The Infoq Podcast

In this week's podcast, professor Barry Burd talks to Shuman Ghosemajumder. Ghosemajumder is VP of product management at Shape Security and former click fraud czar for Google. Ghosemajumder is also the co-author of the book CGI Programming Unleashed, and was a keynote speaker at QCon New York 2016 presenting Security War Stories. Why listen to this podcast: With more of our lives conducted online through technology and information retrieval systems, the use of advanced technology gives criminals the opportunity to be able to do things that they weren't able to do. - Cyber-criminals come from all over the world and every socioeconomic background, so long as there's some level of access to computers and technology. - You see organised cyber-crime focusing on large companies because of the fact that they get a much greater sense of efficiency for their attacks. - Cyber-criminals are getting creative, and coming up with ways to interact with websites we haven't thought of before. - You can have very large