Even when I was starting to study my degree just some 4 years ago in Digital Forensics and IT Security there appeared to be very little interest in the subject of IT as a whole, let alone Digital Forensics and Ethical Hacking from women. Some three women appeared in the lecture hall on the first day of the course […]
#DefCon 19 : Android Network Toolkit for Penetration Testing and Hacking Have an Android and wanna start pwning people, networks and machines like penetration testers do? Defcon 2011 is in full hacking swing, and Itzhak Avraham — “Zuk” for short — and his company Zimperium have unveiled the Android Network Toolkit for easy hacking on the […]
I’ve had a few emails recently from people wanting to know more about Digital Forensic/Ethical Hacking degrees. People may be thinking I’m a little biased having invested countless thousands of pounds, man hours and sweat in to the course so far. However, isn’t everyone a little biased… The term Ethical Hacking comes under many headings, […]
The making of hacking tools and computer viruses should be a criminal act across Europe, EU ministers have said. The EU’s Council of Ministers has backed the extension of criminal sanctions to tool—makers in response to European Commission plans to update EU laws tackling attacks against computer systems. Responding to European Commission plans to create […]
As with all sectors and industries, education sector employees are not immune to cost cutting and the threat of redundancy. We’re not talking about the nurseries or even GCSE level educators, but the higher education and university sector. The university and higher education fee charging sector is the sector which you would expect to be […]
On the 6th April 2011 the hacking orientated TV ‘Breaking-In’ aired on Fox. Breaking_in is about a team of so called ‘penetration-testers’ who are contracted to test the security of their customers. Prior to it coming to air, one of two things was going to happen. A chance that the show would be a real to […]