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January 15, 2007Ethical Hacking School in Session
In Chicago, Aaron Cohen has started Hacker Academy, a school that purports to teach the "good guys" all the bad stuff in an effort to enable them to keep the "bad guys" out. According to Cohen - "If you're able to think like a hacker, you're able to prevent some of the attacks that are happening.". Graduates are given certificates in "ethical hacking".
A new wave of attacks makes this kind of expertise even more necessary than before. Second generation phishing attacks leveraging cross site scripting and ransom attacks are far more subtle and immensely difficult to contain.
"Subtle attacks are way up," says Mark McManus, vice president of research for Computer Economics. "There are more targeted attacks, and people are less likely to want to report them." With ransom attacks, for instance, hackers will infiltrate a company's networks, and threaten to unleash devastation or give the information to a competitor unless they're paid.
Meanwhile, expect courses like the ones Aaron Cohen offers to become more prevalent as the good guys catch up.
It's not too late to sign up...
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