Good morning everybody!

I was on with Ken and Matt. We talked about what is going on with Iran and how they are planning on damaging the US economy with a different type of malware that they have used successfully in the past.  We talked about the teeth that have been added to the California Consumer Privacy Act and how it can affect companies nationwide.  So here we go with Ken and Matt.

I am doing Facebook Live today on this Iran threat so be sure to tune in.  

These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

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Craig Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson, here I was out with our friends Ken and Matt up in Maine. We went through some of the Iran controversy, some similar stuff to yesterday with our friend Jim Polito. Then we delved into what the California law is all about, and what you will have to do as a business owner. I mean, like last week, quite literally, this law got teeth on January 1. So I went into a fair amount, in fact, a lot of detail on that one as well. If you're involved in a business, have any information on any consumers that live in California, this new law has a lot of teeth. So here we go with Ken and Matt.

Matt Gentlemen, but now it's time to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us now as he always does this time on Wednesdays. Craig. How are you?

Craig Hey, doing well, speaking of issues, there are a few things in the news, aren't there?

Matt Well, not anything major, except that goes out to have a new cookie that's coming out. But in terms of tech news, we certainly had some issues going out in Iran. And there's a lot of talk about how they would retaliate. But there may be ways that we can do it that are not necessarily militarily but probably more technological. Once you tell us you know about that.

Craig I think this is kind of big news right now is that we are already under attack and we have been for a couple of years. Iran has been one of the major players when it comes to cyber hacking online. Most people already heard about China and Russia attacking us and North Korea, of course. Still, they have been at this for a very long time, as you know, the last 40 years. They have been going after the United States after Saudi Arabia after Iraq tried to get control of that region. And they did a massive hack back in 2012 on Saudi Arabia's largest oil company, and they were able to destroy an estimated 30,000 computers over at Saudi Aramco. Then just this last fall, we had another big problem. And our government came out of that point and said, Hey, listen, everybody, be careful. Make sure your computers are up to date or doing some serious work on trying to prevent hackers because they, at that point, we're going after our businesses. Now, here's the big difference between going after companies electronically to hack and going after the government. Most small, medium businesses don't have any extra money to spend on real security, and we look at some of the stats, for instance, Ars Technica, a great website with all kinds of excellent technical information. Ars Technica every year has what they call it Death Watch. This year on our on their Death Watch. They're saying, Symantec is going to die this year, they will be out of business, and Symantec, of course, those are the guys that make Norton Security. They have a lot of other security products, but they don't work anymore. In the small-medium business space, companies are using things like AVG and Norton and McAfee and many others to try and protect their systems. Still, they are not effective against the current types of malware attacks. You might ask, why would anyone care about my small business? Why would anyone care about my home account? My home computer? Iran is doing something known as a wiper attack. And those wiper attacks, destroy everything entirely on your computer. So unlike a ransom