A hacker is a skilled person where they use their abilities to gain unauthorised access usually to a system or a network to commit a cybercrime (Rouse, n.d.).
Not only do hackers want to gain unauthorised access but they also have malicious intention to harm the person (Rouse, n.d.).
Like a virus, a hacker may attempt to steal someone’s personal information, damage their systems or even install a ransomware onto someone’s computer.
Hacking also seeks to compromise the individual’s personal devices such as their tablets, computers, smartphones and hackers might even disrupt the individual’s network as well (Malwarebytes, n.d.). There are hackers that may not have malicious intention. However, criminal cyber hackers are indeed motivated by information gathering, financial gain, protesting and even finding challenges to be “fun” to them (Malwarebytes, n.d.).
If you like to know the history about hacking, watch the video (Gibson, 2012) below.
Types hackers
White hats hackers
White hat hackers, also called ethical hackers, are cyber security experts that help and assist organisation and Governments by performing many tests and identify any vulnerabilities that is in their cyber security (Aukta, 2018).
Black Hat hackers
Black hat hackers are the type of hacker that most people would worry about as they generally want to find vulnerabilities within an organisation system, individual system and even bank systems as well as any loopholes that they can find (Aukta, 2018).
Gray hat hackers
Gray hat hackers are the type of hackers that is between a white and a black hat hacker. They may have bad and good intentions as such they may leak information, or they may inform the organization about a vulnerability that they discovered (Aukta, 2018).
Green hat hackers
Green hat hackers are not very experienced at hacking – they are very much like a script kiddie. However, they are very curious hackers and tends to spend a lot of their time in hacking communities asking many questions about hacking (Aukta, 2018).
Blue hat hackers
Blue hat hackers are amateur hacker, just like green hat hackers, but they do have revenge intention (Aukta, 2018).
Red hat hackers
Red hat hackers are like white hat hackers, but they strongly believe that getting rid of black hat hackers in a good thing. Red hat hackers usually attack a black hat hacker with a series of aggressive cyber-attacks (Aukta, 2018).
Watch the video (Mindchop, 2017) below to see the top 10 greatest hackers of all time.
Reference list
Aukta, S. (2018). 10 Types of Hackers You Should Know. MalwareFox. Retrieved May 6, 2019, from https://www.malwarefox.com/types-of-hackers/
Bored Panda. (2018). 10 Mastermind Hackers That Outplayed Everyone (even NASA)[image]. (2018, November 7). Retrieved May 25, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cypeCErr0Ac
Gibson, J. (2012, October 24). Discovery Channel – The Secret History of Hacking [Video file], Retrieved May 25, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y47m1cOyKjA&feature=youtu.be
Malwarebytes. (n.d.). What is hacking?. Retrieved May 5, 2019, from https://www.malwarebytes.com/hacker/
MindChop. (2017, January 10). 10 Greatest Hackers Of All Time [Video file]. Retrieved May 25, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp7min0TOiY
Quora. (2018). How many types of hackers are there? [image]. (2018, February 9). Retrieved May 25, 2019, from https://www.quora.com/How-many-types-of-hackers-are-there-1
Rouse, M. (n.d.). Hacker, techtarget. Retrieved May 4, 2019, from https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/hacker
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