Ethical Hacking – Beating Bad Guys for Fun & Profit (giveaway)
May 11, 2009
Quick! What do you think of when I say WarGames? Sneakers? Hackers?
If you aren’t stuck with an image of a young, blonde Angelina Jolie in your mind’s eye right now, then you are probably scanning over this sentence to see where I’m going with this and wishing I’d get to the part about hacking faster and explain the title of this post already!!
Recently, the amazing folks at Izea contacted me about a Certified Ethical Hacker Course valued at $2,895 from the EC-Council. Of course, my thought was “cool… where do I sign up? Oh wait, my security skills are way out of date. I don’t even work in the field any more!!”
Fortunately for both you and me, they weren’t suggesting that I should leave the cushy world of motherhood, blogging and social media and try to get into the highly competitive (but still damn cool and well-paying) world of Network Security.
They were thinking that I might want to be able to offer the chance for one of my readers to WIN an entire Ethical Hacking iClass package which would normally cost you (or your company) $2,895. This includes the books, lab manual, and online class.
We’re talking about Security Fundamentals, Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing, Computer Forensics, Disaster Recovery, and Secure Programming here folks.
Seriously – there’s so much actually in the course that I can’t even begin to list it all here. Just check the course site & you’ll see. This is hard-core. So if you’re in the field and want to bolster up your credentials with a globally recognized certification, or you’re wanting to finally get your foot in the IT Security door (and this would be much more convincing to an employer than those scripts & bots you’ve played with) or you are just burnnnning to get back to work and know how much something like this is really worth in today’s economy – read on.
There are two ways enter and you can do one, either, or both!!
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Leave a comment tell me 1) why you want to become a Certified Ethical Hacker – and 2) go here, scroll down to the part where it says “During this five-day course you’ll learn” and tell me which topic sounds the most intriguing to you (personally? I’m all about the Buffer Overflows – but don’t tell GeekDaddy!)
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So far, I’ve stayed within the realms of web programming, and I think that security tends to be overlooked. This course sounds terrific! It’s pretty hard to pick a ‘most intriguing’ topic, but Linux hacking sounds pretty interesting.
The entire course would be interesting, but you and I both know that the weakest link in computer security is the end user.
I think there needs to be a strong drive to move the web to 2 factor authentication.
C|EH is teh coolz. Seriously, it (and OSCP) seems to be more hands-on and harder to accomplish than some of the other IT sec-related posts, and it seems to be a great way to burnish my skills as I prepare to go back to work.
The Phones, PDAs and handheld device hacking sounds awfully interesting, and also the most akin to running a hamsters wheel given the rate of change in hardware and software in that space.
This would be wonderful to win. My husband works IT security, and unfortunately despite his attempts to help me learn I think it would take more than a 1/2 hour of explanation for me to completely comprehend what he does. I think it would be especially interesting to learn the part about penetration testing, as he does a lot of this in his work.
I think it would actually bring my husband and I closer together if I were to take this course, as it would not only grant me a greater understanding of the various aspects of his job but also would give me a greater respect for the work he brings home. Since usually I grumble about work at home because I would prefer to be cuddling him on the couch late at night instead of him remoting into servers at work and such.
Thank you for posting this GeekMommy, also I entered on twitter as well http://www.twitter.com/cevbindner
Nobody in a professional environment these days takes anyone seriously without some form of certification.
While this course sounds fearsome to any non-tech employer, it would give me an edge in terms of job security in applying for a tech role within any company, and I only want that to assist in my job security for my wife and 23 week old son…
Then I would be a proud daddy and husband
And “Hackers” (the film) is my inspiration
(The first time I submitted this, it did not appear, I hope this second attempt is more successful)
Oh Man, a contest right up my alley. But the narrowing down the number of topics that are “intriguing,” that gets tough. So here’s what I narrowed my list down to (top 3 in order of interest, least to most)
MAC OS X Hacking – This on might be on the top of my list right now, as I’m currently learning all about the guts of OS X and the Cocoa / Cocoa Touch interfaces for development purposes. Yay for iPhone development? ;P
Hacking Database Servers – Everyone knows that this is where the money is. Data. It’s always about the data. How to keep it safe, or how to get to it. Obviously, we’re looking at ethics, so we want to know what people are so interested in, so we know what to keep prying eyes off of.
Computer Forensics and Incident Handling is probably the most interesting topic of the bunch for me right now though. I mean, this is the real big one. Most of us have had to deal with a breech if we’ve been in the industry for any length of time. Tracing it back, and determining what happened is always hard. It’s time sensitive and you have to react quickly, without screwing up anything further. So, what are the best ways? I’d be hard pressed to tell you.
As I was laid off recently, I’d love to take the time and round out my skill set with something like this. Good all around IT knowledge to have and a great boost to the professional resume.
This looks like quite an interesting course. Thank you for sharing.
As a Corporate Recruiter / Internet Researcher, I believe this course would be invaluable to enhance my skill set. Because I was recently laid off, I will have plenty of time to devote to learning the material. While the majority of the topics sound intriguing, I am most interested in the following: Google Hacking, Social Engineering, and Hacking Email Accounts.
