Rich DeMuro hosts the nationally syndicated "Rich on Tech" radio show on 350+ stations, including 710~WOR in New York City. On the show, he discusses consumer technology news and answers questions. Rich covers major tech events and received a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for his coverage of technology-related social issues. He has appeared on numerous national TV shows and networks, prior Rich was a senior editor at CNET and a reporter at Channel One News and local TV stations. Originally from New Jersey, he graduated from USC with a degree in broadcast journalism, and has over 1 million combined followers on social media @richontech. Now Rich can heard Sunday evenings 8PM and his weekly segment with Mendte in the Mornings on 710~WOR.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from WOOR.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Now more of the WOOR Saturday Morning Show and Larry
Mante welcome back. So you think your online passwords are
really safe, think again. But Rich DeMuro from rich on
Tech can fix that. Here's Rich tell us exactly what
a cloud flare outage is.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, so this happened earlier this week. Remember a lot
of major sites were down, people were having errors, and
people were wondering, you know, what is cloud flare number one?
And was this a cyber attack? So it was not
a cyber attack. It was actually a pretty basic error.
There was a file that they uploaded and it just
(00:43):
wrecked havoc with their systems, Like it just kept doubling
in size every five minutes. It was just taking down
all their servers. So as you saw all those websites
big and small had errors, including chat, ebt and many others,
they were able to stop it and fix it. But
I think the the larger picture here, Larry, is that
these companies, just a few key companies, are controlling such
(01:06):
large swaths of the Internet, like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and
I'm talking about their cloud services. So when those services
have an issue, it takes down a bigger and bigger
chunk of the Internet with it.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, it happened when we were on the air and
we were getting calls from a lot of people saying,
I can't get on Twitter, I can't get on Instagram.
I don't know what's going on, And it turned out
to be this. It affected a lot of sites.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, And I think that's the public service that you do,
is that you know, if you're on your computer and
you're having these issues, and you're like, wait a second,
is it me? And you're sitting there restarting your computer,
turning off your Internet, turning it back on. So that's
why here in the news media, we try to get
this information out there so that you're not pulling your
hair out and going is it just me? This was
the craziest part. Larry. The website that people go to
(01:53):
to check to see if it's like it's called downdetector
dot com that was affected by this, So people going
to that web site couldn't figure out if this was
down for everyone else or just them.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I'll tell you what this next story that you're talking
about the worst passwords of twenty twenty five. I constantly
get notices from Google and sometimes from social media saying
your password has been compromised, you may want to change it.
What does that mean exactly? Is there somewhere where they
(02:25):
keep track of compromised passwords?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, So what happens is if you use a password
on a website and that website gets hacked in some
sort of data leak or dump or whatever, that turns
up on the web, like on the dark web most
of the time, and so often Google and these other
security password manager programs will scan the dark Web to
(02:48):
look at these passwords and alert you because typically it'll
have your password and your email, and so they'll say, hey, Larry,
you might want to change this because we found this
password on the internet, and so you want to go
in and definitely change those for sure. And there's nothing
you can do about it, sadly, because once something's on
the dark Web, it's never coming down. But I tell
you this because I would love you to use strong,
(03:10):
original passwords for each website, because if that website gets hacked,
that password only works there, so it's not gonna work
on your other websites. But nord Pass came out with
a report the worst Passwords for twenty twenty five. Number one.
This year is admin h number two password and globally
one two, three, four five six is still tops. And
(03:34):
we all know we've used these passwords in the past,
Please don't do it in the future.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So getting back that's amazing. And I know one two
three four five six, I've heard that. I've heard that
before getting back to the hacked passwords. Is that really
that common? It seems like every time I change my password,
I still get a notice saying my password has been compromised.
So no matter how how in tense my password as
(04:01):
I'm complicated it is, it can be stolen and I
can still be hacked.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, And that's the thing about using unique passwords, because
it doesn't matter how complex it is, someone's not gonna
be able to guess it if it's complex, right, that's
the beauty of having a complex password. The problem is
these websites get hacked on the back end. A lot
of times it's social engineering, and employee gets tricked into
opening up a database or sharing a database, and then
(04:25):
these passwords get out there, and then the hackers collect
them into these giant files that they share around online saying, hey,
we've got a whole bunch of new passwords that people
are using and here's their email address and here's their password.
