Mr. Mitnick, I presume? Africa's coming cyber crime epidemic | ITworld

Mr. Mitnick, I presume? Africa's coming cyber crime epidemic via #gAtO ✅ #infosec #tor #security #hacking #bitcoin

Developing nations, including those in Africa, are set to experience an explosion in cyber crime, as more and more of their citizens connect to the Internet and the web using smart phones high capacity 3G and 4G cellular networks. There's a great chapter from a 1981 children's book called "World of Tomorrow: School, Work and Play " that imagines how computers, in the future, would give rise to a whole new phenomenon: 'Computer Crimes." "Instead of mugging people in the streets or robbing houses," the chapter reads, "tomorrow's criminal may try to steal money from banks and other organizations using a computer." Computer criminals will "work from home, using his own computer to gain access to the memories of the computers used by the banks and companies. The criminal tries to interfere with the computers in order to get them to transfer money to his computer without the ban...

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