 | It was a great opportunity for SEGi College Kuala Lumpur students to meet face to face with an IT Expert from the E-Council Academy and to experience the excitement of a LIVE DEMO in Ethical Hacking on 8 November 2011. This brought about 40 Information Technology students to a 2-hour talk by Choo Kok Hou, the Channel Sales Manager, from EC-Council Academy, a Leading IT Security Certification Body at the campus. It was interesting to learn how easily the personal data of 100 million Facebook (FB) users was hacked into. Choo revealed further examples of hackers who upped their school grades, stole McDonald’s customer data, flooded Facebook Accounts with indecent content, hacked and defaced the FAM website, hacked into a $300 Billion Pentagon Project, cracked into NASA computers, and stole software worth approximately $1.7 million. According to Choo, the Identity Theft Resource Center reported the exposure of more than 16 million personal records in 2010. Companies today face not only online threats, but internal threats, and viruses and worms. This has resulted in an escalating demand for IT Security and E-Business professionals worldwide, the students were told. To address this critical surge in demand the EC-Council today offers a spectrum of IT Security and E-Business programmes. Choo went on to elaborate on their certification programmes which immerse the students into a hands-on lab intensive environment and permit them to master hacking technologies and become certified ethical hackers. Utilizing the same tools as a malicious hacker, the skilled Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) is able to detect intruders and the weaknesses and vulnerabilities in the system. To beat the hacker; their students are taught to think like one! “EC-Council certifications are in high demand by international organizations such as IBM, JP MorganChase, and Accenture. IT Security Specialists in Malaysia,” Choo said. They can earn as much as RM125,000 per annum and in Australia, AUS $160,000. To raise international awareness of the need for information security and ethics in information security the Hacker Halted series of conferences is held. The session ended with the highlight of the talk - Choo’s LIVE DEMO of how to ethically hack a system which had everyone listening and watching excitedly. This made the talk all the more credible and convincing! |
