Network Security

TYPES OF HACKERS:

• Gray Hat Hacker
• A cracker who exploits a security weakness in a computer system or product in order to bring the weakness of the owners.
• Gray hackers are breaking down laws and violating ethics, but their intent isn't malicious.
• They hack without permission but the don't do harm. They Fix it.
• Hobby Hacker
• Focuses on making the traffic, the generated leads, the clients and the branding grow with the minimum investment.
• E.g. Jordi Robert - Hobby to hack since he was 15 years old to make money.
• Phreakers
• Phone + Freaks
• People who studies, equipment and explores telecommunication system on how it work.
• Use different audio frequencies to manipulate a phone system.
• Not as common nowadays as people rarely use telephone.
• E.g. Public telephone, Elevator phone.
• Script Kiddy
• Also known as kiddie.
• The hacker will use the existing script or any well-known script to hack any computer.
• the hackers normally comes from the low education of programming.
• Academic Hacker
• An action of hacking the academic or any institution. This is mostly done by either by student or anyone in order to get what they want.
• E.g. To change their grades or to know what is on the exam paper.
• Black Hat Hacker
• A person who attempts to find computer security vulnerabilities and exploit them for personal financial gain or other malicious reasons.
• Can inflict major damage on both individual computer users and large organizations by stealing financial information, compromising the security of major systems, or shutting down or altering the function of websites and networks.
• A person who hack with harm, who spread viruses, malicious and threats to destroy or damage the system/software.
• Computer Security Hacker
• Someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in computer system or network.
• Hacktivist
• They hack to protest.
• White Hat Hacker
• Known as Ethical Hacker.
• Hacking with permission to fix the faults of the system.