Craig Peterson's Tech Talk

Good morning everybody!  Happy Veterans Day to all who have served and are serving! I was on WGAN this morning with Matt Gagnon and started off this morning talking about electoral issues that are taking front and center in the result counts going on.  I discussed some of the known weaknesses in our Electoral system and how it looks like they may actually have used that as a way in. Then we discussed how a Biden administration would deal with technology and a bit about Section 230 protections for Big Tech. Then we got into CA Prop 22 and the ramifications that it could have nationwide. Here we go with Matt. These and more tech tips, news, and updates just visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. Hey, I want to just thank you guys for listening to the podcast, subscribing to the podcast. If you can on whatever platform. Although iTunes is still the 800-pound gorilla when it comes to tracking the whole pod

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on WTAG this morning with Jim Polito.  We discussed how technology would be affected under a Biden Presidency in Re: Fairness Doctrine. Then we got into 5G and finished up with Apple's new search engine. Here we go with Jim. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, you had another fun time with Mr. Jim Polito this morning, and we went a little off-script, right? If you get my newsletter, you see all of the articles that I sent you now to Jim and the other radio shows I'm on.  You might know, I notice that today he went off script and we got into what will happen if there is a Biden administration with technology. How are things going to change? I think I surprised him on a couple of things. By the way, I think they're going to change for the worse. I prefer having the market take care of this. People who are professional investors, venture capitalists, angel investors, th

Welcome, Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jeff Chidester on NH Today. We hit a number of interesting tech topics this morning with Jeff Chidester.  We started off with Bitcoin, Silk Road, and the IRS, then we discussed California Prop 22 and the Gig Economy, then The Hammer and Scorecard Software developed by the CIA and how it may have been used in the election last week here in the USA. Then we got into business use of Cell Phones and Employees using their personal phones for business and the problem with misconfigured VPNs. Here we go with Jeff.  These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit. - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Two right now, if they're not paying a lot of attention to you, you're probably okay. But it's easy enough for them to track you down if they want to. They had fun this morning with Mr. Jeff Chidester, who was sitting in. We talked a little bit about elections, but we really got into this whole Uber and Lyft thing in Cali

Welcome!  This is a "best of Craig."  I have included the current articles that you should read this week in the article section so check that out.  In this podcast, we cover Fileless Malware is on the rise, How covid is affecting the financial traders, Why you must find out what is on your Enterprise network, and more. For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - CraigPeterson.com. --- Ransomware Demands are Doubling Every Six Months, Study Finds Teach Your Employees Well: How to Spot Smishing & Vishing Scams Mimecast Research: Half of all Workers Admit to Opening Emails They Considered Suspicious ‘Check the Box’ Awareness Training has Little Impact on an Organization’s Security Posture MITRE Shield Matrix Highlights Deception & Concealment Technology Act of War - Clause Could Nix Cyber Insurance Payouts Most Businesses Vulnerable to Emerging Risks Not Covered by Their Cyber Insurance Oh Jeeeesus: Drivers react to Tesla’s full self-driving beta release Rising Ransomware Breaches Underscore

Welcome, It's Friday, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jeff Chidester on NH Today. We discussed the Fraudulent Ballots and Printing Technology and how they can tell not only that it was printed. Then we got into social media and social engineering.   Here we go with Jeff.  These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit. - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] That it prints on everything. And that grid has all that information. The idea is we don't want people using color copiers or printers to print money, which is why the secret service got involved with this. But it's gotten even more intense now with these new printers and new printer technology.  Good morning, everybody. This is a kind of an unusual appearance, but this is an unusual week, right? I was on this morning on the New Hampshire today with Mr. Jeff Chidester. He was sitting in this morning. He and I go way back. He's just a great guy. I love him, but we got into some, I think,

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on WTAG this morning with Jim Polito.  Since it was Voting day, of course, we had to talk about that but then we got into a discussion about Tesla, Alpha and Beta tests, how they are perfecting their software, and what we can really expect.  Here we go with Jim. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] There's been a lot of speculation about what that second computer is being used for and without getting into the nitty-gritty too much, the Teslas are connecting, calling home on a daily basis, typically. Hi everybody. Yeah, I was on with Mr. Polito this morning. We had a great time talking about a couple of things, but, he was a little surprised about Tesla. In fact, he's a little afraid, but, I'll let him tell that too. All right. So here we go with Mr. Jim Polito. Jim Polito: [00:00:33] Here he is the man, the myth, the legend. I am talking of course about our very good frien

