Craig Peterson's Tech Talk

Welcome! Craig discusses Twitter and the Insider Hack/Phishing for Bitcoin Scam against celebrities. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: The rise and fall of Adobe Flash National Security Agency warns that VPNs could be vulnerable to cyberattacks Schools already struggled with cybersecurity. Then came COVID-19 Study Finds 15 Billion Stolen, Exposed Credentials in Criminal Markets As Offices Reopen, Hardware from Home Threatens Security Augmented reality heads-up displays for cars are finally a real thing Android 10 has the fastest update rate ever, hits 16% of users in 10 months Twitter breach exposes one of tech's biggest threats: Its own employees --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] Craig Peterson: You've probably heard about the big problems happening for the big names out there. Uncle Joe's giving away millions, Elon Musk. That's what we're going to start by talking about. How could he miss this? Right. It happened on Wednesday this we

Welcome! Craig discusses DNS and DNS Hacking and why DNS is so important if you are worried about security. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: The rise and fall of Adobe Flash National Security Agency warns that VPNs could be vulnerable to cyberattacks Schools already struggled with cybersecurity. Then came COVID-19 Study Finds 15 Billion Stolen, Exposed Credentials in Criminal Markets As Offices Reopen, Hardware from Home Threatens Security Augmented reality heads-up displays for cars are finally a real thing Android 10 has the fastest update rate ever, hits 16% of users in 10 months Twitter breach exposes one of tech's biggest threats: Its own employees --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] Craig Peterson: Hey, it only took 17 years to patch. It can't be that bad. Can it? Hello, Microsoft. Why have you had the brakes on this for so long and what it means to you? Hey everybody, Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining me. We're going to tal

Welcome! Craig discusses The End of Flash and what caused its demise. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: The rise and fall of Adobe Flash National Security Agency warns that VPNs could be vulnerable to cyberattacks Schools already struggled with cybersecurity. Then came COVID-19 Study Finds 15 Billion Stolen, Exposed Credentials in Criminal Markets As Offices Reopen, Hardware from Home Threatens Security Augmented reality heads-up displays for cars are finally a real thing Android 10 has the fastest update rate ever, hits 16% of users in 10 months Twitter breach exposes one of tech's biggest threats: Its own employees --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] We're going to talk about killing Flash. Did Steve jobs start the death of Adobe Flash Macromedia? Remember all those guys? Hey, you're listening to Craig Peterson and watching me too. I am getting. Good at trying to post stuff on my website and YouTube videos stuff that is, and I've been

Welcome! Craig discusses privacy and why what you thought you knew may not be true. Google suits over spying and more.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: The rise and fall of Adobe Flash National Security Agency warns that VPNs could be vulnerable to cyberattacks Schools already struggled with cybersecurity. Then came COVID-19 Study Finds 15 Billion Stolen, Exposed Credentials in Criminal Markets As Offices Reopen, Hardware from Home Threatens Security Augmented reality heads-up displays for cars are finally a real thing Android 10 has the fastest update rate ever, hits 16% of users in 10 months Twitter breach exposes one of tech's biggest threats: Its own employees --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] Craig Peterson: Hey, are you a devoted user of Google tools? Hey, and you know how to hide stuff online, right? Incognito browser mode. Guess again. This is Craig Peterson. Thanks for joining me again, everybody. Google has had a mixed hist

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on a special appearance with Jim Polito this morning to discuss this huge Twitter hack and what happened and what can be done about it. Here we go with Jim. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] Craig Peterson: So they had this God mode they got in trouble for. Well, it really seriously looks like, and there is a similar God mode on Twitter. It's a special appearance, command appearance, right? Yeah. Craig Peterson here and Jim Polito wanted to go into the details behind this Twitter hack. What happened? Why did it happen? What can we do about it? Does it really matter? Well, that's exactly what we were talking about. Jim Polito: Here's a funny one. There was a big Twitter hack yesterday and Steve Fourni, Western Mass producer sent me a text. Hey, Mr. blue check, did you get hacked. Like no. Nobody's going to hack me. There's no money to be had. [00:01:00] And, and who's going to accept, u

Good morning everybody! I was on with Matt this morning and we had a good discussion about the technology and cyberthreats that schools are facing and why as well as what is happening to the corporate networks of businesses that are in the process of reopening.  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: [00:00:00] Craig Peterson: Who knows what I need to control peripherals like thumb drives hard drives other devices to their corporate laptops. They might've hooked up to their little files server in that house. Craig Peterson here. Hey, if you listen to these podcasts a lot, you've probably noticed that most of these people that I interviewed with most of these radio hosts tend to ask about the same articles. In case you don't know, I put together usually eight articles every week. I kind of boil down the week's news to the top articles. There's a, I guess, a little bit of inside baseball

