A Shapeshifter Under the Hoodie: The Face of Modern Cybercrimeby@hernanortiz
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A Shapeshifter Under the Hoodie: The Face of Modern Cybercrime

by Hernán Ortiz7mOctober 6th, 2022
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Hackers are no longer an obscured figure of cybercrime: it shapeshifts into people you trust. Cybercrime is no longer the face of a hacker, it's a person around you. Cybercriminals scrape the social media profiles of your contacts and use the personal information people make publicly available. The more they know about them, the better they can deceive you. Hackers were not criminals in the 1960s, but the term hacker had an intellectual overtone. The first demonstration of a computer virus was taken in the 1970s computer virus.

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Cybersecurity, design, and the future of technology

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