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Subject: [ISN] Hackers With Enigmatic Motives Vex Companies
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2010-07-26 5:42:39
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.1007260042300.4789 () conundrum ! infosecnews ! org
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/technology/26security.html
By Nick Bilton
The New York Times
July 25, 2010
The world of hackers can be roughly divided into three groups. "Black
hats" break into corporate computer systems for fun and profit, taking
credit card numbers and e-mail addresses to sell and trade with other
hackers, while the "white hats" help companies stop their disruptive
counterparts.
But it is the third group, the "gray hats," that are the most vexing for
companies. These hackers play it any number of ways, which can leave a
company vulnerable to lost assets as well as a tarnished reputation as
security breaches are exposed. (The terms are a nod to westerns, with
the villain wearing a black hat and the hero a white one.)
These gray-hat hackers surreptitiously break into corporate computers to
find security weaknesses. They then choose whether to notify the company
and stay silent until the hole has been patched or embarrass the company
by exposing the problem.
The debate among all of these groups over the best course of action has
never been settled and will be an undercurrent at the Def Con 18 hackers
conference starting Friday in Las Vegas.
[...]
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