Tax avoidance, climate change, corporate power, cyber-terrorism: the modern generation know we can't tackle these foes on our own.
In the 21st century, the combination of surveillance, corporate power and cyber crime make going online as risky to personal safety as crossing the road.
It will be a life-size laboratory for companies, universities and government agencies to test smart power grids, cyber security and intelligent traffic and surveillance systems — technologies commonly lumped together under the heading of "smart cities".
WikiLeaks raises some of the most poignant questions of our time about the power of cyber warfare, the role of hackers, and the future of the Internet.
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Now, an ever less checked-and-balanced executive is going to be given war powers in cyber space.
The Snowden revelations of last year have speeded up the inevitable dispersion of cyber power but added a powerful commercial dimension.
This morning General Electric announced it had completed a deal to buy Wurldtech, a Vancouver-based cyber-security firm that protects big industrial sites like refineries and power plants from cyber attacks.
War historians believe cyber power may end up similar to early 20th century projections of air power, which played a significant role but did not turn out to be the war-winning capability that some enthusiasts had predicted, the report said.
Plenty of ink gets spilled on the alleged vulnerability of our power grid to cyber attacks.
Presently however, there is no power sector specific cyber security mandates or policies in India.