Welcome!  Craig has an exciting podcast that covers quite a few interesting topics this week including USB safety, Properly disposing of your smartphone before getting a new one, Why the National Guard is being used to investigate Cybersecurity incidents in Louisiana, Iran, and threatening mail sent to democrat voters, Phishing is back in the news and why you must train your employees to watch for it.  Then he talks about IT Wages and problems with the H1B Visa program. For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - CraigPeterson.com. --- How safe is your USB drive?   How to protect your privacy when selling your phone   Louisiana Calls Out National Guard to Fight Ransomware Surge   U.S. government concludes Iran was behind threatening emails sent to Democrats   How AI Will Supercharge Spear-Phishing   IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'   Need for 'Guardrails' in Cloud-Native Applications Intensifies   GIRDUSKY: Corporations Use The ‘STEM Shortage’ Myth To Abuse Guest Worker Programs --- Automated Mach

Good morning everybody! I was on WGAN this morning with Matt Gagnon and started off this morning talking about Iran and the letters sent to some of US Voters. They were purported to be from the Proud Boys but were from Iran.  We also discussed a bit about Election Hacking and then got into, How safe are our USBs? Here we go with Matt. These and more tech tips, news, and updates just visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Typically what's been happening is that the polling places go to the Secretary of State's website, enter in the information.  Then the Secretary of State's office now goes through all of that posted on their website. The Feds have been going to the Secretary of State's website and pulling it from there. So there is a risk of hacking. Good Morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining me. I really appreciate it. And if you could, if you haven't already, make sure you do hit that subscribe button, it really helps get the sh

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on WTAG this morning with Jim Polito.  We got into a lengthy discussion about some letters purported to be to democrats from the proud boys. Then we talked about Hunter Biden and recycling phones. Here we go with Jim. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] In the US, it says you will vote for Trump on election day, or we will come after you. No, this is really scary. It's reached voters and multiple States. Now, obviously, as I said, the Feds are involved. Hello everybody,  Craig Peterson here. I usually say good morning, because a lot of the listeners here listen in the morning and that's when I do. Almost all of this recording for the podcast and radio appearances.  So,  I don't know. When do you listen to it? Let me know, drop me a line. Really? I'm serious me@craigpeterson.com trying to make this a little bit more relevant. Well, talking about relevant today. We got into

Welcome, Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Scott Spradling on NH Today. We discussed the threatening Email and letters being received by voters and where they came from. We talked about Google search terms. Then we discussed why The National Guard has been called up in Lousiana to deal with Ransomware. We wrapped up today's discussion with election security in the light of revelations by the FBI and DHS about Nation-State Actors accessing our election systems through known vulnerabilities in the Secretary of State Websites. Here we go with Scott.  These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit. - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Same basic thing. It peaked in March. Like you'd expect it, a huge peak being the end of July. Now people just aren't searching about masks anymore. But this election, this COVID thing, it's looking online. It's driving people crazy. Good morning, everybody. We had a fun time talking about wha

Craig gets into some detail about why Hunter Biden's laptop that he took to a shop and never picked up is now in the hands of the FBI/DOJ and the things he did wrong when he took it in for service -- and no -- it has nothing to do with Russia. For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - CraigPeterson.com --- FBI, DHS says hackers have gained access to election systems The IRS Is Being Investigated for Using Location Data Without a Warrant Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity. 5G in the US averages 51Mbps while other countries hit hundreds of megabits IRS may put cryptocurrency question at the top of 1040 to catch cheaters Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries’ virtual shelves 25% of BEC Cybercriminals Based in the US What's Really Happening in Infosec Hiring Now? --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Yeah, I'm sure you heard about Hunter Biden, and what happened with his computer when he took it in for repairs? How

Craig continues his explanation about computer repairs and what you can and must do to protect your data and privacy. Back up your data! Also, the proper way to destroy old disks. For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - CraigPeterson.com --- FBI, DHS says hackers have gained access to election systems The IRS Is Being Investigated for Using Location Data Without a Warrant Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity. 5G in the US averages 51Mbps while other countries hit hundreds of megabits IRS may put cryptocurrency question at the top of 1040 to catch cheaters Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries’ virtual shelves 25% of BEC Cybercriminals Based in the US What's Really Happening in Infosec Hiring Now? --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Do you know, what's on your computer? Do you know what they do with it? At some of these repair shops that you take your computer when it gets slow and something breaks? When you'r

Craig continues his explanation of what you need to do if you have to take your computer to a shop to be repaired. This segment covers encryption. For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - CraigPeterson.com --- FBI, DHS says hackers have gained access to election systems The IRS Is Being Investigated for Using Location Data Without a Warrant Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity. 5G in the US averages 51Mbps while other countries hit hundreds of megabits IRS may put cryptocurrency question at the top of 1040 to catch cheaters Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries’ virtual shelves 25% of BEC Cybercriminals Based in the US What's Really Happening in Infosec Hiring Now? --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] We're going to talk right now a little bit more about removing that personal data before you send it in for repair and a couple of other things that you need to know about your rights when it comes to repairs. Hey

Craig explains why DHS and the FBI are warning us about Election Hacking and why it individual State Website Security is the culprit. For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - CraigPeterson.com --- FBI, DHS says hackers have gained access to election systems The IRS Is Being Investigated for Using Location Data Without a Warrant Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity. 5G in the US averages 51Mbps while other countries hit hundreds of megabits IRS may put cryptocurrency question at the top of 1040 to catch cheaters Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries’ virtual shelves 25% of BEC Cybercriminals Based in the US What's Really Happening in Infosec Hiring Now? --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] We've talked about the potential here of hackers getting into our election systems and what are they going to be able to do?  No, I've never been really big on this, but now FBI and DHS, well they're both disagreeing with me.

