Criminals deftly exploit the data deluge. While businesses around the world struggle to understand the how to profit from the information revolution, one class of enterprise has successfully mastered the challenge—international organised crime. Though the recent theft and hacking of tens of millions of customer accounts at Sony has garnered much attention, the attack is […]
Crowdsourcing began as a legitimate tool to leverage the wisdom of the crowds to solve complex business and scientific challenges. This post originally appeared on O’Reilly Radar (“From crowdsourcing to crime-sourcing: The rise of distributed criminality“). It’s republished with permission. Crowdsourcing began as a legitimate tool to leverage the wisdom of the crowds to […]
The average time to realize you’ve been hacked is 200 days! Cybercrime is organized, global, and practically untouchable by today’s laws. Vint Cerf, Marc Goodman and Liam O’Murchu on the business of cybercrime in a digital age.
In episode #189, Joe Polish interviews Marc Goodman on his new book, Future Crimes and they discuss things like when to post vacation pictures that decreases your chances of being robbed while you’re away to the scary truth about organized criminals, rogue governments, and hackers taking control of the technology you rely on to six […]
When 10 men attacked the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai, in November 2008, they executed one of the best-orchestrated, most technologically advanced terrorist strikes in history… Before the assault they had used Google Earth to explore 3-D models of the target and determine optimal entry and exit routes, defensive positions, and security posts. During […]