Episode Notes

Hey everybody, this is Gene Marks and welcome to this week's Hartford Small Biz Ahead podcast. Thank you so much for joining me. And I've got an interesting story and a little bit of a lesson for you this week. It has to do with the casino, which got hacked through its fish tank thermometer. Are your fish tanks secure? Well, let me tell you a little bit more about this. First of all, you wanna make sure, of course you're securing your laptop and you wanna secure your smartphone. And of course you wanna secure your tablet, but before I forget, you might wanna make sure that you secure your fish tank. Yes. You heard me, your fish tank. That was a lesson learned a few years ago, was back in 2018 by the operators of a North American casino, according to one report. And there were many at the time, a cybersecurity executive named Nicole Egan of a security firm called Darktrace, told this story while addressing a conference on security.