If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.
A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.
If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could subscribe for 10 bucks a month. Everything is encrypted in an encryption tunnel, so a hacker cannot tamper with your connection.
It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.
I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.
Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world.
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.
The guardians of your company's cyber security should be encouraged to network within the industry to swap information on the latest hacker tricks and most effective defenses.
News and images move so easily across borders that attitudes and aspirations are no longer especially national. Cyber-weapons, no longer the exclusive province of national governments, can originate in a hacker's garage.