Friday, April 1, 2011

Types of hackers

CODERS:
Coders are programmers who have he ability to find unique vulnerabilities in existing software and to create working exploit codes. These hackers, are not seeking publicity and are rarely part of top news stories. They have good knowlege of OSI and TCP/IP models.


ADMINS: 
Admins are the more common than coders and may have experience with several operating systems, understand TCP/IP and know how  to exploit several vulnerabilities. THey generally have less depth of knowledge but possible greater breadth than coders. This level of hackers would be a part of a security team in a large organization. Some level of programming or scripting ability is required.


SCRIPT KIDDIES:
They are the lowest and most populated part of hackers. Their names comes from the fact that they use previously coded scripts and use hacking tools and softwares downloaded from internet. This types of hackers do hacking for just enjoyment or time pass. Sometimes they can be very dangerous as the acts done by them are somtimes unknown to them causing huge damage.

The other type of classifiction is based on the nature of hacker is Black hat, White hat and Grey hat.

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