intellectual curiosity." The word hacker in "Hacker News" is used in its original meaning and refers to the hacker culture which consists of people who...
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electronics (see life hack). Reflecting the two types of hackers, there are two definitions of the word "hacker": Originally, hacker simply meant advanced...
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Employees of the now-defunct newspaper News of the World engaged in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of...
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Yahoo News. Retrieved May 18, 2023. Lakshmanan, Ravie. "Iranian Hackers Target High-Value Targets in Nuclear Security and Genomic Research". The Hacker News...
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around hackers is often referred to as the "computer underground". The subculture around such hackers is termed network hacker subculture, hacker scene...
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White hat (computer security) (redirect from White hat hacker)
A white hat (or a white-hat hacker, a whitehat) is an ethical security hacker. Ethical hacking is a term meant to imply a broader category than just penetration...
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popular language-learning platform. Hacker was born and raised in Zug and studied at ETH Zurich. In a 2020 interview, Hacker specified that gaming played a...
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Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News. He is the author of the computer programming books On Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp, and Hackers & Painters. Technology journalist...
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books such as Hacking for Dummies (ISBN 076455784X) and Steal This Computer Book. Hackcanada was also featured often on the Hacker News Network. On November...
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did it for the Internet anarchists, people that hang out on Reddit and Hacker News. — Fred Wilson, 2012 TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in New York By May...
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Ethical Hacker All-In-One Exam Guide, The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2011. ISBN 978-0-07-177229-7 Oriyano, Sean-Philip; CEH: Certified Ethical Hacker Version...
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Iskorpitx (Turkish Hacker) !". The Hacker News. Retrieved 2022-05-01. McMillan, Robert (September 24, 2010). "Man gets 10 years for VoIP hacking". Computerworld...
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from the hacker ethics that originated at MIT and at the Homebrew Computer Club. The hacker ethics were chronicled by Steven Levy in Hackers: Heroes of...
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Cris Thomas (section Hacker News Network)
researcher, white hat hacker, and award winning best selling author. A founding member and researcher at the high-profile hacker security think tank L0pht...
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home computer. Prior to that time, the term hacker was simply a referral to any computer hobbyist. The hacker groups were out to make names for themselves...
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Hack Forums (often shortened to 'HF') is an Internet forum dedicated to discussions related to hacker culture and computer security. The website ranks...
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Conscience of a Hacker (also known as The Hacker Manifesto) is a short essay written on January 8, 1986 by Loyd Blankenship, a computer security hacker who went...
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Grey hat (redirect from Grey hat hacker)
hacker. The term came into use in the late 1990s, and was derived from the concepts of "white hat" and "black hat" hackers. When a white hat hacker discovers...
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after their U.S. tour, The Hacker and Miss Kittin decided to take a break from their collaborative projects. The Hacker took this opportunity to produce...
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James George Hacker, Baron Hacker of Islington, KG, PC, BSc (Lond.), Hon. D.Phil. (Oxon.) is a fictional character in the 1980s British sitcom Yes Minister...
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Ashley Madison data breach (redirect from Ashley Madison hack)
Madison, a commercial website billed as enabling extramarital affairs. The hacker(s) copied personal information about the site's user base and threatened...
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Coinbase. His post on Hacker News looking for a co-founder to get into the Y Combinator program later became a viral post in Hacker News. He eventually met...
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Script kiddie (category Hacking (computer security))
defenders will continue to increase. Black hat hacker Computer security Exploit (computer security) Hacker (computer security) Hacktivism Lamer List of...
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CrowdStrike (section Russian hacking investigations)
source] or operating system that is not as widely deployed as others. A Hacker News user claimed that on the evening of Friday, 19 April 2024, that Crowdstrike...
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meaning to ignore them and pretend they do not exist. A 2012 update to Hacker News introduced a system of "hellbanning" for spamming and abusive behavior...
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The News of the World royal phone hacking scandal was a scandal which developed in 2005 to 2007 around the interception of voicemail relating to the British...
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Phone hacking by news organizations became the subject of scandals that raised concerns about illegal acquisition of confidential information by news media...
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1972 – 17 October 1998), better known by his pseudonym Tron, was a German hacker and phreaker whose death in unclear circumstances has led to various conspiracy...
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Pando. 2012-11-30. Retrieved 2020-01-22. "CodeWars: the Hacker Society where devs compete | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 2020-01-22....
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information about the specific Newsvine member. Hacker News, started in February 2007, is a social news site focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship...
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