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19-06-06, 12:19 PM
First computer hacking course in Britain
Mon 19 Jun 2006
CAROLYN CHURCHILL
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 network.
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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Computer crime (http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1127)
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1127http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=895852006
Mon 19 Jun 2006
CAROLYN CHURCHILL
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 network.
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.
Related topic
Computer crime (http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1127)
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1127http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=895852006