How About a Career Foiling Hack Attacks?
By Marty Nemko
Hackers love to steal information from company computers or to disrupt them just for the heck of it. This produces strong demand for computer security programmers. Also, corporations, the FBI, and the Department of Justice hire these cybersleuths to surf the Net to nab software pirates. The Business Software Alliance estimates that nearly half of software applications is pirated.
What can you do today?See Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office for info on the Federal government-sponsored "university" that trains hackerbusters. Also see AntiOnline, the Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse, and the High Technology Crime Investigation Association International.
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