中英双语新闻 英国大学生学黑客技巧保卫网络安全

Computer hacking¹ directly affects thousands of people and companies every day. Of late, there’ve been stories of how the voting records of more than 18 million Mexicans were accessible online, all data from a dating site being traded and more recently, the Bangladesh central bank was raided for many millions of dollars.

This is a game. The challengers have to perform the same type of attacks that the bad guys do on enterprise computers. So in a game like this one, we expose students to the skills that the bad guys are using. After being warned not to try and break Cambridge University, the teams of four students got to work on a series of hacking challenges designed by engineers at Facebook.

So what’ve you been doing? Have you cracked the base?

Maybe. A few times.

The idea is for me to find some hidden secrets in this farm, which I’m about to.

Is that a thrill?

It makes me excited.

In the end, the teams are just competing for bragging² rights. But as Birmingham’s captain explained, in real life, the stakes will be much higher.

I mean, I can take the example of my PhD. I work on automotive vehicle security, car security. There are so many hacks³ out there and the stakes are like, you know, human lives.

Scary stuff. So perhaps there’s no surprise that the police were spectating at the event. Why are you here?

There’s a number of reasons I’m here. I mean, firstly, part of my role is around the prevent agenda, the counterterrorism prevent agenda where we are looking at deradicalization, or preventing people becoming the black cat hackers⁴ and the kind of evil coders and actually bringing them into the ethical⁵ hacking space.

It is obvious that these are powerful techniques that could be used for good or evil.

I mean isn’t it the truth just that everything is broken?

Well, you could say maybe that’s the best time to get in cyber security. That’s the best time to be in this business, right? Because there is a shortage of skilled experts on the good side.

The competition will help forge links between groups of students who in the future may be controlling our cyber defenses. And as for this, the inaugural⁶ year of the competition, the result went to… Can you guess?

Now, with a mix of pride and embarrassment⁷, I award top prize to the Cambridge team.

英国大学生学黑客技巧保卫网络安全

计算机黑客每天直接影响着数千人和公司。最近此类事件屡屡发生：逾1800万墨西哥人的选票记录在网上可以直接看到，所有数据都在一交友网站上交易；近来，孟加拉国中央银行被劫数百万美元。

这是一个比赛。挑战者要对企业计算机实施坏人执行的同类袭击。所以在这样的比赛中，我们让学生熟悉坏人们使用的伎俩。在被警告不要尝试突破剑桥大学网络后，学生每四人一组参与“

脸谱网”工程师设计的一系列黑客挑战。

你在做什么？你突破网站了吗？

可能吧，有几次。

这个理念对我来说就是在这个场里找到一些隐藏的秘密，我也正要这样做。

紧张吗？

我挺激动的。

最终，队伍争的只是炫耀的权利。但伯明翰队长说，在现实生活中，赌注会高得多。

就拿我的博士课题举例吧。我的专业是机动车辆安全，汽车安全。外面有那么多黑客，赌注就是人命啊你知道吗。

确实挺可怕的。所以警察来“观战”也就不足为奇了。你为什么参加呢？

我来的原因有很多。首先，预防工作，反恐预防工作是我的职责之一，我们关注非激进化，也就是防止人们变成“黑猫”黑客和不良编码员，实际上就是把人们带入道德黑客空间。

显然，这些是非常强大的技巧，可好可坏。

现在什么东西都损坏的，不是吗？

嗯，你可以说或许这是收获网络安全的最佳时期，是这个行业的最佳时机，对吧？因为我们缺的是好人这边技艺娴熟的专家。

竞赛将有助于在各组学生间建立联系，他们可能是未来网络防御的主力军。而在这第一届比赛中，获胜的是……大家能猜到吗？

此时此刻，带着骄傲和尴尬的复杂心情，我将一等奖颁给剑桥队。

1 hacking   

n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动

参考例句：

• The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
• We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。

2 bragging   

v.自夸，吹嘘( brag的现在分词 )；大话

参考例句：

• He's always bragging about his prowess as a cricketer. 他总是吹嘘自己板球水平高超。 来自辞典例句
• Now you're bragging, darling. You know you don't need to brag. 这就是夸口，亲爱的。你明知道你不必吹。 来自辞典例句

3 hacks   

黑客

参考例句：

• But there are hacks who take advantage of people like Teddy. 但有些无赖会占类似泰迪的人的便宜。 来自电影对白
• I want those two hacks back here, right now. 我要那两个雇工回到这儿，现在就回。 来自互联网

4 hackers   

n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 )；私自存取或篡改电脑资料者，电脑“黑客”

参考例句：

• They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒，他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面，他们最终同意了。 来自互联网

5 ethical   

adj.伦理的，道德的，合乎道德的

参考例句：

• It is necessary to get the youth to have a high ethical concept.必须使青年具有高度的道德观念。
• It was a debate which aroused fervent ethical arguments.那是一场引发强烈的伦理道德争论的辩论。

6 inaugural   

adj.就职的；n.就职典礼

参考例句：

• We listened to the President's inaugural speech on the radio yesterday.昨天我们通过无线电听了总统的就职演说。
• Professor Pearson gave the inaugural lecture in the new lecture theatre.皮尔逊教授在新的阶梯讲堂发表了启用演说。

7 embarrassment   

n.尴尬；使人为难的人(事物)；障碍；窘迫

参考例句：

• She could have died away with embarrassment.她窘迫得要死。
• Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.在音乐会上咳嗽真会使人难堪。