{"id":250,"date":"2015-06-30T22:10:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T03:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fbreitinger.de\/?p=250"},"modified":"2016-01-27T09:55:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T14:55:23","slug":"ethical-hacking-course-on-fox-ct-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fbreitinger.de\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Thinking like \u2018bad guys\u2019 to protect the interwebs (Ethical Hacking course)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This trimester was the first time &#8220;Ethical hacking&#8221; was taught at the University of New Haven. Due to the great success of this class, Fox CT visited us in the UNH Cyber Forensics Research &amp; Education Lab to interview us. (Video and Interview copied from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fox61.com\/2015\/06\/30\/thinking-like-bad-guys-to-protect-the-interwebs\/\" target=\"_blank\">foxct.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=d4aDN5dTpnBOuXn2KQQkzywbHG0tAZwS&amp;pbid=3c1df42a0ea4920b9489cfaaf8aec88\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>WEST HAVEN \u2014 They are far from a bunch of \u201chacks\u201d at the University of New Haven, but a new class there is teaching the tricks of computer hacking.<\/p>\n<p>With computer breach after computer breach constantly grabbing headlines, UNH added the \u201cethical hacking\u201d class to its engineering and computer science curriculum in April. Students are tasked with setting up private computer networks, and their classmates are challenged to break into them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea here is for students to learn how to defend,\u201d said Frank Breitinger, a UNH computer science professor. \u201cYou have to think like a bad guy, know how they would attack a system so you can make it secure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Abe Baggili, who runs the UNH cyberforensics research and education group said, \u201cWe are getting to the point in time where it\u2019s not only about the defense, it\u2019s about the offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baggili is keenly aware of the latest and greatest hack attack, earlier this month, when the federal Office of Personnel Management was infiltrated by still unknown cyber thieves. Estimates are that millions of federal employees have had their personal information, like social security numbers and birth dates, stolen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to stay a step ahead,\u201d Baggili added. \u201cNo longer do you need soldiers with guns, you need soldiers with computers skills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tim Whitfield, a UNH grad student enrolled in the ethical hacking class, said, \u201cSomebody needs to be on the other side making sure that holes are patched up, if not getting one step ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the program and the computer science department at the University of New Haven, click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This trimester was the first time &#8220;Ethical hacking&#8221; was taught at the University of New Haven. Due to the great success of this class, Fox CT visited us in the UNH Cyber Forensics Research &amp; Education Lab to interview us. (Video and Interview copied from\u00a0foxct.com). WEST HAVEN \u2014 They are far from a bunch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fbreitinger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fbreitinger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fbreitinger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fbreitinger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fbreitinger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/fbreitinger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/fbreitinger.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fbreitinger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fbreitinger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fbreitinger.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}