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'''What is hacking? How many types of hackers are there? Is hacking illegal ?'''

In which hackers discover loopholes and vulnerabilities/bugs of systems, networks to gain unauthorized access to the system by using those Vulnerabilities. Now a days hacking is also legal and illegal.

Types of Hackers:

1. White Hat Hacker:

They are also known as Ethical Hacker or a Penetration Tester. These people use the same technique used by the black hat hat hackers. They also hack systems, but with permissions. They focus on security and protecting IT systems. White Hat is legal.

2. Black Hat Hacker:

They are also known as an Unethical Hacker or a Security Crackers. These people hack the system illegally to steal money or to achieve their own illegal goals. They find weak security companies like: Banks or other companies, and steal money or credit card information. Black Hat Hacking is illegal.

3. Gray Hat Hacker:

These kind of hackers are mixture of Black Hat Hackers and White Hat Hackers. They can hack system even if they don't have permission to test the security of the system but they will never steal money or damage the system. Grey Hat hacking is sometimes acted legally and sometimes not.

Other Miscellaneous Hackers

Apart from the above well-known classes of hackers, we have the following categories of hackers:

1. Elite Hackers:

This is a social status among hackers, which is used to describe the most skilled. Newly discovered exploits will circulate among these hackers.

2. Script Kiddie:

A script kiddie is a non-expert who breaks into computer systems by using Pre-Packaged automated tools written by others, usually with little understanding of the underlying concept, hence the term Kiddie.

3. Neophyte:

A neophyte, "n00b", or "newbie" or "Green Hat Hacker" is someone who is new to hacking or phreaking and has almost no knowledge or experience of the workings of technology and hacking.

4. Hacktivist:

A hacktivist is a hacker who utilizes technology to announce a social, ideological, religious, or political message. In general, most Hacktivism involves website defacement or denial-of-service attacks.