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An ethical hacker is usually employed by an organization who trusts him or her to attempt to penetrate networks and/or computer systems, using the same methods as a hacker, for the purpose of finding and fixing computer security vulnerabilities.
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An ethical hacker, also known as a "white hat", works by finding vulnerabilities for businesses and organisations and patches their systems to prevent [[exploitation]] of the [http://www.blackhatlibrary.net/Vulnerability vulnerabilities].

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An ethical hacker, also known as a "white hat", works by finding vulnerabilities for businesses and organisations and patches their systems to prevent exploitation of the vulnerabilities.