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Ethical hackers get industry association
News An industry association has been created for ethical hackers, in a bid to reassure buyers of systems and applications that such products have been sufficiently tested. The Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (Crest) made its public debut...
[April 24, 2008, 11:09]
Training Ethical Hackers: Training the Enemy?
White Papers Training information security professionals carries the risk of training ethical and malicious hackers side-by-side. This paper defines ethical hacking, differentiates it from malicious hacking, presents some of the ways that ethical hacking is...
[February 17, 2005, 2:00]
World's top hackers to form new security firm
News Ten of the world's "most well known and talented hackers," are to establish a new computer security company, Kent Browne of ethical hacking group Condemned.org announced at London's Infosec conference Thursday.
[April 14, 2000, 15:14]
Schoolboy's book on ethical hacking an online hit
News A book on ethical computer hacking written by a 16-year-old Indian schoolboy has sold 5,000 copies online, before it reached the shelves of bookshops around the world. The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking runs into 620 pages, and gives an in...
[August 7, 2001, 14:17]
Firewall pioneer: Security needs integration
News What bugs me are the "ethical hackers" that are working as "security practitioners" and who are still out there writing and distributing hacking tools and actually helping cause the problem they are making money trying to prevent.
[February 3, 2003, 13:34]
Video: Embracing the hacker community
News However, many are calling on the industry and media to recognise the work of so-called "ethical hackers" and to acknowledge that not all hackers are criminals. Security experts have hit out at the notion that there are benefits to be had from...
[May 2, 2007, 16:34]
MPs ponder whether 'benign' hacking should be legal
Talkback Why not licence "ethical hackers" i.e.security people whose job it is to test network security etc. There would be a code of conduct, with very strict penalties for breaking these. This would make it quite clearcut and make anything outside of what...
[April 28, 2004, 16:46]
British hackers: Spotty teenagers they ain't
News Hacking here is more restrained because there is more of a moral or ethical climate. Hackers in this country also tend to target ISPs and bandwidth providers rather than the government because of a natural British respect for authority.
[July 16, 1999, 11:50]
Germans launch $5,000 CeBIT hacker challenge
News Wibu will place its reputation on the line by asking a group of "ethical" hackers to crack a file scambled with its encryption technology. A German computer security firm is inviting hackers to break into its products live at this year's CeBIT...
[March 22, 2001, 10:39]
Lacey's Paper Round
News The report says that in the US, the Ethical Hackers Against Paedophilia have the support of the FBI. Hackers take on paedophiles - The Times The Times reported on the vigilante activities of clandestine hackers, the Internet Combat Group, who have...
[June 29, 1998, 14:26]
Heard of drive-by hacking? Meet drive-by spamming
News Opinion is split over how ethical the practice is. This has already led to the practice of wardriving, where people drive around cities looking for insecure wireless LANs, and warchalking, where hackers drawing a chalk symbol on a wall or pavement...
[September 5, 2002, 16:54]
Peer loses cybercrime fight
News The Earl of Northesk also said that ethical hacking and penetration testing could be made illegal by the law, as well as courses offering ethical hacking training. Increasingly universities are offering ethical hacking degrees, such as Aberdeen.
[July 14, 2006, 16:25]
Antivirus firms consider protection against Sony DRM rootkit
News We'd hate to see the use of rootkits becoming a habit among mainstream software manufacturers when there are so many security and ethical arguments against such use. Furthermore, say the antivirus companies, the software can be exploited by hackers...
[November 4, 2005, 16:35]
Spyware enters the spotlight
News They want to see what's ethical. These kinds of remote-spying applications were solely the property of hackers or other malicious computer programmers, but for the past few months they have been marketed by some vendors as ways to keep tabs on...
[November 20, 2003, 14:05]
May Day hysteria unfounded, say activists
News The last year has seen a surge in hacktivism -- people using virtual methods to promote political and ethical causes, such as GM food protests. Cofounder of ethical Web consultancy OpenConcept Mike Gifford, who also works on alternative news site...
[April 30, 2001, 14:38]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback The police need computer forensics experts, security audit professionals etc - they do not need "ethical" hackers or pen testers. There is a difference - it is about time people started to understand this.
[October 13, 2005, 1:50]
BT denies routers still vulnerable to months-old hack
News BT has denied claims made by an "ethical hacker outfit" that the telecommunication company's wireless routers are vulnerable to hijacking by fraudsters. The hackers, who call their organisation GNUCitizen, posted a blog on Monday that claimed users...
[January 22, 2008, 12:23]
Breaking Windows for better security
News It provided a rare glimpse inside the netherworld of computer security, where the ethical lines are sometimes fuzzy in the technological arms race between network engineers and the hackers who challenge them.
[June 21, 2005, 12:55]
Teams compete to hack and defend
News There is an understanding, more and more, of ethical hacking," he said. The US government continues to talk tough on computer crime, but here in the desert, hackers -- including some from federal agencies -- are learning about defending networks by...
[August 5, 2003, 14:49]
Nasa hacker: Whistleblower or menace?
News Bevan was himself charged with hacking in 1997, but avoided imprisonment and has now set himself up as an "ethical hacker". Who knows how many undiscovered hackers - real terrorists - were able to slice into the US' military systems with the ease...
[May 12, 2006, 12:35]
