Craig Peterson — Cybersecurity in Plain English

Your welcome gift: "7 Signs Your Windows Computer Is Already Compromised."

A one-page checklist you can run down in five minutes — the quiet signs that something's already wrong, in plain English, with what each one means and what to do about it. The brief keeps you a step ahead of what's coming; this tells you what may already be on your machine right now.

Why weekly

The scam you know about isn't the one that gets you.

Here's the trick: it's not the obvious scam. It's the one built to look ordinary — a con artist wearing your bank's logo, your vendor's name, even a note that looks like it's from your own family. That's not yours to catch every time. That's the whole design.

And it's not just email. It's the privacy setting that quietly switched itself on, the breach in the news that actually affects you, the new AI trick nobody's named yet — too much for anyone to track alone. A checklist you read once goes stale; a trusted voice in your inbox every week doesn't.

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Who's writing this

You shouldn't have to become a security expert just to keep up with the people trying to scam you.

For 35 years, I've made cybersecurity make sense — on the radio, with businesses, and with families trying to stay ahead of this stuff. I've heard from thousands of people who got caught, and thousands more who didn't, because they knew what to look for. This brief is me doing for you what I do on the air every week: cutting through the noise and telling you, plainly, what actually matters and what to do about it. No fear, no jargon, no sales pitch — just the read I'd give a friend.

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What you get, every week

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Scam of the Week

The specific threat making the rounds right now — and exactly how to spot it before you click.

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One thing to do

A single concrete step — a setting to change, a habit to fix — that makes you safer this week. Never a homework list.

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Tech & threats, decoded

The headlines that actually matter — AI, privacy, the latest breach — translated out of the jargon.

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🔒 Privacy watch

Windows Recall is screenshotting everything you do — and on new PCs it's on by default.

Microsoft's "Recall" quietly snapshots your screen every few seconds — your messages, your banking, your passwords as you type them — and stores them on your PC. Most people have no idea it's running. Here's why it's a problem, and the two-minute fix to switch it off.

⚠ Scam of the week

The "your CEO needs gift cards" text is back — and smarter.

This version names a real project pulled from LinkedIn, so it reads as legit. The one question that gives it away — every team should know it.

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Picture it: next week a slick email lands — the kind that fools half an office — and you spot it in two seconds, because you read about it on Tuesday. That's who this makes you — the one who actually keeps up, and sees the next one coming. Get the brief, and your checklist "7 Signs Your Business Computer Is Already Compromised" is on the way in.

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