Black Hat 2008: How Hackers Get Rich (& other sordid tales)

Dark Reading's Site Editor, Tim Wilson, speaks with White Hat Security's Founder & CTO, Jeremiah Grossman and the Director of Software for the company, Trey Ford. The duo walks through some examples of how hackers are making a little bit of scratch to gobs of money through methods like manipulating polls and contests; exploiting QVC to get products for free and turning around to sell them for profit; or even manipulating the stock market - an Estonian stock broker gets advance copies of press releases simply by guessing the file names on the site and trading on the data.

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[Paintballegend]

<==== Green Hat = Smoke weed and play video games!

[Er3ck003]

Black Hat = Bad Guy.

White Hat = Good Guy.

Gray Hat = Neutral (they dont give a fuck)

[sniperblue23]

I am the Blue Hat guy.

[Nhordmyr]

Durr...

[c0mpletelyNumb]

@Paintballegend I am the Green Hat Overlord. All will bow before me and my percolating bong.

[Paintballegend]

@hck112 Do you mean that people who smoke weed won't live past 30... are you retarded?

[AKCharlie47]

Estonian criminal fuck

[hck112]

@111tag111 aka the Feds.

[hck112]

@mrbore23 get an IRC channel and search. Or forum, that's all. Don't ask.

[hck112]

@Paintballegend and their life spans are shorter than 30 years.

Well I guest whitehats are the most healthiest hackers ever.