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Today's guest is Peter Cole, a lifelong hospitality veteran, who has parlayed his eclectic sense of curiosity into an incredible organization called Eclectic Companies (serving as their Founder). Most recently, he was the CEO of Design Hotels, a highly curated portfolio of independent, design driven hotels that function as social hubs and spaces for purposeful experiences. Prior to that he served as the Managing Director for the Marriott/Starwood integration. Additionally, he gained a deep understanding of the luxury industry and international operations during his time as the CFO of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. We discuss: -Why Culture, Beliefs, and Philosophy may influence consumer decision before Location, Location, Location -How he and his wife Eva (also a hospitality veteran) came up with the concept, mission, and vision of Eclectic Companies -Building communities and creating a sense of belonging for his client's customers -The future need to identify products and service with something consumers believe in -Helping creative visionary people by bringing hospitality into other businesses -Why great people fuel great projects Peter is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and holds an MBA from the University of Maryland. He is an avid swimmer and cyclist, and loves to travel and explore new places. He enjoys a strong espresso, a good glass of wine or a neat pour of bourbon while listening to an eclectic collection of music. More information can be found at: https://www.eclecticcompanies.com/.

Show Notes: Early travel memory to a classic baseball stadium (8:51) The curiosity that led him to the real estate industry and to Marriott Hotels (15:45) Peter's philosophy around creating a community through travel (22:10) Learning to travel in an RV during the pandemic (34:30) Handling the Starwood/Marriott merger (40:26) Struggles and successes with updating the group's Rewards Program (47:30) What Does Travel Mean to You (54:38) Speed Round (55:40)   Peter B. Cole; Founder, Eclectic Companies Peter was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin.  Yet, he didn't really appreciate the “Midwestern Nice”, until he moved to the East Coast, went for a run and said good morning to everyone in Central Park, only to be looked at like a crazy person. Peter is a lifelong hospitality veteran, whose eclectic sense of curiosity has led him to distinct leadership positions.  He started his career at Marriott in the world of finance supporting the company's M&A efforts.  His financial skills allowed him to experience various sides of the hospitality business from hotel development through operations to corporate office. Peter gained a deep understanding of the luxury industry and international operations during his time as the CFO of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company.  Later, his knowledge and wealth of expertise enabled him to successfully lead the Marriott/Starwood integration as Managing Director.  During this time he oversaw a wide array of activities, including hotel operations, organizational design, talent management, loyalty programs, system integration, financial management, and unit growth. Most recently, Peter was the CEO of Design Hotels, a highly curated portfolio of independent, design-driven hotels that function as social hubs and spaces for purposeful experiences.  This time helped Peter deepen his belief in the power of working through a community and of curating experiences.  Under his leadership the company launched Further, a laboratory for collaborative culture, and won a Skift Innovation award for its original Virtual Retreats. Through these experiences Peter saw an opportunity to help forward-thinking entrepreneurs capture emerging trends by leveraging his background and expertise.  Consequently, he formed the Eclectic Companies. Peter is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and holds an MBA from the University of Maryland.  He is an avid swimmer and cyclist, and he loves to travel and explore new places.  He enjoys a strong espresso, a good glass of wine or a neat pour of bourbon while listening to an eclectic collection of music.

More than 500 million Starwood accounts were compromised in the recently discovered Marriott Starwood hack. How can those compromised protect themselves, and what are some of the lessons learned? In this podcast, we discuss why the hack happened, how the impact could have been minimized and some key takeaways from Marriott Starwood's response.

Gerry and Brandon are back in the studio discussing the Marriott Starwood breach. Steve interviews an RFID/NFC bio-hacked individual, and Gerry and Brandon discuss the ramifications and privacy legislation around  RFID for personal identification. Show Notes Resources: Marriott / Starwood Breach https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/30/marriott-discloses-massive-data-breach-impacting-million-guests/ Privacy Regulations http://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-information-technology/radio-frequency-identification-rfid-privacy-laws.aspx https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy_advcom_12-2006_rpt_RFID.pdf One Cool Thing Firewalla https://firewalla.com/ Doom turns 25: https://qz.com/1490069/doom-the-game-that-kicked-off-a-video-game-revolution-turns-25-today/ […] The post Marriott Starwood Breach, BioHacked Man Lee Wangenheim Interview, RFID-Related Privacy Legislation appeared first on MUSC Podcasts.

