Difference between White, Gray and Black hat hackers.
White hat Hackers (White Hats)
White hat hackers are mainly known as ethical hackers. The
main goal of ethical hackers is to determine how to break onto a system owned
by a company, industries, or individual one in order to prevent hacking from
Black hat hackers. If white hat hackers can break a system a black hat hackers
can do same.
Thousands of Companies,
organization and individual hire ethical hackers in order to make their system
secure from to be hack.
NEED FOR WHITE HAT HACKERS
In the present world or simply modern era individual and
organizations across the world increasing the use of internet along with variety
of works regarding the security of consumers, financial and medical data. For this
reason, to prevent the data and information from black hat hackers the use of
ethical hackers is increased more and more in the present world.
It is more
interesting nowadays that some of ethical hackers are working as Black hat
hackers. Ethical hackers regardless of where their knowledge was acquired, all
have one thing in common: Creativity.
Mainly white hat
hackers are employed to test an organization’s Computer security system. The
organization authorizers the white hat hackers to attempts to compromise their
system. These white hat hackers use system to compromise the organization
system. Just as black hat hackers hack the system of any organization and say
back to the organization that how they access their system information in order
to make their system more secure. This is known as “Penetration Testing”.
Grey Hat Hackers( Grey Hats)
Grey hat hackers are a mixed bunch and it is hard to understand
what the main goal of these is. They prefer to remain anonymous. They use their
hacking tools for legal or illegal purpose but never for personal benefits. In most cases, they exiost to share
information and to accomplish something specific that is known only to them. A
grey hat hacker finds flaws in software codes and detect other weakness then
share the information with concern authorities and within the hacking
community. His intention is to simply put the information out there and watch
how the situation unfolds. But as soon as a Grey hat hacker achieves personal
or materialistic gain, he is classified as Black Hat Hackers.
Black hat Hackers (Black hats)
Black hat hackers simply known as Black Hats , these are such
type of hackers that many medias focus on their activities. We can simply say
that it is illegal activities done computer skills person not all but few of
them.
Black Hats damage the computer security system for their
personal gains and earning purpose like as they steal others bank account
number and its password so that they can
sell it to third person from where he got a lot of money. Some of them steal
the data and information of one company and sell it to others in high price.
According to the computer security law Black hat hackers is
totally illegal because it is done without making known to others. They don’t
have written permission of using or accessing others information without making
them known.
Hacking Networks illegally is a big crime punishable by law.
It sis happens to be one of the biggest threat to computers Security.
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