Hiring a Black Hat Hacker. You are a member of the Human Resources Department of a software manufacturer that has several products and annual revenue in excess of $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 hackera. A white hat hacker is someone who has been hired by an organization to test the security of information systems while a black hat hacker is someone who seeks to violate computer security for his/her own personal illegal gain.
b. A black hat hacker has learned tricks and techniques for violating computer and Internet security measures that are generally not known by a white hat hacker.
c. A white hat hacker is a reformed former black hat hacker.
d. A black hat hacker is a nonemployee who tries to violate computer and Internet security measures of an organization, while a white hat hacker is a malicious employee or contractor of the organization.