HNWI security expert: there is more to worry about than evil viruses and basement hackers

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Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

Every week (or sometimes even daily) we hear about cyber-attacks from DDoS (distributed denial of service) to exposure of databases. As we all know, newspapers love “sexy” stories relating to crime, guns, terrorism or hacking. Though this is a big concern which cannot be swept under the carpet, other more mundane vulnerabilities do exist and can be more dangerous than cyber-attacks.

Let’s use an analogy: A home has multiple points of entry, including the front door, back door, windows and garage. All these must be secured, perhaps with thick glass, shatter film or metal bars, together with alarms, sensors, CCTV and possibly a safe for valuables. If a burglar manages to break into the house, what is stopping him or her stealing desktop computers, smartphones, laptops, CDs/DVDs, tablets or USB drives? Probably very little.

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Free photocopier or confidential archived documents anyone?

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Just help yourself to the back of the van and it fell off the back of a truck right!/?

Photocopiers contain a hard drive thus if thrown away documents can still be extracted.

Parked in a very wealth West End street on Mon 29th June.

A very quick chat with John McAfee at Infosecurity Europe 2015 on malware

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At Infosecurity Europe 2015 today I grabbed John McAfee very quickly and got a photo (not a selfie).

My question: Symantec said antivirus (signatures) are dead, what is the solution?

Remember everyone was trying to talk to him and get a photo so the reply was short and interrupted. Reply below:

1. training of users because malware needs a click to activate
2. mobiles phone since they can get malware and even if screen is off it is still listening to you or working - referring to government monitoring schemes I assume
3. not a real answer. Anyone can now code, a guy in Thailand can release a app to 100s of millions of users - probably saying don't trust what you download or install