Hackers and Types
Hacker :
A person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.( or )
A hacker is an individual who uses a computer, networking or other skills to overcome a technical problem. The term Hacker may refer to anyone with technical skills, but it often to a person who uses his/her abilities to gain unauthorized access to systems or networks in order to commit crimes.
Hacker types
Security Hacker
A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network.Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, information gathering, challenge, recreation, or to evaluate system weaknesses to assist in formulating defenses against potential hackers.
Classification
Subgroups of the computer underground with different attitudes and motives use different terms to demarcate themselves from each other. These classifications are also used to exclude specific groups with whom they do not agree.
White Hat
A white-hat hacker breaks security for non- malicious reasons, either to test their own security system, perform penetration tests, or vulnerability assessments for a client - or while working for a security company which makes security software.
The term is generally synonymous with an ethical hacker, and the EC-Council, among others, have developed certifications, courseware, classes, and online training covering the diverse arena of ethical hacking.
Black Hat
A black hat hacker is a hacker who "violates computer security for little reason beyond maliciousness or for personal gain" (Moore, 2005).
The term was coined by Richard Stallman, to contrast the maliciousness of a criminal hacker versus the spirit of playfulness and exploration in hacker culture or the ethos of the white hat hacker who performs hacking duties to identify places to repair or as a means of legitimate employment.
Black hat hackers form the stereotypical, illegal hacking groups often portrayed in popular culture, and are "the epitome of all that the public fears in a computer criminal".
Grey Hat
A grey hat hacker lies between a black hat and a white hat hacker. A grey hat hacker may surf the Internet and hack into a computer system for the sole purpose of notifying the administrator that their system has a security defect, for example. They may then offer to correct the defect for a fee.
Grey hat hackers sometimes find the defect of a system and publish the facts to the world instead of a group of people. Even though grey hat hackers may not necessarily perform hacking for their personal gain, unauthorized access to a system can be considered illegal and unethical.
Elite Hacker
A social status among hackers, the elite is used to describe the most skilled. Newly discovered exploits circulate among these hackers. Elite groups such as Masters of Deception conferred a kind of credibility on their members.Script kiddie
A script kiddie (also known as a skid or skiddie) is an unskilled hacker who breaks into computer systems by using automated tools written by others (usually by other black hat hackers), hence the term script (i.e. a computer script that automates the hacking) kiddie (i.e. kid, child—an individual lacking knowledge and experience, immature), usually with little understanding of the underlying concept.
Neophyte
A neophyte ("newbie", or "noob") is someone who is new to hacking or phreaking and has almost no knowledge or experience of the workings of technology and hacking.Blue hat
A blue hat hacker is someone outside computer security consulting firms who is used to bug test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed. Microsoft also uses the term BlueHat to represent a series of security briefing events.
Cracker
A cracker is someone who breaks into someone else is a computer system, often a network; bypass password or licenses in computer programs or in other ways intentionally breaches computer security.
A cracker can be doing this for profit, maliciously, for some altruistic purpose or cause or because the challenge is there, some breaking-and-entering has been done ostensibly to point and weaknesses in a site's security system.
Hacktivist
A hacktivist is a hacker who utilizes technology to publicize a social, ideological, religious or political message.
Hacktivism can be divided into two main groups:
Cyberterrorism:
Activities involving website defacement or denial-of-service attacks; and,Freedom of information:
Making information that is not public, or is public in non-machine-readable formats, accessible to the public.
Nation-state:
Intelligence agencies and cyberwarfare operatives of nation-states.Organized criminal gangs:
Groups of hackers that carry out organized criminal activities for profit
Article By
- Muneeswaran
(Mr.Hackyy)
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