Riz Khan vs Former Hacker | How Russian Hackers Use Misinformation, Bot Farms And More
The recent CrowdStrike software glitch – with its estimated cost of $5 billion to banks, airlines and medical facilities – crashed computers around the world. Harder to calculate is the cost of the chaos and misery caused to millions of people who missed urgent medical appointments, family reunions and financial deadlines. Cybercriminals were quick to exploit the disorder, posing as help centers for people affected by the outage, then stealing their data and emptying bank accounts. And yet, the global meltdown was not caused by cyber criminals – as people had originally feared – but by one of the world’s biggest cybersecurity companies whose business is to actually protect the online network. But suppose it had been the work of hackers or state saboteurs. What ransom would they have demanded? Organizers of the Paris Olympics have spent a fortune trying to protect against an onslaught of cyber attacks designed to disrupt the games. Well, as the world now contemplates the consequences of connectivity, a number of essential questions have risen to the top of the agenda of those fighting the hackers and digital thieves. In this episode of the Riz Khan show, we’ll get inside the mind of a super hacker who has turned his talents against the cyber gangs, and a senior US intelligence officer tells us how Russian cyber spies are using AI to cause chaos worldwide with the presidential election in their sights. Show guests: Lance James – Cyber-Security Expert & Former Hacker Malcom Nance – Intelligence & Counter-Terrorism Expert Read more: https://ara.tv/whk6s _ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alarabiya.english Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alarabiya_eng/ Like us on Google+: https://goo.gl/L5Nqcx Al Arabiya English website: https://english.alarabiya.net/ Subscribe to our Youtube channel: https://goo.gl/fQ0RkI __ The English site of the Arab world's leading news channel #hacker #cybersecurity #interview
The recent CrowdStrike software glitch – with its estimated cost of $5 billion to banks, airlines and medical facilities – crashed computers around the world. Harder to calculate is the cost of the chaos and misery caused to millions of people who missed urgent medical appointments, family reunions and financial deadlines. Cybercriminals were quick to exploit the disorder, posing as help centers for people affected by the outage, then stealing their data and emptying bank accounts. And yet, the global meltdown was not caused by cyber criminals – as people had originally feared – but by one of the world’s biggest cybersecurity companies whose business is to actually protect the online network. But suppose it had been the work of hackers or state saboteurs. What ransom would they have demanded? Organizers of the Paris Olympics have spent a fortune trying to protect against an onslaught of cyber attacks designed to disrupt the games. Well, as the world now contemplates the consequences of connectivity, a number of essential questions have risen to the top of the agenda of those fighting the hackers and digital thieves. In this episode of the Riz Khan show, we’ll get inside the mind of a super hacker who has turned his talents against the cyber gangs, and a senior US intelligence officer tells us how Russian cyber spies are using AI to cause chaos worldwide with the presidential election in their sights. Show guests: Lance James – Cyber-Security Expert & Former Hacker Malcom Nance – Intelligence & Counter-Terrorism Expert Read more: https://ara.tv/whk6s _ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alarabiya.english Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alarabiya_eng/ Like us on Google+: https://goo.gl/L5Nqcx Al Arabiya English website: https://english.alarabiya.net/ Subscribe to our Youtube channel: https://goo.gl/fQ0RkI __ The English site of the Arab world's leading news channel #hacker #cybersecurity #interview