Black Hat White Hat. Which type are you?

Each of everything has its negative and positive sides. Nevertheless, not all hackers are bad and not all of them are trying to hack for negative reason, some of them are good too. Every hacker has a motivation for them about what they do and why they do. They were differentiate into color of hats. Here are two main types, which are black and white.

White Hat
A white hat hacker is a computer security experts who breaks into security for harmless reasons like, testing their security while working for a security software company. They are the professional IT security who help the society to secure from hacking by creating or upgrading firewall softwares. Example of softwares are Kaspersky and Asterisk. Therefore, they are the good hacker.

Black Hat
Black hacker also known as "cracker" is a plain hacker who breaks into computer network or creates computer viruses. These bad people apply patches to fix the system so that they can keep control the systems. They are the criminal hacker who hack purposely just to get  paid.


Source(s):

7 Types of Hacker Motivations McAfee. 2014. 7 Types of Hacker Motivations McAfee. 2014. [ONLINE] Available at: http://blogs.mcafee.com/consumer/family-safety/7-types-of-hacker-motivations [Accessed: 13rd December 2013]