Craig discusses how the IRS gets around collecting data on US Citizens.  They buy the information from these private Data Aggregators like our friends at Equifax - who by the way collect tons of information on you without your permission (you have no say in what information they collect) and then sell it! For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - CraigPeterson.com --- FBI, DHS says hackers have gained access to election systems The IRS Is Being Investigated for Using Location Data Without a Warrant Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity. 5G in the US averages 51Mbps while other countries hit hundreds of megabits IRS may put cryptocurrency question at the top of 1040 to catch cheaters Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries’ virtual shelves 25% of BEC Cybercriminals Based in the US What's Really Happening in Infosec Hiring Now? --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson (2): [00:00:00] Coming up in this hour, we're going to talk about

In this very busy segment, Craig addresses a number of tech issues that are in the news right now. First off BEC scams.  Business Email Compromises are also commonly known as Spear Phishing scams and target executives.  In the past, many came from outside the US but this has changed.  Next, he discusses what happened with Excel and the loss of some Covid data.  Then he explains why the IRS is looking at Cryptocurrency on people's tax returns. So let's get into it! For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - CraigPeterson.com --- FBI, DHS says hackers have gained access to election systems The IRS Is Being Investigated for Using Location Data Without a Warrant Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity. 5G in the US averages 51Mbps while other countries hit hundreds of megabits IRS may put cryptocurrency question at the top of 1040 to catch cheaters Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries’ virtual shelves 25% of BEC Cybercriminals Based in the US What's Re

Craig discusses CLEAR and why what they are doing now is NOT a good idea. These biometric databases can be hacked just like any other database.  The Danger is - there is no way to guarantee 100% security of your data and if it gets hacked -- You can't change your biometrics! For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - CraigPeterson.com --- FBI, DHS says hackers have gained access to election systems The IRS Is Being Investigated for Using Location Data Without a Warrant Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity. 5G in the US averages 51Mbps while other countries hit hundreds of megabits IRS may put cryptocurrency question at the top of 1040 to catch cheaters Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries’ virtual shelves 25% of BEC Cybercriminals Based in the US What's Really Happening in Infosec Hiring Now? --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson (2): [00:00:00] Hey, who has your biometric information? Is it really a problem? You've got your

In this very busy segment, Craig addresses a number of tech issues that are in the news right now. First off BEC scams.  Business Email Compromises are also commonly known as Spear Phishing scams and target executives.  In the past, many came from outside the US but this has changed.  Next, he discusses what happened with Excel and the loss of some Covid data.  Then he explains why the IRS is looking at Cryptocurrency on people's tax returns. So let's get into it! For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - CraigPeterson.com --- FBI, DHS says hackers have gained access to election systems The IRS Is Being Investigated for Using Location Data Without a Warrant Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity. 5G in the US averages 51Mbps while other countries hit hundreds of megabits IRS may put cryptocurrency question at the top of 1040 to catch cheaters Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries’ virtual shelves 25% of BEC Cybercriminals Based in the US What's Re

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on WTAG this morning with Jim Polito.  We got into a lengthy discussion about Hunter Biden and the legitimacy of the emails and how to tell, also about computer repair shops and then a little about Steve Scully's tweet and his lies about it. Here we go with Jim. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] That is a dead give away and these news agencies such as Fox who have seen both emails, I'm sure dug into it because they said these emails were legitimate because we now have a second source. Hello everybody. Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining me this morning with Mr. Polito. We did a deep dive into one topic and that is because of what's happened with Hunter Biden's computer. What are your legal rights? What can you expect? What are these guys going to do? I even reveal a company that I know that was doing something I consider very nefarious. So here we go with Jim. Jim P

Welcome, Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. You will find here a different host this morning on NH Today. Jack Heath has moved on to another radio group. I was on with Scott Spradlin. We discussed election security in the light of revelations by the FBI and DHS about Nation-State Actors accessing our election systems through known vulnerabilities. Here we go with Scott.  These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit. - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: How vulnerable are the web pages where these final tallies are as well. So we've got now known nation-state hackers into our systems. We've got them into web sites as well, where the tallies are displayed. We've got to be very, very careful. Jack Heath has left, and now we have Scott Spradling and at least for the time being. [00:00:23] I like Scott. He's a professional news guy reporter for many, many years, and that's who I was on with this morning. Jack has apparently moved to another radio n