How is ethical hacking, ethical?

There are three main generally accepted categories of a hacker, each represented by a hat of a different colour: white, grey and black. All of them exploit weaknesses in computer systems and networks. The differences between them are their motivations. The most infamous is the black hat hackers, computer criminals epitomized by Hollywood, whose malicious activities serve their own ends ranging from financial gain to simply causing chaos. White hat hackers are usually those that carry out their craft with no apparent criminal intention in mind. And grey hats sit somewhere in the middle, often hacking into a system just to prove they can, but afterward usually notifying the vendor or owner of the weakness. Most organisations believe that the act of authorising an ethical hacker to test a company's defences is enough legal protection to justify both sets of actions: firstly, the action of hiring an ethical hacker and secondly, to provide necessary cover for the questionable activities of the hacker, who in turn believes they are justified by the fact that they are acting in the best interests of the company who hired them.

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Ethical hacking is a hacking that is done to help a company or individual identify potential threats on the computer or network. Ethical hacking is completely different from the kind of hacking that has been termed negative or illegal. Ethical hacking is done when the person is able to get into the network of other organizations and the result of this hacking is used for the betterment of humanity. This also gives professional certification to the certified ethical hacker where the hacking of the computer system or some other devices takes place. This service had been made available to the people by the international council of e-commerce consultants. There are many ethical hacking tools and techniques. As it is used for the benefit of humans rather than harming them, ethical hacking is legal that is ethical.

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