INTRODUCTION

What comes in your mind when you hear the term "hacking" ?

Oh! don't get carried away; I will make it simple for you.

Hacking is simply getting an unauthorized access to a system.

Then who are hackers ?

Don't worry; I'm here. Hackers are good programmers.

Hmm, Didn't expected this answer right ? But this is the true.

If you think hacking is a bad thing, then you are 50% wrong and 50% right. I mean hacking is both good as well as bad. You might be thinking, can hacking ever be good ?? To make you understand about this you have to know about the types of hackers:

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TYPES

White Hat Hackers

Also known as ethical hackers, White Hat hackers are the good guys of the hacker world. They’ll help you remove a virus or Pen Test a company. Most White Hat hackers hold a college degree in IT security or computer science and must be certified to pursue a career in hacking. The most popular certification is the CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) from the EC-Council.

Black Hat Hackers

Also known as crackers, these are the men and women you hear about in the news. They find banks or other companies with weak security and steal money or credit card information. The surprising truth about their methods of attack is that they often use common hacking practices they learned early on.

Script Kiddie

Script Kiddies normally don’t care about hacking (if they did, they’d be Green Hats. See below.). They copy code and use it for a virus or an SQLi or something else. Script Kiddies will never hack for themselves; they’ll just download overused software (LOIC or Metasploit, for example) and watch a YouTube video on how to use it. A common Script Kiddie attack is DoSing or DDoSing (Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service), in which they flood an IP with so much information it collapses under the strain. This attack is frequently used by the “hacker” group Anonymous, which doesn’t help anyone’s reputation.

Gray Hat Hackers

Nothing is ever just black or white; the same is true in the world of hacking. Gray Hat hackers don’t steal money or information (although, sometimes they deface a website or two), yet they don’t help people for good (but, they could if they wanted to). These hackers comprise most of the hacking world, even though Black Hat hackers garner most (if not all) of the media’s attention.

Green Hat Hackers

These are the hacker “n00bz,” but unlike Script Kiddies, they care about hacking and strive to become full-blown hackers. They’re often flamed by the hacker community for asking many basic questions. When their questions are answered, they’ll listen with the intent and curiosity of a child listening to family stories.

Red Hat Hackers

These are the vigilantes of the hacker world. They’re like White Hats in that they halt Black Hats, but these folks are downright SCARY to those who have ever tried so much as PenTest. Instead of reporting the malicious hacker, they shut him/her down by uploading viruses, DoSing and accessing his/her computer to destroy it from the inside out. They leverage multiple aggressive methods that might force a cracker to need a new computer.

Blue Hat Hackers

If a Script Kiddie took revenge, he/she might become a Blue Hat. Blue Hat hackers will seek vengeance on those who’ve them angry. Most Blue Hats are n00bz, but like the Script Kiddies, they have no desire to learn.

Hacktivists

If you’ve ever come across social activists propagandizing a social, political or religious agenda, then you might as well meet hacktivist, the online version of an activist. Hacktivist is a hacker or a group of anonymous hackers who think they can bring about social changes and often hack government and organizations to gain attention or share their displeasure over opposing their line of thought. Ever heard about a group, Anonymous?? They are a perfect example of hacktivists.

State or Nation sponsored hackers

State or Nation sponsored hackers are those who have been employed by their state or nation’s government to snoop in and penetrate through full security to gain confidential information from other governments to stay at the top online.

They have an endless budget and extremely advanced tools at their disposal to target individuals, companies or rival nations.

It sucks!

Of course, I know that such many types of hackers are sucking your mind. Then here is a good news for you guys: you need not remember them all. They are just for your general knowledge. The only you need to be remember are White and Black hat hackers, Script kiddie and hacktivists.