You may have seen headlines recently about researchers, ethical hackers and even kids being paid for flaws they discovered in operating systems, software and even online games. If so, you may have asked yourself, “How can I get paid to hack?”
Read moreHave you ever Googled yourself to see how much of your personal information is online? In many cases it can be pretty scary and include things like your home address, phone number, likes, dislikes, etc. One young man searched for himself and found all of his banking information online. In that case it turned out to be a mistake by a bank employee, exposing the banking information of 86,000 customers.
Read moreIn November 1988, a Cornell University student named Robert Tappan Morris launched the first modern worm onto the then-nascent Internet. Morris’ stated purpose was to try to map the Internet. While the experiment went catastrophically awry, it taught us a couple of lessons: First, ensure that production software does not have the developers’ debugging code enabled. Second, make sure that the code a programmer has written operates the way that they intended.
Read moreBefore the era of cybercrime, hacking for social, political, or religious causes (so-called hacktivism), and terrorist threats to our infrastructure and monetary systems, the hacker started as an explorer and traveler on the data superhighway. Today, we can still categorize some hackers as explorers. In fact, the title “hacker” carried the pejorative meaning only recently.
Read moreBefore the era of cybercrime, hacking for social, political, or religious causes (so-called hacktivism), and terrorist threats to our infrastructure and monetary systems, the hacker started as an explorer and traveler on the data superhighway. Today, we can still categorize some hackers as explorers. In fact, the title “hacker” carried the pejorative meaning only recently.
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