Hacking news regularly sends shockwaves through the business community and everyday consumers alike.
A 2013 Yahoo breach saw more than 1 billion Yahoo accounts hacked, with personal information, details and sensitive data exposed. Over 1,000 Wendy’s franchises were hacked when cybercriminals accessed payment processors, and with them, thousands of customers’ credit card numbers and other information. And there are countless other examples like these.
While criminal hacking is always in the news, ethical hacking often goes unnoticed or is misunderstood. Ethical hackers are computer and networking experts who try to penetrate systems to find vulnerabilities. They are hacking into systems upon the request of their owners to test their security and keep malicious hackers from accessing their information first.
A modern approach to ethical hacking came in the 1970s when the U.S. government used “red teams” to hack into its own computer systems to test vulnerabilities.
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