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Bogdan Botezatu

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
434 total appearances

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StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

And one of the things that we uncovered after this first contact was that we will never know whether that was a software bug that allowed somebody to get into all of the inverters made by the same manufacturer.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

or if that was a carefully hidden ban door that could be accessed by a rival nation state to cause a blackout to a city, country, or to a territory.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

Germany is an European state that's started to take

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

cybersecurity in this inverter space very carefully because they realized that whatever happens in this very particular IoT sphere could bring grids down.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

What happened in Spain this year was a wake-up call.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

That's grid falling, not because of a cybersecurity incident, but because solar played a bad role here.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

All I wanted to say is that grids are very powerful beasts and they used to be isolated from the Internet.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

And now everybody has a piece of the grid in their home that's connected to the Internet.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

That's a million entry points to something that pertains to national security.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

Well, this will continue to be a cat and mouse game where the bad guys are advancing, the good guys will be catching up with their tactics and best case scenario, they will find a way to proactively protect against their attacks, right?

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

We've done that for the past decades with malware and we're going to do that

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

with DeepFace and with the rest of the scams as well.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

So there's hope.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

The fact that we're still using technology and most of our interactions online are safe gives us hope.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

We're here to protect.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

We have the technologies, the solutions, and we're not just waiting for the bad guys to win the game, right?

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

We have very powerful partners from other security vendors to law enforcement.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

And that's also one thing that I wanted to tell you about.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

The fact that we're very successful in this cooperation with law enforcement.

StarTalk Radio
Deepfakes and the War on Truth with Bogdan Botezatu

We have a lot of cases that we opened together with law enforcement.