Data, 'most important resource,' ripe for theft, B.C. Tech Summit speaker warns

The next world war may be a cyber war and internet users need to protect against online viruses as they would with bugs that threaten their personal health, a top Google executive warned in a talk on data security that opened the B.C. Tech Summit on Tuesday.
By 2020, computing devices will be twice as plentiful as the world’s population and their ubiquity increases the vulnerability of personal data, Jared Cohen, CEO and founder of Jigsaw, an arm of Google started to tackle threats to onli