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Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning and we discussed these Fake Jobs that are being offered on-line, spoofed websites and ID theft. Then we got into who was responsible for hacking Jeff Bezos's phone and why we have to be careful who we hire.  So, here we go with Mr. Polito.

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Craig You know, Make America Great Again, that would not be a great password. Yeah, but some random words strung together are much harder to crack on a computer than anything else because of the way the cracking technologies work nowadays. The cracking technology is much different than it used to be.

Craig Morning, everybody that was me with Mr. Jim Polito, and we broke down a couple of things today. First of all, a couple of security things, the truth about your passwords. We went into the whole hack here that led to the most expensive divorce in history, and also employment scams on the rise. Why is it happening? What should you be cautious of if you're looking for a new job? The FBI has a special warning out. So here we go with Jim.

Jim Always ahead of the curve. Always bringing us the latest from the world of tech talk, our good friend, Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig A good morning. You know things are always changing out there in the industry. I'm going to bring something up. You mentioned earlier today. What they're trying to with this Data Privacy Day is to bring some visibility into the whole password problem, right? And you talked about some of the advice that they were giving and, and, what iHeart makes you guys do. What is it? Change your passwords every three months,

Jim Yes, every three months. We have to change our password, and it can't be even close to the previous password.

Craig That's a widespread thing out there in the industry, just in general. But I got to tell you that the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is the organization within the federal government that comes out with all of these security standards, change that about a year ago. So You now have something to use against them. Here's why. Here's what's going on. If they make you come up with a new password every three months, what are the odds that it's going to be an excellent password? Next, what are the chances that you're not going to write it down somewhere like where the cleaning lady can find it? Maybe in your drawer, taped to the bottom of your keyboard, or even worse, and I know people are listening that are going to go into the office today and immediately and take down their post-it notes. If you can believe it, people place post-it notes right on their computer. The current recommendations are, you come up with a great phrase. Yeah, you don't have to use special characters and numbers and all this other stuff. But come up with a few random words. Pick four or five words that you can remember that you can associate together. Oh, and you don't have to change it every three months. Once a year is probably enough and phrase with three or four words that are there aren't things like, you know, make America great again, that would not be a de password. Yeah, but some random words that are harder to crack on a computer than anything else because the way the crackers are working nowadays, the cracking technologies is much different than it used to be. So just a quick word of advice to people if you're worried oh my gosh, I don't change my password every three months, and I don't have special characters and digits in it. Best password according to nest is just four maybe five words. random ones strung together and that's your passwords more accessible cookie-cutter type two,

Jim But I have a new one it is Could I please MooMoo face banana? No. Can I please use MooMoocen face banan