Scott Alldridge
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Yep.
You got to be really careful.
It's not that you can't ever use a public Wi-Fi, but if you do, you have to make sure you've got the right, you know, security tools on your phone or your device to be using it.
to know man because a lot of people use public Wi-Fi like at hotels airports Starbucks big time and it's it's yeah they're learning that people just don't aren't paying attention yeah it's easy to get that and that's on the personal side you know so there's a lot a lot to think about um in in the whole world of you know cyber I
I was thinking about, you know, the, you're kind of going back to the big corporate things, you know, like the casino that got hacked here.
Yep.
MGM, right?
MGM, yeah.
That was really interesting.
You know, they literally just called the call center, the IT, you know, support center and got a password changed.
One change of one password.
And people are still, you know, sometimes putting passwords on sticky notes and not taking it seriously in smaller businesses, especially.
But they even have protocols there.
But they basically convinced, you know, and these are some of the groups.
There's a lot of bigger groups that come together.
They're hacking groups.
And these threat actors often are kind of one of three buckets.
Sometimes they're doing it because they want to make just a statement, like a political statement.
Sometimes these hacker groups is just all about the money and there's some in between.