Ho Ho ho! Hackers prefer to work at Christmas
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in Defcon, hackers, Christmas on
According to the hacker community, you’re more likely to be targeted at Christmas and New Year than at any other time.
At the annual hacker conference Defcon 17 in Las Vegas, most of the 79 hackers surveyed said they would be more active during the winter holidays, with a little more than half saying than Christmas was the best time to engage in corporate hacking.
In a survey of 79 - which really isn’t very many people for a proper survey - but I guess it makes common sense. According to the company that published the survey, it was ‘received knowledge’ that the Christmas and New Year seasons were popular with western hackers.
Chief security architect Michael Hamelin of Tufin Technologies (which carried out the survey) said: “Hackers know this is when people relax and let their hair down, and many organisations run on a skeleton staff over the holiday period.”
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