(Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) Microsoft recently announced a new addition to its bug bounty program as well as an invitation-only hacking contest to encourage white hat hackers to find ...
No grey hats, if you like. Thanks not only to films, but to TV shows, books and comics, children around the world have put on cowboy hats and mock-shot each other for decades. That westerns were ...
Hackers are white hats (ethical), black hats (criminals), or grey hats (unauthorized but often not harmful). Hackers can use malware and phishing kits or ethical tools for hacking. Popular hacking ...
Two grey hat hackers have pleaded guilty to blackmailing Uber , LinkedIn, and other U.S. corporations for money in exchange for promises to delete data of millions of customers they had stolen in late ...
It's something Bastian Treptel knows all too well - he was a bona fide 'black-hat hacker' - breaking into computers and accounts, stealing sensitive information and credit card details, until he was ...
It has vulnerabilities; we call them “loopholes.” We call exploits “tax avoidance strategies.” And there is an entire industry of “black hat” hackers intent on finding exploitable loopholes in the tax ...
White hat hackers, sometimes known as ethical hackers, are experts that help businesses find vulnerabilities in their applications, systems and networks. Jennifer Zaino is a New York-based freelance ...