 I don't know what today is today is is it Thursday it is Thursday but there's a date attached to this there is it's it is April 13th but not April pulls but and also make sure you get your taxes done because that's coming up pretty soon I think you have till Tuesday because oh yeah because of the holiday you have till Tuesday to get your taxes 15th of Saturday but then Easter observed is Monday so yeah so extension but extension but it's actually Thursday vlog day yes it is and two taxes are done so yeah and anyways it's Thursday whoops and so we're still here so far soon will be there and there being the new building and that's all exciting and it's a lot of fun that's a lot of work you know you think oh I'll take pride in everything and do it myself you go I know why people hire contractors there's a reason that's a thriving business yeah we also we're smart and hired a guy to we put the drywall up in places that need a new drywall and we let someone else do the sanding part of it because it turns out we're not good at it you think I watched a YouTube video and I could figure a lot of things out that apparently needs more than a YouTube video to do properly you're gonna paint over it anyway yeah we're gonna paint over it so that's that part's the only part so far that we've used it outside contractor everything else we've been doing ourselves well we're having all my clients do a little carpet anything's like that so that's really good because we don't like carpet I already know them screw that up so that's like that's just being put in it's our new buildings a couple thousand square feet that's a lot of carpet that's two days for professionals to do so professional teams is gonna take them two days to put it all in the lamp in it and the flooring we would be doing it until like 2021 or something yeah though there's no good YouTube video how to do that not one that I can follow and I don't think we want to be making that video so we want to start out with some trivia yeah because Martin learned things I yeah I'm always learning stuff yeah what we learned was we talked about one of the clients were redoing website for have been in business since 1927 yeah and then I said but that's still not our oldest client in terms of how long they've been in business we actually have a couple or and we'll do them here the oldest is the Grosial Bridge what year was that that was 1913 1913 that was so a hundred and four years ago the Grosial Bridge I guess it came into being and yes we have a bridge as a client yeah yeah there are there's a video of the bridge opening and closing and yeah that's pretty cool it's pretty cool the bridge is interesting what they need in it he should wondering cuz I'm sure that question will pop up is it's a toll bridge and the toll bridge requires a credit card to automatically do this and if you look through my videos there is a wireless bridge over a bridge project we called the bridge bridge project it was because the island has internet oddly and the bridge does not because it's on an industrial side so we beam internet from the island to the bridge control room on the other side where they do the tolls so it's kind of novel and that's how that works cool it is pretty cool it's gonna need second place is the Grosial Gulf and Country Club yes the Gulf people yeah they started in 1919 yes and it's really interesting because they are one of the was it a second golf course to get irrigated along greens or third I think they have a whole history pages really yeah it is really good I thought they were the at the time I thought they were the only golf course to have water fairways and yeah they're one of the first in the United States they're among the cut we'd be first first of Michigan probably the only on an island because this is also a Grosial Island and things like that so it's kind of novel that they've been around for that long dirty client so yeah it's a golf and country club I found it interesting that the initial investment just the here get started money was 350 thousand dollars in 1919 which today equates to like five point two million dollars that's the getting started money that was the golf course it was so important for the person who gave that money to have a golf course that he said here's five million dollars make it happen and it's a nice golf course I don't really golf but we go there and work on computers and I enjoy it there because it's really nice I kind of I just kind of want to walk around there I guess I could grab a stick at swat of all sometime but I'm really bad at that you'll only embarrass yes no one of you two videos have ever improved my golf game and I'm just not bad I'm just not big on the sport it's cool I guess I don't know I don't I don't really play any sports yeah it's mainly go there for the beer cart yeah beer cart I will I will just follow beer cart around yeah the other client in terms of age would be Ellie Martin company machini manufacturing company and Aubrey do some websites for them they've been a long-time AT client they're awesome they're in the physical building machining tool stuff which is really neat so in other news now for us do tell do tell oh man it's all these little decisions about all the stuff that's it keeps coming back and back my mind how we're putting a retail store together anything else I'm not going to do all next I'm actually trying to make a video on just the building of the stores I've done some video lots of photos and stuff kind of as the progress moved on the store is in oh more