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In Cyber security world, the person who is able to exploit the weakness in the system and
manages it to exploit it to accomplish his goal (either good or bad)
Is a
HACKER
Hacking?
Script Kiddie
White Hat Hacker
Black Hat Hacker
Grey Hat Hacker
Hactivitist
Types of
hackers
Black Hat
Script Kiddie
Script Kiddies
• 1.Black hat
Black Hat
• In summary, the term “Black hat" may refer toa hacker who:
• violates computer security for little reasonbeyond maliciousness or for personal gain
• Black hat hackers break into secure networksto destroy data or make the network unusablefor those who are authorized to use thenetwork.
• White Hat
White Hat
• In summary, the term “White hat" may referto a hacker who:
• The term "white hat" in Internet slang refersto an ethical hacker.
• breaks security for non-malicious reasons,perhaps to test their own security system orwhile working for a security company whichmakes security software.
• Grey hat
Grey Hat
• In summary, the term "grey hat" may refer to ahacker who:
• Engages in security research with the intention tosecure rather than exploit
• Grapples with questions of ethics and law in theline of their work.
• Does not support full disclosure of vulnerabilities.
• Usually reports the vulnerability to the productvendor.
HACKERS
Programers with Good intentionswho exploit the weakness.Not for any bad intentions
CRACKERS
Programers with Negative intentionswho exploit the weakness.for many bad intentions
cracking is Often Misunderstood as hacking
Malicious attack on computers is officially called
as cracking
Hacking truly applies to activities having good intentions