SMS gateways (email to text message), buring an ISO file to disk (ImgBurn) , optimizing iPhone storage, Google Voice explained (a free extra phoneline with services), dealing with lost Windows 10 password (resetting password, resetting OS), Profiles in IT (Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind AI), AlphaZero learns to play games on its own (another AI milestone), Waymo One (first self-driving taxi service), AmazonGo stores planned for airports, 5G cellular technology (speed, connections, latency, spectrum), Uber and Lyft file IPOs, Torvalds returns to Linux (apologizes for outbursts), voice recognition is great (emotion recognition is next), hackers use social engineering to highjack social media accounts, and Marriott Starwood hotels hacked (500 million guest records vulnerable). This show originally aired on Saturday, December 8, 2018, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

SMS gateways (email to text message), buring an ISO file to disk (ImgBurn) , optimizing iPhone storage, Google Voice explained (a free extra phoneline with services), dealing with lost Windows 10 password (resetting password, resetting OS), Profiles in IT (Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind AI), AlphaZero learns to play games on its own (another AI milestone), Waymo One (first self-driving taxi service), AmazonGo stores planned for airports, 5G cellular technology (speed, connections, latency, spectrum), Uber and Lyft file IPOs, Torvalds returns to Linux (apologizes for outbursts), voice recognition is great (emotion recognition is next), hackers use social engineering to highjack social media accounts, and Marriott Starwood hotels hacked (500 million guest records vulnerable). This show originally aired on Saturday, December 8, 2018, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Want to add two years to your life?  Wear an Apple watch. Yes indeed researchers found that just that extra day and a half of physical activity a month increases your expected lifespan by about two years. Marriott, Marriott, Marriott, Marriott. They are a hotelier, they've got restaurants, etc. And they have some entertainment complexes. So, that's the business they are in, they are not in the IT business and they are not in the security business. Marriott bought Starwood resorts wanted to move them off of this crazy PC system that they had and move them over to a mainframe system. Bad guys had been in their systems and able to access them since 2014. Do you know how much it takes how much time and effort and money it takes to become a data protection officer? It's incredible. It's absolutely incredible. 90 minutes is what it takes to take the course to pass the exam to call yourself a GDPR compliant data protection officer, 90 minutes. Amazing These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 12/08/2018 Hackers Using New Email Attack Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hi everybody. Craig Peterson here. Welcome to show number 984. Wow. We've been busy. And that's a weekly show. 994 By the way, we have been on the air for many, many years. And those people who've been listening on to podcasts you know I've been podcasting for narrow on 20 years of course before it was even called podcasting. But today we are doing both on the air in podcasting if you want to listen to the podcast just sign up go to http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes. You can also while you are there, leave a comment hopefully a little five-star review. I've appreciated those people that have taken the time to leave their comments or send an email to me@craigpeterson.com and let me know what they appreciate about the show. What are the things they got the most from and the most of just me@craigpeterson.com. I really appreciate your feedback. And the show, as you might imagine, is a lot of work to put together. And you know, it is a labor of love. And I really hope I'm helping you out Well, today, of course, we are going to be covering some of the technology topics that are going to impact us the most. And typically, that means security stuff, doesn't it? So we're going to talk a little bit about 23andMe. And this ties into a bit of a theme this week. How much information do people have about you? What are they doing with it and should you worry about it because there's another one Delta Yeah, Delta Airlines in Atlanta they've got the US is first biometric terminal. We'll talk about that and see if that's something that maybe, maybe you want to avoid. We got a Marriott hack. Of course, we're going to talk a little bit about that this week as well. Because that's a very, very big deal. And in fact, I am going to this coming week make another free offer. We've been working on it this week, a special report not going to cost anybody a dime with some really cool free upgrades as well. I really want to get more information to you. So we'll be talking about that but all about how to keep your credit safe. What is a credit report mean? I saw a stat last week that really kind of surprised me. And that is that three out of five Americans have never gotten their free credit report or any free or paid right to look at three out of five. So we're gonna have a special report on that that's going to be coming out, we're gonna have a special report on how to absolutely protect your credit, don't send the money off to Lifelock or some of these other guys out there, you can do better in fact, than Lifelock is Lifelock is going to notice after the fact hopefully that someone has tried to open an account in your name, and then you have to deal with it. Or hopefully, they'll notice that someone just stole money from your checking account because of your debit card miss being misused. Hopefully, it's going to get all squared away. But it's going to take your time, your money, and it can be just a total disaster for you. So there is a way to make sure it doesn't happen in the first place. And we're guaranteed in this day and age that if we haven't been hacked, we are about to be hacked, right. Just think of all of the major hacks over the last couple of years. So I've got a solution we've been working on it we're putting it all together and we're going to offer to you our listeners anybody on my insider's email list, so make sure you are subscribed. We've worked hard on it this week. It's not quite done yet I had hoped it would be done before the show today so make sure you are signed up for my email you can go to http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe and give me your name and email address. I don't harass you I don't sell my mailing list to anybody use it to get my weekly show notes out to you. And if we have these free special report to let you know or the free master classes or master courses that's what we use it for. It's for getting information out so http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe if you've already done it. Hey, thanks to you. I really appreciate it. We are down below 4000 subscribers. I think right now because we've been cleaning up the list. So if you haven't been opening my emails or you haven't been clicking on them in the last