disarray because we're partially disassembling the shelving units we have here and they're becoming the storage shelves for the new place because we're moving things over so more there's less places to stack things so they've been stacked upon the floor and it's really really driving me crazy nothing I can do about it but it's you know in a week it'll be over like another week it'll be fine yeah my anxiety over another week I'll be happy it has been interesting watching yes change in attitude yes just all around the place we're working about 15 hours today 16 hours non-stop just you go here we do all the client stuff then we run over there and we take care of client stuff that we're back over there I was there loading a truck at seven in the morning going to the dump to get rid of anything old out there you know we've been to the dump quite a few times was loading up my pickup truck so I do that seven then I changed and I go take care of clients and then I came back there put some more flooring stuff in and then we leave and we do all the stuff and it's just you know changing light fixtures and everything else but anyways in the world of the tech news yeah so it's been really fascinating me seeing all the security stuff and I've kind of had an idea and I brought this up on my podcast and I've got some feedback on this but I haven't really found a spot yet maybe someone knows of one if not my plan is to after the move and everything build one is how they got hacked and what I'm looking for is submissions from an anonymous way for small business hacks because what people are underestimating is that these hackers will take the time to really infiltrate small businesses now and I've seen on reddit there was a guy that did a great debriefing post about the how he dealt with the hackers and that fact that it cost him I think it was 15,000 to give them their data back but the time that these hackers spent in there and the way they got in that they were the hackers actually nice enough to say how we got in how we infiltrate our system he was nice enough to say no yeah I guess after they get $15,000 he was nice enough to say hey this is how we did it it's like getting a thank you note from the guy who mugged you yeah here's some mugging tips how not to get mugged again yeah don't walk down dark alleys yeah so I'm looking for you know I thought it'd be kind of good to put together more stories about that because we see it you know when we see things happen in people small businesses are always more shocked about it but it's not big enough to make the news it's not like if some small you know 10-person office 5-person office has some threat that came through but what it's a lot of value and understanding what went wrong and kind of deep doing a debrief on it and some analysis from the tech guys like oh yeah and it turned out someone misconfigured a firewall role at this other company and because the firewall they use was complicated as the as stated by the system administrator the guy that operates the firewall is a little bit of a complicated firewall I kept calling it a proprietary but never revealed exactly what kind of firewall it is but these type of things if it's not clearly understood and by the person using it can lead to a security reach because they didn't audit it so in retrospect they now do a different type of audit of their firewall so that's kind of their preventive measure one of the funniest and craziest preventive measures for people getting this crypto locker and things like that I heard was mentioned by someone says oh yeah my company has just decided to have a bunch of bitcoins at the ready that's kind of like saying look we know a bunch of people are just gonna die so we pre-bought the coffins just to like hedge our bets we got a deal on coffins like that's pretty much what pre-fumeral planning is right yeah I'm like you guys like we don't know what we're gonna do for defense so we just bought a bunch of bitcoins that way we can just pay the ransom every time I kind of that's okay that goes a lot with a friend of mine once said that he thought you should be able to pre-pay speeding tickets like you should have a card like I know I'm gonna speed right so when the cop pulls you over you just here's my card and you have an amount loaded on it and they just swipe it and see you later yeah something like that so another fun tech news I want to I'm gonna do a little bit more into it but I've been fascinated by it we talked about it on my the SMLR podcast and it's called the bricker bot and this is just some IT guy that was really fed up with things and it makes me happy in a weird way so what the bricker bot does is we have all these IOT devices please know what you will find no IOT devices either in Tom's home or in Tom's offices or connected things internet of things anything that I value I don't connect those things to especially because so many of them are so poorly made and on my SMLR podcast because a lot of them are Linux based we've talked a lot about them and the poor security practices that are often done with them so because of the poor security default passwords and things like that that are left in some of these little you know light bulbs and toasters and refrigerators connect the internet they frequently find themselves hacked well there's a large botnet that goes around and because it's under control of a group of hackers they use the IOT devices to attack other networks so someone said let's go a different route so instead of these joining the