Future crimes : everything is connected, everyone is vulnerable, and what we can do about it
by Goodman, Marc (Author)
Summary
Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flip side. Criminals are often the earliest, and most innovative, adopters of technology, and modern times have led to modern crimes. Today's criminals are stealing identities, draining online bank accounts... Full description
- Prologue: The irrational optimist: How I got this way
- A gathering storm. Connected, dependent, and vulnerable ; System crash ; Moore's outlaws ; You're not the customer, you're the product ; The surveillance economy ; Big data, big risk ; I.T. phones home ; In screen we trust ; Mo' screens, mo' problems
- The future of crime. Crime, inc. ; Inside the digital underground ; When all things are hackable ; Home hacked home ; Hacking you ; Rise of the machines: when cyber crime goes 3-D ; Next-generation security threats: Why cyber was only the beginning
- Surviving progress. Surviving progress ; The way forward
- Appendix: Everything's connected, everyone's vulnerable: Here's what you can do about it.