six months we've deleted you from our list and you might have to re-sign up so again http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, I'm going to immediately small You know, my system is going to immediately send you an email to verify it was you have to click on that link. So it'll show up in your mailbox a minute to two minutes later, click on that link to confirm it. You and then you be on you'll be able to get these special reports that are free you're going to be able to get these master classes that at least information about them that are free and the master courses, as well as they, are released. And, and special alerts about some of the worst things that are happening out there. And by the way, if you are podcast listener, and you are not subscribed, you can get it at http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes. But that's another great way to find out what's happening in advance of everybody else. Because Monday, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays I typically release a podcast and it's me on some of the major radio stations throughout the northeast and the interviews that I do I'm a guest on those shows and I will be talking in no-shows I always talk about the latest and greatest and technology sometimes on other stations but usually it's it's iHeart. It's the old Clear Channel media guys thanks to them as well. Craig Peterson 6:07 So in addition to the bad news this week there's a very cool story and that's how I want to start out today you'll see it up on my website at http://CraigPeterson.com and this is out of the UK but it's talking about some new research. Did you know that having an Apple Watch could add two years to your life? Yes indeed researchers that wanted an Apple Watch for Christmas Craig Peterson 6:34 kidding although hey maybe this is a good, good excuse right? Researchers have found that and looking at 400,000 adults that those that had the Apple Watch or other fitness trackers and use them to track their fitness saw active saw their activity levels increase by more than a third that's pretty much now if you add all of that up and you look at the stats here that people would trackers managed four and a half or almost five days really five days activity a month on average. So it's not like these are gym rats, right? These are just regular people you got the tracker it's in your Apple Watch remind you should go walk in right now. So it's five days if you have the tracker versus three days, three and a half days for people who don't have the devices now what's interesting is that just that extra day and a half of physical activity a month increases your expected lifespan by about two years. Isn't that amazing? Now some of the biggest changes we're seeing amongst people who were overweight and the people who were the least active, to begin with and I think that kind of makes sense right that at least it does to me this was commissioned by health insurers over in the UK how second Matt Hancock the National Health Service over there was the forefront in the digital revolution in health so very good technology and a great excuse to start using one of these fitness trackers Of course just having it doesn't do anything you got to use the darn thing okay Marriott. Marriott, Marriott, Marriott, Marriott. Now I don't want to totally blame Marriott for this because Marriott is someone that found the problem, you know Marriott's been on an acquisition spree they have bought some amazing hotel chains. But as is often the case in business, we are involved with our day to day operations. Right, Marriott? It is a hotel business. Right, it's a hotelier, they've got restaurants, etc. And they have some entertainment complexes. So that's the business they are in, they are not in the IT business and they are not in the security business. At least that's the mentality. That's the mentality, I would say, of 99% of the businesses I talked to, Craig Peterson 9:08 and I get it, Okay, I get it, I get it, I get it. You make widgets, right? Or you have clients that you're servicing. But in this day and age, you have to have competent it people and even more competent security people. Because if you don't have those people on your staff, you're going to be in trouble. And we see it again and again, you saw what happened with TJ access, the TJ Maxx stores where they were hacked. And they were hacked in a crazy big way. We had Home Depot, they were hacked, and in both cases, they should have known better and we can get into a lot of the details about it, Equifax, they should have known better Heck, they are in the technology business, right? They're keeping tabs on all of us and our credit scores. And that makes sense to you. Well, they bought this chain of hotels known as the Starwood. Right. Starwood something group. I can't remember what it stands for. But it's now called Marriott Starwood division and Marriott uses mainframes and I think that's a brilliant idea. By the way, you know, using PC's for most larger companies is just absolutely insane. It just doesn't make any sense. So Marriott bought Starwood resorts wanted to move them off of this crazy PC system that they had and move them over to a mainframe system. Now, don't get me wrong, right? There are places where PCs make sense. In those cases, you might want to look at Apple or even a Linux terminal desktop depending on what you're doing. It may or may not work for you or even better in this day and age iPads with something really powerful and strong behind them but anyways, Marriott is using these mainframe computers so they had to take the system that Starwood was using and port all of the data over to the mainframe and they've been working on it they got it completed this summer sometime well as they were going through this their security people over at Marriott. Notice something now something weird, and Craig Peterson 11:22 I gotta stop for a second and say something weird is usually a sign people don't put on blinders. Don't ignore it. You know, I complain about my kids just walking past the trash cans, right? Trash days. Wednesday, what day is it today, kids Monday, Tuesday, what are those down by the street because every day I see the trash cans out there. And now you're trying to remember to remind the kids to take care of it. And most of the time I grabbed the trash cans or my wife grabs a trash can, right and brings them up to the house because they're just not noticing that detail. And it's a pretty prominent detail. We have some big trash cans, right? I got a big family. There's a lot of trash every week. And they still manage not to notice it. And we see this in a business where something weird has been going on. It's been going on for a while. But you know, we were still able to do our business. But in many cases, it's an email thing. But you know, can you come and have a look at this. Our emails just acting weird, it's slow. We're not sure what's happening are some of our customers or vendors and been getting emails from us that we didn't think we sent and what's going on. Craig Peterson 12:41 So we see this all the time, we brought the FBI in on one of these investigations