Future crimes : everything is connected, everyone is vulnerable and what we can do about it / Marc Goodman.
Publisher: London : Corgi Books, 2016Description: 682 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 27965ISBN: 0552170801 (paperback); 9780552170802 (paperback)Other title: Future crimes : inside the digital underground and the battle for our connected worldSubject(s): Crime -- Technological innovations | Crime forecasting | Computer crimes -- Prevention | Computer security | Data protection | Technological innovations -- Moral and ethical aspectsDDC classification: 364 GOO LOC classification: HV6773 | .G66 2016Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flipside. 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 and wiping out computer servers. It's disturbingly easy to activate baby cam monitors to spy on families, pacemakers can be hacked to deliver a lethal jolt, 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 the recipe for the Ebola virus, and drug cartels are building drones. This is just the beginning of the tsunami of technological threats coming our way. In Future Crimes , Marc Goodman rips open his database of hundreds of real cases to give us front-row access to these impending perils. Reading like a sci-fi thriller, but based in startling fact, Goodman raises tough questions about the expanding role of technology in our lives. Future Crimes is a call to action for better security measures worldwide, but most importantly, will empower readers to protect themselves against these looming technological threats - before it's too late.
Originally published: 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Publishers Weekly Review
Our computers, cell phones, appliances, infrastructure, medical devices, and robots are being turned against us by robbers, terrorists, and tyrants, according to this hair-raising exposé of cybercrime. Cybersecurity consultant Goodman argues that our ever-expanding networks of digital devices with insecure software leave us vulnerable to hackers, and he recounts their exploits in spying on everything we do, casing houses, commandeering hard drives and cell phone cameras, stealing credit cards, luring children, and choreographing terrorist attacks on smart phones. Worse will soon come, he contends, when hackers take control of smart houses and refrigerators, tamper with car brakes, manipulate bionic limbs, instruct pacemakers to cause heart attacks, destroy the power grid, subvert military robots, and genetically engineer bioweapons; self-aware artificial intelligence programs may become international crime lords. Goodman's breathless but lucid account is good at conveying the potential perils of emerging technologies in layman's terms, and he sprinkles in deft narratives of the heists already enabled by them. His dark-edged portrait of the onrushing total surveillance state and robotization of everything is terrifying in its own right; at times illicit hacker-dom feels like the last stand of human agency against helpless subjection to machines. There's a tinge of dystopian paranoia here, but if a fraction of what Goodman forecasts comes true then this is a timely wake-up call. Agent: Richard Pine, Inkwell Management. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.Booklist Review
Goodman, a cop turned counterterrorism analyst and cybercrime expert, wants you to know, in no uncertain terms, that you are not nearly as safe as you might think you are. You probably have antivirus software on your computer, maybe even top-of-the-line software, but, in real terms, it's only marginally effective (there are too many new viruses for antivirus software to keep up with them); protected computer systems are almost ridiculously easy for hackers to get into; free services like Facebook and Google are constantly gleaning personal information from their users and selling it; the private networks called darknets make it easy for criminals to share information with anonymity and relative safety; cyberstalking, identity theft, hate crimes, electronic robbery, and hacking are becoming more widespread on virtually a daily basis. Highly informative and very timely (in light of the recent Sony hacking scandal and the Rupert Murdoch phone-hacking saga), the book is both terrifying and encouraging, the former because we really had no idea how serious the cybersecurity problem is, the latter because Goodman says there are some things we can do to at least limit our risk. A real eye-opener and a solid choice for the technology and social-issues shelves.--Pitt, David Copyright 2015 BooklistKirkus Book Review
An alarming view of the burgeoning dark side of the Internet."We are now entering the great age of digital crime," warns Goodman, a former police detective-turned-cybercrime consultant and founder of the Future Crimes Institute. In this highly readable and exhaustive debut, he details the many ways in which hackers, organized criminals, terrorists and rogue governments are exploiting the vulnerability of our increasingly connected society. "[W]e've wired the world," he writes, "but failed to secure it." Noting how easy it is to hack into computer systems, most notably smartphones, Goodman first describes the present era of digital crime, from cyberattacks on companies (Target, Sony) to the failure to protect information by data brokers and social media to the growth in identity theft (13 million Americans affected annually) to digital surveillance, cyberstalking and hate crimes. Most companies are hacked regularly and cannot detect it; when they find out (from customers or police), they often try to hide the loss of data. "What most people do not understandis that any data collected will invariably leak," writes the author, and the worst is yet to come. The online world's exponential growth is creating new opportunities, with easy profits and little detection, for sophisticated cyberunits of organized crime. The rise of the Internet of Things (chips and sensors in everyday objects, from cars to homes) will allow criminals to wreak havoc on such newly emerging technologies as robotics, 3-D manufacturing, synthetic biology and artificial intelligence. There will be no way to protect against hacking of baby cams, GPS systems, imbedded medical devices, drones, assembly lines, personal care bots and other objects, some 50 billion of which will join the global grid by 2020. Goodman suggests solid actions to limit the impact of cybercrimes, ranging from increased technical literacy of the public to a massive government "Manhattan Project" for cybersecurity to develop strategies against online threats. A powerful wake-up call to pay attention to our online lives. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.There are no comments on this title.