TalkTalk Website Hit By Cyber-Attack
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What he did was wrong, but cant help but have a begrudging admiration for someone that young to be so clever that he can beat internet security of this level.
Quite impressive. Pointless locking someone of that age and ability up for very long.
It may be the most successful crime ever as it could lead to a rosy future for him.
Quite impressive. Pointless locking someone of that age and ability up for very long.
It may be the most successful crime ever as it could lead to a rosy future for him.
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So is an ethical hacker literally someone who spends their work days breaking into companies new security systems?
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kids nowadays....
Respect!
He has now pretty much guaranteed himself a job.... although he will need instruction on how not to get caught....
Respect!
He has now pretty much guaranteed himself a job.... although he will need instruction on how not to get caught....
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Think so - to try to break into them and see where they need to improve.
Yes ethical hackers and pen testers are real jobs
Every new environment stood up will be pentested in same manner as certain companies have to have pci compliance. Government is very vigorous on these tests
They usually then schedule these quarterly 6 monthly and annually
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This is the sort of thing all script-kiddies try at one level or another. This guy obviously diddnt think about the size of his target and implications of what he was doing after he realised the flaw - my bet would be that he was doing it for technical giggles rather than with true malicious intent. But just a guess. Should have stuck to keyloggers and trojans possibly!
Ethical hacker = pen tester = penetration tester = finding the security problems before the bad guys do.
Ethical hacker = pen tester = penetration tester = finding the security problems before the bad guys do.
Agree with you. But it could well be he had nothing to do with it. Don't forget the hack was started by a DDOS attack. It could be that the cyber crime unit has just traced one of the computers compromised by a botnet, there would have been hundreds if not thousands of compromised computers involved.
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For a minute there I was thinking that someone sat around all day testing biros!
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with all those credit cards, whatever he wants!
oh you don't mean in that context... I expect a year with no internet access before the NSA hire him.
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it isn't the early 90s any more - a kid 'hacking' a website like this could easily be some script kiddie type(there are SQL injection tools out there for example), there might not necessarily anything impressive about it
depends what he did and how he got caught
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No, but I bet he kicked ass at computer club.