Ethical Hacking Is No Oxymoron

[Chris]

LOS ANGELES -- Sporting long sideburns, a bushy goatee and black baseball cap, instructor Ralph Echemendia has a class of 15 buttoned-down corporate, academic and military leaders spellbound. The lesson: hacking.

The students huddled over laptops at a Los Angeles-area college have paid nearly $4,000 to attend “hacker college," a computer boot camp designed to show how people will try to break into network systems -- and how they will succeed.

Today's the Day. "It's an amazing thing how insecure the big corporations are," Echemendia said during a break in the weeklong seminar. "It's just amazing how easy it is."

Hackers are believed to cost global businesses billions of dollars every year, and the costs to defend against them are soaring. One study by Good Harbor Consulting showed that security now accounts for up to 12 percent of corporate technology budgets, up from 3 percent five years ago.

"This is definitely bleeding edge -- so bleeding edge in fact, sometimes, that it's frightening," said Loren Shirk, a student in the class at Mt. Sierra College who owns a small-business computer consulting company.

The course prepares students for an exam offered by the International Council of E-Commerce Consultants, or EC-Council. If they pass that test, they get the ultimate seal of approval: Certified Ethical Hacker.

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[andsome]

What the hell is up with the law in that country, why isn't he being locked up?

[catgate]

I thought our beloved leader was an Oxy Moron.

Collins dictionary .."moron=mentally deficient person". As far as 'oxy' goes the bovine excrement he purveys certainly warrent describing him as oxy.