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  2. Hacker - Wikipedia

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    A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who achieves goals by non-standard means. The term has become associated in popular culture with a security hacker – someone with knowledge of bugs or exploits to break into computer systems and access data which would otherwise be inaccessible to them.

  3. Black hat (computer security) - Wikipedia

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    While hacking has become an important tool for governments to gather intelligence, black hats tend to work alone or with organized crime groups for financial gain. [2] [6] Black hat hackers may be novices or experienced criminals. They are usually competent infiltrators of computer networks and can circumvent security protocols. They may create ...

  4. Code injection - Wikipedia

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    Code injection is a computer security exploit where a program fails to correctly process external data, such as user input, causing it to interpret the data as executable commands. An attacker using this method "injects" code into the program while it is running.

  5. Backdoor (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A backdoor is a typically covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer, product, embedded device (e.g. a home router), or its embodiment (e.g. part of a cryptosystem, algorithm, chipset, or even a "homunculus computer"—a tiny computer-within-a-computer such as that found in Intel's AMT technology).

  6. Hacking - Wikipedia

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    Hacker culture, activity within the computer programmer subculture; Security hacker, someone who breaches defenses in a computer system Cybercrime, which involves security hacking; Phone hacking, gaining unauthorized access to phones; ROM hacking, the process of modifying a video game's program image

  7. Hack - Wikipedia

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    Hack (computer security), to gain unauthorized access to computers and computer networks; Hack (programming language), a programming language developed by Meta; HACK (tag), a tag in a programming language comment warning about a workaround; Hack computer, a virtual computer described in the textbook The Elements of Computing Systems

  8. Category:Hacking (computer security) - Wikipedia

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    This category is for pages related to the computer security definition of hacking. Individual hackers and hacking groups should be categorized into related categories. Individual hackers and hacking groups should be categorized into related categories.

  9. Security hacker - Wikipedia

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    A security hacker or security researcher is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. [1] Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, information gathering, [2] challenge, recreation, [3] or evaluation of a system weaknesses to assist in formulating defenses against potential hackers.