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While hackers have been around since the dawn of the Internet, it’s incredible to see the rate and scale at which data breaches are afflicting large companies. Just look at the list of hacks that were uncovered in 2016 alone:
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Oracle fell victim to hackers that used malware to scrape login data as it was being entered into its systems.
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Yahoo saw a whopping half billion of its user accounts compromised.
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LinkedIn experienced something similar, with 117 million accounts hacked.
In light of this, the term “ethical hacking” is less of a conundrum than it sounds. Many large,…