Distinguish Between Hackers and Crackers

DISTINGUISH BETWEEN HACKERS AND CRACKERS

There is a very thin line difference between the hacker and cracker. Like a coin has two faces heads or tails, similar is true for computer experts. Some uses their techniques and expertise to help the others and secure the systems or networks and some misuses them and use that for their own selfish reasons.

There are several traditional ways that deter-mines the difference between the hackers and crackers.

I will provide you these ways in order of their acceptance in the computer and IT market. First of all, let me provide you the basic definitions of both hackers and crackers.

Hackers: A Hacker is a person who is extremely interested in exploring the things and recondite workings of any computer system or networking system. Most often, hackers are the expert programmers. These are also called Ethical Hackers or white hat hackers. And the technique or hacking they perform is called ethical hacking.

Ethical Hacking Means you think like Hackers that is first you Hack the Systems and find out the loop holes and then try to correct those Loop Holes. These types of hackers protect the cyber world from every possible threat and fix the future coming security loop holes. These peoples are also called as "GURU's" of Computer Security.

Crackers: Crackers or Black Hat hackers or cheaters or simply criminals, they are called criminals because they are having the mindset of causing harm to security and they steals very useful data and use it in wrong ways. Phishers also come in this category who steals account info and steal your credit card nos. and money over the Net.

Ethical Hacking is the field of computing that enables the protection of computer systems from "Crackers" and other intrusive-programs with malicious intent. From the above statements actually you can understand the difference between Hackers and Crackers.

A grey hat hacker lies between a black hat and a white hat hacker. A grey hat hacker may surf the Internet and hack into a computer system for the sole purpose of notifying the administrator that their system has a security defect, for example. They may then offer to correct the defect for a fee.

Grey hat hackers sometimes find the defect of a system and publish the facts to the world instead of a group of people. Even though grey hat hackers may not necessarily perform hacking for their personal gain, unauthorized access to a system can be considered illegal and unethical.

Types of Hacking

There are different types of hacking which are listed below:

·         Hacking of website pages protected through password

·         Hacking into someone else's computers while they are online.

·         Hacking of company servers.

Cracker

Crackers, also known as "malicious hackers" and "black-hat hackers", are different because although they have the same skills as a hacker, they use their power to commit criminal acts.

For example,crackers can send viruses, steal personal information and commit other crimes using just their skills and a home computer. Obviously, the activities of most Crackers are considered illegal.

A cracker is someone who breaks into someone else's computer system, often on a network; bypasses passwords or licenses in computer programs or in other ways intentionally breaches computer security. A cracker can be doing this for profit, maliciously, for some altruistic purpose or cause, or because the challenge is there. Some breaking-and-entering has been done ostensibly to point out weaknesses in a site's security system.

Often these crackers create tools that enable less-skilled criminals to subvert security and exploit weaknesses in computer systems. While skilled crackers are in the minority, they can’t be ignored. By creating tools and malicious software (viruses, worms) they act as a force-multiplier and create a greater problem than their numbers may indicate. When planning for security it is wise to take the more dangerous crackers into account and plan for a worst-case scenario.

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