{"id":27725,"date":"2017-06-26T14:38:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T12:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=27725"},"modified":"2017-06-26T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T12:38:59","slug":"why-so-many-top-hackers-hail-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/26\/why-so-many-top-hackers-hail-from-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Why So Many Top Hackers Hail from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brian Krebs<\/a> has an interesting post on “Why so many top hackers hail from Russia<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

Conventional wisdom says one reason so many hackers seem to hail from Russia and parts of the former Soviet Union is that these countries have traditionally placed a much greater emphasis than educational institutions in the West on teaching information technology in middle and high schools, and yet they lack a Silicon Valley-like pipeline to help talented IT experts\u00a0channel their skills into high-paying jobs. This post explores\u00a0the first part of that assumption by examining a breadth of open-source data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Overall, not very surprising, but the details and references are interesting. \u00a0It seems a lot has changed since I graduated (back in 1995).<\/p>\n

Via Slashdot<\/a>, which also has some insightful comments.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Brian Krebs has an interesting post on “Why so many top hackers hail from Russia“: Conventional wisdom says one reason so many hackers seem to hail from Russia and parts of the former Soviet Union is that these countries have traditionally placed a much greater emphasis than educational institutions in the West on teaching information … Continue reading Why So Many Top Hackers Hail from Russia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Why So Many Top Hackers Hail from Russia #Tech #security #Russia #education","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62,1334],"tags":[1114,1422,2909,200],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-27725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-education","tag-hack","tag-russia","tag-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t