Two system engineers exhort the population worry about learning about cybersecurity,so that they can better defend themselves against electronic crimes and avoid falling victim to criminals.
The engineers Julio Ureña and Richard Arias, founders of the hacking community RedteamRDThey alerted that there are those who are in cyberspace looking for ways to do harm and defraud, because they misuse technology.
Ureña and Arias consider it important that the users have knowledge of how a cybercriminal operates. Urena clarified that a “hacking” is not a cybercriminal, but a person who likes to explore technology, who only becomes illegal if he uses it inappropriately, accessing other people’s platforms without the consent of the owners.
“Hacking is a curious person, who likes to explore technology, get to know it, and in that process has the ability to identify things that were not created to be done with technology, but that can be done,” he explained.
Urena exposed the positive and negative aspects of the foray into the world of hacking”. Among the positive elements, he highlighted her, is being able to defend oneself better, and being able to assess the risks of your company. And as a negative aspect, he pointed out, when he breaks the legal barrier and carries out an activity without the consent of the entities or individuals.
“If you do it without consent, enter into something illegal and they will apply the weight of the law, if there is consent, hacking is legal,” he said. As an illegality, he cited, by way of example, people who are creating pages similar to those of banks to deceive users or scams through the watsap network, through campaigns, through which they begin to ask for money to steal belongings or information.
Richard Arias added that there is also the scenario of young people who tend to cross the barrier of legality due to emotion, or due to lack of knowledge and proper guidance. Arias specified that each one gives the use that he understands to technology.
“Hacking is a coin that has two sides, because it is loose knowledge and everyone gives it the use they understand, it may be that it is used badly, since due to lack of communication, the good use is not made known, which it is teaching us how to defend the companies and the interests of the users”, he explained.
Cybersecurity experts pointed out that according to the National Cybersecurity Center, scams and identity theft are the main threats.
Conference
The RedTeamRD community will hold the first edition of its HackConRD conference on March 4, which each year will bring together cybersecurity professionals and students, and technology from different parts of the world, interested in understanding the world of hacking.
The event aims to create a dynamic scenario where people can learn about the new threats that exist in cyberspace and have a real experience on how cyber attacks occur and what things can be done to avoid them.
The RedTeamRD community was created three and a half years ago. Ureña explained that the “hacking” community’s mission is for people to understand the importance of knowledge in cybersecurity, and how they can be attacked by a hacker, so that they can protect themselves.
He argued that they promote ethical values, so that people who know about hacking use it well.