Is ethical hacking basically cybersecurity?

Ethical hacking is a buzzword made by corpies and script kiddies who want to "hax" and make money out of it without risking jail.
There is such a thing as pentesting, which has it's own name: pentesting.
And for the rest, the security community actually do what you would call 'ethical hacking' but they don't go about calling it that. They just try and improve security through bug hunting, auditing, and so on.
The difference is that the ones who say "ethical hacking" are wanabees, and the others just do it.

>>55351245
this

OP here. Say you weren't relying on a tool someone else has already made and an old lady forgot her Windows login but wants access to it; wouldn't legit hacking knowledge to access her Windows account be ethical; therefore knowing a bit about hacking be useful in many circumstances?

>>55351245
mightve started that way
but the term is used more and more
especially with the CEH certification and the like

>>55351205
>Ethical Hacking
>Professional script kiddie

1. You won't program
2. You won't really know how shit works.

What you need to do; hack into hundreds of government computers, cause a little chaos over a few years, get caught, get recruited.

It's the red teaming part. The rest is blue teaming and management.

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>>55351205

Basically what this guy said:
>>55351245

But I want to add that real "ethical hacking" would not necessarily be legal.

Think about a company that does something really nasty but within legal boundaries (of it's country).

So bringing them down or exploiting names or something like that would defiantely be more "ethical hacking" than saving some rich fag's ass from cyber attacks.


The world isn't just black and white, remember that.

>>55352776
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>>55352776

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