Why Hackers Hack. It's Not Why You Think - Linux Security Podcast Ep 12

Why do hackers hack into your networks and devices? Many people think it's for credit card data, other PII or to steal intellectual property. This is sometimes true, but there are many other reasons as well. What you value about your enterprise assets is often different from what hackers value. More and more we are seeing hackers break into networks so they can leverage the computing resources to do work for them like mining cryptocurrency. Vandalism yielded to economic theft and fraud and now we have people stealing capacity. Atomicorp CEO Mike Shinn briefly walks through the history of hacking and how cyber defense today should begin with an understanding of attacker incentives.