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2. 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.

3. Penetration test - Wikipedia

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   Over time, Anderson's description of general computer penetration steps helped guide many other security experts, who relied on this technique to assess time-sharing computer system security. [16]: 9 In the following years, computer penetration as a tool for security assessment became more refined and sophisticated.

4. Infostealer - Wikipedia

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   The researchers also found evidence of plugins that stole a user's browsing history, a customisable regex-based mechanism that allows the attacker to retrieve arbitrary files from a user's computer, a browser password extractor module, a module to extract Skype history, and a module to find and exfiltrate cryptocurrency wallet files.

5. US removes malware allegedly planted on computers by ... - AOL

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   WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday that it has deleted malware planted on more than 4,200 computers by a group of criminal hackers who were backed by the People's ...

6. List of cyberattacks - Wikipedia

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   A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.

7. Hackers hijack a wide range of companies' Chrome ... - AOL

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   By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens-Hackers have compromised several different companies' Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December, according to one of the ...