2024 Caboodle National Books Puzzle
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How do you get involed in hacking???
What do you study???
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.to be fair - cyber has been asking anyone who might know how to get into cybercrime units of the police, and i guess an understanding of hacking would be needed - know the problem is how do you stop the hackers if you don't understand what their doing? I guess you need to study it. http://www.worldwidelearn.com/online-training/security-investigation-courses.htm
or http://www.trainingcamp.co.uk/uk/forensics.asp
for the crime prevention side of things, search google for forensic computer training or something similar
Hacking is a really good thing to study. There is a real shortage of people with the aptitude and knowledge necessary to protect vulnerable networks and programs.
You should start from the ground up. As protection methods get more sophisticated, hacking techniques get more sophisticated, and require a very broad and detailed knowledge of networks, programming, systems, and telecommunications.
It's not my line (despite getting some Uni training in it) but I think it is really fascinating. I think I would get on okish as an amateur hacker, but I know that my home and business networks are much safer now that I know how someone might attack it. You might have Antivirus installed, but when was the last time you checked your floppy drive or keyboard connection before turning on your machine?
I have no doubt that 'reformed' hackers are making our country safer by hacking terrorist networks and defeating their encryption.
I don't advocate illegal hacking at all, and it carries severe punishment, but it's a fact that hacking itself did produce the network experts. Boys will be boys. Sad, but true.
Hackers are divided into two groups "Black hats" and "White hats" white hats are what we'd call security consultants or ethical hackers. An Ethical hacker is one who has permission to break into somebody's network so he doesn't go to prison!
Assuming this is what you get involved in ( strictly speaking it's called penetration testing ) you'd want to look at getting a job with a computer security firm. There are not many companies that are going to employ a freelance - too risky.
Most companies are going to look for a degree if not in computer science then at least in a numerate discipline. They are also going to expect a really good knowlege of computer systems and particular of computer networking. You'd want to learn how to program, preferably in C - don't go for an interview and tell them you're a wizard in visual basic, they'll laugh their socks off.
You should also learn Linux, not only does it give you a good chance to dig into how computers work you can use it to learn how to set up firewalls and write code.
Most security constancy involves checking systems for commonly known weaknesses and vulnerabilities, you can find out a lot about these from sites such as bugtraq (aka http://www.securityfocus.com )
Do not be tempted to get applications off the net that exploit vulnerabilities, black hats love to put trojans in them and put them out there so they can take over your machine.
Remember, it's not as glamerous as it sounds but it can be well paid. Just don't screw up your chances by doing something illeagal contrary to public myth security companies don't often employ black hats because their reputation is what keeps them in business.
For further research try a google on penetration testing vacancies
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