Black Hats: are people with exceptional computing talents who use their skills for malevolent or destructive purposes.
White Hats: are people who employ their self-proclaimed hacking skills for defensive purposes. The system owner has given them authorization.
Gray Hats: are people who work on both the attacking and defensive side at different times. They are a combination of black hats and white hats.
Suicide Hackers: are people who are willing to risk jail time or other consequences in order to shut down crucial infrastructure for a good cause.
Script Kiddies: are people who infiltrates a system by executing scripts, tools, and software created by genuine hackers.
Cyber Terrorists: are people with a diverse set of skills who are driven by religious or political convictions to instil terror in the public by disrupting computer networks on a massive scale.
State-Sponsored Hackers: are people used by the government to break into and steal top-secret secrets from other governments’ information systems, as well as cause damage to them.
Hacktivist: are people who advances a political objective, often by defacing or destroying websites.
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