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What is the main goal of a security hacker?
What is the main goal of a security hacker?
- To assist in formulating defenses against potential hackers
- To explore methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network (correct)
- To strengthen security mechanisms
- To break into computer systems
What is the difference between a hacker and a cracker according to computer programmers?
What is the difference between a hacker and a cracker according to computer programmers?
- A hacker breaks into computers for malicious reasons, while a cracker seeks to access secure, unauthorized information despite security measures
- A hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses, while a cracker breaks into computers
- A hacker is someone who breaches defenses, while a cracker evaluates system weaknesses
- A hacker is someone with an advanced understanding of computers and computer networks, while a cracker is a computer security expert (correct)
What is the term for ethical computer hackers?
What is the term for ethical computer hackers?
- Blue hat hackers
- Grey hat hackers
- White hat hackers (correct)
- Black hat hackers
What is a script kiddie?
What is a script kiddie?
What is a neophyte?
What is a neophyte?
What is the term for a hacker who lies between black hat and white hat hackers, hacking for ideological reasons?
What is the term for a hacker who lies between black hat and white hat hackers, hacking for ideological reasons?
What is the term for a hacker who is used to bug-test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed?
What is the term for a hacker who is used to bug-test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed?
What is a hacktivist?
What is a hacktivist?
What is the term for the subculture around hackers?
What is the term for the subculture around hackers?
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Hacker
Hacker
Someone who uses technical skill to breach computer systems or networks, often with malicious intent.
White hat
White hat
Ethical hackers who use their skills for good, like finding vulnerabilities in systems so they can be fixed.
Black hat
Black hat
Hackers who use their skills for illegal activities, like stealing data or causing damage.
Grey hat
Grey hat
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Script kiddie
Script kiddie
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Neophyte
Neophyte
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Blue hat
Blue hat
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Hacktivist
Hacktivist
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Computer underground
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Summary Title: Understanding the Term "Hacker" in Computer Security
- A security hacker explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network.
- Hackers may be motivated by profit, protest, information gathering, challenge, recreation, or evaluation of a system's weaknesses to assist in formulating defenses against potential hackers.
- Computer programmers reclaim the term hacker, arguing that it refers to someone with an advanced understanding of computers and computer networks, while cracker is the more appropriate term for those who break into computers, whether computer criminals or computer security experts.
- The subculture around such hackers is termed network hacker subculture, hacker scene, or computer underground, which initially developed in the context of phreaking during the 1960s and the microcomputer BBS scene of the 1980s.
- Hackers can include someone who endeavors to strengthen security mechanisms by exploring their weaknesses and also those who seek to access secure, unauthorized information despite security measures.
- White hat is the name given to ethical computer hackers, who utilize hacking in a helpful way, while black hat hackers violate computer security for malicious reasons.
- Grey hat hackers lie between black hat and white hat hackers, hacking for ideological reasons.
- A script kiddie is an unskilled hacker who breaks into computer systems by using automated tools written by others, usually with little understanding of the underlying concept.
- A neophyte is someone who is new to hacking or phreaking and has almost no knowledge or experience of the workings of technology and hacking.
- A blue hat hacker is someone who is used to bug-test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed.
- A hacktivist is a hacker who utilizes technology to publicize a social, ideological, religious or political message.
- The computer underground is frequently compared to the Wild West, and the subculture has produced its own specialized slang, such as 1337speak.
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