that started just with weirdness in the email that was ignored for a long, long time. And it ended up we found Chinese active Chinese backdoors right into their systems. Okay, so so don't ignore weird stuff. Well, in this case, Marriott security guys noticed some weird stuff because the computer systems that were running brands you've heard of, and you may have stayed in like W. Hotels, Sheraton, who has a state in the Sheraton limit ran and Four Points by Sheraton and some others, right. Just think of all of the Starwood properties. Craig Peterson 13:26 I stayed in the Le Meridien when I was in Paris. Last and I've stayed in Sheraton's and I stayed in a W, we had a conference in the W. And I've stayed up for points. I stayed at all of those hotels. So they're going through the data, the going through the databases, the monitoring the systems as they're integrated into their new mainframe, and they notice some weirdness. Well, it turns out that what has been happening, just like with this client that we picked up just a few months back looks like what's been happening is bad guys Craig Peterson 14:01 had been in their systems and able to access them since 2014. So let me see it is right now as we are talking, in fact, it's almost 2019. And that means they went in for what almost give or take for years. And apparently, they discovered that this unauthorized party had copied and encrypted information on their systems. Now, encrypting your information that kind of sounds like it might have been one of these ransomware type things, hard to say. Where they tried to hold stuff ransom, did the Starwood group not even notice the rent some emails, I'm going to come in? I, I don't know. Right? I'm kind of only half joking here. But the databases that apparently were stolen they were copied contained records of 500 million customers think about that number. What would happen with you and your business how many customer records Do you have what would happen if your competitors got a hold of that data right what would happen if it was personally identifiable information like it was here with Starwood apparently about 327 million guests records included some combination of name, address, phone number, email address, passport number account information date of birth, sex, arrival and departure information so that's everything a scam artist needs to scam someone and we're going to talk about that here that's going to be next got another article we'll get to about how those scams are perpetrated right now but wow. Craig Peterson 15:57 Now some records also occluded according to Marriott included encrypted payment card information, but could not rule out the possibility that the encryption keys had also been stolen. So not entirely Marriott's fault it was Starwood, they weren't in like it or security business know they are in the hotel, your business right now everybody's in the high tea business nowadays, pounding the table here drives me crazy. You've got to have competent security people in that does not mean the guy that spent an hour and a half or maybe six weeks in some security course they don't know enough, they can't do enough. You have to have experience. We're working with a client right now over in Europe. And this client has to comply with the new GDPR regulations in Europe as you do too. Bye. Either way, if you have a single customer in Europe, okay. And he hired a data protection officer. Well, Craig Peterson 17:08 Do you know how much it takes how much time and effort and money it takes to become a data protection officer? It's incredible. It's absolutely incredible. 90 minutes is what it takes to take the course to pass the exam to call yourself a GDPR compliant data protection officer, 90 minutes. So we did a cyber health assessment of their network. They have like 40 computers on their network, their smaller business and we found incredible it was it's over 100 million euros worth of liability. So, we gave this new data protection officer the report and we said hey, listen, you know, we talked to them first, and we sent them the report after Hey, listen, there's a lot of data in here. We're more than glad to go through it with you, review it, help you understand it, whatever we need to do to help you out because there's some serious deficiencies here and Okay, great. Yeah, we'll do so we Craig Peterson 18:09 he sends back a message a few days later because we had detail in there every computer every problem on that computer, the fact that there was no anti-virus, etc. So, he sends a thing back saying, well, Windows Defender was on these computers. Yeah, okay. But Windows Defender is not considered to be a third-party antivirus and does not meet any of the regulations. Craig Peterson 18:33 If you're regulated industry at all. If you take credit cards, Windows Defender is not enough according to the laws in the contract, you will have signed and you should read that detailed contract. If you collect credit cards as to what that means, okay, pay attention to the details. Craig Peterson 18:55 And then he says, well, it has McAfee's Malwarebytes on this one machine. Well, Malwarebytes has nothing to do with McAfee Malwarebytes, by the way, is great software, okay, don't get me wrong, we use it. But it's just one piece, you have to have this onion. So I'm sorry, I'm just kind of going crazy here. But Starwood thought they were not in the security or it business obviously every business today that I can think of except maybe Mr. Slate from the Corey on the Flintstones every business I can think of today has it and depends on it and depends on security So please, please, please, please, please please vet your people and we have a special report in the works again another free special report that talks about how to vet these it people, how to vet some of the people that might be trying to handle your security so that you know and if you're on my insiders list I will definitely let you know when that's how that's going to be free as well again http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe so that you have all of that information. Okay. Alright, so I'm going to go right now into attackers here. What's going on? Why does the email address matter? Craig Peterson 20:26 I was talking this week with a couple of people about this real problem that we're having right now. No, you know, if you've listened for a while that the FBI says the business email compromise has cost $12 billion in losses. That's pretty dramatic. And that's over the course of some years, a few years, but $12 billion is huge. So, I thought we'd take a couple of minutes right now since we were just talking about the Marriott hack and if you wanted to know more about that by the check out my podcast I talked a lot about it earlier this week, which is just Craig Peterson comm slash iTunes. And there's quite a bit of background information that I gave this week. I'm not going to get into that anymore right now. But here's the problem, right? Craig Peterson 21:17 Why would you care? Why do you care? The core was attacked this last week, they disclose that they lost personal information and Cora's a website. A lot of us