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http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=895852006

They are offering a degree in computer hacking! :eek:

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A SCOTTISH university is launching Britain's first degree course in computer hacking.

Students at the University of Abertay, Dundee, will be taught how to break into some of the world's most sophisticated security systems so that they can help advise companies on protecting their own networks. Applicants will have to undergo a strict vetting process overseen by the Home Office and Foreign Office before they are accepted on to the "ethical" hacking course, to sift out anyone likely to use it for criminal ends.

Professor Lachlan MacKinnon, head of the university's school of computing and creative technologies, said:

"We will be monitoring the students very closely because we want them to come out of the other end as ethical hackers."

It is estimated that computer hacking costs £10 billion of damage to British business each year. Similar courses are already being run in the United States and Hong Kong.
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Saw this on the local news this morning. Due to being in dundee myself, i've applied for more information on the course and the application process.

Maxi
 
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heard there is very good money in this, can walk into ~50k jobs??

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Security has always been very lucrative - in all forms. So yes, if you really do know your stuff (and no, just taking one course isn't going to teach you everything you need to know) and have a proven experience in the field of security... then a 50k job is not out of the question.

A guy named Marty Roesch started writing a security tool called "Snort" probably about 8 years ago now. Now his company has a multi-million turnover and was bought out just a few months ago. He's a millionnaire without a doubt.
 
I have seen something like this on TV before,

ex-hackers get paid by large companies to see how safe there computer systems are.

Its quite a good idea really.
 
Expect lots of "Hello my name is Tony McKintre, a Dundee prince my late father left me a Will of 5,000,000 euros. I need to shift this by blah blah blah".

Who needs a course to do that :p

Edit - its not hacking its fraud ah well.
 
I'm doing Computer games technology at this uni at the moment. I just heard about this ethical hacking course. Apparently the students will be closely monitored by the university. I kinda wish I'd gone to this uni a year later!

heres a link to the course details:

http://www.abertay.ac.uk/Courses/CDetails.cfm?CID=363&Key=002.001

As for the lecturers, I'd probably say my first year programming lecturer Colin Miller would be a part of the course as he's done a hacking course himself and has been programming since the 60s or something.

I think I'll try and befriend some of the guys on this course!
 
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