Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and guest host Erik Lusk. This morning we talked about Apps and how bad they are, Why you should not use Android, Backups why they are really important now. and what could happen in the future?
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Transcript:
Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 07/03/2019
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Craig Peterson Hi everybody, Craig Peterson here. Oh my gosh, Independence Day. I want to say Happy Independence Day to everybody out there. Happy Canada Day to everybody who, of course, is from Canada. Some grand celebrations are coming up in France this summer, as well as the UK and all over the world. So, you know, let's give peace a chance as they say, right. Today I was on with my friends Ken Altshuler and Eric Lusk, and I gave Eric a bit of a kidney punch. I talked a little bit about an email I got from the FBI this week and talking about some of the security problems with Android. I am afraid I went on a bit of a rant here, you know, the whole 76% of mobile apps having flaws, security flaws, the Iranian cyber attacks against the United States. And we got into it today. At least I did. They could hardly get a word in edgewise. Anyways, here we go. Have a great week, guys, and I'll be back on Saturday. Bye-bye.
Ken Altshuler And it's 738 on Wednesday Morning News. Eric is sitting in for Matt Gagnon, who is taking a few days off. Jeremy Fisher 'll join you after the eight o'clock news with an eye on politics but as usual on Wednesday, 738 none other than Professor Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us. Good morning, Mr. Peterson, how are you?
Craig Peterson Hey, good morning, doing well. I love this kind of weather. It is why I live up here. It's just like you were saying. Right?
Ken Altshuler Exactly.
Craig Peterson I like a warm day, frankly, in the 80s. Maybe a little much. It's a beautiful beach day. But I'm not into the humidity and not into the 90 plus degree weather and everything else. I enjoy this.
Ken Altshuler Well, you're in the right place. Enjoy it until winter starts in a couple of weeks.
Craig Peterson Yeah.
Ken Altshuler It's right around the corner. Winter is coming. Mr. Peterson,
Eric Lusk You'll notice the days are getting shorter.
Ken Altshuler Exactly right.
Craig Peterson Well, you're not going to notice it quite yet. It speeds up a little bit, later on. Right now. We're only losing just you know, a few seconds every day but it does accelerate. Winter is, you know, the winter isn't so bad either. You know.
Ken Altshuler There's no good winter, you're wrong. There's no nice way to put it, winter, I mean no way to put a nice spin on it. But no winter is not good.
Craig Peterson Well, I look at it this way can I can always put on another layer of clothes in the wintertime. I cannot take off my skin in the summer.
Ken Altshuler But you don't need to. You can be basking in the warmth in the heat. I am from Oklahoma, so you're talking to the wrong person.
Craig Peterson Oklahoma's nasty. They have the worst of both, right.
Ken Altshuler But that heat is super. It's like being in a SPAAA..
Ken Altshuler So let's get into the tech issues. You gave us a lot of tech issues that I didn't know where to start. I went to the one where 76 percent of mobile apps have flaws that allow hackers to steal passwords, money, and tech. So what my iPhone, these people can go on and steal my passwords. You tell me.
Craig Peterson Here's the problem, I, in fact, I just forwarded an email to some friends, I'll have to send it out to my whole email list here on as part of this weekend's email that I send out. I sent out this email. It was a summary that I get from law enforcement from the FBI because of what I do with the FBI and Infragard running their webinar programs. On it was just a note that said here's the Android patches for July. It went on for I don't know three or 400 words just describing the critical patches and how only Samsung is going to be releasing fixes for these patches on Android for these significant security problems with Android software. Only Samsung going to be releasing fixes for them within the probably the next60 days. These are highly critical. These are crucial, critical, patches. Other vendors, some may never release patches for them. Okay, so let's start with that in mind. Okay, Android, forget about it. If you care about security at all. Never buy Android. Now, iOS
Erik Lusk So much for my cell phone. Exactly.
Craig Peterson Ditch it. I can't believe you're in the financial business and you have an Android because it is the most dangerous piece of hardware available today. It's worse than Windows.
Ken Altshuler Wow.
Craig Peterson Okay.
Ken Altshuler Did you hear that?
Craig Peterson So, don't
Erik Lusk Do you want me to turn around so you can hit the other kidney? Holy smokes!
