First, a short myth:

A 15-year-old boy sits behind a glowing
black monitor, typing furiously. The
green text streams across his screen like
a waterfall. His nervousness escalates
dramatically as he sends rapid-fire
commands to the strained computer.
Suddenly, he lets out a triumphant laugh
and proceeds to steal money.
Such is the stereotypical view of a hacker.
Yet, there’s so much more to this fine art
than Hollywood or the media describes.
Hackers are varied creatures and include
these 7 types:

1. Script Kiddie – Script Kiddies normally
don’t care about hacking (if they did,
they’d be Green Hats. See below.). They
copy code and use it for a virus or an
SQLi or something else. Script Kiddies
will never hack for themselves; they’ll
just download overused software (LOIC
or Metasploit, for example) and watch a
YouTube video on how to use it. A
common Script Kiddie attack is DoSing
or DDoSing (Denial of Service and
Distributed Denial of Service), in which
they flood an IP with so much
information it collapses under the
strain. This attack is frequently used by
the “hacker” group Anonymous, which
doesn’t help anyone’s reputation.

2. White Hat – Also known as ethical
hackers, White Hat hackers are the
good guys of the hacker world. They’ll
help you remove a virus or PenTest a
company. Most White Hat hackers hold
a college degree in IT security or
computer science and must be certified
to pursue a career in hacking. The most
popular certification is the CEH (Certified
Ethical Hacker) from the EC-Council.

3. Black Hat – Also known as crackers,
these are the men and women you
hear about in the news. They find
banks or other companies with weak
security and steal money or credit card
information. The surprising truth about
their methods of attack is that they
often use common hacking practices
they learned early on.

4. Gray Hat – Nothing is ever just black or
white; the same is true in the world of
hacking. Gray Hat hackers don’t steal
money or information (although,
sometimes they deface a website or
two), yet they don’t help people for
good (but, they could if they wanted to)
. These hackers comprise most of the
hacking world, even though Black Hat
hackers garner most (if not all) of the
media’s attention.

5. Green Hat – These are the hacker
“n00bz,” but unlike Script Kiddies, they
care about hacking and strive to
become full-blown hackers. They’re
often flamed by the hacker community
for asking many basic questions. When
their questions are answered, they’ll
listen with the intent and curiosity of a
child listening to family stories.

6. Red Hat – These are the vigilantes of the
hacker world. They’re like White Hats in
that they halt Black Hats, but these folks
are downright SCARY to those who
have ever tried so much as PenTest.
Instead of reporting the malicious
hacker, they shut him/her down by
uploading viruses, DoSing and
accessing his/her computer to destroy
it from the inside out. They leverage
multiple aggressive methods that might
force a cracker to need a new
computer.

7. Blue Hat – If a Script Kiddie took
revenge, he/she might become a Blue
Hat. Blue Hat hackers will seek
vengeance on those who’ve them
angry. Most Blue Hats are n00bz, but
like the Script Kiddies, they have no
desire to learn.

There you have it. Thanks for reading.

Good.

Me, no TROLL HAT i get.

When are we ever gonna have whatsapp group for pen testers, I wanted to start it, only many peeps on here were something else....

Are there any green/black hat hackers, let's discuss on ways to improve nija hacking industry

incredible6:
Are there any green/black hat hackers, let's discuss on ways to improve nija hacking industry

bro no green hat hacker, abi u won b d first green hat hacker for naija

You missed these ones

Suicide Hackers,
Spy Hackers,
Cyber Terrorists,
State Sponsored Hackers

classified by ©EC-Council

jimklef:
First, a short myth:

strain. This attack is frequently used by
the “hacker” group Anonymous, which
doesn’t help anyone’s reputation.

hahahahaha

Let Anonymous catch you. They'll chew chew you anyhow

jimklef:
bro no green hat hacker, abi u won b d first green hat hacker for naija

Which one are you! You up for collaborations

@jimklef

Without Anonymous ISIS would have destroyed America. Who doesn't know the story of how Anonymous fought alongside Russia and America to battle ISIS, only they didn't collaborate with America 100% for fear that America may come after them on the later event.

http://bgr.com/2015/11/30/anonymous-hackers-isis-terrorists-war/

Plus they fighting Donald Trump and digging up facts hidden for a long time.

Whytelyon:
@jimklef

Without Anonymous ISIS would have destroyed America. Who doesn't know the story of how Anonymous fought alongside Russia and America to battle ISIS, only they didn't collaborate with America 100% for fear that America may come after them on the later event.

http://bgr.com/2015/11/30/anonymous-hackers-isis-terrorists-war/

Plus they fighting Donald Trump and digging up facts hidden for a long time.

Lol, even ISIS too na anonymous naaw

jimklef:
Lol, even ISIS too na anonymous naaw

I don't believe you. Possibly you don't know who's Anonymous. If you do, you won't say they are IS.

You missed hacktivists

Whytelyon:
@jimklef

Without Anonymous ISIS would have destroyed America. Who doesn't know the story of how Anonymous fought alongside Russia and America to battle ISIS, only they didn't collaborate with America 100% for fear that America may come after them on the later event.

http://bgr.com/2015/11/30/anonymous-hackers-isis-terrorists-war/

Plus they fighting Donald Trump and digging up facts hidden for a long time.

they aren't as badass as they make us think they are

zzzzy:
they aren't as badass as they make us think they are

O yes they are.
Not this crap of copy and paste we do in Nigeria that we misunderstand as being "uber hackers " you can try hacking them and watch what happens afterall.

Try hacking Islamic state, or try hacking into Donald trumps Email and see how it goes. hut this guy's are doing it without stress.

good info

Whytelyon:


O yes they are.
Not this crap of copy and paste we do in Nigeria that we misunderstand as being "uber hackers " you can try hacking them and watch what happens afterall.

Try hacking Islamic state, or try hacking into Donald trumps Email and see how it goes. hut this guy's are doing it without stress.

they didn't release any valuable information from their claimed hack against Donald trump. Most of the information they released were already out before their "attack" and about isis, they didn't hack isis, they brought down their twitter handles. Most of their attack are DDOS, btw, they have no leadership and is a voluntary group, I too can be a member of anonymous. Scary hacking is what was done to Hillarys campaign chairman emails

zzzzy:
they didn't release any valuable information from their claimed hack against Donald trump. Most of the information they released were already out before their "attack" and about isis, they didn't hack isis, they brought down their twitter handles. Most of their attack are DDOS, btw, they have no leadership and is a voluntary group, I too can be a member of anonymous. Scary hacking is what was done to Hillarys campaign chairman emails

You only read about Twitter handles, did you read about the ones they used Remote Administration tools? I guess not.
Not hyping these guys, but being honest, they are far more dangerous than you think. Ever heard of the Lizard hack team? Most of them are anonymous now, read about the use of RAT (remote administration tools) in Syria it should give you insights of what these fellows did.


Read here as this is the only ones published.

https://www.hackread.com/8-most-awesome-hacks-conducted-by-anonymous-hackers/

Even whois on their site is patched and protected by whoisguard. You haven't been reading let us show you which one you day?

Come to hacking in reality, I give it to Russians.