Want to learn cybersecurity? Head to Def Con.

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By Queena Kim
Marketplace
August 25, 2014

I wanted to talk to people who are learning how to become cybersecurity 
professionals. With all the security break-ins that we've seen recently, I 
thought they would be easy to find. At a Silicon Valley university, maybe? 
Or in a Bay Area tech school?

Nope! In the end I had to go to Vegas, of all places, to a hacker 
conference called Def Con.

I watched Google’s Parisa Tabriz take the stage. She asked the audience to 
help the search giant find bugs: “You can make anywhere between $100 and 
$150,000 for a security bug, and you can also get a job!”

Tabriz, the engineering manager for the security team that protects Google 
Chrome, was speaking to the right audience. Def Con is a group of people 
learning to become cybersecurity specialists via computer system 
break-ins. In other words, they were learning to hack.

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