"What Makes Hackers Tick?"

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories will conduct a study funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, in which the physical and mental responses of hackers are measured as they perform attacks. In the study, hackers will wear body monitoring equipment to measure their heart rate and other biological responses as they compete to compromise computers within a simulated network. The goal of this study is to determine the most secure configurations by discovering the level of difficulty faced by hackers in the infiltration of certain hardware and software, as well as how they cope with the challenge. This article further discusses the goal of the study, the body monitoring technology that would be used in this study, as well as the support behind this research. 

GCN reports "What Makes Hackers Tick?"