Hacker bleach? Korea invested a huge amount of training "white hackers"

South Korea in recent years suffered a series of network hacker attacks, causing huge losses to the social and economic development. In July 2009, South Korea's presidential Blue House, the Department of Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Congress and other major national institutions web site at the same time subjected to cyber attacks, and for two consecutive days to a standstill. In September 2010, the Korea Agro Association banking network was attacked, resulting in financial transactions are forced to interrupt, causing huge losses to the bank. The two serious hacker attacks, the Korean government began to make great efforts to train the staff to deal with hackers, "white hacker" program is in this context.

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Response to foreign hackers, network attacks, the South Korean government started the "white hackers" (a bona fide purpose of hackers) training program, plans to invest 1.9 billion won (about $ 1.67 million), training approximately 6 "white hackers" to strengthen the power of the Korea Information Security department.

According to South Korea's Dong-a Ilbo "reports on the 3rd, the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Korea Institute of Technology on the 2nd confirmed that starting this month, the two sides will jointly invest selection of 6" white hackers "in March next year. These six people will each selecting a cloud computing security, response to the smart phone attacks, response to the attack of website attacks and government facilities, and network attacks such as the collection of evidence in six areas.

Reported that the South Korean government since last month to accept a resume of hacker master, has received 237 resumes. File review and interview, the initial selection of more than 60 people. These people will be after many rounds of elimination, the final only 6 "white hackers". Is selected will receive 20 million won a scholarship provided by the South Korean government and the chance to go to overseas for further studies.

Dong-a Ilbo, said these "white hackers" will be first priority to the national authorities of the South Korean National Intelligence Service, National Police Agency, Cyber ??Command is responsible for network security. In addition, an education of "white hackers" will also be different, the network of experts in various fields of education, and the establishment of foreign language courses in order to deal with foreign hackers.