Vancouver’s ‘white hat’ hackers ride lawless ethics frontier

Each day Derek Manky and his team of hackers fix their eyes on computer monitors, clutch their keyboards and comb the Internet for security vulnerabilities that could paralyze computer systems.

Since 2006, the team has uncovered 262 “zero-days” – flaws in networks or applications capable of anything from spreading malware to stealing passwords. And about 100 of those discoveries were made in 2015 alone.

“There’s so many new products, so many different vendors that are vulnerable now. So it’s not just one or two,” said Manky. “Now there’s literally hundreds of these targets that stem from cloud software to the Internet of Things and desktop software.”

The good thing, though, is Manky and the hackers he supervises aren’t there to exploit those targets. For the full article click here 

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