DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You
Misha Glenny
October 24, 2011
4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Santa Monica
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| Author Misha Glenny warns that the proliferation of mobile devices has provided hackers with a new avenue to access people′s electronic information. |
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We bank online. We shop online. We date, learn, work and live online. But the institutions that keep us safe in the brick-and-mortar world don't always know how to protect us in a digital world without borders.
In fact, governments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars a year fighting a clever new breed of criminal. Their efforts are made even harder since the enemy is shadowy and constantly morphing.
Misha Glenny has traveled the world speaking with members of military and intelligence communities, police, politicians, lawyers, and - most important - with hackers and their victims. His new book, "DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You" delves beneath the sheer audacity of these 21st-century criminals to reveal their personalities and what makes them tick. In this Milken Institute Forum, he offered surprising suggestions for how governments, the private sector and individuals should respond to the current epidemic of cybercrime.
A former BBC Central Europe correspondent, Glenny is the author of the international best-seller "McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld." His other books include "The Rebirth of History: Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy," "The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War" (winner of the Overseas Press Club Award in 1993 for Best Book on Foreign Affairs), and "The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and The Great Powers, 1804-1999." He is a former fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C., and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.
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