Types of Hacker

Types of Hacker

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   White Hat Hackers Black Hat Hackers Grey Hat Hackers Types of hacker
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    White Hathackers are also known as Ethical Hackers. They never intent to harm a system, rather they try to find out weaknesses in a computer or a network system as a part of penetration testing and vulnerability assessments.  Ethical hacking is not illegal and it is one of the demanding jobs available in the IT industry. There are numerous companies that hire ethical hackers for penetration testing and vulnerability assessments. White Hat Hackers
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    Black Hathackers, also known as crackers, are those who hack in order to gain unauthorized access to a system and harm its operations or steal sensitive information.  Black Hat hacking is always illegal because of its bad intent which includes stealing corporate data, violating privacy, damaging the system, blocking network communication, etc. Black Hat Hackers
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    Grey hathackers are a blend of both black hat and white hat hackers. They act without malicious intent but for their fun, they exploit a security weakness in a computer system or network without the owner’s permission or knowledge.  Their intent is to bring the weakness to the attention of the owners and getting appreciation or a little bounty from the owners. Grey Hat Hackers
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  Red Hat Hackers BlueHat Hackers Elite Hackers Script Kiddie Neophyte Hacktivist Phreaker Miscellaneous Hackers
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   Red hat hackersare again a blend 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. Red Hat Hackers
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   A blue hathacker is someone outside computer security consulting firms who is 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 BlueHat to represent a series of security briefing events. Blue Hat Hackers
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   This is asocial status among hackers, which is used to describe the most skilled. Newly discovered exploits will circulate among these hackers. Elite Hackers
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   A script kiddieis a non-expert who breaks into computer systems by using pre- packaged automated tools written by others, usually with little understanding of the underlying concept, hence the term Kiddie. Script Kiddie
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   A neophyte, "n00b",or "newbie" or "Green Hat Hacker" is someone who is new to hacking or phreaking and has almost no knowledge or experience of the workings of technology and hacking. Neophyte
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   A hacktivist isa hacker who utilizes technology to announce a social, ideological, religious, or political message. In general, most hacktivism involves website defacement or denialof-service attacks Hacktivist
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   A hacker whoidentifies and exploits weaknesses in telephones instead of computers. Phreaker