{"id":2542,"date":"2013-01-24T19:58:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T22:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kwell.net\/kwell_blog\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2013-01-24T19:58:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T22:58:29","slug":"in-hacker-highschool-students-learn-to-redesign-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kwell.net\/kwell_blog\/?p=2542","title":{"rendered":"In Hacker Highschool, students learn to redesign the future…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Como muchos de Uds. saben desde hace 7 a\u00f1os venimos desarrollando el programa HHS<\/a> de ISECOM.<\/p>\n

Hoy publicamos una nota de Pete Herzog que sali\u00f3 en OpenSource.com y que explica los alcances y motivaciones de este programa de formaci\u00f3n, esperamos que les resulte esclarecedora:<\/p>\n

It might sound strange, but every industry and profession could benefit from an employee as creative, resourceful, and motivated as a hacker. Hackers can teach themselves how things work and how groups of things work together. Hackers know how to modify things\u2014to adjust, personalize, and even improve them. And it is the hacker whose skillset is diverse, unique, and powerful enough to be dangerous in the hands of the wrong person. Enter ISECOM<\/a>\u2014a non-profit, open source research group focused on next-generation security and professional security development and accreditation\u2014and its popular project, Hacker Highschool.<\/p>\n

Studies have shown that an amateur in any particular field is most likely to entertain the self-delusion that he knows enough to master it. But once he gets some professional training, he begins to understand that learning is a continuous process and no one ever “knows it all.” A similar but more targeted study by ISECOM and the United Nations UNICRI, called the Hacker Profiling Project<\/a>, shows it’s amateur hackers who do the most damage out of carelessness.<\/p>\n

We know how important it is to show teen hackers how to gain knowledge and skills so as to move beyond the amateur level. We need to get teens to realize how small they are in the bigger world of hacking. We just need a way to do it responsibly. We figured if we could properly introduce the world of hacking to teenagers we could make them safer online, as well as open up new ways of thinking and the resourcefulness necessary to enhance any profession they find themselves in some day.<\/p>\n

Hackers unite<\/h2>\n

Our main focus was to teach junior high and highschool students (and their teachers). The project became known as Hacker Highschool and now offers license-free, security and privacy awareness teaching materials that students can follow on their own without the need of extra instruction from professionals or teachers.<\/p>\n

We craft lessons to work with any free “live Linux” CD, which will boot off a PC with a CD-ROM drive, to perform the lessons. Additionally, we provide access to an Internet-based test lab built and maintained specifically for Hacker Highschool.<\/p>\n

Here’s the curriculum we provide teachers as a supplement to student course work or as part of after-school and club activities:<\/p>\n

01 Being a Hacker
\n02 Basic Commands in Windows, Linux and OSX
\n03 Ports and Protocols
\n04 Services and Connections
\n05 System Identification
\n06 Malware
\n07 Attack Analysis
\n08 Digital Forensics
\n09 E-mail Security and Privacy
\n10 Web Security and Privacy
\n11 Passwords
\n12 Internet Legalities and Ethics
\n13 Cloud Computing
\n14 Databases
\n15 Document Grinding
\n16 Vulnerabilities and Exploits
\n17 Mobile Phones
\n18 Physical Security
\n19 Wireless Security
\n20 Social Engineering
\n21 Hacktivism<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We began teaching it formally as lessons and workbooks to high school students, taking advantage of studies showing how teenagers learn and how hackers figure things out. The truth was, more and more teens were coming online but were unprepared for what was out there: scammers, malware, thieves, bullies, and unethical businesses. And some teens were already finding out how insecure things were by using hacking tools and tips disseminated by newsgroups, chat, and public websites.<\/p>\n

So, while motivation for these teens to teach themselves was great, the information they got was inconsistent and often far from accurate. It was time to teach them the right way (or else they’d have a hard time reliably securing themselves in the future and probably end up doing more damage). We gave them a safe environment\u2014a group of vulnerable servers on which to test their new knowledge without hurting anyone.<\/p>\n

Para leer el resto del art\u00edculo: http:\/\/opensource.com\/life\/12\/8\/hacker-highschool-students-learn-redesign-future<\/a><\/p>\n

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