Sunday 7 July 2013

What Type of Hacker are you?

Hackers Introduction


Now a days a lot of people want to be hackers. It is a good thing to have some extra stuffs in our knowledge bank. So


lets start with the basics of hacking, by understanding the different types of hackers.


There are mainly 3 types of hackers:


Black Hat Hackers 


This category of hackers is also known as “crackers”.Hackers in this category are always tempted to gain privileges of


someone(s) system without the authorization or permission. Usually these peoples works individually for their own gains/fun.


But as a team they can be deadly and their impact can cause trouble to a greater extent. Their activity mainly includes DDOS


attacks to websites, Site Defacing, Identity Theft, Vandalism etc. You will be lectured in detail about these terms in the following


tutorials.
White Hat Hackers 

In contradiction to Black hat hackers, White hat hackers are life-saving angels to many. They are also designated as “Ethical


Hackers”. In fact, Ethical Hacking is a career in today’s word for many. To be an approved WHH, you need to be certified. But


who cares about a certification, when we know what we are talking about and when we have a good and helping mind. To be


more specific about their do’s, they perform security tests on different systems with the authority’s authorization which would


be definitely illegal when the hands of a BHH gets involved. When compared to BHH, WHH are small in count, but they are


still powerful.


Grey Hat Hackers 


As you can probably imagine, these are those categories of hackers who hacks for both good and bad. They usually do


Black hatting for their malicious intentions and do White hatting with good intentions. In short, they help and harm.


The majority of the people fall in this category. So they are typical hackers and still a potential threat!



Which One Should I Become? 


If you are asking me, it will be a definite WHH. But you don’t have to listen to me. What I want to tell you is, it will be


always better to know what you are getting into. Hackers are sometimes getting caught, and when they are caught,


they will be charges and sometimes may sent to jail for some short period of time if you are not a certified WHH. If


you are asking me, I suggest you to keep learning until you gain some good knowledge in the matter and know how to


remove all the traces of your hack.here can be different potential traces (like logs of the system you have hacked your


information’s that got captured by the hacked system etc) that can lead an expert to pin point the hand cuffs to your hands.


The different methods to remove the traces of the hacks will be lectured in the following tutorials I plan to post.



Other types of Hackers 


“Peeps just wait a sec! I thought you were saying there are only 3 types of hackers in the world!”


Well and of-course, there are only 3 types of hackers. But there are some different subcategories for these types.


Just like some Ranks by which we can categorize.


Elite Hacker – A grade rank meant to describe the the most skilled/ reputed hackers. They knew/ discover the


hacking methods that are still unknown and that are not been fixed.


Script Kiddie – A lower rank than the above one that designates someone that uses tools made by others to do some stuff and


they don’t even know a shit about the real hacking.
Neophyte – A much lower rank that describes a person that is a newbie to this matter and is having a little a


knowledge about this matter.
Hacktivist – As the name rhymes to “Terrorist”, they are the people who hacks to inject some religious, political


anarchy.


Green Hat Hackers- As the name indicates, they love green. They hack only for money. They will not think about


the cause. They just want the money from their slaves.



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