Global security adviser and futurist. Focused on the disruptive impact of advancing tech on security, business and intl affairs. NY Times best selling author.
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Ferrari exec foils deepfake plot by asking a question only the CEO could answer | Fortune. A good example of human ingenuity over AI scammers. fortune.com/2024/07/27/ferra…
A 17-year-old boy died by suicide hours after being scammed. The FBI says it’s part of a troubling increase in ‘sextortion’ cases. PARENTS: teach your kids NOW to avoid situations like this. missingkids.org/content/dam/… cnn.com/2022/05/20/us/ryan-l…
150 arrested, including corrections officers, in bust of Georgia prison smuggling ring using drones nbcnews.com/news/us-news/150…
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’- yet another example of #AICrime, as detailed in #FutureCrimes. cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deep…
New technologies. Unintended consequences.
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Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes millions of euros in damages tomshardware.com/networking/…
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer.’ This has happened several times before and will be a massive growing trend moving forward. #AIcrime cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deep…
Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies - a solid investigation into the data surveillance industry by @ConsumerReports 👏🏻 consumerreports.org/electron…
Woman accused of murdering pro cyclist Mo Wilson tracked her on fitness app, prosecutors say. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wom…
Cars have the worst data privacy practices Mozilla has ever seen-it’s bad. theverge.com/2023/9/6/238610…
Cybercrime meets human trafficking. The global harm from cyber treats is not just about the dollars you lose, but about kidnapping, rape, corruption and global security, as innocents engage in forced labor as cyber criminals. nytimes.com/2023/08/28/world…
How con artists use AI, apps, social engineering to target parents, grandparents for theft - CBS News cbsnews.com/news/how-con-art…
Terrifying new AI scam used teen girl's voice to call her mother and demand $1million ransom. As I wrote in #FutureCrimea years ago, AI enabled crime is the future of crime. dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
North Korea’s biggest crypto hack started with a fake job offer that cost a startup more than $600 million. Hacks like that are now funding half of the country’s nuclear program. Excellent example of the national security implications of cyber crime. wsj.com/articles/how-north-k…
This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale. Good article from @WiredUK on what I called crowdsourced crime in #FutureCrimes. wired.co.uk/article/catfishi…
China made its first public arrest for misusing ChatGPT after a man generated fake news about a train crash that killed nine businessinsider.com/chatgpt-…
Why you should act now to protect your iPhone data from thieves. Good advice yet again from at @nicnguyen. wsj.com/articles/stolen-ipho…
“Today, it’s just a few lines of code that separate autonomous cars from autonomous weapons.” A brilliant analysis from @tomfriedman on China, US and tech, among other things. nytimes.com/2023/04/14/opini…
