A white hat hacker helps harden security and specializing in penetration testing also regarded as a computer security expert. They also participate in ethical hacking but not limited to penetrating firewalls but also testing other security measures that are in place such as accounts and passwords and reach protected data. A black hat hacker is someone who knows the computer and can breach any system in order to put viruses on the computer or get pass internet security. The white hat hackers are usually the good guys that try to help everyone with all their computer needs and to save them from being a victim of hacking. The black hat hackers are usually the bad guys that cause of the problems with the security within the internet, when it comes to black hat hackers you need to watch your information as well as your computer to make sure that you are not a victim of getting your system hacked into.…show more content… He got off pretty easy because he was a juvenile so he plead guilty to two counts of juvenile delinquency. He shot himself back in 2008 and died from the wound. I chose this person because he caused a lot of damage to the computer systems and cause a lot of heart ache for a lot of individuals. The white hat hacker that I am going to writing about is Tsutomu Shimomura who helped the authorities catch Kevin Mitnick and put him behind bars when he tried to hack into Tsutomu Shimomura’s computer
