{"id":743,"date":"2006-06-20T01:53:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T00:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/20\/university-opens-school-for-hackers\/"},"modified":"2006-06-20T01:53:42","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T00:53:42","slug":"university-opens-school-for-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/20\/university-opens-school-for-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"University opens school for hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A degree course in computer hacking has been launched by a Scottish university in response to industry demand for IT security experts.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dw.com.com\/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abertay.ac.uk&#038;siteId=3&#038;oId=2100-7355-6085375&#038;ontId=1009&#038;lop=nl.ex\" target=\"_blank\">University of Abertay in Dundee<\/a> will run the Bachelor of Science undergraduate course in &#8220;Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures&#8221; starting in the next academic year in October.<\/p>\n<p>Around 30 students will be enrolled in the course, which the university says will provide a graduate with knowledge of how illegal computer attacks can be performed and how they can be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>The course catalog description says: &#8220;In the same way that police detectives need to know how thieves can steal, computer systems administrators need to know what hackers can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I for one\u00a0can see this being quite a good course if they can teach it right.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-7355_3-6085375.html?part=rss&#038;tag=6085375&#038;subj=news\">Cnet News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- STORY TEASE --><\/p>\n<style>        #textCarousel {  width: 140px;  border-color: #630;  border-width: 2px;  border-style: solid;  padding: 10px;  float: right;  margin: 15px 0 15px 15px;  background-image: url(\/i\/ne05\/fmwk\/greyfadeback.jpg);  background-repeat: no-repeat;  background-position: -150px top;  }    #textCarousel li {  font-size: 95%;  line-height: 1em;  margin-bottom: 10px;  }    #textCarousel h4 {  margin: 0 0 5px 0;  font-size: 110%;  }<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A degree course in computer hacking has been launched by a Scottish university in response to industry demand for IT security experts. The University of Abertay in Dundee will run the Bachelor of Science undergraduate course in &#8220;Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures&#8221; starting in the next academic year in October. Around 30 students will be enrolled in the course, which the<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/20\/university-opens-school-for-hackers\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;University opens school for hackers&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}