Hackers

The term 'hacking' simply means to use something in an unsual or novel way that it wasn't intended to be used.

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In a computer security context the term 'hacking' is normally used to mean 'attempting to gain unauthorised access to a computer system or the data it contains'.

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Hacking is always illegal.

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What is the term for a kind of hacker who is hired by a company to test their security and who has their permission to hack them?

• white hat hacker

• grey hat hacker

• black hat hacker

What is the term for a kind of hacker who despite not having been hired to do so will still disclose to a target when he hacked them to help them improve their security.

• white hat hacker

• grey hat hacker

• black hat hacker

What is the term for a kind of hacker who hacks to steal data or cause damage?

• white hat hacker

• grey hat hacker

• black hat hacker

A group who hack for a cause or as a political protest are known as.......

What is it called when one nation state engages in hacking activity against another nation state?

• hacktivism

• war driving

• cyber warfare

• cyber terrorism

................. is a type of attack which involves many computers in a coordinated effort to spam a server with many requests to try and make it crash or make it unavailable for legitimate traffic.

............. engineering relies on deception and psychological tricks to obtain access to systems and data.