Trick the Tricksters in Russia - Why a Meat Processor Got Ransomed

<p><strong>[As Heard on WTAG, WHJJ, and WHYN 2021-06-01. Automated transcript follows.]</strong></p> <p><strong>Craig Peterson:</strong> [00:00:00] Good morning, everybody doing well this morning course, Craig Peterson here, and I was talking this morning about two different things. One, and this sounds like one of these marketing things in part of these ads, right? One weird trick while I got one. This is amazing. This is from Brian Krebs and it is a trick that will stop most, if not all, frankly, Russian based.</p> <p>[00:00:28] Ransomware and even hackers. So we went into that. I'm going to put more about that in my newsletter this weekend. So make sure you are on that list. Craig peterson.com/subscribe.</p> <p>[00:00:42] And we also talked a little bit about this newest hack against the largest meat company. In the world, if you can believe that.</p> <p>[00:00:53] Absolutely huge. So both of those of this morning with Mr. Jim Polito, here we go.</p> <p>[00:01:01] <strong>Jim Polito:</strong> [00:01:01] Hey, this guy is on top of it all. I'm talking about our tech talk guru, Craig Peterson, and nobody. Smarter than this man. And he joins us now. Good morning, Craig. Hey, good morning. It's Jimmy P how you doing? I'm good, Greg. Thank you.</p> <p>[00:01:20] Hey, can I just, I want to ask you about this simple trick that will stop most Russian hackers. And it's not hiding a bottle of vodka somewhere. No, the it's about Microsoft. I want to ask you about now that now what ransomware and a meat packing facility. So they went after power grids. They went after water.</p> <p>[00:01:43] Now they want to go after our food. They're there, they went after the oil pipeline. They want meet what's this all about. They really are what we're talking about right now. The major organized hackers. So the guys that have gotten together that are working together that really want to go after targets that have money.</p> <p>[00:02:06] Yeah. And even though those say things like we don't, I want to really affect the us economy. We r