Looking For A Good, Reliable Hacker

Hello,

I’ve been hacked repeatedly off and on for the past few months and I’m at the end of my rope. If all goes well, I’ll be on a brand new, managed server today with all fresh code for vBulletin and Wordpress.

I’d like to put my security to the test and hire someone to hack in. I believe these people are called web security specialists or equivalent. I believe the term is “security audit”.

How do I find a “good” security auditor? Is that software that ranks so well in Google, Acunetix, effective? Would you recommend me hiring an official hacker?

Maybe I could have a contest with a prize to whomever gets in first as long as they divulge how they did it so I can fix it.

Any thoughts?

Brandon

You’d probably have more success employing a good systems administrator. If you’re getting hacked on and off for months you’re not successfully looking for, finding and solving the insecure entry point. No matter how many times you move server, if the point of entry is within your code, or your own systems then it’ll continue to get exploited. A ‘penetration test’ (probably a better phrase for what you are looking to do) will not necessarily find the point of entry if e.g you have had ftp access compromised by a trojan.

Having a contest isn’t a good idea. Giving lots of people you don’t know the necessary access required to detect what’s wrong would be making the situation less secure rather than more.