Trained to become a white-hat hackers

I realize that, hacker can actually trained to become a white-hat hacker which is can help out all the big company or government agencies in the future. Through this, peoples will change their mind that hacker is actually a hero and no longer a bad people anymore. I found out that, in New York, there's students who trained to become a white-hat hackers. They are trained to help out the government and company to protect their data from cyber attacks. They are so called "new espionage". The professor and industry even created their very own hacking exercise for those students, because students cant simply hack into others webpage just to learn how to hack. Other than that, i've found out a very interesting white-hat hackers case study. He is actually a black-hat hacker at first, but he was caught by FBI and spent 5 years in the prison. After he came out, he decided to become a white -hat hackers. His name is Kevin Mitnick. The way he hacked system is nothing to do with computer skills but language skills. A professional white-hat hackers have to know all the skills though, for example, network, hardware or software hacking skills. Kevin Mitnick after that teamed up with Steve Jackson Games and come up with a Control-Alt-Hack. Its a game that pretend you're an ethical white-hat hacker working for an elite security company. The game is fun, but in the other side, you can also learn the ethical hacking at the same time. It will help a lot to let people become a white-hat hacker in the future if they are interest in hacking.

 

 Figure 1 above (Seth Rosenblatt, 2012) Control-Alt-Hack games

Figure 2 above (Tamara Denning, 2014) White-hat hacking for fun and profit

 References:
1) Jake, P. (2013) Inside the cybersecurity, 'white-hat hacker' University Network. Available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/11/cybersecurity-hacker-network-college_n_3064465.html [Accessed: 17th January, 2014].
2) Queen Mary (2011) Ninja white hat hacking. Available at: http://www.cs4fn.org/security/controlalthack.php [Accessed: 17th January, 2014].
3) Seth,Rosenblatt (2012) Hacking, the card game, debuts at black hats.  [Online]. Available at: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57480269-83/hacking-the-card-game-debuts-at-black-hat/ [Accessed: 17th January, 2014].
4) Tamara Denning (2014) Tools and Projects. [Online]. Available at: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~tdenning/publications.html [Accessed: 17th January, 2014].