Ethical Hackers

Ethical Hackers definition - hacker
White Hat hackers who do not destroy property or harm persons with their exploits. Using their computer skills and analytical talents, they break into computers (with authorization) to find vulnerabilities—whether for research, for testing computer security (typically as part of their job), or as a competitive sport with others cut from the same cognitively creative “fabric.”

See Also: White Hats or Ethical Hackers or Samurai Hackers; Security; Vulnerabilities in Computers.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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