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Good morning, everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning and we discussed what Iran is threatening and how likely they are to succeed and what small businesses need to do to protect themselves. So, here we go with Mr. Polito.

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Hey, good morning, everybody. It's kind of a somber day today. Everything that Iran has threatened to do to the US and other countries along with those they have perpetrated, of course, for a long time. But the cyber attacks that started ramping up in 2012, we started having some warnings about this whole thing. Excuse me back in November of last year, 2019. And, man, I'm already your head. And we're right now we have even more warnings about so we got to understand this stuff, and that's what I talked to Jim Polito about this morning. It is essential if you think that you are not at risk you are, and I talked a lot about that with Jim this morning. Make sure you are on my email list as well and be doing more free pieces of training. And you'll find all of that just by going to Craig Peterson dot com, you should be able to sign up there, or Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe, so let's get into it right now. I talked with Jim exclusively about Iran, what are they capable of and what's going on over there?

Here he is no time like the present to have a tech talk guru Craig at your side, you know, we've got a random threatening cyber attack. Or we've got an analyst saying that it's likely that Iran really can't do anything conventional in terms of warfare, but maybe they can carry out cyber attacks. Joining us right now is the man who is the armor of the United States when it comes to any cyber attacks, our good friend, and Tech Talk Guru Craig Peterson. Good morning, Craig.

Hey, good morning, Jim. I'm doing well. And yeah, this is a little scary. Yeah, it is. So So why don't you lay it out for us? You know, there's a lot of other things we could have discussed on the consumer front things, there's always time for those. I think it's best to take your time today and get this analysis from you. What are they capable of doing? What do you think they'll do? If they are to attack? What are they interested in? What does it mean for the average person? I mean, I loaded up your plate there. I think it's time for us to dive in.

Absolutely. Well, there there's a lot here to be worried about. It's a very legitimate worry. There are a lot of people out there right now who say that if this turns into a kinetic war, in other words, if shots are being fired, it would make the whole Iraq conflict look like a walk in the park. Because, of course, Iran does have a lot of military armaments. Let's talk about the cyber side because that's kind of where I come in. They have already fired a shot in that war. I've been saying for a long time that World War three shots have been fired, and it is in the online space. Tehran is widely considered to be one of the world's most malicious online actors. We have kind of a list. There's about four or five of them out there. You've got Iran, China, Russia, and North Korea, but one of Iran's specialties, and all of this is something that's called a wiper attack. Now you're familiar with ransomware and ransomware attacks. That is where some malware arrives onto your computer, it goes ahead and encrypts everything on the laptop so so that you can read it, they can use it anymore, and then it pops up a screen saying, hey, pay up. A wiper attack has a similar Our outcome gym, and a wiper attack gets onto your computer and erases everything. So you no longer have access to any of your data. But now what's happened is, there's no ransom to pay. There's no chance of getting your data back. There was a vast, massive hack against the Saudi Arabian oil. The Saudi Arabian oi