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The Uses of White Hat Hacking

The Uses of White Hat Hacking. Tyler Schumacher schumacherty@uwplatt.edu. WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report. Spring 2009 – 7th Edition Majority of Websites Are Vulnerable. Black Hat Hackers. Malicious Self-Serving Anonymous. Grey Hat Hackers. Self-Satisfying

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The Uses of White Hat Hacking

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  1. The Uses of White Hat Hacking • Tyler Schumacher • schumacherty@uwplatt.edu

  2. WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report • Spring 2009 – 7th Edition • Majority of Websites Are Vulnerable

  3. Black Hat Hackers • Malicious • Self-Serving • Anonymous

  4. Grey Hat Hackers • Self-Satisfying • Public Disclosure • “Taggers”

  5. White Hat Hackers • Ethical Hackers • Employed • Former Grey or Black Hats

  6. Risks and Limitations of Use • Qualifications • Risk of Relapse

  7. Reasons to Use • Knowledge of Tools • Can Teach Staff • Real World Experience • Hackers Are Innovative

  8. White Hat Hacker Proactive No Qualifications Thinks Like a Criminal IT Professional • Reactive • Client List • Does Not Think Like a Criminal

  9. Mainstream Use • Law Enforcement • HP Active Countermeasures • UK.Government • Contests

  10. What Needs to be Done • Studies of IT Professionals • Get Statistics of White Hat Use • Teach White Hat Hacking Methods

  11. After presentation conclusion about how the sort of thing we do on the website is the sort of thing I think the school should start offering. It gets people to think the way hackers think, see things the they they see them so that we can better protect ourselves against them. Look up defcon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security) http://rent-a-hacker.com/ http://www.hackthissite.org/ http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/255013 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/s-crack/index.html http://whitehatsec.com/home/resource/presentation.html http://whitehatsec.com/home/resource/whitepapers/business_logic_flaws.html

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