Hackers and hacking
We can start the conversation around who wants your information by first beginning to define the hacker. A hacker is someone who has the knowledge and skills necessary to circumvent the security controls or detect and exploit vulnerabilities in an information system.
Black hat hacker
A black hat hacker is an individual who compromises a computer system with malicious intent and without the permission of the owner of the information system. These individuals are engaged in criminal activities and are the ones that are behind the technical implementation and proliferation of cybercrime that we have seen grow across the world. The term black hat hacker was pulled from western films where the criminal in the movie would wear a black hat.
White hat or ethical hacker
A white hat or ethical hacker is a person that uses their knowledge and skills to circumvent a computer system's security controls with the knowledge of an information system owner. White hat hackers typically present...
