Hacking-as-a-Service, goes mainstream
Matthew Rosenquist
CISO at Mercury Risk. - Formerly Intel Corp, Cybersecurity Strategist, Board Advisor, Keynote Speaker, 190k followers
Hacking as a service, goes mainstream. From espionage to jealous boyfriends, enterprising hackers are offering a wide variety of services and tools to cover many different market needs. A well researched article by Steven Melendez gives all the juicy details.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3043016/the-cybercrime-service-economy
Here is an interesting twist. I have had several hackers-for-hire send me a Connection request to join me in LinkedIn. Although I respect people’s talents, I choose to not include them in my online community. I do connect with researchers, testers, and other types of white/gray hats, but I am compelled by my personal moral compass to draw the line somewhere. I am interested however, in others views on the matter.
Would you accept a connection request from an ‘available hacker-for-hire’ in LinkedIn?
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9 年I have the same view as you Matt. I would not knowingly add them to my network as that tends to give my implied support for what they are doing.
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9 年I've heard of "guns for hire" but seriously...if its being done internally at a company and they are testing their own firewall, etc...I see the point. Hopefully it does not go anywhere beyond this.
Ultra High Performance Resilient Data Security and Infrastructure Architect
9 年I believe even contacting them would be considered criminal intent, is my guess?