Craig Peterson's Tech Talk

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on with Jim Polito and we covered Warnings from the NSA, Stats on C-Level Non-Compliance, and how companies are handling patching and updating and the problems that it is causing. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: Al Qaeda has used business servers here in the U.S. Just regular businesses that are online and are trying to, have a nice little website and get their message out to people. Al Qaeda has taken some of those over and is used to spread just horrific propaganda. [00:00:21]That was me on with Mr. Jim Polito here this morning. I am just totally shocked at what has been going on, how, how bad things are. And in case you didn't realize that we've had some serious problems with security.  That's all we talked about here this morning. In fact, what the old Al Qaeda guys are up to, but what are some of the things that you should be doing? [00:00:45]If you are a C-level, a busines

Welcome, Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning discussing the security implications that businesses are facing in the post-COVID environment. Here we go with Jack. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: We are way more likely to tell our IT team that we do not want to abide by not that COVID restrictions here, but the security restrictions, particularly when it comes to mobile devices as we're moving around. [00:00:18] Hi everybody. Craig Peterson here. And that was me on with Mr. Jack Heath and New Hampshire today talking a little bit about the problems we're having right now with post-COVID-19. I don't know if you've seen the stats. I just got a notice this morning, but they are showing that over 35 percent of the people who have been working from home are now infected, talking about a really kind of a nasty stat, one you just don't want to see. Here we go with Jac

Welcome! Today Craig’s got a deep-dive into Anti-Virus software. Which should you use? What is anti-Virus’s pioneer saying? What’s the future? Some of the first big worms that crawled through the internet. And hit him! What it takes to be appropriately protected Changes in the malware ecosystem. What to do to supplement the now-almost-useless anti-Virus software. Also: Going back into the office after working at home. How can we handle new risks? Interested in Cybersecurity? Craig’s got a new Facebook Group called Navigating Cybersecurity. Are you on Facebook? He’s planning on more Facebook Lives in the coming weeks.  (Don’t worry if you don’t have Facebook — he will put these “lives” on his website.) For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For quest

Welcome!   Today Craig’s talking about Antivirus and what is going on with it? Why are we constantly being told to buy antivirus and to use antivirus? The latest ways that the bad guys try and get into our systems Typical antivirus software only looks at yesterday's threats Why it can take like a month or six weeks for the antivirus software to be able to adjust itself for these new attacks Antivirus software that has signatures and engines that are designed to look for what it's already seen. Also: Half of the businesses that were polled had had successful malware attacks on them, even though they were running antivirus. There is a lot of exploits going on. The importance of doing updates and patches Why you must uninstall apps and software you don't need For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the lates

Welcome! Today Craig’s talking about Computer Virus and Vaccine Signature Lists and why these types of anti-virus are getting left behind in the dust, and what should you be using in this day and age? Mutating malware means big trouble for antivirus software. Why you must use next-generation anti-malware software. He will discuss behavior-based anti-malware solutions Why anti-malware solutions need to act like ransomware For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Welcome! Today Craig’s talking about malware specifically. He will help you understand what is going on with antivirus software? Is it something you should be using? How did it get left behind in the dust, and what should you be using in this day and age? Where the Internet started. What is next-generation malware? Why are half of all Malware utilizing File Lists? The security problems with Microsoft PowerShell Also: Behavioral malware Why traditional anti-malware software can’t stop file list malware The danger of Zero-day vulnerabilities Anti-virus is 0% effective against modern threats but not 0% effective against everything. How you should be deploying anti-virus software and creating layered security. The best arrow in your Cybersecurity quiver. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in t

Welcome! Today Craig’s got a deep-dive into whole malware virus thing. What does it mean? What is it doing? How Layered Security is like Submarine Compartments What are the layers that you should have on your computer, on your network? What security you should be using in your business? Three basic rules of online security How Apps can be a security issue How out of date computers using old pieces of antivirus software are still catching all of this old nastiness Why no single technique that's ever been entirely successful. What is Wetware? And why it is the biggest problem. What is Hardening and How does it work to protect you. Next-Generation Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems Interested in Cybersecurity? Craig’s got a new Facebook Group called Navigating Cybersecurity. Are you on Facebook? He’s planning on more Facebook Lives in the coming weeks.  (Don’t worry if you don’t have Facebook — he will put these “lives” on his website.) For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---

Welcome! Today Craig’s got a deep-dive into ways to improve your cybersecurity How to prevent malware from “Calling Home” Use of specialized DNS services to prevent any accidental clicks How Advanced Malware Protection Software provides greater information on cyberattacks in six hours What does traditional antivirus protect us against and what about this next generation stuff, this anti-malware? Also: Spear phishing type attacks Why hackers can remain inside the system and inside its network for at least three months before being noticed but bad guys usually start getting working in 10 days to two weeks. Overloading and why there are so many false positives necessitates a unified management monitoring platform and reporting system For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.

