white hacker
Terminology
The term white hat hacker is
also often used to describe those who attempt to break into systems or networks
in order to help the owners of the system by making them aware of security
flaws, or to perform some other altruistic activity. Many such people are
employed by computer security companies; these professionals are sometimes
called sneakers. Groups of these people are often called tiger teams.
The primary difference between
white and black hat hackers is that a white hat hacker claims to observe ethical
principles. Like black hats, white hats are often intimately familiar with the
internal details of security systems, and can delve into obscure machine code
when needed to find a solution to a tricky problem. Some use the term grey hat
and fewer use brown hat to describe someone's activities that cross between
black and white.
In recent years the terms white
hat and black hat have been applied to the Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
industry. Black hat SEO tactics, also called spamdexing, attempt unfairly to
redirect search results to particular target pages, whereas white hat methods
are generally approved by the search engines
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