use Quora, I love poking around on Quora, why would you care, that Starwood got hacked? Right? That new Marriott division 327 million people if they don't have your credit card? What does that mean? If they do have your credit card? What does that mean? You know that having your debit card in the hands of the bad guys is very painful because any money they steal by using that debit card number comes where does it come from? You checking account, right? So we already know that. How about your credit card? If you notice that there were fraudulent charges on your credit card, you can report it and no big deal, right? At worst, they're going to issue your new credit card and you're going to have to change your credit card number with a few different people that you have on monthly payments, right? Not a terribly big deal. How about your email address, right? That's even that's even less worthwhile. I can see Craig I can see that having my bank account number stolen is bad debit card numbers. But you know, come on, what am I going to do get some more spam? Yes, you're going to get some more spam but it's a specific type of spam that were really worried about here I mean, really worried and I got a great article up on my website Craig Peterson, calm from security week that I think you might know, want to have a look at. But here's the bottom line. If they get your email address, things become simple for them to try and scam you. And remember, I just said how much was that number from the FBI. $12 billion. Craig Peterson 23:19 That's huge losses, you know, no matter how well I guess if you're the government, you might not notice 12 billion. But $12 billion is a lot of money to anybody. Craig Peterson 23:32 What they're doing is the attackers will use social engineering now, because they have your address to pose as a colleague or business partner. So they'll run your email address through some databases, figure out what the business is maybe a couple of other people in the business that they can reach out to, if you're a home user, they'll try a completely different tactic. But they are going to try and trick you and they're going to try and trick you into doing something you shouldn't do. Now, that might be as simple as just clicking on a link. And we know that's been effective for a lot of years. But these guys are getting better and better, the emails can be quite convincing. The attackers now are making a significant effort to identify an appropriate victim register a fake domain. So at first glance, the email appears to belong to a colleague or a supplier. I have personally seen intelligent educated people who have fallen for this and its really, really big account takeover here. Now attackers are using information and they are going after you they have special malware now t loggers that they'll put onto your computer and hijack corporate email account. It can be as simple and I've I've pointed out this video before had it up on my website. It might still it's probably still there. I've got stuff for the last 15 years up there, but of how a hacker from Eastern Europe used social engineering. And what she did was pretend to be somebody's wife. Because she was able to figure out the guy was out of town, and he was on vacation. And that's not hard to figure out. How many of us are posting on Facebook or on Twitter, or announcing here on the radio that we are leaving town? Bad, bad idea. So they now get access to your email box. Where does the change my password link? Go? Think about it. Where's the last time you changed your password? Hopefully recently, where does that link go? Where does it take people? Well, that link goes to your email box. If they now have access to your email box which is relatively easy for the bad guys to do. They now can reset your bank account or other information Okay, that this goes on and on. I should produce some training on all of these individual things. But anyways, keep an eye out. I've got some special reports coming out. Make sure you have subscribed http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, get my insiders list. I don't harass you. I'm not some internet marketer. That's just selling stuff all of the time. I really am trying to help. And I was able to talk to quite a few new clients this week. And including a construction firm right here in the state and help them out and gave me some ideas of some other master classes we should have about how to do backups, how to have data protected at rest, how to do encrypted vault, all stuff that's very complicated for the average person, the small business, the Soho, right small office, Home Office, so we got some great ideas from that and I'll be doing those we're gonna be doing master classes on all of those guaranteed not this year. Okay, we don't have much time left. I have a lot of stuff to do before the end of the year. If you have ideas about things you think I should either talk about on the show or maybe I should be posting online or some master classes that you think would be useful to you and your business or your home. Email me@craigpeterson..com. me@craigpeterson.com or you can text me anytime 855-385-5553 that goes straight to me. And I usually can get back to you pretty quickly on weekends. Wait till Monday or so 855-385-5553 with any questions or comments that you have right there from your cell phone. Obviously normal data and texting rates will apply. Have a great week and we'll be back next week with more from Craig Peterson. Bye-bye. --- Related articles: Apple Watch Could Add Two Years To Your Life, Research Suggests Criminals Hacked Into My Phone, Email And Drained My Checking Account. How You Can Avoid Being A Victim. Attackers Are Landing Email Inboxes Without The Need To Phish Dna-Testing Company 23andme Has Signed A $300 Million Deal With A Drug Giant. Here’s How To Delete Your Data If That Freaks You Out. Delta Says Usa’s ‘First Biometric Terminal’ Is Ready To Go At Atlanta Airport Mastercard, Microsoft Team On Digital Id Handgun Buyers Would Have To Give Cops Social Media Passwords Under New York Proposal --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. 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Craig is on WGAN with Ken and Matt as they discussed the recent Marriott hack and the mysterious new tool that local law enforcement uses to unlock cellphones. