Question

f $500 million. You're on the phone with the manager of software development who has made a request to hire a notorious white hat hacker to probe your company's software products in an attempt to identify any vulnerabilities. The reasoning is that if anyone can find a vulnerability in your software, she can. This will give your firm a head start on developing patches to fix the problems before anyone can exploit them. You feel uneasy about hiring people with criminal records and connections to unsavory members of the hacker/cracker community and are unsure if you should approve the hire. What is the difference between a black hat hacker and a white hat hacker

Answer 1

Whereas a black hat hacker gains access into a software or system product in order to exploit its weaknesses for selfish purposes, a white hat hacker is a professional who finds and fixes system security issues for the welfare of the entity.

Step-by-step explanation:

Black-hat hackers, who exploit system weaknesses for selfish purposes, rely on the use of viruses, malware, and spyware to gain access into an entity's database. Their intentions are always malicious and criminal in nature. They are not like white hat hackers who try to identify weaknesses in a system before black hat hackers could do the same.