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on with Steve Fourni sitting in for the vacationing Jim Polito and we discussed Adobe Flash and why it went from Cool to Get it off my machine and why VPNs may not be keeping you safe. Here we go with Steve. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] Craig Peterson: They might not realize it, but you probably have not been using it for a year or more. And if you're an Apple iOS user, you've never used it. Whoa, man. Things are moving fast this morning. Craig Peterson here, I was on with. Steve Forni on a couple of stations down in mass, WHYN and WTAG covering central Western Mass parts of Rhode Island and Vermont and Connecticut. And we were talking about three or four different things. But to me, the thing that mattered the most was this discussion about VPNs at home and at work. Anyhow, here we go with this morning's radio hit. Steve Fourni: After the eight 30 news on Tuesdays, we bring in ou

Welcome, Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning discussing the latest hacks that are hitting us all. Here we go with Jack. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] Craig Peterson: So, what I do with my credit cards is I have it set up with apps on my phone from the actual banks. Be careful about that, especially if you're on Android, there's a lot of fake banking apps out there we have to worry about out there. And that's just a little bit about what we talked about this morning with Mr. Jack Heath. Jack Heath: Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy. How are you, Craig? Good morning. Craig Peterson: Hey, good morning. Finally, over that bug I had, whatever it was Flu or I am not sure what. Man, I missed you last week. Jack Heath: Have you been? What'd you have? What kind of a? Have you been sick? You've been tested? Craig Peterson: No, I haven't been tested. Yeah was just a gener

Good morning everybody! I was on with Matt this morning and we had a good discussion about my recommendations for the type of security software, ransomware, 5G, and the cost of TV now.  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: Here's what I kind of recommend for people. If you are going to get some of the software, here's what I say you should get. First of all. Well, that was me this morning on WGAN radio, talking with Matt about, again, this week's hot topics, and if you're wondering who I am, I'm Craig Peterson, but here we go with Matt. Seven 36 WGAN morning news. Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us now and he needs to turn down his radio. Cause I can hear my voice. That was odd, I don't have my radio on. A little echo there. Maybe we'll say so let me start off Craig, with a question about YouTube TV. I, I use YouTube TV. I'm a big fan of YouTube TV. And, it's been a decent pr

Good morning everybody! I was on with Matt this morning and we had a good discussion about Doom Scrolling and how it is affecting the mental health of people and society in general.  We also discussed Mark Zuckerberg's view on censorship on Facebook.  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: [00:00:00] Craig Peterson: So we put on some more software because they had been using Malware Bytes, which is something I really like, but it's not a panacea. They switched over to the stuff that we had that we've been providing and we found a Chinese backdoor. Hey, good morning, everybody. I am planning on doing a show this weekend, even though it is on the 4th of July. So we'll see how it goes today. But that was me with Matt. This morning, doing voice impersonations as well, which I usually don't do. It was kind of fun. Anyhow, we covered, I think, three of the best topics of the week, Matt Gagno

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on with Jim Polito and we discussed Facebook's 180 on Censorship and Can police legally ask you to unlock your phone? Here we go with Jim. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] Craig Peterson: Yeah, I argued that it violated his fifth amendment rights, which is kind of did here. And the Supreme court sided with Hubble. Now let's move forward 20 years to today where we have smartphones and all of these laws about privacy. And of course, things like the fifth amendment are a lot older than our smartphone. This almost felt like an Abbott and Costello routine this morning. There there's is no good answer. When it comes to the laws right now on whether I think to enforce you to open your cell phones. Anyhow, that was me, Craig Peterson on with Mr. Jim Pollito this morning, covering central and Western mass. Here we go. Jim Polito: It is the Eve of Canada day. Canada day that that's like 4th of

Welcome! Good morning, everybody. I was on with Steve Forni who was sitting in for the vacationing Jim Polito. We discussed voting methods (electronic, mail-in, and via an app), Anti-virus and cutting the cord.  Here we go with Steve. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com ---  Automated Machine Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] Craig Peterson: Think of what happened in 2004 with hanging chads, you had a Republican, you had a Democrat, you had various attorneys at each table who were examining the ballots. At least they had ballots to examine. Well, Mr. Polito was out for the week. So Steve Fourni and I got into a number of different topics.  I also found out his name is actually not French. It's Italian. So I guess I just mispronounced it again. Steve Fourni: All right. Yeah. We'll get back to the show. Steve Fourni here in for Jim Polito this morning. Every week at this hour we're joined by Craig Peterson, our tech talk guru. Good morning, Craig. How are you, sir? Craig Peterson:  He

Welcome! In this segment, Craig explains what the best type of Anti-Virus to use is and why.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: 7 reasons to pay for antivirus software and skip the free versions YouTube TV jumps 30% in price effective immediately Police roll up crime networks in Europe after infiltrating popular encrypted chat app New Mac ransomware is even more sinister than it appears Ransomware is now your biggest online security nightmare. And it's about to get worse Apple's Silicon Macs promise screaming performance TikTok and 32 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] Well, there is a lot of antivirus software available up there for free but, should you be using it? Hi everybody. This is Craig Peterson. We're going to talk right now a little bit about the antivirus software that is out there. What I think you should be u

