Ethical hackers are security experts that perform these security Vulnerability and Penetration testing .
The work they do helps to improve an organization’s security Infrastructure.
With prior approval from the organization, the mission of ethical hacking is opposite from malicious hacking.
Black Hat Hackers
- aimed to perpetrate damage on the system or to silently exfiltrate sensitive information.
White Hat Hackers
- aimed to investigate the vulnerabilities of a system under analysis only with the owner consent.
Kali Linux is an open-source, Debian-based Linux distribution geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security Research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering.