Back In My Day, I Would Probe

Oracle, For Example, Has Even Hired People To Dumpster Dive For Information About Its Competitor, Microsoft. It's Not Even Illegal, Because Trash Isn't Covered By Data Secrecy Laws.

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 Can Go Into Linkedin And Search For Network Engineers And Come Up With A List Of Great Spear-phishing Targets Because They Usually Have Administrator Rights Over The Network. Then I Go Onto Twitter Or Facebook And Trick Them Into Doing Something, And I Have Privileged Access.

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.

The Intent Of The Individuals Who Created The Ddos Attacks Has Nothing To Do With Hacking, And They Are Vandals, Not Hackers.