Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
- ISBN-10
- 0804193061
- ISBN-13
- 9780804193061
- Series
- Future Crimes
- Category
- Computer crimes
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Author
- Marc Goodman
Description
From one of the world's leading authorities on global security, Future Crimes takes readers deep into the digital underground to illuminate the alarming ways criminals, corporations, and even countries are using new and emerging technologies against you--and how this makes everyone more vulnerable than you ever thought possible. 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 lead to modern crimes. Today's criminals are stealing identities, draining online bank accounts and wiping out computer servers. It's disturbingly easy to activate baby monitors to spy on families, pacemakers can be hacked to deliver a lethal jolt of electricity, and thieves are analyzing your social media in order to determine the best time for a home invasion. Meanwhile, 3D printers produce AK-47s, terrorists can download ...
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- 2016-01-12
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- 2016-01-05
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- 2016
- 684 pages
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- Random House
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