Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people.

I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.

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.

The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.

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

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.