Hutchins, who is a “hacker” by definition—someone who knows ... Hackers are often described as either “white hat,” black hat,” or “gray hat” hackers. But what is a white hat ...

After much speculation over who provided the FBI with the mysterious solution for hacking into the San Bernardino iPhone, the Washington Post reported this week that it was a "gray hat" hacker who ...

Learn the distinctions between white-, black- and gray-hatted hackers. The term ‘hack’ originally meant to make something work better or to make it do something that it wasn’t meant to do.

The mainstream definition of a hacker made - and still ... And then there are "gray hat" hackers, who have mixed motives. (I don't recall ever seeing a movie with a cowboy in a gray hat; the ...

A Russian-speaking grey-hat hacker is breaking into people's MikroTik routers and patching devices so they can't be abused by cryptojackers, botnet herders, or other cyber-criminals, ZDNet has ...

On the front lines of the fight stand many “grey hat” hackers — security experts who have online street smarts but aren’t mixed up in the racket themselves. A small number may have dabbled ...

TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A self-proclaimed grey hat hacker known as Reckz0r claims to have accessed nearly 80 large banks, collecting a massive amount of customer ...

Cybercrime is expanding beyond computers and cellphones. Cars, washers and dryers, and even toasters are going online — an evolution of technology called the Internet of things. Samy Kamkar, a ...