Welcome! Today Craig’s got a deep dive into the whole world of malware, antivirus, anti-malware, what you can do about it. Having the right defenses including different types of security for protecting different things. It is important to have a properly configured, multilayered defense approach. Artificial intelligence systems for cyber defense don't live up to the hype surrounding them. Why using layered approaches is important and they should be from a single integrated, unified vendor. The importance of training your employees especially if you are a regulated industry Also: What makes up 81% of data breaches The $15 billion industry you need to be worried about How cybercriminals are now targeting your employees. Eight ways cybercriminals are making your firewalls and antivirus absolutely useless. The importance of Firewall network address translation. Why offsite devices are another big target Why the bad guys are jailbreaking and rooting as many company devices as they can get their hands on. Why Le

Welcome!   Today Craig’s got a deep-dive into Anti-Virus software. Which should you use? What is anti-Virus’s pioneer saying? What’s the future? What businesses need to do to clean up their security, get back on track. Email Delivery and Spam and what the major email providers watch for The cybersecurity impacts of COVID-19 on Business The five tips for fighting credential stuffing attacks Data web scrapers and how they're hurting online businesses. Also: Data web scrapers and how they're hurting online businesses Facebook’s contract moderators win 52 Million dollar lawsuit for PTSD Interested in possibly taking on more cybersecurity responsibility in your company? Encryption and how to use it to protect your sensitive data Interested in possibly taking on more cybersecurity responsibility in your company? Craig is thinking about doing some training for people who might not want to be security professionals. Craig’s got a new Facebook Group called Navigating Cybersecurity. Encryption and how to use it to

Good morning everybody! I was on with Matt this morning and we had a good discussion about Facebook and their contract moderators who just won a suit for PTSD due to the content they were exposed to and also about Firewalls and Anti-virus in re: the newer attacks being perpetrated by cybercriminals. Let's get into my conversation with Matt on WGAN. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: Let's say that you were using an email address at Yahoo. You use the same one at your bank account. Credential stuffing is where they've got your Yahoo email and password. They'll try it at banks, and then finally they find one where it works. That's credential stuffing and it is really, really grown. [00:00:22] Wow. Can you believe it's going to be in the nineties today in Southern Maine? Southern Maine. It's hotter than Kentucky, which is where I am right now. And I'm out here for a wedding. But you know, the whole social distancing t

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on with Jim Polito and we cover how companies are handling telecommuting and the suit that was just won by contract moderators of Facebook for PTSD. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: In this case. Yeah. There was a lawsuit against them. Well, a labor dispute. Anyway, that just ended and they agreed to pay $52 million to these moderator contractors who developed mental health issues. Hi everybody. Craig Peterson here down South with my laptop. This was me this morning. With mr Jim Polito and he was at home in his kitchen. Man has coronavirus changed everything. So here we go with Jim. [00:00:37] He is our friend, our great guy, great, great guy, always taking very, very good care of us. And, he joins us. Now I'm talking about our talk guru Craig. Peterson. Good morning, sir. [00:00:56] Hey, good morning, Mr. Jim. [00:00:59] [00:00:59] Hey, I figured out [00:01:03] Jim Polito: the p

Welcome!   Since lockdown, we have been relegated to primarily shopping online.  That has given the cybercriminals a new large attack surface from which to prey.  Listen in and we find out what you can do to be safe online. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: Hello, everybody. Craig Peterson here on WGAN and of course online@craigpeterson.com. A few of you guys probably got some emails from me this week. I'm trying to clean up my email list. I have thousands of people on them that we send email to every week and trying to keep costs under control if you know what I mean. [00:00:26] So, you know, we've been kind of sending things out to people to remind them to, you know, if, if you're not clicking on the emails, if you're not downloading the graphics that come on some of those emails, I just plain won't know that you're there and that you're reading them. Because that's how I do it. [00:00:45] Right? And I'm always telling

Welcome!   Although most of us are still locked down due to this Pandemic, things are beginning to open up. However, while we were hidden away not paying detailed attention to our security the cybercriminals have been actively attacking our businesses with identity theft. So sit back and see what you can do to protect yourself. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Hey, welcome back everybody. Craig Peterson here on WGAN of course online is wild at CraigPeterson.com that's Peterson as in S. O. N. Hopefully you can join me there. I have all kinds of the great information we send out every week, so I'll make sure you sign up for the email list as well. Well, we have talked about identity theft before, and I want to get into it a little bit here now from two different aspects. [00:00:31] First of all, you as a consumer are a target of identity thieves, and the younger you are, the more valuable a target you are. Now, many times these identity

