It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.

The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.