Hacking businesses via your iPad can be all fun and games

Fancy a career in hacking businesses, stealing confidential information and breaking into high security systems?

Although there is the potential to earn a fortune through your criminal endeavours, you risk being brought to justice by the authorities and serving many years on a diet of bread and water.

But there is at least one way you can experience the thrill without breaking the law.

Play a game like Uplink instead.

Uplink, created by British firm Introversion Software, has been simulating the thrills-and-spills of cinematic computer hacking for over ten years, entertaining players on…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry, having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, or drop him an email.