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While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

We now see hacking taking place by foreign governments and by private individuals all around the world.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

Hacking is exploiting security controls either in a technical, physical or a human-based element.

As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in conjuring up new ways to hijack your system by exploiting technical vulnerabilities or human nature. Don't become the next victim of unscrupulous cyberspace intruders.