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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from Do Woor.

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Speaker 2: Now more of the Woor Saturday Morning Show and Larry

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Speaker 2: Mante Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: So you think your online passwords are really safe, think again.

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Speaker 1: But Rich DeMuro from rich on Tech can fix that.

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Speaker 1: Here's Rich tell us exactly what a cloud flare outage is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so this happened earlier this week. Remember a lot

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Speaker 2: of major sites were down, people were having errors, and

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Speaker 2: people were wondering, you know, what is cloud flare number one?

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Speaker 2: And was this a cyber attack? So it was not

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Speaker 2: a cyber attack. It was actually a pretty basic error.

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Speaker 2: There was a file that they uploaded and it just

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Speaker 2: wrecked havoc with their systems, Like it just kept doubling

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Speaker 2: in size every five minutes. It was just taking down

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Speaker 2: all their servers. So as you saw all those websites

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Speaker 2: big and small had errors, including chat, GBT and many others,

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Speaker 2: they were able to stop it and fix it. But

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Speaker 2: I think the the larger picture here, Larry, is that

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Speaker 2: these companies, just a few key companies, are controlling such

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Speaker 2: large swaths of the Internet, like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about their cloud services. So when those services

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Speaker 2: have an issue, it takes down a bigger and bigger

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Speaker 2: chunk of the Internet with it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It happened when we were on the air and we

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Speaker 1: were getting calls from a lot of people saying, I

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Speaker 1: can't get on Twitter, I can't get on Instagram, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what's going on, And it turned out to

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Speaker 1: be this. It affected a lot of sites.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's the public service that you do,

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Speaker 2: is that you know, if you're on your computer and

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Speaker 2: you're having these issues, and you're like, wait a second,

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Speaker 2: is it me? And you're sitting there restarting your computer,

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Speaker 2: turning off your internet, turning it back on. So that's

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Speaker 2: why here in the news media, we try to get

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Speaker 2: this information out there so that you're not pulling your

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Speaker 2: hair out and going is it just me? This was

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Speaker 2: the craziest part, Larry. The website that people go to

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Speaker 2: to check to see if it's like it's called downdetector

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Speaker 2: dot com that was affected by this, So people going

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Speaker 2: to that web site couldn't figure out if this was

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Speaker 2: down for everyone else or just them.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what this next story that you're talking

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Speaker 1: about the worst passwords of twenty twenty five. I constantly

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Speaker 1: get notices from Google and sometimes from social media saying

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Speaker 1: your password has been compromised, you may want to change it.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean exactly? Is there somewhere where they

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Speaker 1: keep track of compromised passwords?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So what happens is if you use a password

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Speaker 2: on a website and that website gets hacked in some

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Speaker 2: sort of data leak or dump or whatever, that turns

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Speaker 2: up on the web, like on the dark web most

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Speaker 2: of the time, and so often Google and these other

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Speaker 2: security password manager programs will scan the dark Web to

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Speaker 2: look at these passwords and alert you because typically it'll

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Speaker 2: have your password and your email, and so they'll say, hey, Larry,

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Speaker 2: you might want to change this because we found this

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Speaker 2: password on the internet, and so you want to go

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Speaker 2: in and definitely change those for sure. And there's nothing

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Speaker 2: you can do about it, sadly, because once something's on

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Speaker 2: the dark Web, it's never coming down. But I tell

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Speaker 2: you this because I would love you to use strong,

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Speaker 2: original passwords for each website, because if that website gets hacked,

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Speaker 2: that password only works there, so it's not gonna work

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Speaker 2: on your other websites. But nord Pass came out with

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Speaker 2: a report the worst Passwords for twenty twenty five. Number

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Speaker 2: one this year is admin number two password and globally

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Speaker 2: one two, three, four five six is still tops. And

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Speaker 2: we all know we've used these passwords in the past,

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Speaker 2: Please don't do it in the future.

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Speaker 1: So getting back that's amazing. And I know one two

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Speaker 1: three four five six, I've heard that. I've heard that before.

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Speaker 1: Getting back to the hacked passwords, is that really that common?

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Speaker 1: It seems like every time I change my password, I

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Speaker 1: still get a notice saying my password has been compromised.

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Speaker 1: So no matter how how in tense my password as

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Speaker 1: I'm complicated it is, it can be stolen and I

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Speaker 1: can still be hacked.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's the thing about using unique passwords, because

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Speaker 2: it doesn't matter how complex it is, someone's not gonna

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Speaker 2: be able to guess it if it's complex, right, that's

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Speaker 2: the beauty of having a complex password. The problem is

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Speaker 2: these websites get hacked on the back end. A lot

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Speaker 2: of times it's social engineering, and employee gets tricked into

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Speaker 2: opening up a database or sharing a database, and then

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Speaker 2: these passwords get out there, and then the hackers collect

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Speaker 2: them into these giant files that they share around online saying, hey,

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Speaker 2: we've got a whole bunch of new passwords that people

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Speaker 2: are using and here's their email address and here's their password.

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Speaker 2: And what they do is they take that one password

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Speaker 2: and your email addressed and they try it on a

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Speaker 2: bunch of different websites. So that's why it's really important

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Speaker 2: to use a unique password for every website. Because let's

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Speaker 2: say you sign up on a website with one, two, three, four, five, six,

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Speaker 2: and you use that on six different websites. Now they

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Speaker 2: can log into all six of those websites because you've

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Speaker 2: used that same password everywhere. So one password kind of

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Speaker 2: keeps it just relegated to that one hack.

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Speaker 1: So what is Prime's Fuel Up Friday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're gonna if you're a Prime member, you

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Speaker 2: get twenty five cents off per gallon of gas on

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Speaker 2: Fridays through the end of the year. So this is

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Speaker 2: a Prime perk. You have to be an Amazon Prime member,

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Speaker 2: but many people are. This works at seventy five hundred

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Speaker 2: gas stations in the US, including BP, Amaco and then AMPM.

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Speaker 2: You have to sign up on the website, so go

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Speaker 2: to Amazon search fuel Up Fridays and just link up

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Speaker 2: your information and then once you go to the pump

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Speaker 2: easy twenty five cents off a gallon, why not do it.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Rich, I've never trusted bitcoin because

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Speaker 1: I can't understand it. I don't know what it's based on.

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Speaker 1: I can tell you what everything else is based on

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Speaker 1: currencies in the stock market. I can't figure out what

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Speaker 1: bitcoin is based on. And now is starting to slide

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Speaker 1: a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this week, I say, do not talk to your

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Speaker 2: bitcoin friends about bitcoin this week because it's really bad, Larry.

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Speaker 2: It went down under ninety thousand, which was a six

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Speaker 2: month low. And yet you, like a lot of people

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Speaker 2: do not understand bitcoin, and I think that's pretty common

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Speaker 2: in the market with financial stuff unless you're an expert.

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Speaker 2: But again, a lot of people like bitcoin, they've heard

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Speaker 2: about it, they want to get in on the investment.

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Speaker 2: But this week was really bad. It's thirty percent off.

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Speaker 2: It's October high. It was at one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: six thousand. One point two trillion dollars in crypto value

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Speaker 2: has vanished since October. Obviously, crypto kind of follows the

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Speaker 2: larger stock market in general, so people are just more

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Speaker 2: cautious right now. And the big problem is big investors.

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Speaker 2: They are selling a lot of their crypto right now

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Speaker 2: and that's adding to the pressure of why this is

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Speaker 2: dropping so fast.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro from rich on Tech can be heard Sunday

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Speaker 1: nights from eight to eleven. Also, you can follow him

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Speaker 1: at rich on Tech on Instagram. This has been a

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