Craig Peterson - Secure Your Business, Your Privacy, and Save Your Sanity

1. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

   Microsoft Shipped Almost 700 Patches in One Patch Tuesday — Six Times a Normal Month (opens the original)

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   This was the biggest Patch Tuesday on record: Microsoft pushed close to 700 patches in a single month, roughly six times the usual volume. Craig's follow-up question is the one that actually decides whether a machine is exposed. Microsoft is patching Microsoft. Who is patching everything else? Windows Update never touches third-party software — it barely updates Windows itself, Craig said, and it does nothing for the average of 62 other programs sitting on a typical computer, many of which are b

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2. Episode · Sep 8, 2026

   Craig Left Quebec in the 1970s, When a Driver's License Ran $300 and Registering the Family Wagon Ran $3,000 (opens the original)

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   Craig grew up in Canada and left in the 1970s, and this week he put numbers on why. A driver's license in Quebec cost $300 a year. Registration on the family station wagon cost $3,000 a year. Both figures in 1970s dollars. Auto insurance, by contrast, was free — which Craig turned into the sharpest point of the segment: his father remarried, his stepmother got her license at 26, and she totaled three cars. Craig's question was not about her driving. It was about what happens to the premium. "How

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3. Episode · Sep 8, 2026

   Craig Has Done IT Work for More Than 5,000 Businesses — and Deliberately Shrank the Company (opens the original)

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   Craig added it up recently: more than 5,000 businesses have had IT services from him over the years. He also used to carry 50 employees to support them. He described cutting that back on purpose — "it's way too many" — down to a family business handling a small number of customers, on the reasoning that the headaches of supporting that many clients with that many staff cost more than they returned. It is an unusual thing for a vendor to say out loud on the radio, and it was the first thing out o

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4. Episode · Sep 2, 2026

   A Client Said No Twice to a VPN Prompt, and the Login Traced Back to a Chinese Net Block (opens the original)

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   On Monday, a client of Craig's was driving down the road when a prompt appeared in the authentication app on his phone: was he trying to log into the company VPN? He said no. It appeared again. He said no again. Craig's team got him on the phone, changed his passwords, and started digging. The login was coming from a data center in New York — until Craig looked at the actual net block, which traced back to China. The attacker already had the man's email address, his VPN contact information, and

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5. Episode · Sep 1, 2026

   The Anti-Data-Center Argument Everyone's Making Turns Out to Be China's (opens the original)

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   Central Virginia has neighbors close to blows in the street over new data centers. Craig's number for the other side of the ledger: one community found that without the tax revenue a data center brings in, property taxes on every home would rise $5,800 a year. Add $250,000-a-year electrician jobs, emissions cut more than 90% once a site is required to generate its own power, and a mandated 20% energy surplus handed back to the grid, and the case against building locally gets a lot thinner than t

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