With support from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering under the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, researchers have shed light on how hacker communities interact and share information.

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Hsinchun Chen, a professor of management information systems at the University of Arizona, leads an NSF-supported research project that explores the motivations of hackers and other cyberattackers.

Credit: Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona