It isn’t your firewall or your anti-virus, it’s your business practice that puts you at risk in the strange new reality of hacktivists. Hacktivism (a portmanteau of hack and activism) is the use of computers and computer networks as a means of protest to promote political ends.
The term was first coined in 1998 by a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective named Omega. If hacking as “illegally breaking into computers” is assumed, then hacktivism could be defined, says Wikipedia, as “the nonviolent use of legal and/or illegal digital tools in pursuit of political ends.”
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