Need some advice regarding Ethical Hacking Course
By jshekhar
@jshekhar (1562)
India
July 5, 2009 2:47pm CST
Hello friends,
I am an electrical and electronics engineer, just passed out of college and would be joining Infosys, an Indian I.T. firm with a global client base, in September. In the mean time, I felt it was good to go for some certification rather than sitting idle at home. I went to this institute which offers Ethical hacking course where they would teach me crazy ways to steal information and then learn the ways to protect such attacks. I was so excited when I went for the demonstration class today!The course content would be a lot of things like spoofing, scripting, DOS attacks, changing source ID, SQL injection, php injection, etc etc...
Do you people advice going for a Cyber Forensics basics course at this point of time?
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7 responses
@timelord50 (170)
• United States
5 Jul 09
me personally would love to if its something extra to get qualified in then you might find it worth while when it comes to your job you might be able to stop any such attacks from happening you may even recognise it before any of the other staff realise so in my opinion i would take the course use it to protect others dont use it for your own selfish needs otherwise u may get into trouble you may have to use it in your job anyway when a situation crops up so really i would say a positive yes.
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@timelord50 (170)
• United States
6 Jul 09
something we have in common then i have just become fully qualified in electrical contracting and im looking to go into IT so go for it.
@tonyllenium (6252)
• Italy
5 Jul 09
i think it is really suitable for electronics enginer have a tutorial or course like that so i think you are right to be interested in it and so even really interesting to attend ti as well!!
i knew some engineers that don't really know about dos attack ,spoofing ,sql injection and so on..or better they know because they heard them but have no idea about them too!!So i think that if we consider in many cases these kind of things cna be really normal as regards this issue it should be really suitable for and your work to understand and know practically about the reverse systems!!
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@jshekhar (1562)
• India
6 Jul 09
Hello friend,
Thank you for the advice and appreciation. I learned these terms few days ago only and when I went for the free demo class, they really taught me some amazing things, even displayed it LIVE on the internet, by getting into a few websites and altering their database as well!
@jshekhar (1562)
• India
6 Jul 09
Thanks a lot for such a sweet response, Pat.
yeah, I have always had this thing in me to keep on studying a subject that interests me. Of late, it has been this field of computers and I really want to devote a lot of time into it, now that I am relatively free for two months or so..
have a good day
@la_chique (1498)
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5 Jul 09
I'd love to do that course but dont have the time right now. I suggest you do it as its a really valuable course and you may as well whilst you're waiting to start your new job. Of course, you could wait a little while and see if your new employer would fund it for you.
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@aditya_k85 (737)
• India
6 Jul 09
I have done a cyber crime investigation course. It was of 1 year duration. It was a basic course but I did get some knowledge regarding this field. It is a very interesting subject and if you are have interest in it, then you should definitely join it. Any kind of knowledge does not go waste. So go ahead and join the course.
@davethegreat (40)
• Portugal
6 Jul 09
I strongly advise you to take that course. First of all, as you said, it may have no point sitting all day at home, idle, with almost anything to do. Secondly, it is an add to your curriculum vitae, which always offer you an extra protection against unemployment. Thirdly, that are is still in expansion so it is quite useful to learn it. What is more, you also use it to protect yourself as well as to protect others and also, who knows, to make a little trap to a friend of yours and impress him with your knowledge. There is always time to learn more, and that area is particulary useful, trust me.
Best Regards
