Craig Peterson's Tech Talk

Craig's own company, Mainstream, is currently averaging six million hacking attempts a day against its servers — and most of them are coming from China. Separately, Iran has already broken into the systems of a major health care company Craig covers in this week's newsletter. HIPAA requires continuous monitoring of health care systems, which is exactly how anyone would know an intrusion happened at all — and in this case, it took the company a full year to notice. That gap is the point: continuous monitoring isn't a box to check, it's how Craig can put a number on his own six million daily attempts in the first place. A company that isn't watching that closely doesn't get a lower attack count — it just gets a later, worse surprise. Also in this segment: St. Patrick's Day banter about Craig's Norwegian and newly-discovered Irish ancestry, and where his daughter's red hair came from Aircraft carrier nuclear reactors and the newer molten-salt cooling technology that makes a coolant leak far less dangerous than