Black Hat Hackers are individuals with good computing knowledge, abilities and expertise but with the intentions and conducts to cause damage on the systems they attack. These hackers are also known as crackers.
Grey Hat Hackers, are the individuals in between the bad and good. They perform both offensive and defensive hacking activities. These hackers may perform offensive hacking activities in order to detect defects in victims' computing environment and inform them, in return for a fee.
White Hat Hackers are the good guys. These are the individuals with good hacking skills. They perform defensive activities against hacking. These hackers make their livings by becoming security analysts.
Apart from the hackers above, there is another group named without a hat color. They are called as the Suicide Hackers. Individuals whom want to fail a computing system for a personal ‘reason’ or ‘cause’. These hackers are not worried about the serious consequences that they may have to face as a result of their damaging activities i.e being jailed for many years.
