What is a white hat hacker? And how do white hat hackers differ from black hat and grey hat hackers? Here's a quick rundown of what you need to know.

This allowed the feds to bypass security features on the phone to crack its password. So, what exactly is a gray hat hacker? There are three types of hackers: white hats, black hats and gray hats.

Gray hat hackers: There doesn’t appear to be a standard definition for gray hats, but according to Shon Harris, president of Logical Security and a former engineer in the Information Warfare ...

The white hats are the good hackers, people who scan networks and find security problems and tell the system owners - the business, the government entity - about the problem without exploiting it.

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This 'Gray Hat' Hacker Breaks Into Your Car — To Prove A Point : All Tech Considered Everything from cars to thermostats is being connected to the Internet, raising security concerns. Samy ...

Gray Hat Marcus Hutchins stopped one of the most dangerous cyberattacks ever. Then the FBI arrested him. Does a hacker hero always have to have a past?

The thin gray line special report Squeezed between corporate security experts and hell-bent hackers, so called grey hat hackers are finding themselves on the wrong side of the law.

As criminal hackers become more sophisticated and ruthless, security-conscious companies are increasingly recruiting people to help fight a covert war.

Kamkar is a "gray hat" hacker — not all good, not all bad. He works on the edges of the law — breaking into cars, connected doorbells, drones and phones to try to find vulnerabilities.