After looking at the website, Privacy Rights, the website is a database that hold information about almost every data breach that has been recorded. This type of information is helpful for researchers in a way that they can use the information to learn how attackers used the vulnerability to exploit the network. In the sense that the researcher wants to do something with ethical hacking or network defense, the Privacy Rights website provides them with all the most recent attacks that have happened to big organizations. If the attacker was able to do it to big organizations, then it can happen to smaller ones as well. For ethical hacking, the researcher can use the information provided to learn the most common vulnerability and try to exploit it when they ethically hack or do penetration testing on a network. Similar to the network defense view point of the information, the researcher can use the information to find the most common vulnerability in a network and make sure their network has that vulnerability protected.
One last view point of the website, is when companies do a regular testing or teaching of security procedures for their employees. The employees can use the Privacy Rights website to stay on top of what to look out for in the possible situation an attack takes place.
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