Return to Ethical Hacker, Gray Hat Hacker, Ethical Hacker Bibliography, Ethical Hacker Courses, Ethical Hacker DevSecOps - Ethical Hacker CI/CD, Functional Programming and Ethical Hacker, Ethical Hacker and Concurrency, Ethical Hacker and Data Science, Ethical Hacker and Machine Learning, Ethical Hacker Glossary, Awesome Ethical Hacker, Ethical Hacker GitHub, Ethical Hacker Topics

Snippet from Wikipedia: White hat (computer security)

A white hat (or a white-hat hacker, a whitehat) is an ethical security hacker. Under the owner's consent, white-hat hackers deliberately hack software or system with the aim of identifying any vulnerabilities or security issues it has, helping to reinforce it from black hat hackers.

The white hat is contrasted with the black hat, a malicious hacker; this definitional dichotomy comes from Western films, where heroic and antagonistic cowboys might traditionally wear a white and a black hat, respectively. There is a third kind of hacker known as a grey hat who hacks with good intentions but at times without permission or proper consent.

White-hat hackers may also work in teams called "sneakers", hacker clubs, red teams, or tiger teams.

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

See:

• Gray Hat Hacking - The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Sixth Edition by Harper, Allen, Linn, Ryan, Sims, Stephen, Baucom, Michael, Tejeda, Huascar, et al.

Fair Use Sources:

• Gray Hat Hacking - The Ethical Hacker's Handbook on DuckDuckGo