Question

For Discussion 6.2 – Hackers – friends or foes?

Answer 1

Hacker:   A hacker is a computer science expert, that is professional to break in the system and check for its vulnerabilities.

Types of hackers -

   i)   White hat hacker   -   A white-hat hacker is a professional that is hired or paid by an organization, that works under the laws of government to break the security, or to test the system for any security issues. Sometimes an organization hires a professional hacker to work with them since they are working with them they are the friend to the organization.

   ii)   Black hat hacker   -   A black-hat hacker is a cybercriminal which breaks the security of a system and steal the information or performs malicious attacks on the system. In this case, data theft, data loss, money theft are involved. Thus, a black hat hacker is always a foe for an organization.