Ethical hackers play a major role in solving criminal cases
Posted on: 18/Nov/2014 3:38:17 PM
In addition to the help and support given by the cyber cell functioning with the national and state security agencies in solving various cyber crime cases, there are few ethical hackers who work behind the scenes and help the police in solving various high-profile cyber crimes.
Most of these ethical hackers are either college dropouts or very highly qualified computer professionals aging between 20 and 30 who have the urge to crack down the criminals.
Speaking to one such professional hacker, he says it started with bug bounty program (note that there are several websites and software developers who pay people for figuring out bugs in their coding and submit a report on it) by renowned software companies which pulled him into the field.
This young ethical hacker prefers working at night with all computer devices filling his room. He when gave a help to one other ethical hacker that he got introduced to cyber crime agency. He says he works together with his friends and help security agencies in solving various kinds of cyber crime related cases. There are numerous criminal gangs who function from countries like Russia, China, Africa, etc. They are all well connected to whom we exchange information about fraudulent cases.
