Teams of hackers are trying to make AI go rogue and its working

Teams of hackers are trying to make AI go rogue and its working

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is a black box and its starting to run our society, so just how easy is it to get it to go off the rails? These teams are finding out.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...

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Mastercard launch their first quantum computer proof contactless card

Mastercard launch their first quantum computer proof contactless card

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers could hack 70% of the world’s encryption faster than you can read this article, so our payment cards need to be ready.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...

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Predicting cyber attacks is the new cyber defense as Forta predicts $200 Ml Euler crypto hack

Predicting cyber attacks is the new cyber defense as Forta predicts $200 Ml Euler crypto hack

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Its’ possible to watch data on the dark web and from other sources to predict who’s going to be the next cyber victim and the tech’s getting better …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...

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AI makes silicon level Trojans embedded in computer chips easy to ID

AI makes silicon level Trojans embedded in computer chips easy to ID

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We often think of cyber attacks as just being “software” but hardware can be infiltrated to, now we can detect hardware exploits easier.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...

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The US military is significantly ramping up its interest in quantum communications

The US military is significantly ramping up its interest in quantum communications

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF On the battlefield electronic communications are almost the key to the battle, but new quantum technologies are making it easier – and harder – to spy on the enemy so militaries around the world are ramping their investments and research.   Love the Exponential Future?...

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NIST unveils its top four quantum resistant encryption algorithms

NIST unveils its top four quantum resistant encryption algorithms

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When quantum computers get powerful enough they will be able to crack almost all of today’s encryption, so we need new algorithms.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch...

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US Government to start giving IOT devices a cyber security rating from 2023

US Government to start giving IOT devices a cyber security rating from 2023

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most IOT connected devices have little to no security which means they can be hacked, abused and used, so this rating hopes to solve that and raise IOT security awareness.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...

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New X-Ray technique helps researchers discover backdoors in components faster

New X-Ray technique helps researchers discover backdoors in components faster

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Trying to find backdoors in components is hard, but this technology will also let companies reverse engineer all kinds of products easier.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch...

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This sci-fi like E. coli biocomputer solved a classic maze problem with no errors

This sci-fi like E. coli biocomputer solved a classic maze problem with no errors

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of computing is a lot more sci-fi than you might think and we’re building that future today …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...

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New AI computer vision system detects malware with staggering accuracy

New AI computer vision system detects malware with staggering accuracy

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The use of machine vision, using computers to “see” malware and cyber threats, is revolutionary and possible game changing.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....

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Futurist Virtual Keynote, Europe: The Future of Cyber IN-Security, ME

Futurist Virtual Keynote, Europe: The Future of Cyber IN-Security, ME

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cyber security is about to become a much bigger headache for everyone and we need to be better prepared for what’s coming.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Firstly, thanks to Delaine...

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A tiny self-erasing computer chip could improve your company’s security

A tiny self-erasing computer chip could improve your company’s security

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If it’s connected it’s vulnerable to attack, and in the future everything is connected so we need new security technologies …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. When I used to work...

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500 hackers spent three months trying to hack a radical new computer chip and failed

500 hackers spent three months trying to hack a radical new computer chip and failed

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cyber attacks will only get bigger and bolder and today’s technologies can’t stop them. The MORPHEUS computer chip is a radical new solution that so far hasn’t been hacked.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch...

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Scientists turned the human body into a data network to advance cyber security

Scientists turned the human body into a data network to advance cyber security

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Security and especially cyber security are all going to need new technologies to keep people and systems safe, and this new “human network” is yet another example of human ingenuity in action.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...

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Researchers find a new way to train AI’s to protect them from deadly adversarial attacks

Researchers find a new way to train AI’s to protect them from deadly adversarial attacks

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As more of the world comes to rely on AI adversarial attacks pose a particular challenge to companies and people in critical industries who are responsible for the safety of people and systems.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....

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Microsoft AI that discovers 97 percent of critical software security flaws released

Microsoft AI that discovers 97 percent of critical software security flaws released

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The digital world is reliant on software that contains bugs and security vulnerabilities that all need identifying and patching, this new AI automates the task.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. I’ve written extensively before about a new...

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Researchers tap transistors unique quantum fingerprints to ID systems and stop cyber criminals

Researchers tap transistors unique quantum fingerprints to ID systems and stop cyber criminals

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the rise in the number of connected devices and systems is out paced only by the rise in #cyber attacks, researchers have found a new way to identify individual systems at the quantum level.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch...

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New “unclonable computer chip” stops botnets in their tracks

New “unclonable computer chip” stops botnets in their tracks

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the number of connected devices increases we need new ways to prevent them from being hijacked by cyber criminals.   Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. While we embrace the way the Internet of Things (IoT) already is making...

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Russia announces plans to temporarily disconnect itself from the global internet

Russia announces plans to temporarily disconnect itself from the global internet

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF People think of the internet as one, global network, but it’s being nationalised and splintering.   Many people think that the internet is one thing, one “amorphous system” that crosses borders, and is, in essence, the digital fabric that unites the world. But, as China...

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Game changing “Unhackable” MORPHEUS computer chip re-configures itself every 50 milliseconds

Game changing “Unhackable” MORPHEUS computer chip re-configures itself every 50 milliseconds

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to create an unhackable computer sounds like science fiction, but that doesn’t stop researchers from giving it a go.   “Unhackable” is a strong word. And so far many of the technologies that people have described as being unhackable, even awesome science fiction...

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