Epic Games Hacked

[scottie]

theprof00 said:

scottie said:
I wonder how it'll be till companies decide that they don't want to be next, and improve their security BEFORE they get hacked.

Protip. These people hacking websites are excellent people to employ for the task of securing your website.

No they are not. There are plenty of ex-hackers and IT majors who can do just as good of a job. Do not reward the people that break the law and cost people their freedoms.

Hiring hackers to protect systems is something that happened in the 90s when hackers were the experts. Nowadays, there is much more competition, and people are a lot smarter.

IT grads are neither taught how to defend a system from attacks, nor how to attack a system. This is true at least at my university, which is in the top 20 in the world.

 

Hiring hackers is the most sensible option for securing a nterwork. A company should of course steer away from the hackers that do a lot of harm, but (apart from taking credit card data) that is not these hackers. Taking email addresses is fairly minor in the grand scheme of things. Apart from their attacks on Sony, all of these attacks are just to grab some attention and point out flaws in the systems.