Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

2010

constantly seek further knowledge, share what they have discovered, and they never have intentions aboutdamaging or stealing data.

 Definition - A Cracker is a person who breaks into other people systems, with malicious intentions. Crackers gainunauthorized access, destroy important data, stop services provided by the server, or basically cause problems fortheir targets. Crackers can easily be identified because their actions are malicious.

 Whatever the case, most people give Hacker a negative outline. Many malicious Hackers are electronic thieves.Just like anyone can become a thief, or a robber, anyone can become a Hacker, regardless of age, gender, orreligion. Technical skills of Hackers vary from one to another. Some Hackers barely know how to surf the Internet,whereas others write software that other Hackers depend upon.

Types of Hacker

 The Real Hackers are the Coders, the ones who revise the methods and create tools that are available in themarket. Coders can find security holes and weaknesses in software to create their own exploits. These Hackers

vulnerability in existing software and tounderstanding of the OSI Layer Model and

 Admins are the computer guys who use the tools and exploits prepared by the coders. They do not develop theirown techniques, however they uses the tricks which are already prepared by the coders. They are generallySystem Administration, or Computer Network Controller. Most of the Hackers and security person in this digitalworld come under this category.

 Admins have experience with several operating systems, and know how to exploit several existing vulnerabilities.A majority of Security Consultants fall in this group and work as a part of Security Team.

Script Kiddies

 Next and the most dangerous class of Hackers is Script kiddies, They are the new generation of users of computerwho take advantage of the Hacker tools and documentation available for free on the Internet but don’t have anyknowledge of what’s going on behind the scenes. They know just enough to cause you headaches but typically arevery sloppy in their actions, leaving all sorts of digital fingerprints behind. Even though these guys are the teenageHackers that you hear about in the news media, they need minimum skills to carry out their attacks.

 Script Kiddies are the bunnies who use script and programs developed by others to attack computer systems andNetworks. They get the least respect but are most annoying and dangerous and can cause big problems withoutactually knowing what they are doing.

 Types of Hackers on the basis of activities performed by them.

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