Legal hacking: hacking seminars in German universities

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The best defense, as you know, is an attack. At special seminars, computer students at individual German universities deliberately break into other people's computers in order to prevent future attacks by real hackers.

For virtual hacking in the era of the Internet is not required, I'm sorry for the pun, neither scrap, nor the master key. Enterprising hackers who steal sensitive information and devastate accounts, both firms and individuals, do this, literally, without leaving home. At the same time, the “victim” is often located from a fraudster in hundreds and even thousands of kilometers. It’s enough to recall the sensational “Levin case” in the 1990s, a hacker from St. Petersburg who hacked into the corporate client management system of the American Citibank and stole more than $ 10 million.

Since then, the number of such Levines has been growing almost exponentially, and confronting electronic robbers has become one of the main tasks of modern computer scientists. And for this, they should be familiar with the methods of illegal access to computers. As detectives know the methods and tricks of criminals, so system administrators should be aware of how hackers act. That is why, more recently, more and more German universities are introducing compulsory computer security seminars for computer science students.


One hundred percent protection? Can not be!
Information Security Classes at the University of Bonn

"No computer system is completely reliable. Even very good software contains about 3 errors per thousand program codes, let alone those worse." ”, says Felix Leder, Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science, University of Bonn (Universität Bonn). In his opinion, due to the lack of this same absolute reliability in any system, you can find "holes", and therefore, crack it.

Felix Leder instills in his students professional computer hacking skills. Beginner hackers work with real programs with which you can, for example, steal credit card information. These highly specialized "picks and crowbars" look for weaknesses in security systems. Having identified a loophole, students develop and manipulate their own programs to penetrate someone else's system.

Lock for computer

The first thing that future system administrators are taught at the Hochschule Niederrhein in Krefeld Higher School in Krefeld is to protect their own computer. “When we leave home, we close the door with a key to protect ourselves from uninvited guests. And our students, by virtue of their profession, must know how to protect their computer systems from outsiders,” said Jürgen Quade, professor of computer science at Krefeld University. Since 2009, the training course "IT Security" has been compulsory for its students.

Building a reliable computer system is impossible without a thorough analysis of potential threats to its security. That is why students are carefully studying the methods and working tools of professional hackers. In small groups of 20 people, divided into teams, they try to hack into each other's systems and steal secret data. Sometimes novice computer scientists have to perform real tasks, for example, to hack into a computer confiscated from the alleged bank robber and find evidence of his guilt on the hard drive. To do this, students recover deleted photos and texts, reproduce the processes recorded in the system and track the correspondence of the alleged offender.


Treading the heels of hackers

Hacking Workshops at Bonn-Rhine-Sieg High School

Participants in the Network Security course at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin also study various types of computer threats in practice. Information security professor Hartmut Pohl, who provides students with the skills necessary for computer crackers, assures that some firms even hire professional programmers who attack their systems to determine the level of network security.

“Therefore, students need to know how such attacks go so that in the future they can select and apply the necessary protection tools,” the professor says. “After all, how well they know different hacking things depends on whether they can protect computer systems entrusted to them. from viruses and hacks. " However, it is always easier said than done. Tools of computer criminals are updated faster than they have time to add to the curriculum. Teachers are forced to literally step on the heels of hackers and constantly analyze new methods of resourceful virtual crackers.

The temptation is great

The education of professional hackers, of course, is not included in the plans of German teachers. In the first lesson, they warn their students about criminal liability that threatens to use computer hacking skills for criminal purposes. True, daredevils are enough. Some students - training for the sake - break into other people's computers, but, as a rule, later tell their mentors about it. “So far, we have managed to resolve these situations without harming both sides,” says Hartmut Paul, professor of information security at the Bonn-Rhine-Sieg Institute

Those who want to study computer science in Germany and are not averse to getting the additional qualifications of a “legal hacker” can be advised to enter one of the universities listed above. In addition, computer security courses are currently offered to students at the Hochschule Aalen High School, the University of Regensburg (Universität Regensburg) and the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen.

Author: Justina Bronska / Anastasia Stroeva

 

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