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People are the main weapon of cyber-attacks - Says president of the company

Microsoft President Brad Smith(In photo above) has taken the Web Summit's main stage to speak of the growing danger of cyberattacks plaguing the world. A kind of "cold war", which includes the old protagonists United States and Russia, but with many other players, where cyber attacks are a very dangerous reality.The so-called "technological peace" is a period to speak of the dangers that come with the advancement of technology. Brad Smith believes that in the future the technology will cure diseases like cancer, but by then many new dangers will immerse, such as attacks to the electrical networks or to the elections. "These are the present problems of mankind. There are 6.5 trillion signs daily and what you see is that the tools that have been created to help people, have been turned into weapons, "says the executive.2017 was the year for the "wake of the world" for the dangers, the May 12 attacks and then the June 26, when companies, employees and customers around the world were attacked. "We can not say: we do not need to worry, but we have yes, people are being affected with this problem," he points out. And the worst is that solutions can not be found until there is recognition that there are dangers to be shared. The intervention of the president of Microsoft is one of the warnings of what must be done, as he says.The WannaCry attack was an example of attacks on businesses and customers, having an impact on businesses. From canceled schedules, missed consultations, harming sick people: "we were hacked" was the justification, something "invisible" that affected people's lives, becoming the "warning cry" for the danger of cyber attacks, using guns like computers connected to the internet ...
Other examples of attacks were the ATM boxes, and when you think that does not happen again, the certainty is that yes, it will happen, it is referred to in a video shown in the lecture. Wannacry has affected more than 300,000 computers in the world, and the ghost remains very present, because at any moment it can happen again. The worst of it is that guns "are all of us," the lack of security in computers and connections, easily attackable, says the president of Microsoft in his speech.There are one billion victims of attacks a year, says Brad Smith, and that number is going to increase because all the devices are connected, from the living room stereo, to the passenger plane, to hospitals with their data connected to the network, or vital machines connected to electricity. 



"People's lives are at risk," says the executive.Highlight for the event Road to Paris, which intends to gather for a forum for a week all the leaders of the world, believing it to be a historic day. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, which signals the end of the first war, next Sunday. He says that we must learn from this war to react to immersed dangers. There are great similarities between the 1914 war and the present one, where people were caught in the middle of one of the bloodiest conflicts ever. "Yet I am not saying that we are facing an eminent third world war, but people must prepare and learn from the past to focus on the future." Four years later and 16 million deaths later, Europe had agreed to the reality of the First World War. Governments have failed and technology has continued to be developed, having given rise to a second world war.
Finally, he left the message that Obama left to pay homage to the dead of World War II: "We need to do more, we need governments to do more, not just point the finger at this or that guilty of the attacks" "Governments should have principles of how to protect people and elections, be able to make international laws prevail." Laws such as a fourth Geneva convention and the Geneva Convention to protect people, as well as create a kind of United Nations , but with groups of technology experts."We are the battlefield," and we must stand up for clearer principles, and the good news, according to the president of Microsoft, is that after the Web Summit last year were closed new agreements between the technology sector, able to protect customers and companies. There was a technological agreement on cybersecurity among dozens of technology companies, creating what was dubbed the Chart of Trust. Microsoft is one of the entities heavily involved in the quest for cybernetic peace, having even been alerted to attacks and acts, blocking Russian attacks scheduled for the United States elections on Tuesday. Microsoft has unveiled new free tools to protect elections in countries around the world. "But in the end, the world has to unite, governments, companies, people, institutions," he says.But there is one last thing in your speech that should be emphasized: "the silence of people. People should be heard, and in this century, people should be heard, "he repeated several times, stressing that people should know the" wealth they have at home, "but the responsibility of being a potential" weapon. " In that sense, Microsoft appeals to a "Digital Peace", and has launched a petition for all to sign and make their commitment. "Your voice must be heard," was the phrase with which he finished his speech.


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