is being left on the side of the computer road. [Following is an automated transcript.] [00:00:16] There's lots of fun stu...
Do You Think There's Nothing You Can Do to Keep the Bad Guys Out?
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - November 19, 2021 22:57 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsDo You Think There's Nothing You Can Do to Keep the Bad Guys Out? What a week. The FBI got hacked. Homeland security supposedly is sending out emails about hackers in your network. This is what we're going to talk about to start with today. What are these new emails, and how are they trying to...
Is Your Firewall Actually Protecting You? What Should You Be Doing?
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - November 12, 2021 22:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIs Your Firewall Actually Protecting You? What Should You Be Doing? New stats are out this week. So what's the number one vector of attack against us? Our Firewalls. And they're failing. So, what's going on. And what can you do about it? [Automated transcript follows] [00:00:16] And of ...
You Know How To Use Fake Email Addresses to Stay Safe?
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - November 05, 2021 23:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIf you follow my newsletter, you probably saw what I had in the signature line the last few weeks: how to make a fake identity. Well, we're going to take it a little bit differently today and talk about how to stop spam with a fake email. [Automated transcript follows] [00:00:16] Email is ...
How Ransomware, Trojanware, and Adware Hurt You
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - October 29, 2021 22:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHow Ransomware, Trojanware, and Adware Hurt You. And Why ExpressVPN Isn't Safe to Use. Ransomware, Trojanware Adware. What's the difference between these different types of malware.? And when it comes down to our computers, which should we worry about the most and which should we worry about ...
How Many Times Per Week Are You Being Cyber Attacked? From Where? How? Why?
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - October 15, 2021 23:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHow Many Times Per Week Are You Being Cyber Attacked? From Where? How? Why? We've got a new study out showing that North American organizations, businesses, and others, are being hit with an average of 497 cyber attacks per week, right here in the good old USA. [Following is an automated tra...
What Happened With Facebook's Outage? When Will It Happen Again?
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - October 05, 2021 11:03 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhat Happened With Facebook's Outage? When Will It Happen Again? Facebook had a huge outage all of its properties. So why did it happen? How did it happen? And what's going to happen in the future? The frankly, some of this technology just isn't that stable. And I'm going to explain why right...
Could Using the Right Multi-Factor Authentication Save You?
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - October 03, 2021 20:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsCould Using the Right Multi-Factor Authentication Save You? I had a good friend who, this week, had his life's work stolen from him. Yeah. And you know what caused it? It was his password. Now, you know what you're supposed to be doing? I'm going to tell you exactly what to do right now. Let...
Are You Using Encrypted Email Yet? Here's How!
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - September 18, 2021 15:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAre You Using Encrypted Email Yet? Here's How! Security emails aren't something that most people think much about. Yet, they're becoming more and more important as the bad guys are monitoring us more closely to steal our information, and then there are advertisers. So, do you want them to see...
Do You Know How to Identify a Fake Web Page? - Whole Show
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - September 10, 2021 23:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsDo You Know How to Identify a Fake Web Page? The FBI's reporting that more than 70% of all business hacks are because of our employees. They're clicking on emails, they're going to websites, what can we do? How do we know if a website is legitimate or not? [Automated transcript] [00:00:19] T...
You Need to Start Using Burner Identities ASAP
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - August 28, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsYou Need to Start Using Burner Identities ASAP! In this day and age, if you don't have a burner identity, you are really risking things from having your identities stolen through these business email compromises. It's really crazy. That's what we're going to talk about. [Automated transcript...
Apple is Adding Tech to Look At Your Photos For Child Abuse
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - August 21, 2021 14:32 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsApple is Adding Tech to Look At Your Photos For Child Abuse This is a tough one. Apple has decided that it will build into the next release of the iPhone and iPad operating systems, which monitors for child porn. [Automated transcript] Apple has now explained that they will be looking for ...
The IRS Has Been Selling Bitcoin - Pay Up!
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - August 20, 2021 22:24 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe IRS Has Been Selling Bitcoin - Pay Up! Bitcoin is all the rage. In fact, many people have considered investing in these cryptocurrencies or something. Of course, many have invested in it. I played around with them about a decade ago, and the IRS seized 1.2 billion worth of it. [Automated...
The "Great Resignation" in Big Tech - Better Jobs, More Money
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - August 20, 2021 22:19 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe "Great Resignation" in Big Tech - Better Jobs, More Money There seems to be a worker shortage. And many businesses are finding that, frankly, people involved in technology are resigning; they're calling it a great resignation of workers. We have a lot of problems as business people, fillin...
Windows 11 Will Require a New Piece of Hardware
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - August 20, 2021 22:12 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings1126-01-windows_11_and_tpm [00:00:00] Microsoft has had some incredibly successful operating systems and some significant failures. Think of windows millennial edition. While now they're coming up with windows 11, and frankly, things just aren't looking that good. [00:00:16] If you know ...
