What Do Cyber Security Experts Fear Most?

Three leading cyber security researchers sat down for a panel at the IP Expo in London yesterday to air their catastrophic predictions about the biggest infosec threats in the coming years. Nightmare scenarios regarding autonomous killer robots, terrorists taking control of fleets of autonomous vehicles, AI writing its own malware, and the threat posed by IoT devices all quickly followed. Rik Ferguson, global VP of security research at Trend Micro started off by stating that an area "ripe for innovation in the security and criminal landscape" is artificial intelligence and machine learning. "One thing I find scary is the fact that we have a petition to the UN from 120 leading academics to outlaw autonomous weaponry," he said. "We are already in Skynet, that is the world we live in. So I have no doubt attackers will start using AI to build autonomous attack machinery online, as well as physical autonomous weaponry."