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What is the Difference Between a White Hat Hacker and Black Hat Hacker?

Author(s):

Caleb Townsend, Staff Writer, United States Cybersecurity Magazine

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Black Hat Hacker staring at computer screen wearing hoodie as the room is illuminated by green light. White Hat Hacker conceptual.

Movies are probably to blame for the majority of the public not understanding what a hacker actually does. We all conjure a very specific set of tropes in our brains whenever we hear about hacking. A man in a hoodie, typing late into the night as the green glow of binary code illuminates his Doritos-dust … Read more