We all depend on technology and its vast, positive potential on everything from poverty to medicine, but there’s a flip side. As we gear up for the Internet of Things, with greater connections come greater risks…
Security expert and futurist Marc Goodman joins us to discuss his new book Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It…
Marc Goodman investigates the intersection of science and security. He’s an expert in cyber risk and counter-terrorism. Goodman started his career as a police offer then detective for the LAPD. He’s advised INTERPOL and was appointed Futurist-in-Residence for the FBI. He’s the founder of the Future Crimes Institute and the Chair for Policy, Law, and […]
In the Internet age, everything is connected so everyone is vulnerable — in ways we may not even imagine yet. A new book says hackers are already more organized and more innovative than the good guys, and it’s time for the good guys to take a stand…
Our discussion with Marc Goodman this week on hacking implanted pacemakers set more than a few hearts beating faster. We check-in on your thoughts as we follow up on the challenges of sex ed, the perils of sexting and the prospect of hacking pacemakers…
This article was taken from the June 2013 issue of Wired magazine. There have always been hackers. If we look back 30 years to the earliest days of the personal computer, the first iteration were DIY types with cobbled-together devices, tinkering in garages and basements and meeting periodically to share their stories. Their intentions were […]
Grand thinking created the Internet, small thinking won’t save it. Though we’re racing forward at break neck speed to connect all the objects in our physical world — the tools we need to run our society — to the Internet, we still fundamentally do not have the trustworthy computing required to make it so. Of the 6,494 words President Obama uttered […]
Crime is down in advanced economies around the world—at least that is what some statistics suggest. While it is true that violent crime has dropped precipitously in the developed world over the past two decades, in fact, there is a tsunami of criminal activity on the horizon. It is in the form of cybercrime, and […]