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coverage on what's happening today, plus
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the computer breach in Lever and the
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lesson for the rest of us during what is
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National Cyber Security Awareness Month
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as it happens. Joining us now with more
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on this is retired FBI cyber security
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expert Scott Augenbomb who also authored
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a book called The Secret to Cyber
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Security. Scott, great to see you. It's
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been a while. We don't know everything
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about Leverne yet, but you can't help
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but wonder if that attack on a city
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government is another one of these
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ransomware attacks. Well, all of these
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attacks that are happening on state and
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local governments all are financially
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motivated. It's either a database, a
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data breach to steal sensitive
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information for financial gain or the
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cyber criminals are holding the
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information hostage unless a ransom is
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I've heard you say before rule of thumb
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is you don't pay the hackers. Is that
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still where you come down on this? I
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always say we got to think prevention
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because even if you do pay the hackers,
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sometimes you won't get your information
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back. Could be penalties. What if the
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bad guys are overseas in a foreign
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country? And the other thing that's
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really really important is if we keep
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paying these bad guys, they're going to
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continue. So prevention, prevention,
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Well, you mentioned, you know,
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prevention. What are the the things that
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companies and individuals ought to do in
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an effort to stop them before they get
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Well, it's important that we realize
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that a majority of cyber attacks are
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nothing more than social engineering.
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Tricking us into doing something we
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normally wouldn't do. clicking on a link
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in an email downloads malicious code
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into an organization and that could be a
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ransomware or a data breach or even a
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text message that looks like it's coming
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from someone saying you owe tolls or the
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IRS or back taxes or rooc calls and
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through the use of artificial
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intelligence these emails, text messages
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and telephone calls look amazingly
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legitimate. So, we need to be aware of
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that. Use two factor authentication and
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don't use the same password for multiple
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Great advice here. I think we could talk
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for another half hour. We're gonna have
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to end it here. Scott Ogenbomb, retired
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FBI agent and cyber security expert.
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Thank you very much for your time. Thank
