WORLD NEWS: World War III is here - and we are blind - It's Cybergeddon says Simon Smith, Cyber Forensics Intelligence Expert

"I have always stated in my 20 years of programming and IT teaching and expert experience that 'the human is the weakest link in any information system' but until now, sadly I didn't realise how - to be frank - stupid this link was. This now proves to be the biggest danger to the next world war in my eyes and the Governments of the world must take notice to this article as the next world war is going to be created by us, through our own lack of sense and it will be known as Cybergeddon", according to a statement made in response to this article by Mr Smith.

It was Mr. Smith's strong view that if the world is concerned about political affairs, concerned about nuclear warfare, threats of terror, yet cannot even observe the most simplest "primary school knowledge based trick" right its' eyes then Mr. Smith strongly stated that there is something seriously wrong with the priorities, the spending and the way the world sees the danger. Mr. Smith is a trained white hat ethical hacker and reverse engineering expert and has appeared on television demonstrating for the good of exposing consumer flaws, credit card hacks, and has been responsible for catching over $6 million dollars worth of cyber-criminals that the police have either been too lazy to find or incapable. 

Mr. Smith is an expert Cybersecurity and Cyber-terrorism but places a large element of his work down to common sense. "As an Expert Witness and Computer Digital Forensics Investigator I have been very successful in finding and producing evidence of multiple cyber-stalkers, hackers, and cyber-scammers. I have caught white collar fraud criminals and quite often provide victims in Australia resolutions to their cybercrimes where the police may have spent 5 years 'purporting' to work on their job only to give up after 'exhausting all avenues'. Most of these 'cold cases' I usually resolve in 1-2 days", Mr. Smith stated.

"What alarms me about this story, is its systemic undereducated nature. Something so basic for consumer grade computer knowledge has the ability to disrupt and fool an entire aircraft and its' staff who are professionals in what they do. How are we educating people today? A WiFi hotspot can be called anything and is an insecure risk in itself. People quite happily go to McDonalds and go on the internet without realising the potential for Man-in-the-Middle attacks and/or phishing attacks or employee fraud. VPN's may be free, but are they just merely invitations to give your identity to a third party. My strong advice to consumers is, at what expense do you value your human right to identity?", Mr. Smith asked.

"My point here is, this most simplest consumer knowledge trick amongst competent pilots and staff can be fooled so easily, and amongst confusion comes the ability for mind manipulation and real cyber-terrorism." Mr. Smith has Qualifications in Cybercrime and Cyberattacks and especially in mitigation, and security and risk management. He also has Department of Homeland Security recognised Qualifications that focus specifically on the manipulative attacks and tricks that hackers can use to disrupt an information system. Mr. Smith however maintains that one must look at the human element and the destructive path to confusion that this example has caused. He compares it to opening up a jar of bees and letting them loose. Each bee is capable of stinging somebody and each person who is stung is capable of performing an act of Cyber-terrorism.

"If we as humans cannot even understand what a WiFi hotspot is, yet we are given the power as jury to send someone to jail, or power as voters, to elect a President or Prime Minister, in this new age we must be nothing but absolutely incompetent as we are electing ourselves into our next world war", Mr. Smith said. "I can safely say that before reading this I thought Australia and its police force were the most incompetent of all countries when it came to Cybersecurity. I am probably incorrect. In this event, the person who set his WiFi setting should not be punished at all, he should be congratulated and endorsed for demonstrating how negligent an entire airline", Mr. Smith stated. Mr. Smith was quick to compliment the airline and its staff for being diligent and being experts in their profession. 

"We are not dealing with people here that are of below average IQ. We are dealing with extremely smart people. Pilots have such an aptitude for mathematics, science and logic comparable to that of very few industries. On the other hand, an airline is supposed to take care of your life, operate technical instruments that elevate you safely into the air, travel in excess of 900 km an hour, use sensitive global positioning systems and land you in one piece. There is so much training and skill that goes into that exercise, it is beyond belief. Whenever I land, I continue to believe it is the workings of science fiction", Mr. Smith stated.

However Mr. Smith, being a logical centred person could not understand one piece of this puzzle. "Despite the pilot, mission control and all staff being well tasked, not one person could understand what a consumer 802.11ghz WiFi hotspot was? In today's age, I would say if I was to ask a Grade 3 primary school boy or girl that question I would most likely get a correct answer. If I was a guessing person, I would guess that the Government would have equally been fooled. I see Magistrates and Judges getting fooled simply because they do not know. That is no excuse as it affects all our lives", Mr. Smith strongly stated.

"This illustrates one of my strongest findings in every single Cybersecurity breach or alleged breach I come across and I stand by this finding. There is almost always an element of human failure from the reporting person that is dare I say, almost always uninformed. This is why I always offer to look at a job first without quoting. I am ethical and that is the only way to proceed. People will swear they have been hacked, I will tell them otherwise after looking. They will believe what they believe, just as the media can influence people to believe what they want their readers to believe", Mr. Smith said.

"The moral of this story is if the world is investing money in preparing itself for wars, spending billions of dollars, pretending to care about Cybercrime - when really they are untrained and have no idea, then it has forgotten the biggest war of all. Cybergeddon - and it is here now, and it will not go away. This is a war that, I can say as a Certified White Hat Ethical Hacker and Cybersecurity expert predict has the ability to shutdown the entire worlds operations through the sheer combination of human incompetence and mind manipulation, and basic IT techniques which plays a big part in cybersecurity. Most people think 'hacking' is a magical way of getting into some locked inaccessible account. Of recent times, I think it would be fair to say that is what Yahoo would like you to think. It is most certainly not. It is a balance of finding the weakness in the victim and the strength of the attacker - but above all the strength in the strategy and intelligence of common sense. When I have caught scammers about 20% of my energy goes into forensics, and 80% goes into intelligence", stated Mr. Smith.

"If the public is not intelligent enough to detect the most simple false positive of all, then we are going to see a very ugly world - very fast, a world of mind, computer, and government manipulation, cyber-terrorism and censorship, augmented reality gone wrong, all at such simplicity - one would need average computer skills to commit such crimes. In fact they will not even be labelled crimes. Unless the governments of the world come together and recognise these weaknesses, and pay particular attention to what I am saying here, they are never going to realise how weak they are. The mind is very powerful, and it is humans that control computers. When the human is given a false perception of reality, you have just turned the ignition on cyber-war", Mr. Smith warned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHSvrC386BA

Mr. Smith is available for interview on the below details:
www.evestigator.com.au

www.cybersecurity.com.au
+61410643121