White Hat Hacker
When I think of a computer hacker, I don’t typically imagine someone using their powers for good. They are stereotyped as people who participate in sketchy activities and damage hardware. Well, White hat hackers are quite the opposite; they use their hacking skills to help people. Their job is to figure out the problems in IT networks and find a solution to improve it.
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Most white hat hacker’s work is focused on penetration testing. This basically means that they will do whatever they can to hack into an organization’s IT security. They report what they find to the organization so that they can give the IT security team ways to fix it. These skilled hackers make a hefty paycheck of $100,000 yearly.