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Local Law Enforcement Using Mysterious New Tool To Unlock Cellphones --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 12/05/2018 New Information About Marriott Starwood Hack Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey good morning everybody I spent some time with the team yesterday working on that special report we should have done soon about how to protect your information online specifically your credit report how to freeze it how to find out how to use your credit report if you're one of the three and five Americans that have never even gotten your credit report so how to do it all for free what it means what you can do with it and how it's going to protect you so all of that's going to be available I will send an email out when it is we're working hard to get it done quickly make sure you are on my insiders email list you can do that by going to http:CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. http:CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. Once you're there, just enter your info, you're going to have to confirm it. So go back to your email, you look for an email from me click the link. This is the one time I tell you click the link in an email so that we can have that double opt in. We know it's really you. And then once this is done, I'm going to send out an email to you. Now don't worry about subscribing to that list. Because I don't abuse it. Believe me, I send out my show notes to you. Every week I send out special information, special announcements about some of the latest hacks that are going on some of the special reports we're doing and when I'm teaching different classes that you might want to join. So this isn't an overload heavy duty marketing thing. http:CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. So this morning I was on with Ken and Matt up in Maine. And we got to talk a little bit more about some of the newer things I found out from that Marriott hack and also spent a couple of minutes talking about two other tech topics that I think you might want to know about. So here we go with Ken and Matt. Unknown 1:56 Alright, we're back again WGAN's Morning News with Ken and Matt on a Wednesday morning at 7:38. Which means Craig Peterson is with us right now. Unknown 2:03 Craig, how are you, sir? Good morning. Wouldn't that be with Ken and Matt and Craig the next few minutes? Yeah, Unknown 2:10 that would be true. Yeah, yeah. Unknown 2:14 So I went to your website quick. Peterson car peters.com to find out what the latest post HTTP and I'm was shocked to find that Google is going to monitor our moods or movements and our children's behavior. That's particularly longing for man who is 17 children. So why don't you tell us about that Unknown 2:35 Craig has way more Unknown 2:38 say you weren't good to me. Oh, Unknown 2:42 good point. Unknown 2:42 Yeah. Yeah. You don't hear that very often. Yeah, there's so much in the news this week, you know, including the whole Mary breach, which is a really big deal. Google. This is kind of scary because we've talked before right. You were talking earlier this morning Ken about setting up an Echo and having a play that Cardi B, right. And I don't know if you guys heard this quote this week. I can't remember who it was attributed to. But they they were saying I don't know how you can listen to rap music and yet somehow be offended by Baby It's Cold Outside. Unknown 3:21 That's true. Unknown 3:23 Who said that? I can't. I'm not sure Unknown 3:26 Actually that came up because the Princeton Boys Choir is also not doing KissGirl from The Little Mermaid anymore, because Unknown 3:39 Baby It's Cold Outside is another one. They're not going to do anymore. Unknown 3:42 So you set up that Echo. So that what so that you could listen in on the on the family? Unknown 3:47 Evidently. Yes, Unknown 3:48 that was your call. Let's run a lot of people are worried about right. And we've talked about the Echoes and the Google homes and some of these other devices that are out there. And Google just got a passing excuse me here about a month ago, but gives Google now a really kind of an interesting viewpoint. And no, speaking of viewpoints, if you have a smart TV, and we've talked a little bit about this before, some of these manufacturers, TVs are actually using built in cameras to identify people in the family who was watching TV, who was paying attention, what show was on one where they not watching and some of these TVs ended up getting tapped. Well, Google, and which means that bad guys could sit there and watch you hopefully watch TV, and nothing more, right. So Google's newest patent is taking their privacy's spying to a whole new level. Now, this doesn't mean Google's ultimately going to implement this or that this is part of Google Home. This is going to be part of Google Home anytime soon. But these patents allow them to do all kinds of monitoring of you and your home. So for instance, you have a Google Nest thermostat, which is one of these smart thermostats it's designed to measure the conditions in your home and it'll set the temperatures Well, it needs to know someone's in the room if there's activity in the room. And we've seen that for decades now. And businesses and buildings that light come on when someone enters the room, etc. Very basic monitoring. Well, Google's patent allows them to take this to a whole new level where they can recognize not just your face and who's in the room it will track you going from room to room but it can even recognize a T shirt that you might be wearing and it might recognize can that currently be picture on your T shirt as you walk into a room he certainly Unknown 5:50 wearing that T shirt by the way it's I Unknown 5:52 love Yeah, well, that make sense. You know, I get it it'll recognize that T shirt and that might be the reason that that Amazon Echo started playing Cardi B for you because Google has the patent now that can recognize the clothes you're wearing. The artists are movie stars that are on your T shirt and then it'll start playing ads for you for that movie stars latest movie that's coming out. So this is a patent it was issued and it's frankly more more than scary but I'm not sure it's too scary as the whole Marriott attack was Unknown 6:31 indeed want to tell us a little bit of that Marriott hack is that's the second time you brought it up. Clearly you're dying talking about it Craig. Let's see what happens with Marriott. Unknown 6:37 Oh, you got me figured out. Okay. So here's what's happened. If you are Marriott member you might remember back in 2015 Marriott's got hacked and credit cards were stolen and Marriott has been on an acquisition spree lately. And it went ahead then it's been buying up smaller hotel chains, including the most recent one where they purchase the whole what was the star would screw pride. Yes, Starwood Hotels and that included a few different hotels whose names you might recognize. But what ended up happening is Marriott merged all of their databases and from Starwood into Marriott's mainframes and they recently noticed a problem it turns out some 500 billion guest reservations had been stolen from Starwood database. Now it's not just the guest registration because that would be bad enough but if you bought if you read reserve something with Marriott, obviously they needed your credit card number. So apparently there's some 327-ish million people who not only who was credit card numbers were stolen, whose names and addresses and whose phone numbers were stolen. But of those people anyone that booked with one of these Marriott properties overseas and registered their passport with Marriott also had their passport data stolen. So basically, everything that you had with Marriott all of your data has been potentially stolen. lawsuits are already flying. So that's probably number one. And I want to talk about Marriott's response to this too. But this is huge. This is kind of on