I used to say there were only ... a few hundred (in the latter category). These are people who like to play with software and figure out how to find exploits into the software. That requires lots of good technical talent and knowing how to do software testing.

These are not your average hackers. They're highly skilled people who try to find holes in commercial software.

[Sites often get hacked simply because they present an opportunity for vandalism and not because they espouse any ideology or cause that an attacker may oppose, said Ira Winkler, president of the Internet Security Advisors Group in Severna Park, Md., and author of a book called Corporate Espionage.] To a hacker, you're just an IP address, ... You get hit because you let yourself be an easy mark.

Traditional systems are meant more to protect their dollar invested in making sure they deny unauthorized users access because that saves them money,

When the security manager found out, he went through the roof.

When you buy their product, you have to register with it. They make you register with it in order to use the product .... They should be responsible for when there's a security-related problem for e-mailing everybody that registered that product and let them know.