Sunday, 26 January 2014

Types Of Hacker

In the previous blog a sufficient overview about the term hacking is given. So here is about exploring new terms.....
Let's Introduce another Terminology For learning Ethical Hacking because you will surely hear these terms in further studies about Hacking.
There are several types of Hacker classified by their works but mainly types are given following
  • Black Hat Hacker

  • White Hat Hacker

  • Gray Hat Hacker

  • Blue Hat Hacker(Microsoft Hackers)

  • Script Kiddie

  • Hacktivist(Red hat)


BLACK HAT HACKER

 In this categary illegal activity is considered. People who break the system secuirty by illegal activities and steal some data from any one's system or destroy the system illegally, are called "Black Hat Hacker".These are also called as "Cracker"

WHITE HAT HACKER


In this categary legal activity is considered. People who hack the system having a legal permission to do that are called "White Hat Hacker". These people works under the government permisson or a well proved organisation. The people work ethically so these are also called as "Ethical Hacker".