Welcome!   This pandemic has revealed quite a bit about how we view society and government and the part that science and all this advanced online technology can play in our lives.  So sit back and listen in.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: Hey everybody. Welcome back. Craig Peterson here on WGAN. I am going to talk about something that's going to upset a few people. I'm sure I can hear it now. There was a great article this week, from City Journal and city journal.org is where you'll find it online. CJ is what they call themselves. [00:00:28] They've got a lot of interesting stuff about really about London, about the UK, but here also in the US, they've got an eye on the news, the politics of fear, talking about economists and what's happening here. it just goes on and on. They've got a lot of very, very, very cool stuff. A bunch of things, Manhattan Institute as well. [00:00:55] But in this particular case, they're t

Welcome!   While we have all been locked down Cybercriminals have been hard at work developing and perfecting tools that will leach your CPU resources, bandwidth, and electricity. Google Chrome users won't be bothered by these soon when they release a new feature that neuters these abusive crypto-jacking ads that covertly leach your CPU resources, bandwidth, and electricity.  I will tell you all about it and more. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: Hey, welcome back everybody. Craig, Peterson here. We've had a busy hour this afternoon as we've been running through some of the top stories of this last week we talked about website attacks, how they've become more persistent, more prevalent, and even quieter than they were before. What you should be doing as a business owner. [00:00:26] If you have a website, and by the way, the answer is patch, patch, patch, and use a really good credit card processing service. I tend to li

Welcome!   Finally, the lockdown is starting to abide. With more and more people working from home there has been a run on VPNs but they are not all they are cracked up to be --  So sit back enjoy the fresh air and listen in.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: Hey everybody. Hello. Craig Peterson here on WGAN. Welcome, welcome, welcome. [00:00:10] Hey, if you missed the first hour,  you can catch it online. I podcast this whole show every week on your favorite podcasting application or website. Just look for me, Craig Peterson, or visit Craig peterson.com cause I have them all there as well. [00:00:30] And you did miss a lot of, you missed that first hour because we talked about the new website attacks that are underway that are hurting you and me as well as businesses that are just set up websites recently. It is a bad state of affairs. We talked about company identity-related breaches that are happening, the coming dis

Welcome!   Our pandemic lockdown appears to be beginning to end and that means that we need to re-launch our teams and that is what I will cover in this segment. So sit back and listen in.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: Hey everybody, welcome back. Craig Peterson here on WGAN and online,  of course, at CraigPeterson.com. Do you have any questions? You can always email me, ME at CraigPeterson.com. Always glad to help out [00:00:19] Craig Peterson: Plus, if you get on my email list, you'll find out about what I'm doing this week, what the pros and cons of everything are, and I will be sure to keep you up. [00:00:29] To date and we've got some very cool stuff coming up. We're making some, I think fantastic changes that are all for the better for you guys. Get more information out and doing it in a timely fashion. I mentioned before the break your remote team and I told you to kind of brace yourselves here. There is a gr

Welcome!   We are still locked down due to this Pandemic but the hackers and cybercriminals are hard at work and now they are using pre-made COVID-10 templates to speed up their dastardly deeds. Kick your feet up, enjoy the sunshine, and listen in.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: Hey, welcome back everybody. Craig Peterson here on WGAN. It's our last half hour together today, but we'll be back again next week, one til three here on WGAN every Saturday. And of course, I'm on with Matt and Gagnon during drive times on Wednesday morning at seven 34 as we discuss the latest in technology news. [00:00:29] You've probably been hearing warnings. I've certainly been talking about them with Matt about all of the nastiness that's going on right now with the hackers, and we're talking about soup to nuts. Tackers here we're talking about nation States. In other words, countries like Russia and Iran, and particularly China, and a

Good morning everybody! I was on with Matt this morning and we had a good discussion about the security and what we are now seeing in website attacks, and Companies identity-related attacks and How to block bad ads. Let's get into my conversation with Matt on WGAN. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: We're seeing Matt as many as 100 attacks per minute on some of these websites, but on average, we're talking about one attack every 15 minutes or about a hundred attacks a day on average. Good morning everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Matt. We talked about what's going on with our Chrome browsers. [00:00:24] Why are they slowing down? Of course, I give you a couple of things you can do in order to help improve that identity theft now on companies. What's this survey all about? We get into some detail and our websites are being attacked and it's quieter and more persistent than ever. So here we go with Matt.