I Tweeted this giveaway: http://twitter.com/Nelsby/status/1774856803
Thanks!
sierranelsby (at) gmail (dot) com
Well for me since I’m starting to learn security this would be a good course to learn and have. I know it’s hard to learn by yourself and come up with the right material. But this course sounds like it’s put together for someone that is starting **HINT”" like me.
–Louie
I forgot to put “During this five-day course you’ll learn: ”
I think for me I would be very interested in the
1. footprinting
2. Scanning
3. Trojans and Backdoors
4. Viruses and Worms
5. Phishing
I believe you have to learn these things to be a good security guy. I think this course would be good for me.
Admin Note: For contest drawing purposes, I combined your two comments into one Louie! Thanks and good luck!! ~GM
son is taking college classes in security and this would be nice for him to make him stay awake during summer break…he would love it all especially worms and footprints
I want to be able to keep my business safe and also the charity organization I volunteer with. I would love to be able to hack into our systems so I could learn about keeping our information safe. I would also love to be able to destroy spyware, worms and viruses.
I’d like to learn the “Threats and Countermeasures” most… thanks!
emvark at gmail dot com
Botnets are the fastest growing form of identity theft, mass marketing, and distributed denial of services; among other things. For those who don’t know much about Botnets and how they work, I recomment this site: http://www.mytechwisetv.com/page/27+Invisible+Attackers?t=anon
I’ve seen drones from these botnets take down entire installations in real time. It’s very exciting and scary at the same time.
Being certified CEH is a dream and passion of mine. I’ve served as a Cryptologic Technician in the navy for almost ten years and now I’m a reservist. In my civilian career, I do network and security administration. I’ve hit a plateau with my career and I’m going back to school in July to finish my degree. To finish out my degree with CEH would be ideal; what an amazing chance. Thank you GeekMommy and to the sponsors for this chance. Good luck to all who enter.
Wow! A great opportunity for someone in the Security field to study and prove their expertise in the overall understanding of the methods and tools used by those individuals and groups who make our daily lives a bit more ‘painful’.
While I appreciate the wife who wants to better understand her spouse’s work in order to be closer to him – this course goes well beyond that level and requires quite some bit of pre-knowledge on many subjects. I would recommend the “Security + Study Guide” by Mike Pastore and Emmett Dulaney (SYBEX ISBN: 0-470-03821-7) and any one of the “Hacking Exposed – Network Security Secrets & Solutions” series books. The Security+ study guide gives an excellent review of all the aspects of security and is, in fact, a perfect prelude to the CEH course. Both books likely in her husband’s library already.
In addition, the book “Network Warrior” is another great ( though perhaps a bit harder read) delve into the realm of Routers, Firewalls, Layer2-vs-Layer3 switching, LANs, WANs, etc. and what the choices are between them. This is a fantastic book for any security professional to read prior to starting a Security+ or CEH study path.
All that said, I hope you will award this to someone IN the security field already who needs to prove their existing expertise in order to progress in their career or where it helps them find employment again to have this certification. I know it certainly helped me in mine and I am often asked by my peers about “how difficult was the test?”. They all realize how wide a net the CEH casts in its expectation of knowledge areas for those who they are certifying. It is simply one of the “best” certifications to have in your arsenal when trying to find employment in the Network Security field. (A solid CCNA doesn’t hurt!)
Best of luck to you all and keep up the great work at GeekMommy!
Henry Schupp
CEH ECC922203
As I try to get a business off the ground, that could be a very valuable prize to me. There’s a lot to learn there that I know very little about right now, which could aid me in a wide variety of ways for years to come.
Of particular interest to me is reverse engineering. Not that it would benefit me the most, or even be something I’d use on even a very sporadic basis, but I’ve always been intrigued as to how people go about it.
@thattalldude
It is interesting how in order to become a certified hacker you have to be ethical as well. I don’t think you need to be an Ethical Linguist or an Ethical Microsoft SQL Server Database Administrator or an ethical anything else, but “hacker” is apparently a tainted term.
I do want to learn more about computer forensics, and, hey, I’m not a certified anything, even if I am certifiable. Even if the fundamentals are a snooze it sounds like a blast, so sign me up for the pool!
Oh, wow! That’s certainly a great opportunity. Now, I’m not anywhere close enough to being ready for that… but my husband is! (A huge tech guy, loves command-line stuff).
But mainly, he (and I) would love it because it’s all about security, especially in MA where we are located — soon to have the strictest (actually I think it just went into effect) personal security laws in the country.
He would love the Linux Hacking, the Firewall Technologies, and hacking routers etc (working on a project related to this right now actually!), while once I’m more advanced would be interested in learning more about hacking DB servers, GPS, web browsers, firewalls and internet security.
All of the topics covered are of great interest to me. I work in the IT field, not because it just a job to me, but because I have a passion for all things IT and related. A certificate in ethical hacking has been a great interest to me recently.
The most interesting topic to me would be threats and counter measures. Thanks!
I also tweeted about this giveaway http://twitter.com/abroberts , thanks again!
nice shirt.. (^_^)