Scott Alldridge

Yeah, that's one example.

There are multiple tools and services out there that make it really easy to basically hide your IP and not be non-traceable.

It's pretty easy to find.

On the dark web, of course, there's all kinds of services you can get.

Do IP changers still work like the VPNs?

VPNs are, if you keep them patched and up to date and you're using kind of the latest, greatest VPN technology, you're in pretty safe shape.

But if you're using an older VPN, no, they're hacking them.

There's all kinds of vulnerabilities in those old VPNs.

And a lot of people, they just don't get around to updating them because IT is busy and they don't have time to do the updates or their cyber team isn't really aware they're working on something else.

So there's a lot of really basic kind of foundational things that you should always be doing, like even patching your systems, a little bit like even your phone.

When you get those updates are annoying, but if you don't do them, you could be opening up threats even on your phone as an individual.

Same thing's true in a corporate network.

You have to keep your servers and your systems and your network devices and your firewalls and your VPNs.

You got to keep them patched and up to date.

And it's not always that easy to do.

Besides there's downtime and nobody wants to do that or it just takes a lot of effort after hours work.

It's difficult.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's really important because often in this day and age, you can almost assume that any of those updates are blocking some security vulnerability that's on your phone or your system or your laptop or whatever it might be.

Oh, well, I think Apple is a target.