Cybercrime will grow from a $3 trillion industry in 2015 to a $10.5 trillion industry by 2025.
The unpredictable nature of cybercrime increases threats.
The 2023 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, has filled us with lots of uplifting predictions, like how companies will soon decode our brain waves. The latest warns of a global catastrophic cyber event in the very near future.
âThe most striking finding that weâve found,â WEF managing director Jeremy Jurgens said during a presentation highlighting the WEF Global Security Outlook Report 2023, âis that 93 percent of cyber leaders, and 86 percent of cyber business leaders, believe that the geopolitical instability makes a catastrophic cyber event likely in the next two years. This far exceeds anything that weâve see in previous surveys.â
Add in the extreme unpredictability of these eventsâJurgens cited a cyberattack recently aimed at shutting down Ukranian military abilities that unexpectedly also closed off parts of electricity production across Europeâand the global challenges are only growing.
âThis is a global threat,â Jürgen Stock, Secretary-General of Interpol, said during the presentation. âIt calls for a global response and enhanced and coordinated action.â He said the increased profits that the multiple bad âactorsâ reap from cybercrime should encourage world leaders to work together to make it a priority as they face ânew sophisticated tools.â
I think you can open the link box, and where it says open in new window, set that to open in same window, say okay, then open the link box again and say open in new window. Sometimes that works
it happens when you copy and paste a link directly into the text box instead of using the link feature. to fix, highlight and break the link and then paste the url into into the link box
it happens when you copy and paste a link directly into the text box instead of using the link feature. to fix, highlight and break the link and then paste the url into into the link box
I think you can open the link box, and where it says open in new window, set that to open in same window, say okay, then open the link box again and say open in new window. Sometimes that works
I didn't do intentionally; I don't know how to do it one way or another.
it happens when you copy and paste a link directly into the text box instead of using the link feature. to fix, highlight and break the link and then paste the url into into the link box
The link opens in the current browser, not a new tab or window — I'm just curious if you do that intentionally. I thought the default in BillG's code was to open a tab or window rather than leaving the RP site.
I didn't do intentionally; I don't know how to do it one way or another.
The link opens in the current browser, not a new tab or window — I'm just curious if you do that intentionally. I thought the default in BillG's code was to open a tab or window rather than leaving the RP site.
Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb.
The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no weapons-grade material, have no moving parts and will be nearly impossible to steal because they will be encased in concrete and buried underground.
The US government has licensed the technology to Hyperion, a New Mexico-based company which said last week that it has taken its first firm orders and plans to start mass production within five years. 'Our goal is to generate electricity for 10 cents a watt anywhere in the world,' said John Deal, chief executive of Hyperion. 'They will cost approximately $25m <£13m> each. For a community with 10,000 households, that is a very affordable $250 per home.'
Deal claims to have more than 100 firm orders, largely from the oil and electricity industries, but says the company is also targeting developing countries and isolated communities. 'It's leapfrog technology,' he said.
The company plans to set up three factories to produce 4,000 plants between 2013 and 2023. 'We already have a pipeline for 100 reactors, and we are taking our time to tool up to mass-produce this reactor.'
The first confirmed order came from TES, a Czech infrastructure company specialising in water plants and power plants. 'They ordered six units and optioned a further 12. We are very sure of their capability to purchase,' said Deal. The first one, he said, would be installed in Romania. 'We now have a six-year waiting list. We are in talks with developers in the Cayman Islands, Panama and the Bahamas.'
The reactors, only a few metres in diameter, will be delivered on the back of a lorry to be buried underground. They must be refuelled every 7 to 10 years. Because the reactor is based on a 50-year-old design that has proved safe for students to use, few countries are expected to object to plants on their territory. An application to build the plants will be submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission next year.
'You could never have a Chernobyl-type event - there are no moving parts,' said Deal. 'You would need nation-state resources in order to enrich our uranium. Temperature-wise it's too hot to handle. It would be like stealing a barbecue with your bare hands.'
Other companies are known to be designing micro-reactors. Toshiba has been testing 200KW reactors measuring roughly six metres by two metres. Designed to fuel smaller numbers of homes for longer, they could power a single building for up to 40 years.