quick scan
scan for   wiwe wi we advanced
WI-WE Progress
Progress: 54.59%   WWI-WE Version: 7
0 mandatory questions pending
19 questions total
10 questions answered
10 questions completed
9 questions pending
Popular WI-WE Tags
Analysis Back

Mapping Weak Signals

Inspired by: interviews » Cyber attacks.

version: 7 / updated: 2011-10-23
id: #1826 / version id: #1826
mode: VIEW

Originally submitted by: Ivan Montenegro Perini
List of all contributors by versions (mouse over)
Last changed by: Ivan Montenegro Perini
WI-WE status:
submitted unpublished

Source of inspiration

Interviews

The source of the Weak Signal is

Jack SMITH, "Foresight Synergy Network", interviewed by "MIOIR".

Signal's headline

(max. 9 words)
Cyber attacks.

Signal's description

(approx. 150 words)
Please describe the Weak Signal (approx. 150 words)
Cyber attack could take on an economy by hitting a weak point over and over again. The US economy was almost taken down by the banking situation two years ago and there is evidence there was some malevolent cyber hacking and bank draining at the time. In September 2007 or 2008 there were some events the US does not like to talk about, in terms of trillions of dollars disappearing quickly from bank accounts. There are reports of mysterious origins, difficult to trace, and they shut down the banking systems. It was only through vigilant behaviour that even worse meltdown was averted. Cyber has the possibility to happen very quickly and has very high mounting implications.

Keywords

cyber attacks, economic security.

Mini-description

(max. 250 characters)
Gains in electoral or population share by extreme groups or breakouts of violent incidents, higher frequency of cyber attacks or attacks along one weak point.

Signal's potential evolution

It could lead to...
issue type of issue/development potential impact on society timeframe for the issue to become at least 50% probable
#1 continuation
 		harmful
#2 continuation
 		beneficial

Importance

please specify
please select
Level 1: important for a particular country
Level 4: important for the whole world

Filters preventing the signal's monitoring

scientific filters (knowledge/technology access)
political filters (party or ideological interests)
social filters (class, status, education level)

Signal's relevance for European Grand Challenges

where? please justify:
particularly relevant Europe world
Economic prosperity/dynamics
Innovation dynamics
Techno-security, hazard & risk

Signal's relevance for thematic research areas

please justify:
particularly relevant
ICT - Information & communication technologies
Social Sciences and Humanities
Security