And what they do is they take that one password
and your email addressed and they try it on a
bunch of different websites. So that's why it's really important
(04:47):
to use a unique password for every website. Because let's
say you sign up on a website with one, two, three, four, five, six,
and you use that on six different websites. Now they
can log into all six of those websites because you've
used that same password everywhere. So one password kind of
keeps it just relegated to that one hack.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So what is Prime's Fuel Up Friday.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, if you're gonna if you're a Prime member, you
get twenty five cents off per gallon of gas on
Fridays through the end of the year. So this is
a Prime perk. You have to be an Amazon Prime member,
but many people are. This works at seventy five hundred
gas stations in the US, including BP, Amaco and then AMPM.
You have to sign up on the website, so go
(05:30):
to Amazon search fuel Up Fridays and just link up
your information and then once you go to the pump
easy twenty five cents off a gallon, why not do it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I'll tell you what, Rich, I've never trusted bitcoin because
I can't understand it. I don't know what it's based on.
I can tell you what everything else is based on
currencies in the stock market. I can't figure out what
bitcoin is based on. And now is starting to slide
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, this week, I say, do not talk to your
bitcoin friends about bitcoin this week because it's really bad, Larry.
It went down under ninety thousand, which was a six
month low. And yet you, like a lot of people
do not understand bitcoin, and I think that's pretty common
in the market with financial stuff unless you're an expert.
But again, a lot of people like bitcoin, they've heard
(06:17):
about it, they want to get in on the investment.
But this week was really bad. It's thirty percent office
October high. It was at one hundred and twenty six thousand.
One point two trillion dollars in crypto value has vanished
since October. Obviously, crypto kind of follows the larger stock
market in general, so people are just more cautious right now.
(06:38):
And the big problem is big investors. They are selling
a lot of their crypto right now, and that's adding
to the pressure of why this is dropping so fast.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Rich Demiro from rich on Tech can be heard Sunday
nights from eight to eleven. Also, you can follow him
at rich on Tech on Instagram. This has been a
podcast from wor
This is a podcast from WOOR.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Now more of the WOOR Saturday Morning Show and Larry
Mante welcome back. So you think your online passwords are
really safe, think again. But Rich DeMuro from rich on
Tech can fix that. Here's Rich tell us exactly what
a cloud flare outage is.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, so this happened earlier this week. Remember a lot
of major sites were down, people were having errors, and
people were wondering, you know, what is cloud flare number one?
And was this a cyber attack? So it was not
a cyber attack. It was actually a pretty basic error.
There was a file that they uploaded and it just
(00:43):
wrecked havoc with their systems, Like it just kept doubling
in size every five minutes. It was just taking down
all their servers. So as you saw all those websites
big and small had errors, including chat, ebt and many others,
they were able to stop it and fix it. But
I think the the larger picture here, Larry, is that
these companies, just a few key companies, are controlling such
(01:06):
large swaths of the Internet, like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and
I'm talking about their cloud services. So when those services
have an issue, it takes down a bigger and bigger
chunk of the Internet with it.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, it happened when we were on the air and
we were getting calls from a lot of people saying,
I can't get on Twitter, I can't get on Instagram.
I don't know what's going on, And it turned out
to be this. It affected a lot of sites.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, And I think that's the public service that you do,
is that you know, if you're on your computer and
you're having these issues, and you're like, wait a second,
is it me? And you're sitting there restarting your computer,
turning off your Internet, turning it back on. So that's
why here in the news media, we try to get
this information out there so that you're not pulling your
hair out and going is it just me? This was
the craziest part. Larry. The website that people go to
(01:53):
to check to see if it's like it's called downdetector
dot com that was affected by this, So people going
to that web site couldn't figure out if this was
down for everyone else or just them.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I'll tell you what this next story that you're talking
about the worst passwords of twenty twenty five. I constantly
get notices from Google and sometimes from social media saying
your password has been compromised, you may want to change it.
