Security @ Suncorp IT

Last Wednesday, in conjunction with the Career Fair at University of Queensland, an IT Security Advisor from Suncorp and UQ Alumnus, Ben Waugh had a presentation on IT security at the Social Science and Humanities library. I have always been very interested in computer security and ethical hacking (okay I need to stress on the word 'ethical'). So I attended the talk despite it was held at 5pm and I had tonnes of assignments due in two day time.

The presentation turned out to be interesting and informative. In fact, the speaker, Ben Waugh demonstrated on a test website how he could hack into some of the real world websites by exploiting the system vulnerability with SQL injection. It was certainly not something new to me as I already learned and tried such attack a few years ago. Actually I was expecting more hacking techniques such as session hijacking, cross-site scripting, man-in-the-middle attack, etc but I think he didn't have sufficient time and also there were some non-technical students in the hall.

Having said that, I had a good chat with Ben after the presentation while we were enjoying the free pizza. He was kind enough to give me some tips on how to perform well during the interview and he encouraged me to apply to Suncorp. His advice truly inspired and motivated me to work out my resume and submit the job application to the company. Unfortunately Suncorp does not accept applicants without permanent residency or citizenship.I guess I will send him an email soon and then cross my fingers... */