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MICE.. motivation of hackers to engage in malicious activities
Money, Ideology, Coercion, Ego
This is related to the 'Charney Theorem' as Scott Charney likes to call it.
Scott is the Chief Security Strategist at Microsoft and was previously in charge of the Deportment of Justice Intellectual Property and Computer Crime Unit.
His theorm is that at any time, 3 percent of the population will commit a crime if offered the opportunity.

Risk equation includes 4 components: value, threat, vulnerability and the countermeasures.

Risk =( Thread x Vulnerability / Countermeasures ) x Value