Frank Abagnale — once called “the world’s greatest con man ”, now turned top FBI guru — has set his sights on these cyber attackers.





After being immortalised in Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can, Abagnale now works as a fraud expert for the FBI and is an American Association of Retired Person Fraud Watch Network ambassador.





“My life’s work is now about helping businesses protect against fraudsters,” he says. “Anyone who lives in the US or UK can count on the fact that they’ve already been hacked. Any business connected to the internet is likely being probed this very minute by hackers.”





Abagnale says that the thing many people aren’t aware of is that the FBI fight to stay ahead of hackers every day. And this fight to stay one step ahead is getting tougher and tougher.





As we saw this summer, computers from the Ukraine to the US were crippled by a ransomware cyber attack.





Major US cities experienced power outages that, Abagnale explains, “immediately drove a false scare of cyber-tampering to power and then emergency sirens in Dallas were hacked. 156 sirens were set off for 40 minutes.





"Our reliance on technology and a false sense of security are the two things being exploited.”