• A white hat (or a white-hat hacker, a whitehat) is an ethical security hacker. Ethical hacking is a term meant to imply a broader category than just penetration...
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  • A grey hat (greyhat or gray hat) is a computer hacker or computer security expert who may sometimes violate laws or typical ethical standards, but usually...
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  • A black hat (black hat hacker or blackhat) is a computer hacker who violates laws or ethical standards for nefarious purposes, such as cybercrime, cyberwarfare...
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  • Thinking Hats Black and white hat symbolism in film White hat (computer security), a computer hacker intending to improve security White hat bias, cherry picking...
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  • break into computers, whether computer criminals (black hats) or computer security experts (white hats). A 2014 article noted that "the black-hat meaning...
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    Hacker (redirect from Computer hacking)
    discrepancy. Security hackers are people involved with circumvention of computer security. There are several types, including: White hat Hackers who work...
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  • Black Hat Briefings (commonly referred to as Black Hat) is a computer security conference that provides security consulting, training, and briefings to...
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  • hacker, hacker culture and differences in white/grey/black 'hat' color identification). The computer security software products industry was launched in...
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  • 2022 FreeHour ethical hacking case (category White hat (computer security))
    architecture had not undergone independent security auditing prior to the incident. Ethical hacking, or "white hat" security research, involves proactively identifying...
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  • protection Proactive cyber defence White hat (computer security) Help desk Incident management Information security Responsible disclosure Service desk...
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  • intelligence. List of digital forensics tools Vulnerability management White hat (computer security) Red team Sypris Electronics. "DoDD 8570.1: Blue Team". Sypris...
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    MalwareMustDie (category White hat (computer security))
    MalwareMustDie (MMD), NPO is a white hat hacking research workgroup that was launched in August 2012. MalwareMustDie is a registered nonprofit organization...
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    Computer security (also cybersecurity, digital security, or information technology (IT) security) is a subdiscipline within the field of information security...
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  • proving a successful computer break-in. "Marc Rogers joins Q-Net Security as Chief Security Officer | Security Magazine". Security Magazine. Segal, Adam;...
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    ReDoS Zemra White Hat (computer security) SourceForge: [1] "Praetox Techlologies". Archived from the original on 2010-10-08. "LOIC | Free Security & Utilities...
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  • Sakura Samurai (group) (category White hat (computer security))
    Sakura Samurai was a white hat hacking and security research group that was founded in 2020. The group is responsible for multiple vulnerability disclosures...
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  • Red team (category White hat (computer security))
    hat hacking Eligible Receiver 97 Exploit (computer security) Grey hat Groupthink Hacker (computer security) Hacker ethic IT risk Metasploit Murder board...
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  • Delta encoding SMP/E Automatic bug fixing Shavlik Technologies White hat (computer security) Upgrade "Microsoft issues biggest software patch on record"...
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  • black hat, black hats, or blackhats in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Black hat, blackhats, or black-hat refers to: Black hat (computer security), a computer...
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  • criminals Cybercrime Security hacker White hat (computer security) Black hat (computer security) Industrial espionage § Use of computers and the Internet...
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  • BlueHat (or Blue Hat or Blue-Hat) is a term used to refer to outside computer security consulting firms that are employed to bug test a system prior to...
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  •  13–14. Kakareka, Almantas (2009). "23". In Vacca, John (ed.). Computer and Information Security Handbook. Morgan Kaufmann Publications. Elsevier Inc. p. 393...
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  • timelinePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets White hat (computer security) – Computer hacker who hacks ethically Bransford, Gene (2003-12-18)...
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  • Penetration test (category Computer network security)
    System Security Assessment Framework (ISSAF), and Penetration Testing Methodologies and Standards (PTES). IT risk ITHC Tiger team White hat (computer security)...
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  • Patriotic hacking (category Hacking (computer security))
    IT risk Metasploit Penetration test Vulnerability (computing) White hat (computer security) "US hackers told to leave Iraq alone". 14 February 2003. Retrieved...
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  • Script kiddie (category Hacking (computer security))
    increase. Black hat hacker Computer security Exploit (computer security) Hacker (computer security) Hacktivism Lamer List of convicted computer criminals Luser...
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  • Sven Jaschan (category German computer programmers)
    is a former black-hat hacker turned white-hat and a security expert/consultant and creator of the NetSky worms, and Sasser computer worms. Jaschan lived...
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    unconcerned about the use of criminal means to achieve them. White hat hackers break past computer security for non-malicious reasons and do no damage, akin to...
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  • thinking skills and limit disputes. The White Hat is the information hat. The wearer of the white hat considers known information and looks for new information...
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  • Bug bounty program (category Hacking (computer security))
    industry Knuth reward check (Program in 1980) Open-source bounty White hat (computer security) Zerodium Ding, Aaron Yi; De Jesus, Gianluca Limon; Janssen,...
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