Craig Peterson's Tech Talk

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on WTAG this morning with Steve Fourni who was sitting in for the vacationing Jim Polito.  He had a few questions about computer security especially in light of the 129 Microsoft Vulnerabilities that were addressed on Patch Tuesday, I did get up on my soapbox for a bit, but Here we go with Steve. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, it's political season. I had to get on my soapbox. Okay. Little stump, speech, going on here, Craig Peterson. Of course this morning. I was on in Mass and south-central and Western mass as well as Southern Vermont and also from parts of Connecticut. So yeah, I guess we're expanding. We're talking about serious computer issues. Steve Fourni was sitting in for Jim Pollito this morning and I like the way he was going with this and what he was thinking about. His train of thought is something that frankly, every business person needs to have.

Welcome, Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath and we discussed a critical patch that was announced on Friday and is so dangerous that the Fed's gave their system administrators until today to get their servers patched up.  Also, Microsoft announced 129 Critical patches on Tuesday -- Patch, Patch, Patch!  Then we talked about some good economic news. Here we go with Jack.  These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, had a quick hit with Jack this morning up on New Hampshire today. We did talk a little bit about well, politics, really. What is going on with e-commerce and why did the federal government only give its own administrators 24 hours, basically to get this done? Zero log-on. Man, what a problem? Jack Heath: [00:00:23] We appreciate it earlier. He yielded because of all the talk of the Supreme court, Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy with a quick moment or two

Welcome! Craig explains why Hackers have found a new target that they love and why it might put you in jeopardy. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Managed IT Providers: The Cyber-Threat Actors' Gateway to SMBs Think You're Spending Enough on Security? DHS Braces For 'Potential EMP Attack' As Presidential Election Nears US Sanctions Russian Attackers for 2020 Election Interference Cyber-Risks Explode With Move to Telehealth Services Why online voting is harder than online banking Price gouging and defective products rampant on Amazon, reports find Ransomware Has Gone Corporate—and Gotten More Cruel --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Welcome everybody. Hey, if you think that your IT being outsourced is going to somehow protect you from the bad guys. Unless they are a security service provider, I've got some news for you. Hello everybody. Craig Peterson here. A welcome and glad you joined us here on news radio 98.5 And AM 5

Welcome! Craig puts into perspective cybersecurity spending and how much you should be looking to spend based on certain criteria. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Managed IT Providers: The Cyber-Threat Actors' Gateway to SMBs Think You're Spending Enough on Security? DHS Braces For 'Potential EMP Attack' As Presidential Election Nears US Sanctions Russian Attackers for 2020 Election Interference Cyber-Risks Explode With Move to Telehealth Services Why online voting is harder than online banking Price gouging and defective products rampant on Amazon, reports find Ransomware Has Gone Corporate—and Gotten More Cruel --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] This talk of MSP outsourced IT providers.  Brings up a really great question. How much should you be spending on security in a business or at home? Hey, you're listening to Craig Peterson here on WGAN 98.5 FM and AM 560. You can also hear me every Wednesday morning with Mr. M

Welcome! Craig discusses Electromagnetic Pulse as it relates to the DHS warning that China might be planning something around our election. What would it mean? How would we deal with it?  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Managed IT Providers: The Cyber-Threat Actors' Gateway to SMBs Think You're Spending Enough on Security? DHS Braces For 'Potential EMP Attack' As Presidential Election Nears US Sanctions Russian Attackers for 2020 Election Interference Cyber-Risks Explode With Move to Telehealth Services Why online voting is harder than online banking Price gouging and defective products rampant on Amazon, reports find Ransomware Has Gone Corporate—and Gotten More Cruel --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] If you're not familiar with the Carrington event, stick around because the odds are great we're going to have to live through another one of these. Even though it's been more than a hundred years, we're going to talk ab

Welcome! Craig explains Nation-state Election interference and what is more likely just spreading Chaos and distrust. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Managed IT Providers: The Cyber-Threat Actors' Gateway to SMBs Think You're Spending Enough on Security? DHS Braces For 'Potential EMP Attack' As Presidential Election Nears US Sanctions Russian Attackers for 2020 Election Interference Cyber-Risks Explode With Move to Telehealth Services Why online voting is harder than online banking Price gouging and defective products rampant on Amazon, reports find Ransomware Has Gone Corporate—and Gotten More Cruel --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Of course, we talk a lot about Russian hackers, Chinese. Iranian, and it goes on and on North Korean, we're going to talk right now about our elections. 2020 a very big year. What's Russia up to, and what's the US doing about it. You're listening to Craig Peterson here on News Radio 98.5F

Welcome! Craig explains Why you should be concerned about your private health information when using a Telehealth application.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Managed IT Providers: The Cyber-Threat Actors' Gateway to SMBs Think You're Spending Enough on Security? DHS Braces For 'Potential EMP Attack' As Presidential Election Nears US Sanctions Russian Attackers for 2020 Election Interference Cyber-Risks Explode With Move to Telehealth Services Why online voting is harder than online banking Price gouging and defective products rampant on Amazon, reports find Ransomware Has Gone Corporate—and Gotten More Cruel --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Coming up in this hour, we're going to be talking about some of these cyber risks that are really exploded because of the telehealth services. We'll tell you about that. And online voting. Price gouging and defective products rampant on Amazon. Hey, listening to Craig Peterson o

