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It's actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you're dealing drugs. If you get caught you're going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it's much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

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

Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the 'News of the World,' they cut short their original inquiry; suppressed evidence; misled the public and the press; concealed information and broke the law. Why?

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.

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

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

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

The hacking trend has definitely turned criminal because of e-commerce.

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