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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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Hacking - Wikipedia

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    Hacker, a computer expert with advanced technical knowledge 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

  6. Hack-for-hire operation - Wikipedia

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    Hack-for-hire services are typically considered illegal, as they involve unauthorized access to private digital systems and computer networks. They are generally punishable under the computer crime laws of many countries, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) in the United States and the Computer Misuse Act in the United Kingdom. [6 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. White hat (computer security) - Wikipedia

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    To try and replicate some of the destructive techniques a real attack might employ, ethical hackers may arrange for cloned test systems, or organize a hack late at night while systems are less critical. [14] In most recent cases these hacks perpetuate for the long-term con (days, if not weeks, of long-term human infiltration into an organization).

  9. 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