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Securing the future

Securing the future

Author Mischa Gleeny today gave a talk at the RSA - highlighting key arguments and examples from his book 'Dark Market: Cyber thieves, cyber cops and you.' Highly entertaining and sobering - it's not often that the personalities and faces behind cybercrime are shown as human, not just money grabbing monsters.

The sheer scale and audacity of cybercrime has exploded over the past decades - and identifying and prosectuing the perpetrators is becoming harder and harder in spite of the digital trails they often leave behind.

Facebook: It's complicated

With news that it's planning to integrate music subscriptions and media channels emerging this week, Facebook is looking to be the place where you spend most of your time. It's even brought in it's own cash “virtual currency credits” - which all games developers have to encorporate. By continuing to pile on the new features it's hoping to stay ahead of the crowd, but this can be a risky strategy - especially when privacy or intellectual property rights are affected.

Recently it's changed it's News Feed, so that by default, you can only see updates from people with whom you've recently interacted. It did not however let us know, or give us the option to stay with the old setting.