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antihacker

antihacker adjective: opposing or countering computer hackers.

Adjective

antihacker (not comparable)

  1. Opposing or countering computer hackers.
    • The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, frequently amended, remains an important weapon in the federal government's antihacker arsenal.

Noun

antihacker (plural antihackers)

  1. One who is employed to detect and counter computer hackers.
    • Often, they boast that they have managed to get around and beat the actual computer security experts and antihackers (so-called hacker-catchers, or hacker hunters), making fun of them to show that they are the ones hunting the security experts and not the contrary.2008, Raoul Chiesa, Stefania Ducci, Silvio Ciappi, Profiling Hackers, page 103
    • Firewalls provide some protection as well as Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSes), but there is so much white noise for viruses and scans that many real hack attacks may go unnoticed, except by very skilled antihackers.2014, Rich Helton, Mastering NServiceBus and Persistence

Forms of antihacker

Adjective
alternative formanti-hacker
Noun
pluralantihackers

Origin of antihacker

From anti- + hacker.

Questions about antihacker

What does antihacker mean?
Antihacker means opposing or countering computer hackers.
What part of speech is antihacker?
Antihacker can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antihacker in the dictionary

  1. Antiguo Cuscatlán
  2. antiguru
  3. antigurus
  4. antigypsy
  5. antigypsyism
  6. antihacker
  7. antihackers
  8. antihacking
  9. antihadron
  10. antihadrons
  11. antihaecceitism

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