forces of a botnet to attack they decided to brick them now let's go a little bit a little bit of an explanation here yeah please yeah so right now if you're having infected in a lot of them are these Chinese one of the popular ones these Chinese DVR is like the video recorder for camera systems and they get infected with this malware well what's interesting about it is they continue to be a DVR which means the user will never do anything about it and that's actually the attitude we kind of have a client well they call us their daughter IT that calls us and we told them that their DVR has a vulnerability and they said yeah we have to reboot it once a while because it just kind of goes offline well yeah it's probably being attacked because it has a back door in it you should get rid of it but they won't get rid of it because it works it works they want to spend the money so Brickerbot comes along and it's clearly written by some IT guy and I'm not saying I wrote or anything's I did not but someone who's near and dear to my heart because what he did was he used the same attacks that allows these to be devices to be taken over and bricks them and it's actually has a term it's called a PDOS attack permanent denial of service because what it does is it logs into the bad device and then breaks the device permanently by using the exploit that the other people were used to turn it into an attack robot so to speak and just bricks it as in you can't reboot it nothing works now that forces whoever owns that device to replace it because they don't have a lot of choice and if they bought a XYZ NVR from some Chinese random company they probably won't buy another XYZ you know the thing by them so they'll buy a higher quality one therefore this guy is technically your guy girl whoever it is is making the internet safer by breaking IOT devices he's not the hero we want but he's the hero we deserve yes that's trademark I apologize yeah yeah so I'm fascinated by this I want to dig into a little bit of code but it's running around breaking IOT devices all over the internet and it's just I've got an awful smile over that yeah absolutely guys like fine you won't do anything I will I will I'm going to just brick all these stupid things and that's part of the problem these botnet attacks have scaled exponentially because of all the IOT devices that have like admin and password is default password they have the most odd you know default three blogs ago we talked about a college that was attacked by its own internal all the vending machines turned it because they all are IOT and connected they all had default passwords and the vending of machines turn into attack machines on its own network the vending machine turn against themselves and the way they solve the problem was by watching the passwords that was used by the botnet which were passed across the network and then rewriting the firmware in them to take back control of their own network that got shut down by vending machines and so in this case the brick or bot would have just broke all the vending machines and there wouldn't have been a problem except for the people trying to use a vending machine hell I couldn't get my Snickers bar terrible there'd be some angry people well there sure would that's much less threatening than a bot attack so yeah that's been fascinating Samsung's got that new phone and yes this is awesome I love this and I looked at it I'm like hey Marv does this look like a bikini sure does and it does so yeah top and bottom top and bottom yeah let's just come up with a phone case that's it's ugly yeah yeah I assume and we'll make sure we do it this time I'm assuming picture will appear so yeah there's a picture it reminds me of the remember like the 80s and 90s people would put those car bras on it's like a car bra for a phone like these leather vinyl and then put them on your hood and your grill whatever yeah so it's like that so they're bringing it back they're bringing it back you got a bra for your car get a bra for your phone it's cool yeah well it's summertime so you know the same was it the Samsung s8 yeah yeah so hopefully it you know it get a bikini you know and it got its beach Bob ready ready for summer yeah absolutely are knocking out some more videos I did a second video on last pass and I know I made a mistake I kept say I said Java when I meant JavaScript a couple times I did I know so and it's if you're never as wrong as me you're wrong on the Internet I know there's a difference yeah you mentioned JavaScript in the beginning and then later I said yeah in the Java language but it's about the last second last pass hack and why I still use last pass even though the and hack is really now I use that as a term in there because as people people are looking for the reality is it's a security flaw they found in last pass that was patched and that's what each of these are a hack such as the one found in Microsoft's Word document is a zero-day and there is no patch that is a legit exploit that is in the wild and it was found by a company called FireEye and it was patched on Tuesday so two days ago with the patch Tuesday release and it was out in the wild being exploited that's truly a hack that is a actively exploited the other one was you know found by Tavis Ormondy the security researcher who found the potential flaw but was not being exploited in the wild and then was able to patch it the key submitted it properly to last pass oh also creators update oh yes Windows 10 release the creators update oh yes and one of