[pchelpers] Re: Article:Crack the hackers

This was done in a very hard to read font. I hope we don't see more of this.

John Durham wrote:
> 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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