What does that mean exactly? Is there somewhere where they
(02:25):
keep track of compromised passwords?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, So what happens is if you use a password
on a website and that website gets hacked in some
sort of data leak or dump or whatever, that turns
up on the web, like on the dark web most
of the time, and so often Google and these other
security password manager programs will scan the dark Web to
(02:48):
look at these passwords and alert you because typically it'll
have your password and your email, and so they'll say, hey, Larry,
you might want to change this because we found this
password on the internet, and so you want to go
in and definitely change those for sure. And there's nothing
you can do about it, sadly, because once something's on
the dark Web, it's never coming down. But I tell
you this because I would love you to use strong,
(03:10):
original passwords for each website, because if that website gets hacked,
that password only works there, so it's not gonna work
on your other websites. But nord Pass came out with
a report the worst Passwords for twenty twenty five. Number one.
This year is admin h number two password and globally
one two, three, four five six is still tops. And
(03:34):
we all know we've used these passwords in the past,
Please don't do it in the future.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So getting back that's amazing. And I know one two
three four five six, I've heard that. I've heard that
before getting back to the hacked passwords. Is that really
that common? It seems like every time I change my password,
I still get a notice saying my password has been compromised.
So no matter how how in tense my password as
(04:01):
I'm complicated it is, it can be stolen and I
can still be hacked.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, And that's the thing about using unique passwords, because
it doesn't matter how complex it is, someone's not gonna
be able to guess it if it's complex, right, that's
the beauty of having a complex password. The problem is
these websites get hacked on the back end. A lot
of times it's social engineering, and employee gets tricked into
opening up a database or sharing a database, and then
(04:25):
these passwords get out there, and then the hackers collect
them into these giant files that they share around online saying, hey,
we've got a whole bunch of new passwords that people
are using and here's their email address and here's their password.
And what they do is they take that one password
and your email addressed and they try it on a
bunch of different websites. So that's why it's really important
(04:47):
to use a unique password for every website. Because let's
say you sign up on a website with one, two, three, four, five, six,
and you use that on six different websites. Now they
can log into all six of those websites because you've
used that same password everywhere. So one password kind of
keeps it just relegated to that one hack.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So what is Prime's Fuel Up Friday.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, if you're gonna if you're a Prime member, you
get twenty five cents off per gallon of gas on
Fridays through the end of the year. So this is
a Prime perk. You have to be an Amazon Prime member,
but many people are. This works at seventy five hundred
gas stations in the US, including BP, Amaco and then AMPM.
You have to sign up on the website, so go
(05:30):
to Amazon search fuel Up Fridays and just link up
your information and then once you go to the pump
easy twenty five cents off a gallon, why not do it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I'll tell you what, Rich, I've never trusted bitcoin because
I can't understand it. I don't know what it's based on.
I can tell you what everything else is based on
currencies in the stock market. I can't figure out what
bitcoin is based on. And now is starting to slide
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, this week, I say, do not talk to your
bitcoin friends about bitcoin this week because it's really bad, Larry.
It went down under ninety thousand, which was a six
month low. And yet you, like a lot of people
do not understand bitcoin, and I think that's pretty common
in the market with financial stuff unless you're an expert.
But again, a lot of people like bitcoin, they've heard
(06:17):
about it, they want to get in on the investment.
But this week was really bad. It's thirty percent office
October high. It was at one hundred and twenty six thousand.
One point two trillion dollars in crypto value has vanished
since October. Obviously, crypto kind of follows the larger stock
market in general, so people are just more cautious right now.
(06:38):
And the big problem is big investors. They are selling
a lot of their crypto right now, and that's adding
to the pressure of why this is dropping so fast.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Rich Demiro from rich on Tech can be heard Sunday
nights from eight to eleven. Also, you can follow him
at rich on Tech on Instagram. This has been a
podcast from wor
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