A former top Canadian spy told us about 4 huge cyber threats that are emerging

Tuesday, May 12, 2015
By Paul Martin

NATASHA BERTRAND
BusinessInsider.com
May 12, 2015

Technology researchers estimate that anywhere from 25-50 billion devices, or more than three for every person on the planet, will be connected to the internet by the end of 2020.

And as the internet of things grows, so does the number of threat actors bent on exploiting its ubiquity.

Hackers’ attacks are becoming more sophisticated and targeted as they gain confidence and learn to exploit the many mistakes people make every day in protecting — or rather, failing to protect — their information.

Cyber warfare is uniquely dangerous in that it gives enormous power to nation-states, hacktivists and malicious non-state actors who would normally pose little or no threat to their adversaries. As a result, we are witnessing a new arms race for cyber offensive (and defensive) capabilities.

These capabilities can be stolen or reverse-engineered, however, after they are developed and released into the wild.

“What is a great cyber intelligence tool today is tomorrow’s exploit,” Ray Boisvert, former Director General of the Counter Terrorism program for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), told the highly technical Infiltrate hacking conference in April.

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