Lessons Learned From the First-Ever Hack

5 February 2020

Inventor Guglielmo Marconi, a key contributor to wireless telegraphy, did not want to engage with anyone who criticized his wireless telegraph technology, and he believed it to be completely secure. But in 1903, magician Nevil Maskelyn hacked a wireless telegraph communication. And while the communication methods and technology has changed since then, there are several lessons cybersecurity professionals can learn from Marconi and Maskelyn.