Tricks And Techniques Used By Hackers And How To Guard Against Them.

Join our resident security expert Jonni Bidwell and learn the tricks and techniques used by hackers and how to guard against them.

- Jonni Bidwell

The 1995 film Hackers has a lot to answer for. Not only was their egregious product placement for a certain fizzy beverage with red and white branding, but it helped reinforce the notion that hacking was all good-looking edgy types breaking into other people’s computers and causing havoc.

Today that notion (along with the idea  that an oversized black hoodie and V  for Vendetta mask are essential attire for this  hacking) is fairly entrenched among the  non-tech savvy, ever the more reinforced  by so many unlikely movies and shoddy  media reporting.

Readers of this fine publication ought  not to buy into that. “Hacking” originally  meant the breaking, modifying , and  repurposing of technology so it functions  differently from how the manufacturer  intended. Today, many programmers call  themselves hackers and only a fraction of  those are up to no good.