Good morning everybody!

I was on with Ken and Matt. We had a good discussion about Business Email Compromise, what it is, who is at risk and what we can do about it. Then it was onto the Jeff Bezos Phone Hack. So here we go with Ken and Matt.

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Craig They scraped every picture on the internet that they could get their hands on. That is against the usage of rules and agreements of all these websites. If you had a picture posted on Facebook that was publicly accessible or on Twitter

Craig Good morning, everybody. Of course, this is Craig Peterson on WGAN, up in Maine, on their morning drive show. There is some very concerning stuff going on to news statistics out that we talked about this week about fishing and BEC type email attacks. We are going to get into it right now.

Ken We are back ladies and gentlemen it is 738 on the WGAN morning news with Ken and Matt on Wednesday, which means it's time to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru, to go over all the things about technology that affect our daily lives here today. Craig, How are you this morning?

Craig Good morning, doing well

Ken Well, let's start talking about some techniques, shall we? How many organizations last year, got phished, successfully?

Craig Yeah, this is a huge trend that's been going on. You know, we keep hearing these warnings FBI has issued an alert out, and we will talk about it here on the show. It is really getting down to the brass tacks because we're, we're all somehow making some money, right? Whether or not you are getting paid because you know nothing about an oil company, or perhaps you are getting paid because you're working hard and getting up at 3 am every day. Those organizations, every one of them, right now got phished. Of course, you know what phishing is those of those types of emails that encourage you to click on something, maybe download something, etc. There are some new statistics out right now. They are kind of a little scary. You know, I'm not even sure these are that accurate because they say that nearly 90% of organizations around the world are targets of this whole business email compromise, type of scam, fear, spear-phishing attacks, which is a very, very big deal. And I think it's probably closer to 100% of organizations. I don't know you guys probably both have gotten those emails, right, supposedly, from your bank, etc. Absolutely. Yeah. I don't see why it's only 90%. But it's, it's very, very bad. It's very high. They're looking at global data from 50 million simulated phishing attacks. They got sent out to the customers of one company by their security firm, Proofpoint. They sent them over the one year but the part that's most alarming to me because you know, 100% that's not news. But unfortunately, more than half of the people that got these simulated phishing attacks opened the email and clicked on a link, and they were convinced to do it. That's the scary part. Another big story this week is telling us a little bit about what the results of that are the cost of it, and it's happening more, we are getting better. Okay. It used to be that it was 90% of people would open these emails. So we are getting better, but the costs are even increasing.

Matt We are talking to Craig Peterson, he is our tech guru, and he joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over what's happening in the world of technology. I am always fascinated by this evolving facial recognition technology. I'm thinking of a man walking into the Gap or whatever, like in Minority Report, and they scan your eyes, or they just know they know who you are. They say Welcome back to the store. How did you enjoy those jeans that you just bought? Would you like to look at something new, etc.? The real utility of it, at least right now, is in terms of security and things like that.