Despite multibillion-dollar investments in cybersecurity, one of its root problems has been largely ignored: who are the people who write malicious code? Underworld investigator Misha Glenny profiles several convicted coders from around the world and reaches a startling conclusion.

Chris Domas is a cybersecurity researcher, operating on what's become a new front of war, "cyber." In this engaging talk, he shows how researchers use pattern recognition and reverse engineering (and pull a few all-nighters) to understand a chunk of binary code whose purpose and contents they don't know.

The beauty of hackers, says cybersecurity expert Keren Elazari, is that they force us to evolve and improve. Yes, some hackers are bad guys, but many are working to fight government corruption and advocate for our rights. By exposing vulnerabilities, they push the Internet to become stronger and healthier, wielding their power to create a better...

What's stopping the American government from recording your phone calls, reading your emails and monitoring your location? Very little, says surveillance and cybersecurity counsel Jennifer Granick. The government collects all kinds of information about you easily, cheaply and without a warrant -- and if you've ever participated in a protest or a...

The smartphone you use reflects more than just personal taste ... it could determine how closely you can be tracked, too. Privacy expert and TED Fellow Christopher Soghoian details a glaring difference between the encryption used on Apple and Android devices and urges us to pay attention to a growing digital security divide. "If the only people ...

"Full access to a person's phone is the next best thing to full access to a person's mind," says cybersecurity expert Eva Galperin. In an urgent talk, she describes the emerging danger of stalkerware -- software designed to spy on someone by gaining access to their devices without their knowledge -- and calls on antivirus companies to recognize ...

Your town is holding a mayoral election and the stakes have never been higher. You suspect one of the candidates will begin pushing false information to swing the election. As the cybersecurity expert, your job is to inoculate the townspeople against false information. First, you must learn the strategies of disinformation trolls. Claire Wardle ...

Congressman Will Hurd represents the 23rd District of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving constituents across 29 counties and two time zones from San Antonio to El Paso.

Chris Domas is an embedded systems engineer and cybersecurity researcher.

Jennifer Granick fights for civil liberties in the age of surveillance and powerful digital technology.

Ajay Banga is CEO of Mastercard and a member of its board of directors, and will become executive chairman of the board of directors in January 2021.

Eva Galperin is director of cybersecurity for the online security organization Electronic Frontier Foundation, safeguarding the privacy of vulnerable populations.

At TED2009, military analyst P.W. Singer spoke about how drones are changing warfare. It was fascinating -- and sobering. This month, Singer directs our attention to a different way technology can intersect with malice in his new book, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know, co-authored by Allan Friedman. Below, an excerpt tha...

Laura Galante profiles advanced cyber threats and network breaches and investigates the political, military and financial implications of cyber operations.

About this event: Come on out to hear eight speakers present on topics ranging from North Korea to cybersecurity to women empowerment. Doors open at 12:30PM. You won't want to miss it!

Accounts of hacking and leaks populated our newsfeeds in 2016 -- most notably, the compromise of the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) networks by Russian government hackers that fueled suspicion of a rigged nomination process. While the US voting public ate up the insider gossip and emails that the hack revealed, the bigger question we...

About this event: Our theme challenges those who come to our event to not only to take a second look at concepts that have settled into “normalcy,” but also tasks our viewers to consider sight itself, and how ones on position can affect the understanding of those same concepts. Whether it’s urban design, cybersecurity, or countless other concepts that we think we...

Please enjoy your weekly roundup of TED-related news: Good luck and farewell to the Cassini spacecraft. Launched 20 years ago, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will begin its final mission on April 26.  The spacecraft will embark on a series of 22 dives through the space between Saturn and its rings, transmitting data that may help us understand...

The past two weeks have been busy for the members of the TED community. Some news highlights: Artist JR is bringing the past back to life with his new series “Unframed.” He has taken archival photos of the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital in New York, closed since 1954, and pasted them up so that doctors who worked there appear to float in t...

About this event: TEDxUMD is an on-campus student organization that is licensed to host annual TEDx conferences at the University of Maryland. This year, the 2017 TEDxUMD "Think Big" Conference takes place on Saturday, February 18, from 1 to 6PM, and features an eclectic range of eight speakers presenting on topics ranging from bees and solar energy to cybersecur...

President Barack Obama ended his 2013 State of the Union address just minutes ago saying, “We are citizens. It’s a word that doesn’t just describe our nationality or legal status. It describes the way we’re made … Well into our third century as a nation, it remains the task of us all, as citizens of these United States, to be the authors of the ...

About this event: Is Asia Already the Epicenter Cyber Crime? Has Asia Been Breached? Commerce, Finance, Education, Health, Love, Logistics, Community... so many aspects of life are moving online faster and deeper than ever before with no signs of slowing down. At the same time, we have never felt less secure with incidents of phishing, rootkits, bots, DDoS att...

Underworld investigator Misha Glenny: "There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked and those that don't." Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Cybersecurity expert Mikko Hypponen advocates for an "Internetpol" -- an Interpol for the net. He says: "In the vast majority of online attacks, we don't ev...

Please enjoy your weekly roundup of TED-related news: This week, the New York Times took a look at Krista Donaldson’s nonprofit, D-Rev, which designs medical equipment for the developing world. (Watch her  talk about their $80 prosthetic knees.) The article reads, "D-Rev is one of dozens of small Silicon Valley start-ups aiming to use marke...

Hacking is a term that prompts intense emotions, as we’ve seen in recent years with the likes of Kevin Mitnick, Evgeniy Bogachev and Sabu. But one thing’s clear: hackers can draw attention to important issues like nobody’s business. And by exposing weaknesses in our current online systems, they often help the web both evolve and improve. Such fo...

We in the TED office still cannot quite believe that our website has seen a billion video views. To celebrate this milestone, we reached out to 24 top personalities in the fields of technology, entertainment and design, asking them to curate a playlist of the TED Talks they want the world to watch, stat. So far we’ve shared lists from Bill G...

About this event: Group viewing of delayed simulcast video stream of the TEDGlobal Wednesday, July 13, 2011 session Speaker Schedule 8:30 – 10:15 Session 4: Future Billions Niall Ferguson Historian Yasheng Huang Political economist Robin Ince Comedian Josette Sheeran Anti-hunger leader 11:00 – 12:45 Session 5: Emerging Order Matt Ridley Rational ...

About this event: This event will feature 5 speakers from various backgrounds. 1. Nita Singh Kaushal, Founder of Miss CEO, a company empowering young women with leadership training, mentorship and career exploration opportunities 2. Dr. Joseph K. Belanoff, a Stanford psychology professor and CEO of Corcept Therapeutics 3. James Norman, a serial entrepreneur wh...

In today’s talk, Lyne talks cybercrime, revealing some of the new methods that hackers and malicious code writers are using to grab our data. And he shows how we accidentally share that data -- without even realizing it. For example, did you know that most smartphones embed GPS data in the photos we take? He asks, “As we play with these shiny ...

Cybersecurity specialist James Lyne takes the TED2013 stage to show us some of the newest and nastiest creations that cybercriminals have designed to steal data, make off with billions of dollars, watch people through their webcams and target power and utility companies. Every day, he says, about 250,000 new pieces of malware are created and...