Thinking about Security, think Ethical Hacking

Security has become a major issue these days with the extensive growth of the internet. There are malicious hackers who try and break into a system’s Security, hack accounts, attack passwords, steal sensitive data and in general, create trouble. An ethical hacker, who is also known as a ‘white hat’ on the other hand, is a computer expert who attacks the security system with legal permission in order to test the security and find out loopholes if any and report it back to the owners. Their work is to strengthen the security system so as to make it fool proof.

These Ethical Hackers use the same techniques as their malicious counterparts but they neither damage the system nor try and steal information. Instead their work is to evaluate the strength of the target’s security system and to report back to the owners about the vulnerabilities with instructions how to rectify them. There are four basic kinds of hackers:

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• IP Hacker – is a person who is specifically hired to hack a particular IP address. There might be instances where no information can be provided beforehand and you have to be very careful about the address while Hacking because a slight mistake can cause an international incident! 

• Physical Infrastructure hacker – This type of a hacker accesses the computer system looking for passwords and other confidential data. 

• Application hacker – is someone who has to hack deep into databases and production servers. Highly experienced hackers with proper knowledge and someone who strictly follows guidelines regarding their actions are only hired for such application Hacking. 

• Wireless Hacker – has to hack into wireless access points and report back to the employer instead of stealing passwords.

Ethical Hacking or Information Security or Computer Security or Network Security… are all included within titles of university level undergraduate degrees within the UK. No matter what they title their courses or whether or not you agree with the use of certain terms within their titles is irrelevant as they are all attempting to teach the same things.

With cyber-crime on the rise, a career in Ethical Hacking has become quite in demand in the last few years. All one needs is a keen interest in the internet and a basic knowledge of networking and With cyber-crime on the rise, a career in Ethical Hacking has become quite in demand in the last programming to enter into this field. And the best part of this profession is the remuneration which actually has no limits for an experienced ethical hacker!

RankMyHack.com Rewards Hackers With World Ranking, Bounties

RankMyHack.com Rewarding Hackers With World Ranking...

A new Web site, Rankmyhack.com, lets hackers submit and rate each others' hacks in order to determine the world's best hacker.

"The bounty section of this site was created in an attempt to focus the abilities of talented hackers against political and government forces that need to be put back in line," s0lar wrote. "This site isn't the next Anonymous or the next Lulzsec, this site is for every hacker that wants to use it regardless of country of origin, ethos, philosophy. Bounties just provide a politically constructive target for hacker's talents regardless of ability."

Meanwhile, Anonymous members are engaged in a second week of street protests in San Francisco, against the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) authorities. What began relatively peacefully Monday later turned ugly, with protesters reportedly throwing stink bombs at police and kicking in glass bus shelters.

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g.co, URL shortcut for Google websites

g.co, the official URL shortcut for Google websites

The shorter a URL, the easier it is to share and remember. The downside is, you often can’t tell what website you’re going to be redirected to. We’ll use g.co to send you only to webpages that are owned by Google, and only we can create g.co shortcuts. That means you can visit a g.co shortcut confident you will always end up at a page for a Google product or service.

Today, a new URL shortcut that will link only to official Google products and services: g.co.

There’s no need to fret about the fate of goo.gl; we like it as much as you do, and nothing is changing on that front. It will continue to be our public URL shortener that anybody can use to shorten URLs across the web.

Google's global infrastructure to offer the following benefits:

• Stability: Google's scalable, multi-datacenter infrastructure provides great uptime and a reliable service to our users.
• Security: As we do with web search, shortened URLs are automatically checked to detect sites that may be malicious and warn users when the short URL resolves to such sites.
• Speed: At Google we like fast products and we've worked hard to ensure this service is quick. We'll continue to iterate and improve the speed of Google Url Shortener.