October 28, 2008

Inside the mind of a hacker

Hackers are often looked at as either a seriously bad guy or some young kid who is out to have laugh, but according to some psychiatrists hackers are rattlesnakes but with the rattles. Whatever your take on a hacker is, one thing is for sure they cause no end problems.

The two most noticeable hackers at the moment are one time government informer Albert Gonzalez and the kid from Miami Irving Jose Escobar; both have been indicted in the massive TJ Maxx cyber heist, which is supposed to be the largest theft in history of this kind.

Yet the authorities appear to have this vision of hackers that they are young men located either in the US or eastern Europe who actually think that they are doing the industry a favour by exposing the weaknesses in the worlds computer systems, could this be true.

Source [ABC]