Where is cybercrime really coming from? | Caleb Barlow
Cybercrime netted a whopping $450 billion in profits last year, with 2 billion records lost or stolen worldwide. Security expert Caleb Barlow calls out the insufficiency of our current strategies...
========== Translator: Leslie Gauthier
Reviewer: Camille MartÃnez Cybercrime is out of control. It's everywhere. We hear about it every single day. This year, over two billion records lost or stolen. And last year, 100 million of us,
mostly Americans, lost our health insurance data
to thieves -- myself included. What's particularly concerning about this
is that in most cases, it was months before anyone even
reported that these records were stolen. So if you watch the evening news, you would think that most of this
is espionage or nation-state activity. And, well, some of it is. Espionage, you see, is an accepted
international practice. But in this case, it is only a small portion
of the problem that we're dealing with. How often do we hear ab...