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The Dark World of Cyberspace | Jose Latorre | TEDxRyeNeckHigh


imagine you woke up to discover a

massive cyberattack on your country all

government data has been destroyed

healthcare records birth certificates

social care documents have all been

exterminated the transportation system

is not working traffic lights or blank

immigration is in chaos and life as you

know it has halted life as you know it

has been reduced to a simple error

message which none of us can ignore now

this might sound like a fanciful idea

like it’s a nightmare that will never

become true or reality however one

country declare war and one another in

the future this is a type of warfare

cyber experts are expecting computers

will replace assault rifles software

viruses will replace artillery fire and

aircraft and this will be the era in

which a terrorist that’s about to kill

hundreds of lives of innocent people

with a phone that will deactivate the

bomb and a cybersecurity expert standed

100 miles away could dis activate the

phone and therefore dis activate the

bomb with just one press of button

overload the circuit over charge the

battery normal phone no more terrorists

and no more terrorist attack now this is

the time period that is emerging and

these are the key challenges of 21st

century to overcome cybercrime and to

overcome cyber terrorism december 2014

november 2015 may 2016 all dates of

attacks done by the most wanted cyber

group and europe cobalt since then they

have stolen over 150 million euros from

ATMs in Berlin Rome Paris and Madrid now

network outages hacking computer viruses

all range from inconvenience from

disabling our computer games or deleting

chats to life-threatening situations

from stealing information of theft or

theft of credential

now there are two forms or two broad

categories of cybercrime one sabotage

fish emails bogus messages which are

easily easily recognizable because one

the Prince of Nigeria doesn’t ask for

money and to the lack of grammar is

evident in these emails and the other

form is data breaches either disabling

infrastructure or deleting information

and we live in an increase in the

networked world from personal banking

till daily lies and hardware is too easy

to protect you can just lock it up by

spare or chain it to your desk however

software poses more of a problem it can

exist in more than one place it could be

traveled around the world in seconds and

it could be stolen or deleted without

any of your knowledge take an example

Edward Snowden we all know what this man

did he revealed personal documents or

classified documents to the public from

the NSA and the CIA and to the sacked

there are two sides one that states that

he was protecting the Fourth Amendment

of the United States Constitution the

right to have privacy and the other side

that states that in order for there to

be national security government

surveillance must be guaranteed and this

is on the national level if we increase

through an international level well

taking them another example of Edward

Snowden he stated in 2006 that China has

stolen the f-35 plans for their j-31

fighter jet which is still currently

active today and this saved the millions

of dollars and many years of

investigation now for a more alarming

fact Russia and China have an entire

emergency prepared plan for any given

moment at any given time at any given

country take the United States for

example well when they attack there were

two stages to this attack the first one

a cyber attack it will disable the

entire country just like they did in

estonia in 2007 your house is from my

computer water heating electricity the

car the fact that an airbag can pop up

when you’re in fail

ash is controlled by computer when you

call 911 and there’s another person at

the end of that line ready to assist you

it’s controlled by computer and military

equipment from missiles to jets to Jones

everything is controlled by computer so

in Estonia when a computer was

terminated so was life and the second

stage this attack would be an afib eous

attack with their high-tech technology

and equipment and military aircrafts and

drones some experts state that the

United States would be left with the

same resources as our great grandparents

or grandparents in the 1930s or 1940s

you couldn’t be able to call your mom to

see if she was okay you could not be

able to post anything on social media

and see if your friends were okay as

James clapper has stated the former FBI

director Russia has been assuming more

of a cyber posture by increasing their

cyber espionage operations abroad and

this is a clear proof of one now

internet history well super computers

were created and wealthy companies

prestigious universities and government

agencies on them however in the 1980s

personal computers were created and

there’s a festive element and rapid

spread all over the world well currently

people are texting skyping transferring

money playing games and some are

depending there depending their

educational social and economic lives on

them and this major enhancement / lives

comes at a big price security because

vulnerability will never go away the

very architecture of the internet was

constructed with good flaws reaching

2014 2014 over 1 billion personal record

for stolen through breaches of major

organizations just so you can get a

glimpse of a very secure computer no

downloading no downloading or installing

any games websites would be blocked and

the only ones available would be

government websites and all your

activity would be monitored by robots

and humans 24-7 and to log on a user

would have to type in a 100-word

password wish Allah tone and provide

genetic samples into the hair or a tooth

and personally out by provide a hair but

for those who wants to go

hardcore security mode can provide a

tooth but adults be advised because you

only have 36 tries so use them wisely we

would all think that the system would be

impenetrable but no a hacker would still

find a way to reach and destroy that

database and it’s clear because as Bruce

Schneider once said the former NSA

director a truly secure system it’s one

that’s powered off cast and a block of

concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room

with armed guards so what’s next what’s

next in the future of cyber security

what’s next in this pressing issue for

governments well as simple as inventions

are patented every month every week

every day so our hacking problems

because hacking was originally a hobby

but now it has been transformed into a

profession where you can damage or steal

documents so the problems increased

because exploitation will never go away

just so you can have some examples well

the simply say pack three years ago well

this company lost 300,000 customers and

of course the reputation and millions of

dollars and the talktalk company in the

United Kingdom their stock Valle

declined by twenty percent they lost

fifty million pounds and they lost

100,000 customers the Chrysler hack well

1.4 million cars were recalled and we’ll

never forget the Sony hacking scandal

that resulted in millions of dollars of

loss for this company as there’s an

increase in cybersecurity there’s an

increase in cyber crime because the

attack is always in front of the defense

and this is why cyber experts and

hackers are in a cat-and-mouse game

every day so what will the government do

on a national level they will increase

their spending from 75 million to 175

million in 2020 and they will add two

hundred and thousand jobs in the cyber

security sector which demonstrates the

great need for more cyber experts and on

a local level community what can we do

well we can take basic steps first

well delete those fish emails and bogus

messages that appear on your spam folder

every day avoid going on too sketchy

websites that ask for personal

information and most importantly do not

ask or post for any personal information

of anyone why because hackers could

easily make it in that database and

steal everything that is yours including

credentials so finally as Leon Panetta

said the former CIA director cyber

security may be fought with technology

but it is a human sue triumph we must

invest in the future generations so that

they will carry on the fight they will

carry on the burden and they will carry

out the great sacrifice for their

country because opportunity is just

around the corner so I say let’s take

this opportunity and let’s create it

into a reality a truly safe and a truly

free internet world [Applause]

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