black-hat hacker

The difference between these guys and black-hat hackers is the slide package, and I'm okay with that.

Black-hat hackers, on the other hand, adhere to the basic philosophy that information should be free - including information about security weaknesses.

If gray-hat hackers stopped searching for vulnerabilities, L0pht believes, a black-hat hacker would find them sooner or later.

Valve claimed the game had been leaked by a German black-hat hacker named Axel "Ago" Gembe.

Kirk agreed to help Scott in the dGraph and Freedom situations if Scott would make sure that his articles clearly spelled out the difference between the white-hat and black-hat hackers.

And yet, the issue of white-hat vs. black-hat hackers has long been a thorny ethical debate in the computer security world, where some people have argued that there is no room for outlaws - reformed or otherwise.

YouTube was attracting lawsuits like a honey pot attracts black-hat hackers (or bees, I guess), and billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban noted in his typical sweet way that "anyone who buys YouTube is a moron."

The media also refused to entertain the implications of electronic civil disobedience, with public attention focused on the problem of illegal raves and black-hat hackers, prompting scare stories about "evil hackers" and "young hoodlums" penetrating the British defences while the zippies were written off as nothing more than electrohippies.

Part of the distinction from other malware is that the agent is sponsored-that is, Is commissioned, developed, and/or actually used-not by a black-hat hacker or organized criminal group, but instead by a state or a non-state actor, the latter potentially including terrorist groups and other entities proposed in 4GW doctrines.