the order of the Equifax breach. Last year, 500 million people this is one of the biggest hacks ever. Unknown 8:45 Wow, that's Unknown 8:46 it's it's huge. Have you heard about this? It's just crazy. And then their response to it. Now we had a lot of complaints about Equifax and their terrible response to the hack they had last year. Well, Marriott had. They they sent out emails to people letting them know about the compromise and they did not send them from marriott.com. They sent them from a different domain email-marriott.com. They also did not have a web server shows associated with that domain. So if you typed into your browser, email-marriott.com, a website would not come up. It was not assigned email. It was not an encrypted email the domain doesn't load and what do we tell people all the time about hooking links in unknown emails do it do it all the time and often Unknown 9:43 do it don't right and so here's this is Marriott's response to this there's only one mentioned about this other domain that Mary used in its in their data breach notification site. This is absolutely nuts. So now Marriott is as I mentioned, lawsuits filed yesterday in Oregon about the same you know data was breach. This is going to be huge under the GDPR which are the European regulations have updated privacy. Mary it could be facing a fine of almost $1 billion Unknown 10:22 just for the data that was stolen relating to European citizens. The US doesn't have anything quite like GDPR yet. Although right now the Trump administration is looking at adopting it. Massachusetts has a similar law as does California yay, so we could see billion plus dollars in fines plus the lawsuits all coming Marriott's way because they acquired a company that had apparently had a breach since 2014. Unknown 11:03 Wow. Wow. Wow. Indeed. Ladies and gentlemen. We're talking to Craig Peterson. If you want all this tech information in time you want go http:CraigPeterson.com, get it all instantly. Unknown 11:15 You also listen on your page about local law enforcement using a tool to unlock cell phones. So I have to worry about our local police department unlocking my cell phone. Unknown 11:28 Yeah, this has been know a bit of an issue for a while there's two companies and Israeli companies that have been able to unlock cell phones, Apple's made some changes to their phones to help block these unlocker. Apparently, there is a new tool out there that is being used by law enforcement a bottom line at this point. It's law enforcement that can unlock the phones we faint they can unlock the latest iPhones, but we're not absolutely sure. However, it's law enforcement. This is not something that you can expect criminals to really be using. Some businesses have purchased these devices because of the problem of having a disgruntled employee believe having, you know, business related data on the phone or the iPad and not giving the past code. So businesses have been using it to unlock iPhones and iPads and other devices will see this is a game of one have this device in some cases, they still have to get a word in other cases, they haven't secured warrants, this whole thing is still legally kind of up in the air Unknown 12:38 market. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday. Craig, appreciate it. And we'll talk again next week. Unknown 12:44 Hey gentlemen, take care. Thanks. Thanks a lot sir. All right, we're going to kick it Otter 12:49 Hey thanks for listening everybody a couple of quick programming note I am going to be recording shows so we will have new shows every week week during December so those will be coming out on podcasts will also be aired on am FM radio in here in the northeast United States on Clear Channel so we're going to be talking about some probably not any real gift stuff I might do a little bit of gift stuff last minute shopping and the year in review a little bit of news and you might even talk about a couple of things that you can do to help keep yourself safe I want to thank everybody by the way that responded to me when my little call for feedback on what you like about these shows what you've gotten from them because that really helps me understand what I should be putting in these right this is for you guys this isn't for me so have well okay I get a little sanity break in doing this shows I guys is kind of for me but it's for you guys so continue to let me know what you think. 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Youngme, Felix, and Mihir debate whether Microsoft is trending up while Apple is trending down, before discussing the Marriott (Starwood) data breach. They also share their After Hours picks for the week.

Marius har besøkt det norske selskapet ForgeRock i San Francisco. Marriott og Quora ble utsatt for et massivt hackerangrep, og det strammer seg til rundt influencer marketing. OpphavsrettDet ser ut til å bli store endringer i det nye EU-direktivet om opphavsrett. EU-parlamentet besluttet på sensommeren å gå videre med det kontroversielle direktivet, og det pågår nå forhandlinger mellom EU-parlamentet, EU-kommisjonen og EU-rådet. En av endringene er at det ikke skal være meningen å ramme foreldre som vil filme sine barn på fotballbanen.Hackerangrep ryster verdenSå mange som 500 millioner mennesker kan være berørt av et innbrudd i databasen til hotellkjeden Marriott Starwood som har pågått siden 2014. Nylig ble også Quora utsatt for hackere. Personinformasjon fra over 100 millioner brukere ble stjålet. Norske ForgeRock har over 1 milliard brukereDu har neppe hørt om det norske selskapet ForgeRock, men du har garantert brukt en av tjenestene de leverer. Selskapet står blant annet bak MinID-løsningen, og har vokst fra en svevende tanke på en pub i Stavanger til å ha over 550 ansatte i 30 land og 1,2 milliarder brukere. Marius møtte gründer, Lasse Andresen i ForgeRock, på deres hovedkontor i San Francisco. Det strammer seg til rundt influencer marketingVi har tidligere snakket om at annonsører betaler dyre dommer for mange følgere, men får få engasjerte tilbake. Manglende transparens, innsikt og en felles bransjestandard får skylden. I tillegg til influencere som kjøper seg popularitet. Nå tar både Instagram og annonsører grep. Sosiale medier siden sist:Google satser mer og mer på å gjøre sine tjenester sosialeTumblr vil forby pornoInstagram lar deg nå velge hvem du skal dele Instagram Stories med7-åring tjener nesten 200 millioner kroner på å pakke opp lekerTakk for at du lytter t il MediaPulsDu finner Hans-Petter og Marius på http://HansPetter.info og http://Helt.Digital. Vi hadde satt stor pris på om du vil abonnere og rate oss på Apple Podcaster. Alle episoder legges ut fortløpende med lenker til alt vi har snakket om på http://Mediapuls.no. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mark made it from Florida to NYC and back despite his recent injury, and a quick trip to the northeast reminded him of different types of US drivers. 24/7 coverage of politics is poisoning people's minds, and it needs to get out of travel. Also, hear what Marriott/Starwood's recent data breach means for you and different types of unexpected instances can happen to anyone while traveling.

