About Hackers And Types Of Hackers

HACKERS INTRODUCTION:

Now a days a lot of people want to be hackers, it’s a good thing to have some extra stuffs in our
knowledge bank. So let’s start with the basics of hacking, by understanding the different types of
hackers. There are mainly 3 types of hackers:

1. Black Hat Hackers.

2. White Hat Hackers.

3.Grey Hat Hackers.

 

Black Hat Hackers: 

This category of hackers is also known as “Crackers”. Hackers in this category are
always tempted to gain privileges of someone(s) system without the authorization or permission.
Usually these people work individually for their own gains/fun. But as a team they can be deadly and
their impact can cause trouble to a greater extent. Their activity mainly includes DDoS attacks to
websites, Site defacing, Identity Theft, Vandalism Etc. You will be lectured in detail about these terms in
the following tutorials.

White Hat Hackers:

 In contradiction to Black Hat Hackers, White hat hackers are life-saving angels to
many. They are also designated as “Ethical hackers”. In fact, Ethical Hacking is a career in today’s world
for many. To be an approved WHH, you need to be certified.. But who cares about a certification, when
we know what we are talking about and when we have a good and helping mind. To be more specific
about their do’s, they perform security tests on different systems with the authority’s authorization
which would be definitely illegal when the hands of a BHH gets involved. When compared to BHH, WHH
are small in count, but they are still powerful.

Grey Hat Hackers:

As you can probably imagine, these are those categories of hackers who hacks for
both good and bad. They usually do Black hacking for their malicious intentions and do White hacking
with good intentions. In Short, they help and harm. The majority of the people fall in this category. So
they are typical hackers and still a potential threat.

Which One You Should Become?

If You are asking me, It will be a definite WHH, but you don’t have to listen to me, What I want to tell
you is, It will be always better to know what you are getting into. Hackers are sometimes getting caught,
and when they are caught, they will be charged and sometimes sent to jail for some short period of time
if you are not a certified WHH. If you are asking me, I suggest you to keep learning until you gain some
good knowledge in the matter and know how to remove the traces of your hacks. There can be different
potential traces like (Logs of the systems you have hacked, your information’s that got captured by the
hacked system etc) that can lead an expert to pin point the hand cuffs to your hands. The different
methods to remove the traces of the hacks will be lectured in the following tutorial.Other Types Of Hackers:
“Dude just wait a sec! I thought you were saying there are only three types of hackers in the
World!”

Well and of-course, there are only 3 types of hackers. But there are some different subcategories for
these types.

Just like some Ranks by which we can categorize.

Elite Hacker: 

A grade rank meant to describe the most skilled/ reputed hackers. They knew discover the
hacking methods that are still unknown and that are not been fixed.

Script Kiddies:

A lower rank than the above one that designates someone that uses tools made by
others to do some stuff and they don’t even know a shit about the real hacking.
Neophyte: A much lower rank that describes a person that is a newbie to this matter and is having a
little knowledge about this matter.

Hacktivist:

As the name rhymes to “Terrorist”, they are the people who hacks to inject some religious,
political anarchy.

Green Hat Hackers: 

As the name indicates, they love green. They hack only for money. They will not
think about the cause. They just want the money from their slaves.

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