Hacker Boot Camp

abb_road writes "Business Week sent a reporter to TechTrain's ethical hacker training camp, where, for $4,300, participants spend five days working towards ICECC's 'Ethical Hacker Certification.' The camp serves companies' increasing needs for home-grown white hats, and covers topics ranging from the non-technical (social engineering and policy creation) to code-level attacks (buffer overflows and sql injections). The tuition seems a bit steep for materials that, as the article notes, are 'freely available over the web'--but where else can you play hacking capture the flag?"

Comments

Hmm?

[SirTalon42]

"but where else can you play hacking capture the flag?"

The internet, like all the other hackers are already doing?

just like "ninja training camp"

[blue_adept]

you spend a week learning all the "Secret Ninja Moves" and when you're done, you're a real life ninja. ... right? r-right?

Re:just like "ninja training camp"

[archen]

the purpose of the hacker is to flip out and kill processes

bet they become spammers

[mike_bolton]

and all those popups will read - get your ethical hacking certificate for 2k! Just click on the monkey - I did!

ReBoot Camp

[digitaldc]

Business Week sent a reporter to TechTrain's ethical hacker training camp, where, for $4,300, participants spend five days working towards ICECC's 'Ethical Hacker Certification.'

As opposed to the 'Unethical Hacker Certification' where companies pay you $43,000.00 or more to stop disabling their websites.

Heh

[JavaLord]

From the article:

you know that site is vulnerable to a technique of stealing database contents called "sequel injection."

Is this an attack based on the recent star wars trilogy? Someone should inform the author it's still written "SQL injection" despite how it sounds.

Re:::groan:: Please make this go away.

[darkmeridian]

I LMAO when the article described a vulnerability to a "sequel injection". I think he meant http://www.google.com/search?q=sql+injection&start =0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozi lla:en-US:official>SQL injection. Still, can you imagine an injection of Basic Instinct II? That's scarier than a SQL injection.

Oblig. Mon Calamari

[digitaldc]

Is this an attack based on the recent star wars trilogy?

Yes, I believe the famous last words were, 'It's a trap!'

Be very cautious

[Anonymous Coward]

Some hackers have actually died at boot camp when the staff tried to beat the ethics into uncooperative programmers.

Another option

[wjcofkc]

AOL has some chat rooms with hundreds of the very best hackers in the whole wide world answering questions and handing out all kinds of scripts 24/7. You have to be very smart and a real hacker to run a script from an AOL hacker chatroom.

Re:Isn't this a bit over nerdy

[KoKopuffz]

I want that T-shirt. And on the back I could put 1337 L0v3 5k1llz!

I'll do ya one better.

[Rob T Firefly]

For the paltry sum of only $1000US, I'll send you a genuine Certificate of Ethical Hacking, Keytar Playing, and Being Good To Your Mom.

I'll even load my ink-jet printer with the impressive expensive paper.

Re:What are the entry requirements?

[dr_dank]

Anyone can learn these tricks at any time anywhere. They don't need to go to a school to find them.

Agreed. I'm about to cost these bastards lots of money by giving away their secrets. Gang, listen closely. First, watch the film Hackers a few times and try to dress as they do. Nothing shows up a non-hacker faster than one out of uniform.

Next, install any CLI-based OS. DOS, Linux, doesn't matter.

Now that you have a command prompt (with the blinking cursor, nothing else will do), you can hack anything! Type in a command like "reroute airtraffic > Boise" and watch all of those jets turn around. Steal the latest hollywood flick with "download harrypotter.movie now" Want to make your idiot neighbors power blink in and out, spelling "I am t3h fag0rz" in morse code? Go right ahead. You're only limited by your imagination.

DISCLAIMER: I am not responsible for the misuse of the preceding information.

Re:What are the entry requirements?

[Your Pal Dave]

Wouldn't you also need a keyboard which beeps with every keystroke and a monitor which projects shapes onto your face as you work?

Re:Institute To Blow Smoke Into Uncomfortable Plac

[kumichou]

> It'll take your resume to the next level (where, presumably, we can find our princess.)

"Thank you Mario! But your certificate is in another castle!"

Re:What are the entry requirements?

[databyss]

What about the exceedingly slow save program?

I want to make sure that whenever I save a file it goes extremely slowly and show's me every percent along the way.

Oh, and it has to flash every bit of data on screen as it saves. I'm sure it'll work out some sort of proper layout too.

Otherwise, how would I know it's actually saving the proper data?