Hacker names like Wikileaks, LulzSec, and Anonymous have become common parlance. And hackers have infiltrated high-profile targets like the BART system, U.S. government diplomatic channels, even the Vatican. But how are we to make sense of this current generation of hackers in light of the long history of "black-hat" and "white-hat" hacking? And how can we understand the ethical or not-so-ethical motives that are driving hackers today? Joseph Menn of Reuters is one of the top Internet security journalists in the country. In his talk, he will provide an overview of contemporary hacking and raise questions about the ethical assumptions driving the phenomenon.