Type of hackers
Now a day’s lot of people want to be a hacker, but most of them are not really understand the term and goal of hacking, if you read my previous article then I hope you now have a clear idea about hacking. So, lets discussed some basic type of hackers. Hackers are mainly categorized into three groups.
White Hat Hackers
White hat hackers are good guys, the hackers who use their hacking skills for an ethical and defensive purpose. White hats are basically security professionals with knowledge of hacking the hacker toolset and how to use this knowledge to locate weakness of any system or networks and implement patches.
White hats hackers hack with permission from the owner. Ethical hacking is a career in today’s world for many, white hat hackers are the prime candidate for the exam, to be an approved WHH, you need to be certified.
Black Hat Hackers
Black Hat hackers are the bad guys, also known as crackers or malicious hackers who use their skills for an illegal or malicious purpose, they always tempted to gain privileges of someone’s system without the authorization or permission. They brake into or violate the system integrity of the remote system with malicious intention.
Usually, these type of hackers works individually for their own purpose or fun, but as a team, they can be very deadly and impact can cause trouble to many.
Gray Hat hackers
As you can probably imagine, these kinds of hackers are those who work offensive and defensive, depending on the situation. Gray hats are self-proclaimed ethical hackers, who are interested in hacker tools mostly from a curiosity standpoint. They may want to highlight security problems in a system or educate victims so they can secure their system properly. They basically doing favor their victims.
In short, they help and harm, the majority of the people fail in this category.
There are some other types of hackers,
Yes, there are only three type of Hackers, but there are some different subcategories we have.
Red Hat hackers:
Red hat hackers are again a combination of both black hat and white hat hackers. They are usually on the level of hacking government agencies, top-secret information hubs, and generally anything that falls under the category of sensitive information.
Green Hat Hackers: this kind of hackers love green, they hack for money only, what they only want is money.
Blue Hat Hackers:
A blue hat hacker is someone outside computer security consulting firms who has used to bug-test a system prior to its launch. They look for loopholes that can be exploited and try to close these gaps. Microsoft also uses the term Blue Hat to represent a series of security briefing events.
Script Kiddie:
Lower in rank, A script kiddie is a non-expert who breaks into computer systems by using pre-packaged automated tools written by others, and they don’t even know shit about the real hacking.
Neophyte:
A much lower rank, someone who is new to hacking or phreaking and has almost no knowledge or experience of the workings of technology and hacking.
So, which one you want to be?
If you ask me, I will say WHH. But why you listen to me. What I want to say is, it is always better to know, what you are getting into. Hackers are much time caught, and then they will be charged or send to jail. If you are not certified WHH, I suggest keep learning until you gain some good knowledge and know how to remove all the traces of you hack. In the further article, I will describe you different methods to remove traces of hack.
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