Hacker Boot Camp 161
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?"
Hmm? (Score:5, Funny)
The internet, like all the other hackers are already doing?
just like "ninja training camp" (Score:5, Funny)
bet they become spammers (Score:2, Funny)
ReBoot Camp (Score:5, Funny)
As opposed to the 'Unethical Hacker Certification' where companies pay you $43,000.00 or more to stop disabling their websites.
Heh (Score:5, Funny)
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. (Score:4, Funny)
Oblig. Mon Calamari (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, I believe the famous last words were, 'It's a trap!'
Be very cautious (Score:1, Funny)
Another option (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Isn't this a bit over nerdy (Score:2, Funny)
I'll do ya one better. (Score:3, Funny)
I'll even load my ink-jet printer with the impressive expensive paper.
Re:What are the entry requirements? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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Re:What are the entry requirements? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Institute To Blow Smoke Into Uncomfortable Plac (Score:2, Funny)
"Thank you Mario! But your certificate is in another castle!"
Re:What are the entry requirements? (Score:5, Funny)
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?
Re:just like "ninja training camp" (Score:2, Funny)