Hackers used to be viewed as people who only lived in the shadows, did wierd stuff, at wierd times just to prove they could. As we’ve become more reliant on our devices and the network of networks some have become more destructive while others have begun using their skills to protect governments, business and individuals. The Black Hat conference and DefCon gave the good guys a chance to issue a scary wake up call to the world that our lives online are extremely vulnerable and that security has to be designed into software and apps at the very beginning rather being left as an afterthought or something we’ll work on…later. [Read more…]
