How to hack the hackers: IT pro train to counter attacks
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Lynn Greiner
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published Friday, Sep. 26 2014, 7:00 AM EDT
Last updated Thursday, Sep. 25 2014, 2:10 PM EDT
When hackers attack your computer systems, and your best defences don’t keep them out, the only thing that can be done is to track down the crooks, find out who they are, retrieve the stolen data and shut them down. That’s what the RCMP did when the Canada Revenue Agency was hacked through the Heartbleed bug, and although the culprit in that case seems to have been a curious student, the technology and techniques they used were the same as those they’d employ to hunt down an international crime ring.
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