Feature
Introducing
The Ethical
HACKER
Neil O’Neil is an unconventional digital forensics investigator who fights fire with fire. He is a
practitioner of employing hacking techniques to identify cyber crime. He, and his ‘mobile
forensics laboratory’, offer a live demonstration of various hacking techniques, from keystroke
logging in all its various forms (including using USBs to identify passwords, loggers that have
been integrated into keyboards, and software loggers installed through viruses). Neil enters
another dimension and language to show how hackers can use alternate data streams to hide
information in .txt files and how they or even terrorists can use ‘steganography’ to hide pictures
within pictures and deliver or steal critical information undetected. He does this by using similar
dark art techniques to his adversaries in order to expose their dastardly practices.
TRANGE as it may sound, if you are going to be the find any evidence. That’s because there is no legal
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subject of a security breach, resulting in the loss of requirement in the UK to make breaches public; when it
credit card data, now is as good a time as any. Let me comes to the public disclosure of such events, the UK lags
explain. The concept of data breaches has entered the behind the US. In fact desperate efforts are made to keep
public’s consciousness in recent years, following well- breaches under wraps, due to the hugely negative impact they
publicised credit card data losses suffered by TJK and have on customer confidence. So the chances of a breach
Heartlands. However if you wanted to know what the single flying under the radar are far greater today than they could
largest UK card data breach to date is, you would struggle to be tomorrow.
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