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 The NSA is expanding its fold of hackers, but Mr George said there is a shortage of those skills. |
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The National Security Agency has a challenge for hackers who think they're hot stuff: prove it by working on the "hardest problems on Earth." Computer hacker skills are in great demand in the US government to fight the cyber wars that pose a growing national security threat -- and they are in short supply. For that very reason an alphabet soup of federal agencies -- DOD, DHS, NASA, NSA -- are descending on Las Vegas this week for Defcon, an annual hacker convention where the $150 entrance fee is cash only -- no registration, no credit cards, no names taken. Attendance is expected to top 10,000. The National Security Agency is among the keen suitors. The spy agency plays both offense and defense in the cyber wars. It conducts electronic eavesdropping on adversaries and protects US computer networks that hold super secret material -- a prize target for America's enemies. "Today it's cyber warriors that we're looking for, not rocket scientists," said Richard "Dickie" George, technical director of the NSA's Information Assurance Directorate, the agency's cyber-defense side. "That's the race that we're in today. And we need the best and brightest to be ready to take on this cyber warrior status," he told reporters in an interview. The NSA is hiring about 1,500 people in the fiscal year which ends Sept. 30 and another 1,500 next year, most of them cyber experts. With a workforce of just over 30,000, the Fort Meade, Maryland-based NSA dwarfs other intelligence agencies, including the CIA. It also engages in cyber-spying and other offensive operations, something it rarely, if ever, discusses publicly. But at Defcon, the NSA and other "Feds" will be competing with corporations looking for hacking talent too. The NSA needs cyber security experts to harden networks, defend them with updates, do "penetration testing" to find security holes and watch for any signs of cyber attacks. The NSA is expanding its fold of hackers, but George said there is a shortage of those skills. "We are straining to hire the people that we need." (Read by Christine Mallari. Christine Mallari is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
那些覺得自己是香餑餑的黑客們，現(xiàn)在美國國家安全局有一個挑戰(zhàn)性任務給你們了。想要證明自己的實力，就來攻克這些“地球上最難的難題”吧。 為了打好這場對國家安全日益造成威脅的網(wǎng)絡戰(zhàn)爭，美國政府急需大量電腦黑客技術(shù)人才，目前該類人才嚴重短缺。 因此，多個美國聯(lián)邦政府機構(gòu)——國防部、國土安全部、美國宇航局、國家安全局將參加本周在拉斯維加斯舉辦的名為“防御態(tài)勢”（Defcon）的年度黑客大會。入場費150美元，只收現(xiàn)金，不收信用卡、不需注冊、不記名。預計將吸引一萬人到場。 美國國家安全局也在這群求賢若渴的機構(gòu)之列。這家諜報機構(gòu)在網(wǎng)絡戰(zhàn)爭中扮演防御和進攻的雙重角色，對對手進行電子竊聽，保護裝有絕密材料的美國計算機網(wǎng)絡，這可是敵人一直虎視眈眈的目標。 國家安全局負責網(wǎng)絡防御的信息保護理事會技術(shù)主管理查德?“迪奇”?喬治說：“我們現(xiàn)在尋找的是網(wǎng)絡武士，而非火箭專家?！?/p> 他在一次訪談中告訴記者說：“這就是我們現(xiàn)在所面臨的競賽。我們需要把最優(yōu)秀最聰明的人變成隨時應戰(zhàn)的網(wǎng)絡武士。” 在9月30日截止的財政年度里，國家安全局將雇用1500人，明年還要新增1500人，他們中大多是網(wǎng)絡專家。美國國家安全局位于馬里蘭州米德堡，其多達3萬人員規(guī)模讓包括中情局在內(nèi)的其他情報機構(gòu)相形見絀。 國家安全局還從事網(wǎng)絡間諜和其他的攻擊性活動，但他們幾乎從不在公開場合提及。 而在這次黑客大會上，國家安全局和其他聯(lián)邦政府機構(gòu)將與企業(yè)爭相物色黑客人才。 美國國家安全局需要網(wǎng)絡安全專家來強化更新網(wǎng)絡防衛(wèi)，進行“滲透測試”來盤查安全漏洞，密切注意任何網(wǎng)絡攻擊的跡象。 盡管國家安全局正大力招兵買馬，但喬治說這樣的黑客技術(shù)人才仍然緊缺：“我們正竭力招募我們所需要的人才?！?/p> 相關(guān)閱讀 美國擬推網(wǎng)絡身份證 網(wǎng)民擔心遭監(jiān)視 （中國日報網(wǎng)英語點津 實習生沈清 編輯：陳丹妮） |
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Vocabulary: alphabet soup: language which is extremely difficult to understand, especially because it contains many symbols or abbreviations 代號語言（因含有許多符號或縮略語等而難懂） eavesdrop: to listen secretly to what other people are saying 偷聽，竊聽（其他人談話） dwarf: to make something seem small or unimportant compared with something else（使顯得矮小；使相形見絀） strain: 盡力；竭力；使勁 |
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