Welcome! Craig explains Voting secrecy and privacy and why online-voting is not ready for prime time and how Mail-in voting is ripe for fraud.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Managed IT Providers: The Cyber-Threat Actors' Gateway to SMBs Think You're Spending Enough on Security? DHS Braces For 'Potential EMP Attack' As Presidential Election Nears US Sanctions Russian Attackers for 2020 Election Interference Cyber-Risks Explode With Move to Telehealth Services Why online voting is harder than online banking Price gouging and defective products rampant on Amazon, reports find Ransomware Has Gone Corporate—and Gotten More Cruel --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] We're about to talk about online voting. I know you've heard a lot about the Mail-in voting, right? Both sides of that, as well as the regular voting booths and stuff. But we're going to talk about on-line. Hey, of course, you're listening to Craig Peterson here

Welcome! Craig explains third-party sellers on Amazon and why it is not all it is being made up to be and why? For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Managed IT Providers: The Cyber-Threat Actors' Gateway to SMBs Think You're Spending Enough on Security? DHS Braces For 'Potential EMP Attack' As Presidential Election Nears US Sanctions Russian Attackers for 2020 Election Interference Cyber-Risks Explode With Move to Telehealth Services Why online voting is harder than online banking Price gouging and defective products rampant on Amazon, reports find Ransomware Has Gone Corporate—and Gotten More Cruel --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] You've probably been shopping online and some of these retailers include some of the biggest ones out there have been price, gouging, us, and shipping defective products. We'll talk about who and why and what you can do. Hey, welcome back everybody. Craig Peterson here, he listening to news radi

Welcome! Craig explains the new Corporate face of Ransomware called Ransomware-as-a-Service or RaaS.  How it works and what it means for you the small business owner. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: Managed IT Providers: The Cyber-Threat Actors' Gateway to SMBs Think You're Spending Enough on Security? DHS Braces For 'Potential EMP Attack' As Presidential Election Nears US Sanctions Russian Attackers for 2020 Election Interference Cyber-Risks Explode With Move to Telehealth Services Why online voting is harder than online banking Price gouging and defective products rampant on Amazon, reports find Ransomware Has Gone Corporate—and Gotten More Cruel --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Odds are pretty good, actually that you've already been hit with ransomware. Raise your arm if it's happened to you, put your hand up. Yep. Yep. I see you. it has gotten a lot worse lately. You're listening to Craig Peterson right here on n

Good morning everybody! I was on WGAN this morning with Matt Gagnon and we began with talking about Online and Mail-in Voting and some of the technical problems with those forms of voting, then we got into what the big Nation-States are hoping to do during this election cycle up to and including the possibility of launching an EMP and what that could mean for us in the US. 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: [00:00:00] Could put us back to those 18 hundred timeframes where we don't have electricity. And it is a scary thing because if they're able to knock out some of our major transmission transformers, we don't have any. Hey, good morning, everybody. We got to a few different subjects and I ended in a bit of a depressing tone here talking about China in this electromagnetic pulse, apparently, that is being planned. I'll be talking about this a little bit more this w

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on WTAG this morning with Jim Polito.  He had a few questions about Voting and the Technology surrounding Mail-in and Online Voting and then we got into the sales of the Chinese company ByteDance to Oracle. Here we go with Jim. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] They've been using some of our drone footage, which is why these Chinese drones are illegal to use for government contractors and many others. Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson, here. I am enjoying this weather. This is my time of year. I was on with Jim this morning, we talked about TikTok, this whole Oracle thing. Why did the president do what he did and is the sale actually going to fix the problem? President Trump identified. So we talked about that and of course, we also talked about voting. It can't get political sometimes with Mr. Polito. So here we go. Jim Polito: [00:00:41] Okay, this is the guy yo

Welcome, Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath and we discussed some less tech news that he was interested in getting my take on.  For more tech news of the week listen in on Saturday at 11:30 am on this station.  Here we go with Jack.  These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. We've got a busy week I had where you keep it on your email box. Would you? I've got some new emails coming out here mid-week. We're starting training and it's basically going to start with email. We're trying to keep these down to about a three-minute read. I'll get you up to date, keep you up to date as we go forward. Then we're going to be having some more live stuff on YouTube live and Facebook lives and elsewhere. It's going to be a busy time for me, but you know what? I think it's worth it. I've been doing this for so long and I want to help those

Welcome! Craig explains contact tracing and how Apple 13.7 and Google Android are using it to help respond in this Pandemic.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: iOS 13.7 launched today with a new system for battling the pandemic Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw affecting >350,000 WordPress sites The accidental notary: Apple approves notorious malware to run on Macs Most IoT Hardware Dangerously Easy to Crack 55% of Cybersquatted Domains are Malicious or Potentially Fraudulent Feds Can’t Ask Google for Every Phone in a 100-meter Radius, Court Says The Hidden Cost of Losing Security Talent Don’t forget Cybersecurity on Your Back-to-School List --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] A lot of Great comments about last week show, appreciate you guys joining us today. Of course, this is Craig Peterson and as usual, we've got a lot of technology to talk about and some security stuff as well. So here we go. Emily: [00:00:19]

