Hackers

 

Hackers,often define as the unauthorize person that break into your system without your permission,and sometimes steal your personnel information and data.The term was coined by a mathematician “John Nash”,according to whom “hacker” means to “insult”.with the time the meaning changed and today we know hacker is a cyber criminal.

From the first hacking in 1972,the hackers have been subclassified in 6 various categories depending on the threat they posse to the world .

TYPES OF HACKER

 

 

White Hat:-These hackers violate your systems security but their intentions are not wrong.Most of them are usually security shield developers that try to break their own shield in order to design a new, advance and more effective one.

A white hat that does vulnerability assessments and penetration tests is also known as an ethical hacker

 

Blue Hats:- They are the qualified hackers that are hired by microsoft to test the windows for bugs and enhance its security.They are same as white hats.

Black Hat:-  Also known as Cracker , is the one who has malicious intentions whenever he enters the system by  any means (like phone modem ,router,wifi).He can deploy worm or a virus to meet his needs,his objectives can be any cyber crime from piracy to fraud or vandalism .

 

Grey Hat:-  Grey hats are mixture of white and black hats .One can say , they are like an unwanted mechanic .They break into any system and exploit it like any black hat,and after that like a white hacker he will tell what he found to the administrator of the system.They tell the administrator the vulnerabilities his system has and sometimes try to repair them,but for a small fees.

 

Elite Hackers:- Well ,you can say that he is someone between you that has an image of a hacker and has proved you by doing some small works.His intentions are not malicious and he does it for fun ,or creating an image between his friends and in society.They are the people who are better and keep a good knowledge about hacking then a normal person.

 

Script Kiddie: He is someone who is not an expert in hacking but want to be an hacker in future and so he does hacking process.Script kiddier does break into the system through his knowledge but some sort of code or application found on world wide web written by real hackers.You can say he is a kid that is learning hacking.

 

In every country,hacking is seen as an offensive crime so please do not attempt as you can be behind the bars for atleast 7 to20 years