➡How many 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 people 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 D-DOS 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. There 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 b lectured in the following tutorials.
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 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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