Welcome! Craig Explains Why companies believe that they are Completely Patched up and Why it means more than your Operating System. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: iOS 13.7 launched today with a new system for battling the pandemic Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw affecting >350,000 WordPress sites The accidental notary: Apple approves notorious malware to run on Macs Most IoT Hardware Dangerously Easy to Crack 55% of Cybersquatted Domains are Malicious or Potentially Fraudulent Feds Can’t Ask Google for Every Phone in a 100-meter Radius, Court Says The Hidden Cost of Losing Security Talent   Don’t forget Cybersecurity on Your Back-to-School List --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, do you have a 99% patch rate? Gonna talk right now about why that is a load of UMHUM in every case that I've ever seen? Craig Peterson here and here we go. Hey everybody. Thanks for joining me today. this is something that I don'

Welcome! Craig explains how app design libraries are causing problems with the security of apps for some of the big tech firms.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: iOS 13.7 launched today with a new system for battling the pandemic Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw affecting >350,000 WordPress sites The accidental notary: Apple approves notorious malware to run on Macs Most IoT Hardware Dangerously Easy to Crack 55% of Cybersquatted Domains are Malicious or Potentially Fraudulent Feds Can’t Ask Google for Every Phone in a 100-meter Radius, Court Says The Hidden Cost of Losing Security Talent Don’t forget Cybersecurity on Your Back-to-School List --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] We're going to get into the guts right now of something called notarization. When it comes to our apps. What's Apple doing what's Google doing and how did Apple mess this is up so badly, frankly. Hey, you're listening to Craig Peterson. Th

Welcome! Craig discusses IoT hardware and how these gaget-y devices can put your business at risk. Listen in to find out why? For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: iOS 13.7 launched today with a new system for battling the pandemic Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw affecting >350,000 WordPress sites The accidental notary: Apple approves notorious malware to run on Macs Most IoT Hardware Dangerously Easy to Crack 55% of Cybersquatted Domains are Malicious or Potentially Fraudulent Feds Can’t Ask Google for Every Phone in a 100-meter Radius, Court Says The Hidden Cost of Losing Security Talent   Don’t forget Cybersecurity on Your Back-to-School List --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Sometimes it seems like the easier things are the tougher they are. And man is that true according to this new study we're going to talk about right now when it comes to these wonderful little appliances we have. Hello everybody. Craig Pete

Welcome! Craig discusses Why hackers have resorted to Cybersquatting to ply their trades.  Listen in to find out. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: iOS 13.7 launched today with a new system for battling the pandemic Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw affecting >350,000 WordPress sites The accidental notary: Apple approves notorious malware to run on Macs Most IoT Hardware Dangerously Easy to Crack 55% of Cybersquatted Domains are Malicious or Potentially Fraudulent Feds Can’t Ask Google for Every Phone in a 100-meter Radius, Court Says The Hidden Cost of Losing Security Talent Don’t forget Cybersecurity on Your Back-to-School List --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, how good are you at spelling and or typing? If you're like the rest of America, in fact, around the world, you may not be the best at either one of them. You know what the bad guys are taking advantage of that. Hey everybody. Craig Peterson here. Th

Welcome! Craig discusses geofence warrants and why they are so popular with law enforcement investigators.  Has the court seen enough? Listen in to find out. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: iOS 13.7 launched today with a new system for battling the pandemic Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw affecting >350,000 WordPress sites The accidental notary: Apple approves notorious malware to run on Macs Most IoT Hardware Dangerously Easy to Crack 55% of Cybersquatted Domains are Malicious or Potentially Fraudulent Feds Can’t Ask Google for Every Phone in a 100-meter Radius, Court Says The Hidden Cost of Losing Security Talent   Don’t forget Cybersecurity on Your Back-to-School List --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Welcome back everybody. The fed had been out there using stingrays and other devices to watch where you're at. We're going to talk about that right now, and a new core ruling against the feds for some of the

Welcome! Craig discusses Why you need to try to keep your Cybersecurity Talent and what it can cost you if you lose them.   For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: iOS 13.7 launched today with a new system for battling the pandemic Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw affecting >350,000 WordPress sites The accidental notary: Apple approves notorious malware to run on Macs Most IoT Hardware Dangerously Easy to Crack 55% of Cybersquatted Domains are Malicious or Potentially Fraudulent Feds Can’t Ask Google for Every Phone in a 100-meter Radius, Court Says The Hidden Cost of Losing Security Talent Don’t forget Cybersecurity on Your Back-to-School List --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Let's see there's Sue. There is Guy. There are Mary and a couple of other people. I can't remember everyone's names right now, but they are all listeners to the show and they have all changed careers. Here's what's going on. Hey, if you enjoy m