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CyberCrime as a Service: Lucrative for the Thieves and a Whack-a-Mole Problem to Stop

By Dick Weisinger

Cybercrime has become a lucrative business. Cyber criminals in total earn more than $3 trillion every year, a number expected to reach $6 trillion by 2023. Anyone who wants to make some quick money, although with the risk of being…

Quantum Computing: The Coming Threat to Tech Security

By Dick Weisinger

Haim Isreal, Bank of America strategist, said that “quantum computing could be an even more radical technology in terms of its impact on businesses than the smartphone has been. This is going to be a revolution.” A major worry is…

2020: A Year of Both Change and Opportunity

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are undergoing dramatic changes. Forrester predicts that 2020 will be a year where businesses redefine their organizational cultures, missions and values. It’s a lot of work, but it also offers a lot of opportunity to convert those changes into…

The AI Manifesto: Condemning the “Dataoploly”

By Dick Weisinger

A manifesto written by Giovanni Buttarelli, former European chief data protection regulator, was published in late 2019. In that document Buttarelli promotes the use of data towards solving human problems rather than focusing on commercial and intrusive uses. The manifesto…

DNA Digital Data Storage: The DNA of Things

By Dick Weisinger

DNA is nature’s method of data storage. New Scientist estimates that 1 gram of DNA could hold up to 455 exabytes of data, more than all the data currently held by Google and Facebook combined. DNA is highly compact and…