the features I might do a full feature of you because a few people have asked about this and I don't really use Windows 10 but I'm aware of Windows 10 because that's what we fix and everyone's upset about the privacy they gained a little bit of privacy but the telemetry on it is still pretty crazy including things like you now have more options to turn it off and this is actually a response to Microsoft's getting pressure from the European Union to say look you got to make these privacy settings more clear and they're clear as muddy water Microsoft is just not is forthcoming and really is the tyranny of the default is that you will constantly be sending data to Microsoft about a lot of different things inside there the other problems are when we've got clients that just get agitated by this their Windows 10 decides it's going to reboot whenever it wants to load updates well finally if you let it load the creators update which you can only delay for so long anyways then you can change the update times and change your awareness times and some other cool features extra kind of nice features none of them are enough to make me want to even consider using Windows as an operating system because it just yeah it's just not it's not ready preaching the choir I'm sure oh in Microsoft yeah their their Azure system going down it's been fun for our clients it's just we reboot a lot of systems to fix things we haven't figured out thanks office 365 yeah there's just so many little issues of it it's like reloading is the only answer of some of these I've thought about covering more it's kind of like we do so much IT support for companies and so we see the same problems and we like sometimes don't have an answer we got a computer now that won't connect to the server won't give an error and cannot connect to the exchange server all you have to do is reboot it and works perfectly fine we can find no problems with the only answer is reload it because we've seen it happen before you reload it and go it doesn't have this problem but it only does it maybe once every a week or two so it's not such a huge problem but the client's insist I should never have to reboot my computer and I'm like okay you do though if you don't reboot it and that's what they'd like to put it in sleep mode each time and they think I should not have to reboot and I'm like I can agree with you till I'm blue in the face but I know if you reboot it immediately fixes the problem and it comes back maybe another two weeks or so yeah I don't know those are the those are the hardest ones to fix because I know we're reloading the computer will fix it because we had another client another building we did the same thing and they just said go ahead and reload we did and it's never come back so we don't know what causes that problem we just know that that problem exists and yeah nothing we can do about it just reboot your computer just reboot your computer over now and then if you're running Windows and don't worry it will reboot for you when it pushes updates sure will yeah everyone's asking me why they're calling the creators update and I say well it's gonna create us some money yeah there yes yes job security job security because it will Windows 10 is not smart enough I don't know why if you're on battery it will still update and I don't understand that yeah like modern operating systems but actually that was a trick for Windows 7 if you knew there was updates pending but you want to restart to get something done if you pull the power car out of the battery the default in Windows 7 you could just restart and it wouldn't load the updates and you plug the battery back in and like hey there you go and then you can load the updates later sometimes you're so soft or you got to reboot a couple times or load some drivers in Windows 10 it doesn't care it goes I'm a little update I don't care if you only have 10% battery left let's just load this update oh we're gonna brick your computer now in the middle of it because you're better right now so that's always yeah maybe I was more ranting about Windows 10 and the problems you see with it because we see them every single day that's a primary income source for us is Windows not working properly don't rant about it too much yeah let people continue to use it yeah it's my love come to us to fix it yes that's my love hate relationship with Microsoft is it breaks a lot but that's how I make my living I want to be living with more innovative things and we do a lot of things like a deploying new systems designing things and installing infrastructure but the reality is Windows breaking in the middle of things and losing everybody's work because nobody backs anything up as an income source for us I tell people you should back up we've had the same people in here we said another guy in here who the local guy does accounting and just won't back anything up he lost everything again I don't know I told them back up last year and now this year he's got a problem again and he's like I lost the files is you ever get that back up no I didn't want to pay the $99 a year because I told him to sign up for something cheap like I drive it it's like 79 or $89 a year and he says that's too much it's okay so with that back up your stuff I'm telling you to do it now but don't worry if you come here I'll still charge you to rescue it and hopefully we can speaking which I got to go to the need recovery place today so there we go yep so we're out of here have fun thank you for watching and see you next Thursday see ya