[pchelpers] Article:Crack the hackers

by Imthishan Giado on Sunday, 13 April 2008
Most companies are only dimly aware that a shadowy world of organised
crime, miscreants and state-sponsored espionage exists just outside the
corporate firewall. Imthishan Giado talks to the individuals on the
front lines of the war between hackers and the guardians of enterprise
security.

When asked to describe what a typical ‘hacker' looks like, most people
will resort to film clichs such as Keanu Reeves from the Matrix. The
typical hacker profile is that of a dank unkempt loner who lives in a
basement lit by the harsh glow of an LCD and gleefully punches away at a
keyboard, defacing websites and leaving rude messages on desktops.

That's the old reality, says Jeremiah Grossman, CTO and founder of web
security specialists WhiteHat Security, former information security
officer for Yahoo! and the keynote speaker at this month's HackInTheBox
security conference in Dubai.

More here:
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/516118-i
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