• Motherboard, Tuesday, January 12, 2016 9:05 AM

In the early afternoon on Wednesday, at the midway point of the Consumer Electronic Show’s first-ever all-day event dedicated to cybersecurity in Las Vegas, an attendee got up and asked a group of panelists: “How paranoid should we be?” The rest of the attendees, as well as the panelists, burst up laughing. The feelings of the man who asked that earnest question was likely shared by many of the other roughly 100 attendees, who had just gone through a sort of crash course in all the basic security threats they should be worried about, from phishing to the simple risks of not password protecting a personal device. The goal of the event, called CyberSecurity Forum, was simple: tell the crowd of CES that it’s time to care about cybersecurity and design products with security in mind.

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