The monster Starwood Hotels data breach, Apple music comes to Amazon Echo devices, Instagram rolls out “close friends” lists, Airbnb wants to build your house, not just rent it, and the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Links: Marriott says 500 million Starwood guest records stolen in massive data breach (TechCrunch) SEC charges Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled for promoting ICOs without disclosing payments (CNBC) Apple Music is coming to the Amazon Echo (TechCrunch) Instagram now lets you share Stories to a Close Friends list (TechCrunch) Exclusive: Airbnb will start designing houses in 2019 (Fast Company) Techmeme now publishing paid and free "Leaderboards" showing the most influential reporters around a specific news topic (Techmeme.com) The Betterment Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Our first podcast suggestion: Python Bytes Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen? (NYTimes) How China’s Bytedance became the world’s most valuable startup (The Verge) China’s Video Craze Drives Growth for ByteDance (The Information) How Amazon Web Services Reinvented the Internet and Became a Cash Cow (NYMag) The legacy of PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi, in 24 stories (Polygon) This Is the Way the Paper Crumples (NYTimes)

It's a slow week and the guest pool is slim AND Anthony is out. SO, it's just me to quickly re-review the new World of Hyatt credit card, tell you about new Aura Airlines who hope to level the domestic first-class playing field and urge you to use up some of those Marriott/Starwood points now. Plus, I'll tell you how cartoons taught me to surf:

The travel industry is rapidly changing. Long gone are the days of guidebooks, travel agents, and the quaint bed and breakfast. These days, vast numbers of people turn to social media, celebrity influencers, and sharing economy brands like Airbnb to decide where — and how — to travel. To learn more about this space, IVY hosted an Ideas Night with three leaders in the industry: Gil Antolin, the Founder of Luxury World Traveler; Bret Lockett, a Partner at M2 Jets and former NFL safety; and Scot Barbour, a board member at Marriott–Starwood and VR Specialist. The three are at the frontlines of the dynamic future of travel — and how changes in our digital world are fueling an expanding global luxury travel market. Please enjoy our live conversation, moderated by IVY's Director of Strategic Relationships, Sarah Zapp.

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This week Bruce Ford is back to share his thoughts with Glenn. Of course, Bruce is giving Glenn hard time. Then they talk about the state of the hotel industry, an update on the Marriott/Starwood merger, hotels & airlines and their loyalty programs, airport hassles and the surge of taking the car for your summer vacation, the state of Airbnb, hating on but loving the TSA and much, much more.   Then Glenn speaks with Gary Steffen, Global Head, Canopy by Hilton. The guys talk about Hilton's desire to introduce what they call an “accessible lifestyle brand,” the millennial mindset, the experience economy, where you'll eventually find them, the art of creating the right design, creating neighborhood spaces, and lots of other interesting points.   Subscribe on iTunes: No Vacancy with Glenn Haussman   Send your comments and questions to be answered on air to Glenn@rouse.media.    Follow Glenn on Twitter @TravelingGlenn. Read more at http://novacancy.libsyn.com/#XYVPOI5YWH6rUXiw.99   Produced by Jeff Polly: http://www.endpointmultimedia.com/

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about partnerships: D&G + Nextgov, Red Hat + Microsoft, Marriott + Starwood, New Haven police + your stuff. Lauren strikes again: Young computer scientist shares her open source story Todoist now has the “repeat after completed” feature Gunnar Gets Keybase.io Invites, now what BadBIOS meets ad experience optimization: Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC Nextgov’s article about our podcast episode about their article The cat sharing economy is for real: Clear Your Calendars—#UberKITTENS Are Back As heard in D&G 28: Old Chippewa Lake amusement park up for sale Yahoo! does password free signin New: How to Enable Amazon’s Two-Step Authentication Good news / bad news: Windows 10 has a Start menu.  Windows 10 Start menu displays ads. US proposal aims to regulate car privacy, make hacks illegal Erich’s TCO for OpenStack presentation from the Tokyo summit is now live New Haven PD very well-intentioned. (h/t uzoma) Marriott Buys Starwood (h/t uzoma) Shred your boarding pass: What’s in a Boarding Pass Barcode? A Lot See also (or not): ClearImage Free Online Barcode Reader / Decoder Shred your frequent flier card? American Airlines Jumps On Industry Bandwagon, Will Now Award Frequent Flier Miles Based On Ticket Price Product Releases! RHEL 7.2, including RHEL for Real Time, RHEL Server for ARM (Development Preview), and RHEL Atomic Host OpenShift 3.1 and Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform 3.1 Public Preview Red Hat Container Development Kit 2 Beta Red Hat Software Collections 2.1 and Developer Toolset 4 RHEV 3.6 Beta Microsoft ♥ Red Hat ♥ Microsoft .NET running on OpenShift 3! Red Hat CVE Database Revamp ISIS used PlayStation 4s to plan Paris. Or did they? Hack your meetings by taking all the action items Cutting Room Floor You Can Now Download The Soothing Sounds Of K-Mart The American Government’s Sears-for-Spying Payment Plan On what street did you lose your childlike sense of wonder? Nihilistic Password Security Questions Statue of Lenin Replaced with Darth Vader (with WiFi hotspot in head) Ladybird Books for Grownups Yamaha Designs a Robot That Can Ride Motorcycles China Unable To Recruit Hackers Fast Enough To Keep Up With Vulnerabilities In U.S. Security Systems Meanwhile in Scott McCarty’s kitchen… Please engage with our brand. BSODOTD Turn an ASCII diagram into something handwritten. War stories from the future Machine Gun + Elephant = War Machine We Give Thanks Our Inception friends at Nextgov The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!