Ethical Hacking training for Information Security Professionals

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has just revealed some interesting statistics on a white-collar Internet crime. In 2010 alone, the FBI received 300,000 complaints – about 25,000 per month. Whether its fraudsters impersonating FBI agents or cyber-hackers stealing consumer financial data, the Bureau has its hands full — and is asking the public for help.

The numbers come from the FBI’s 2010 Internet Crime Report, compiled from the Bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).

Since the IC3 began recording cyber-theft 10 years ago, the agency arm says that it’s received two million complaints on white-collar Internet crime.

The IC3 report says that impersonators acting as FBI agents, non-payment of items ordered on the Internet and identity theft were the most common complaints filed by the agency. The rest of the “Top Ten” included computer crimes, miscellaneous fraud, advance fee fraud, spam, auction fraud, credit card fraud and overpayment fraud. The report also listed some of the “newer” forms of Internet crimes:

information security conference called TakeDown Conference, a highly technical security training conference with a platform that will allow participants to go through both hands on and real life scenario based training covering domains such as web application security, penetration testing and social engineering.

Ethical Hacking training is vital in helping curb Internet crime. EC-Council has trained over 80,000 individuals and certified more than 30,000 security professionals. These certifications are recognized worldwide and have received endorsements from various government agencies including the US federal government, National Security Agency (NSA), Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS), US Army, FBI, Microsoft and CERTs (Computer Emergency Response Team) of various nations. The UUS Department of Defense has included the CEH program into its Directive 8570, making it one of the mandatory standards to be achieved by Computer Network Defenders Service Providers (CND-SP).