Think as a Hacker Does
At the brand-new Hacker Academy in Chicago, US, students learn about phishing schemes, firewall breaches, and advanced tricks for breaking into confidential documents and revealing passwords.
But it’s not nearly as illegal as it sounds. The academy doesn’t teach people to be (51) , but to "think like hackers" and hopefully to stay one step ahead of (52) .
The students are (53) computer security professionals. They attend a course that teaches them the tools and techniques that hackers could use to get (54) systems they’re trying to protect. They (55) a certificate in "ethical " if they graduate.
The academy is one of the growing number of organizations that teach IT security experts to think like their enemies and to find holes in their systems (56) the hackers do. "If you can think like a hacker, you’re able to (57) some of the attacks that are happening," said Aaron Cohen, the academy’s founder.
Those attacks can range from indiscriminate viruses to corporate spying and efforts to gain sensitive data (58) banks, credit card companies, or individuals.
Computer Economics, a US IT research firm, estimates the (59) caused by viruses and other attacks in 2006 to be somewhere around US$14 billion.
"While the massive viruses seem to be (60) in number, there are more targeted attacks," said Mark McManus of Computer Economics.
With ransom attacks, for instance, hackers will break into a company’s network, and threaten to destroy it or give information to a competitor (61) they’re not paid.
Given all the threats, many companies are sending IT professionals to courses like those Cohen offers. So the "ethical hacker" certification, offered by the New York-based International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (the EC-Council), (62) about.
The EC-Council says it has trained about 20,000 people in 60 countries over the past three years, with 8,000 of them passing a (63) and earning the "ethical hacker" certification.
Cohen’s list of interested people includes an FBI agent, NASA employees, independent consultants, and company IT security directors. Some want the five-day on-site certification course. Others want a quick overview, like the US$ 695 "midnight " course, given online and late at () .
Cohen doesn’t (65) much about students using their courses for evil purposes. "Hackers don’t need our help," says Cohen.
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【单选题】The Club decided to allow people to play tennis on their beautiful lawns because（） A. few people enjoyed playing croquet B. its members became more interested in tennis C. lawn tennis seemed to have m...

People all over the world know Wimbledon as the center of lawn tennis.

In 1874 it was a country village, but it was the home of the All England Croquet Club. The Club had been there since 1864. A lot of people played croquet in England at that time and enjoyed it, but the national championships did not attract many people. So the Club had very little money.

"This new game of lawn tennis seems to have plenty of action (精彩场面), and people like watching it," they thought. "Shall we allow people to play lawn tennis on some of our beautiful croquet lawns"

In 1877, Wimbledon held the first world lawn tennis championships (men’s singles). Wimbledon grew. There was some surprise and doubt, of course, when the Club allowed women to play in the first women’s singles championship in 1884. But the ladies played well -- even in long skirts that hid their legs and feet. Until 1907 the winners, both men and women, were always British, but since 1936 the victory has usually gone to an American or an Australian. British people were very happy when an English girl, Ann Jones, won the championship in 1969.

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