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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. In a positive connotation, though ...
An activist hacking group claimed it leaked thousands of Disney’s internal messaging channels, which included information about unreleased projects, raw images and some logins and computer codes.
A security hacker 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.
Samy Kamkar (born December 10, 1985) [1] is an American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker and entrepreneur. At the age of 16, he dropped out of high school. [2] One year later, he co-founded Fonality, a unified communications company based on open-source software, which raised over $46 million in private funding. [3] In 2005, he created and released the fastest spreading virus ...
Kevin David Mitnick (August 6, 1963 – July 16, 2023) was an American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker. He is best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and five years in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes. [5] Mitnick's pursuit, arrest, trial, and sentence along with the associated ...
List of hackers Here is a list of notable hackers who are known for their hacking acts.
Certified Ethical Hacker (Practical) Certified Ethical Hacker ( CEH) is a qualification given by EC-Council and obtained by demonstrating knowledge of assessing the security of computer systems by looking for vulnerabilities in target systems, using the same knowledge and tools as a malicious hacker, but in a lawful and legitimate manner to ...
Google hacking [1] Google hacking, also named Google dorking, [2] [3] is a hacker technique that uses Google Search and other Google applications to find security holes in the configuration and computer code that websites are using.