12/10/2013
What Kind Of Hacker Are You?
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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 ofthe 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
"Dude 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
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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.