Welcome! In this segment, Craig continues his discussion of Anti-Virus and explains why it will cost you more if you cut the cord on cable tv. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: 7 reasons to pay for antivirus software and skip the free versions YouTube TV jumps 30% in price effective immediately Police roll up crime networks in Europe after infiltrating popular encrypted chat app New Mac ransomware is even more sinister than it appears Ransomware is now your biggest online security nightmare. And it's about to get worse Apple's Silicon Macs promise screaming performance TikTok and 32 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] Well, we covered some of the very first things you need to do to keep your computer secure. Now we're going to get into what I think is going to help stop the ransomware. You are listening to Craig Peterson.

Welcome! In this segment, Craig tells you about how police hacked a criminal network and why we are seeing a resurgence of ransomware. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: 7 reasons to pay for antivirus software and skip the free versions YouTube TV jumps 30% in price effective immediately Police roll up crime networks in Europe after infiltrating popular encrypted chat app New Mac ransomware is even more sinister than it appears Ransomware is now your biggest online security nightmare. And it's about to get worse Apple's Silicon Macs promise screaming performance TikTok and 32 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] Hey, have you been using EncroChat to make sure your communications are secure? It's only thousands of dollars a year and bad guys have been using it. Well, they've been using it until now. the Europeans caught them.

Welcome! Craig discusses the uptick in Ransomware and Phishing. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: 7 reasons to pay for antivirus software and skip the free versions YouTube TV jumps 30% in price effective immediately Police roll up crime networks in Europe after infiltrating popular encrypted chat app New Mac ransomware is even more sinister than it appears Ransomware is now your biggest online security nightmare. And it's about to get worse Apple's Silicon Macs promise screaming performance TikTok and 32 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: 00:00:00] Hey, did you think WannaCry was the end, the final blow of ransomware. A couple of years back turns out it is back with a vengeance and I mean, vengeance. You are listening to Craig Peterson. Of course, you'll find me online @craigpeterson.com. You'll find my podcasts. There you'll be ab

Welcome! Craig discusses Microsoft Teams and other collaboration platforms. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: 7 reasons to pay for antivirus software and skip the free versions YouTube TV jumps 30% in price effective immediately Police roll up crime networks in Europe after infiltrating popular encrypted chat app New Mac ransomware is even more sinister than it appears Ransomware is now your biggest online security nightmare. And it's about to get worse Apple's Silicon Macs promise screaming performance TikTok and 32 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] Well, we went into our first collaboration product and now we're going to get into our next product. And this one is actually more of a team collaboration rather than just a video conferencing setup. Really, as I mentioned, GoToMeeting's been around a long time, man. They'd

Welcome! In this segment, Craig continues his discussion of Microsoft Teams and other collaboration platforms. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: 7 reasons to pay for antivirus software and skip the free versions YouTube TV jumps 30% in price effective immediately Police roll up crime networks in Europe after infiltrating popular encrypted chat app New Mac ransomware is even more sinister than it appears Ransomware is now your biggest online security nightmare. And it's about to get worse Apple's Silicon Macs promise screaming performance TikTok and 32 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] We're going to finish up our discussion about Microsoft teams. What are some of the things you might want to use it for? What is this? How was it different from Zoom and everything else on the market? So let's get going. hi everybody. Craig

Welcome! Craig discusses Zoom and the security drawbacks it poses to businesses. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: 7 reasons to pay for antivirus software and skip the free versions YouTube TV jumps 30% in price effective immediately Police roll up crime networks in Europe after infiltrating popular encrypted chat app New Mac ransomware is even more sinister than it appears Ransomware is now your biggest online security nightmare. And it's about to get worse Apple's Silicon Macs promise screaming performance TikTok and 32 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] We've talked about, Go To Meeting, Microsoft Teams. We've mentioned the WebEx teams. We've mentioned Zoom. Now we're going to start delving into that even more. We're going to be talking right now about Zoom, the pros, and cons. It's probably the one you've been using.

Welcome! Craig discusses why you should use WebEx Teams over other collaboration platforms. For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Read More: 7 reasons to pay for antivirus software and skip the free versions YouTube TV jumps 30% in price effective immediately Police roll up crime networks in Europe after infiltrating popular encrypted chat app New Mac ransomware is even more sinister than it appears Ransomware is now your biggest online security nightmare. And it's about to get worse Apple's Silicon Macs promise screaming performance TikTok and 32 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: [00:00:00] Well, we've talked about GoToMeeting. We've talked about zoom. We've talked about Microsoft teams. Now it's time to talk about my favorite. How should you be collaborating in your business? Maybe your organization, your agency there's really. Only one solutio