An ethical hacker fully discloses any holes he finds, so then the company is forced to fix it.

But Cervenka is jousting with eBay, illustrating why even ethical hackers raise hackles.

What if Congress reversed this perverse law, requiring companies to pay ethical hackers for demonstrating vulnerabilities?

For the first time, bug bounty platform HackerOne has evicted a company for its hostility toward ethical hackers.

It also said it has employed " ethical hackers" to crack the site to ensure it was secure.

Ethical hacker You know the hoary old chestnut about the hacker who was so good the FBI hired him?

With this in mind, there has been a significant increase in demand for cybersecurity professionals from ethical hackers to cryptographers.

Following his "hacking attempt", Gevers did what all ethical hackers do: he informed all parties involved, including President Trump and the US Governmental Services.