Weekly - Microsoft is planning on making you buy a new computer
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - August 19, 2021 14:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratings[Automated transcript] Weekly - Microsoft is planning on making you buy a new computer [00:00:00] Microsoft has had some incredibly successful operating systems and some significant failures. Think of windows millennial edition. While now they're coming up with windows 11, and frankly, thing...
Are You One of More Than 700,000 On U.S. "Watch-Lists"?
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - August 05, 2021 21:35 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAre You One of More Than 700,000 On U.S. "Watch-Lists"? Craig Peterson: You've heard about the no-fly list, right? Yeah. How about the terrorist and other watch lists? It's impossible to get your name off, even when there was no reason to be there in the first place? Well, I got some news. ...
Have Your Healthcare Records Have Been Stolen?
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - August 05, 2021 18:09 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHave Your Healthcare Records Have Been Stolen? What can you do about it? Craig Peterson: We're talking about ransomware and what's the Conti gang and others doing nowadays. Hello everybody. Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining us today. I appreciate you spending a little bit of time, and ...
Have Your Healthcare Records Have Been Stolen, too?
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - August 05, 2021 17:58 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHave Your Healthcare Records Have Been Stolen, too? Craig Peterson: We all have healthcare records, and they have some of our most personal information. That's what we're talking about today in follow-up to a webinar I did for the healthcare industry. So we're going to chat right now a little ...
Are You Getting Dragged Into Dealing With Cybersecurity?
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - August 05, 2021 17:30 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAre You Getting Dragged Into Dealing With Cybersecurity? Craig Peterson: You probably know I've been doing cybersecurity now for 30 years in the online world. Yeah, that long. I'm afraid I have some confessions to make about our relationships here, cybersecurity people, and employees. I got ...
App Tracking Traps a Catholic Priest. How It Can Affect You, Too
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - July 28, 2021 12:22 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsApp Tracking Traps a Catholic Priest. How It Can Affect You, Too Craig Peterson: I've got two hot topics for you this morning. One about this Catholic priest that ended up resigning and how that happened to tie into this Grindr account. And how it affects you because this type of technology u...
Intel Tells Us How Long the Shortage Will Last & Explosive Spyware Report
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - July 26, 2021 12:01 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIntel Tells Us How Long the Shortage Will Last [automated transcript] We're looking at a big chip shortage. You probably heard a little bit about it, but how long is it going to last? And we've got this explosive report out right now about spyware and some of the cyber hacking and what's hap...
Google's Being Sued by the States -- And it doesn't look good for them
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - July 21, 2021 14:43 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsGoogle's Being Sued by the States -- And it doesn't look good for them Craig Peterson: We talked earlier about Amazon and how much trouble they're in right now, Google apparently is in a similar boat. We had just this week, dozens of state attorneys, general suing Google on antitrust grounds. ...
Recommendations to Turn Off Your Printers - eCar Fire Warning
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - July 21, 2021 14:40 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsRecommendations to Turn Off Your Printers - eCar Fire Warning Craig Peterson: Hey, we got another emergency patch out from our friends at Microsoft. And in this case, it has to do with printers and remote printer access. Do you have employees working from home? Microsoft has their big monthly ...
COVID's Biggest Victim? The Traditional Workplace
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - July 21, 2021 14:19 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsCOVID's Biggest Victim? The Traditional Workplace Craig Peterson: Work from home is a huge deal, especially for a couple of segments of our society. And I want to talk a little bit about that now, as employees are returning to work, should they be returning to the office? There is a great ar...
The FBI Weaponized Google Pixel Phones!
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - July 20, 2021 12:53 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe FBI Weaponized Google Pixel 4a Phones! If you look into buying a used Google Pixel 2a, I've got some news for you. The FBI has been very busy, and they've conned the con man. I love this story. The FBI has been trying to track bad guys for a very long time, and there've been several ways ...
How Could Facebook Do a Better Job at Controlling Disinformation?
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - July 19, 2021 12:13 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHow Could Facebook Do a Better Job at Controlling Disinformation? Hello, everybody. Great discussion this morning about Facebook and what is going on with their monitoring and controlling some of the topics. Should they have something in place that really stops false information? How could the...
Amazon Is In For a Rough Ride
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - July 16, 2021 23:13 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAmazon Is In For a Rough Ride Did you know that Amazon has a new CEO? I remember back in the nineties; I pledge that I would never use Amazon again because they filed and were awarded a patent on technology everybody was using. Jeff Bezos is out of a job. [00:00:19] This is a guy that grew ...
Kaseya and the Problem with Managed Service Providers
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - July 16, 2021 22:57 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsKaseya and the Problem with Managed Service Providers We have really in front of us, a critical warning. We're trying to figure out what should we do or to stop people from attacking us. That's a problem. What should we do? Many of us have gone out to managed services providers, and now they h...
Predictions About Olympic Cyberattacks
Craig Peterson - America's Leading CyberSecurity Strategist - July 16, 2021 22:52 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsPredictions About Olympic Cyberattacks We're all excited about the upcoming Olympic games. And so are the hackers. Oh my goodness. I just finished reading a report by the cyber threat Alliance about what they're expecting to happen at these Olympic Games in Tokyo. The Olympics have always b...
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