The key difference is grey hats breach or steal information for what they deem a higher purpose — often one that would benefit others. For example, grey hats may be an activist who breaks into a major makeup brand to prove they lie about testing their products on animals.
These grey hats are devoted to a social, ideological, religious, or political cause. Red hat hackers often pursue black hats in an attempt to take them down, destroying their computer systems vs.
These are the new kids on the digital block. Green hats are amateur hackers still learning the ropes. They often are wannabe hackers who study the hacking community through how-to videos or tutorials. Unlike green hats who are keen to learn about the world of hacking, blue hats are often amateurs with an attitude.
BlueHat as one word is a different type of hacker. The word is used to describe computer security firms hired to test a system prior to launch. The brand Microsoft is well known for hiring BlueHats to test their Windows products for vulnerabilities. Script kiddies get their name for being amateur hackers who rely on predefined scripts and programs developed by elite hackers to conduct their attacks.
They typically fly under the radar to remain undetected by their rivals and their findings are exclusively reported back to their government client. Some use their hacking intel to terrorize a specific business, industry, or sector in a rival nation. These cyber attackers are usually politically-motivated and seek to cause mayhem or warfare. A recent example of a cyber-terrorist is the Eastern European ransomware-as-a-service group DarkSide and their attack on the U.
Colonial Pipeline. Bad actors are not just hackers outside of your organization… Sometimes they work within. An angry employee or disgruntled partner with access to sensitive data may use their privileges for malicious purposes. For example, they could route money to their personal account or install unauthorized malware to watch other employees. Whistleblowers get their name for leaking and drawing attention to private data stolen from within their own organization or an organization they used to work for.
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We are speaking of the a.. All rights Reserved. Privacy Policy. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, or challenge. In this controversy, the term hacker is reclaimed by computer programmers who argue that someone breaking into computers is better called a cracker , [ 3 ] not making a difference between computer criminals black hats and computer security experts white hats.
Bruce Sterling traces part of the roots of the computer underground to the Yippies, a s counterculture movement which published the Technological Assistance Program TAP newsletter. Many people from the phreaking community are also active in the hacking community even today, and vice versa. Several subgroups of the computer underground with different attitudes use different terms to demarcate themselves from each other, or try to exclude some specific group with which they do not agree.
Eric S. Raymond author of The New Hacker's Dictionary advocates that members of the computer underground should be called crackers. Yet, those people see themselves as hackers and even try to include the views of Raymond in what they see as one wider hacker culture, a view harshly rejected by Raymond himself.
In contrast to Raymond, they usually reserve the term cracker for more malicious activity. According to Clifford R. A white hat hacker breaks security for non-malicious reasons, perhaps to test their own security system or while working for a security company which makes security software. The term "white hat" in Internet slang refers to an ethical hacker.
This classification also includes individuals who perform penetration tests and vulnerability assessments within a contractual agreement.
The EC-Council, [ 7 ] also known as the International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants, is one of those organisations that have developed certifications, courseware, classes, and online training covering the diverse arena of Ethical Hacking.
A "black hat" hacker is a hacker who "violates computer security for little reason beyond maliciousness or for personal gain" Moore, They choose their targets using a two-pronged process known as the "pre-hacking stage".
A Grey Hat Hacker may surf the internet and hack into a computer system for the sole purpose of notifying the administrator that their system has been hacked, for example. Then they may offer to repair their system for a small fee.
A social status among hackers, elite is used to describe the most skilled. Newly discovered exploits will circulate among these hackers. Elite groups such as Masters of Deception conferred a kind of credibility on their members. A neophyte, "n00b", or "newbie" is someone who is new to hacking or phreaking and has almost no knowledge or experience of the workings of technology, and hacking. A blue hat hacker is someone outside computer security consulting firms who is used to bug test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed.
Microsoft also uses the term BlueHat to represent a series of security briefing events. A hacktivist is a hacker who utilizes technology to announce a social, ideological, religious, or political message. In general, most hacktivism involves website defacement or denial-of-service attacks.
Intelligence agencies and cyberwarfare operatives of nation states. Criminal activity carried on for profit. Bots are automated software tools, some freeware, that are available for the use of any type of hacker. In order to do so, there are several recurring tools of the trade and techniques used by computer criminals and security experts. A security exploit is a prepared application that takes advantage of a known weakness.
Common examples of security exploits are SQL injection , Cross Site Scripting and Cross Site Request Forgery which abuse security holes that may result from substandard programming practice. When a hacker, typically a black hat, is in the second stage of the targeting process, he or she will typically use some social engineering tactics to get enough information to access the network.
A common practice for hackers who use this technique, is to contact the system administrator and play the role of a user who cannot get access to his or her system. Hackers who use this technique have to be quite savvy and choose the words they use carefully, in order to trick the system administrator into giving them information. In some cases only an employed help desk user will answer the phone and they are generally easy to trick.
Social engineering is very effective because users are the most vulnerable part of an organization. All the security devices and programs in the world won't keep an organization safe if an employee gives away a password.
Black hat hackers take advantage of this fact. Social engineering can also be broken down into four sub-groups. These are intimidation, helpfulness, technical, and name-dropping.
The computer underground [ 1 ] has produced its own slang and various forms of unusual alphabet use, for example speak.
Political attitude usually includes views for freedom of information, freedom of speech, a right for anonymity and most have a strong opposition against copyright. Some go as far as seeing illegal cracking ethically justified for this goal; a common form is website defacement. The computer underground is frequently compared to the Wild West. The computer underground is supported by regular real-world gatherings called hacker conventions or "hacker cons".
Local Hackfest groups organize and compete to develop skills to send a team to a prominent convention to compete in group pentesting, exploit and forensics on a wider scale. In the early s Hacker Groups became popular, Hacker groups provided access to information and resources, and a place to learn from other members. BBS systems like Utopias provided a platform for information sharing via dialup.
Hackers could also gain credibility by being affiliated with an elite group. Maximum imprisonment is one year or a fine of the fourth category. The most notable hacker-oriented magazine publications are Phrack , Hakin9 and The Hacker Quarterly. While the information contained in hacker magazines and ezines was often outdated, they improved the reputations of those who contributed by documenting their successes. Hackers often show an interest in fictional cyberpunk and cyberculture literature and movies.
Absorption of fictional pseudonyms, symbols, values, and metaphors from these fictional works is very common. Chat WhatsApp. Main article: Computer insecurity.
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