Craig Peterson Is he starting to spit blood yet, Ken? Okay. Sorry about that. But most people don't know this. Right? It's not your fault, Erik. Some vendors are pretending Androids just fine. Right? So how do you know who to trust? I'm not blaming you for this, and it's why I get so upset with the antivirus software, people selling things like Android phones and tablets, televisions with built-in things like how webOS. Samsung said two weeks ago, don't forget to run an antivirus on your TV. Who knows this stuff? Right? The bottom line is, don't use Android ever. Stick with iOS. Going back to Ken's point here, where 76% of mobile apps, according to positive technologies analysis here, 76% of mobile apps have flaws that can allow hackers to steal the passwords, maybe even your money and texts. Okay. Yeah, there is not a device if it has power going to it, If it has a wire going to it - the potential is there that it can be hacked, okay. So Deal with it, bottom line. Poorly written iOS applications are going to use cloud services other than Apple. Now Apple, again, their cloud services are outstanding. However, many of these cloud services, look at the Amazon breaches, we just had another huge one yesterday, that affected TD Bank, according to the reports, they were using a third party contractor. In other words, if you are a business, think about this for a couple of minutes, you're giving your data to who? To salesforce.com to this cloud service. Do you know how good is this cloud provider's security? Many of these apps that we're using are going to the cloud, they're using cloud services, many of the vendors that are upstream from us are taking some of our data, and they're not protecting it. So I, man, I just, I can't emphasize this enough. It's terrible. It's but it's the way of the world, and it's going to continue to be the way the world. That's why I'm hosting my security summer. This summer, I have a six-week program, one hundred percent free for everybody. I want everybody to know what to do because the vendors out there are not telling you the truth. Okay. That's the bottom line. They're selling new software that they have because they have it. Right. They're not selling you solutions that solve basic things, and you need to do those first. It's brass tacks of what you need to do to keep your data safe. It's like you were talking about with distracted driving. Who can afford the latest version of Apple's Car Play? The new one that is just coming out with right now is phenomenal. Android has a similar thing. But again, I don't want you to use Android devices for distracted driving. Who can afford to pay somebody like me to help them? Well, you know, bigger businesses, obviously, Ken, right. The medium-sized companies and larger small businesses can come in, and I can secure it. There are so many defense contractors working just right south here at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard that has to have to be DFARS compliance, which is a federal regulation. But they don't know where they can go? How about the little guys that can't afford to hire the real security people that all they do is networks and security. That's what this security summer is all about, guys. If people want to find out more, listen, you got to get ahold of me, I'm more than glad to put you into this class. It's only 10 to 15 minutes sessions twice a week, during the summer. If you miss one, you can watch it on the replay you need to email me at Craig Peterson dot com if you want to be in it and I'll let you know when it starts, okay, this isn't selling new stuff. It is just getting down to the brass tacks and making sure that those are out of the way. Many of these things you can do are free. Some of them are just educational, but they need to know what to do and how to do it. And then some you might want to or need to buy some paid software. I'll tell you what to do. But email me at Craig Peterson dot com. It's not as though I care about this stuff. Guys. I don't want you to think I'm on a soapbox or anything. Okay.
Erik Lusk Just a wee bit.
Craig Peterson Oh, yea.
Ken Altshuler But a good soapbox
Erik Lusk Oh, yeah, absolutely! When the city of Baltimore was held hostage by some computer hackers that managed to figure out how to shut down the municipal website. That's no way to live. What's next shutting down our Public Utilities?
Craig Peterson You don't? Yeah, well, that's what's happening right now. And maybe that was a cue for me right there. We had this whole thing with Iran, right, they shot down our drone. That was or was not in international waters, Right. So our response was to be in a posture to bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran. Right. Then President Trump called it off at the last minute, right? It is all that we're getting from the news. And then the part that most people haven't been talking about is apparently, President Trump's idea of, hey, listen, you didn't kill anybody in the plane, we don't want to kill anybody. Then in a reciprocal response was that we hacked and shut down their radars, missile radar systems and their missile sites. Their answer is what's happening now with Iran going after our US businesses. They've got some software that wipes your computer. If they get on to your business computers, what they want to do is cause problems with the US economy. Most businesses just are protected well enough. They've got some a break-fix shop that knows a little bit about security and certainly can install the software. And those are, you know, Wow, those are the experts. And so Life is good, right? Hey guys that is not the case. Now we've got Homeland Security coming out this last week here, and warning businesses that Iranian hackers are already targeting US companies. And they're using this wipe software. They're not holding your data ransom, they are wiping clean your computers and anything they can find on your network, rather than stealing the data. That's directly from Chris Krebs. He's the director of Homeland Security's Cyber Security Division
Erik Lusk Isn't that an easier thing to do? Rather than to go in and steal the data, isn't it easier to just wipe out somebody's data altogether?
Craig Peterson That's the easiest thing to do. And you know what, Eric, there are no fingerprints afterward, Right? Or should I say a very few fingerprints? So for instance, we've gone into companies, we went into one company, and we found that there were Chinese back doors installed. It was a small manufacturer. And they made some dumb parts, right? There's like you think of a screw. Well, who cares about a screw. And the Chinese had multiple back doors, and they were monitoring everything that was going on. But that screw eventually ended up in our military equipment, until the Chinese went after the little guy. It made it now easier, and they had access to the portal to the big defense contractor, etc., etc. So that was very easy to trace because we could see wherever these back doors were talking to how they were accessed. We worked with the FBI, and we were able to straighten it out very quickly, we got them back in business within 24 hours. However, when you're just wiping a computer, there is nothing left because they've completely wiped the silly thing. So yeah, Eric, that's what they're doing because it is the easiest thing to do. That's part of what we're going to do with the security summer the right ways to do backups. And I can tell you 90% of the people I've ever talked to probably really close to 100 are not doing backups properly. But I don't want people to feel bad. A good backup that works can recover your data from that wipe from the Iranians. It can also recover your data from any ransomware attacks coming. Many of those are from Russia. We have one client, and we were looking at their website the other day and the security mechanisms we have in place. Their website was getting attacked five times every second it was a little website. It's crazy. And it was coming straight from Russia, by the way, anyways, blah, blah. I'm going to long in this segment. But there's so much you have to know to do it right. Just email me at Craig Peterson dot com. I want to get you in this. It is free. It's for small-medium businesses. If you're just the IT person because you know the most or you like computers, and "tagged your it" right, like in the game of tag. It is for you. And it's free. And I want you to attend email me at Craig Peterson dot com.
Ken Altshuler Great. Craig Peterson dot com and Craig joins us every Wednesday. 738. Craig, we hope you have a great Fourth of July. We'll talk to you next week.
Erik Lusk So much for my cell phone. I guess I'm headed over to get something else.
Ken Altshuler iPhone time. iPhone time. Yeah.
Craig Peterson Have a great Independence Day, everybody.
Erik Lusk Thanks, Joe. All right, we'll take a break for CBS News, and we'll be back after this.
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