CRACKERS (or Black Hat Hackers ): those who will enter your computer just for the fun of it, or to prove their technical skills, which are usually mid to high level.
BLUE HAT HACKERS : A blue hat hacker is someone outside computer security consulting firms that are used to bug test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed. The term has also been associated with a roughly annual security conference by Microsoft, the unofficial name comingfrom the blue color associated with Microsoft employee badges.
GRAY HAT HACKERS : A gray hat hacker is a hacker of ambiguous ethics and/or borderline legality, often frankly admitted (the coloritself stands somewhere in between 'black' and 'white', the 'bad' and the 'good' guys).
WHITE HAT HACKER : A whitehat hacker (sometimes referred to as 'ethical hacker') is someone who breaks security but who does so for altruistic or at least non-malicious reasons. White hats generally have a clearly defined code of ethics, andwill often attempt to work with a manufacturer or owner to improve discovered security weaknesses, although many reserve the implicit or explicit threat of public disclosure after a"reasonable" time as a prod to ensure timely response from a corporate entity. The term is also usedto describe hackers who work to deliberately design and code more secure systems. To white hats, the darker the hat, the more the ethics of the activity can be considered dubious. Conversely, black hats may claim the lighter the hat, the more the ethics of the activity are lost.
SCRIPT KIDDIES : Script kiddie is a pejorative term for a computer intruder with little or no skill; a person who simply follows directions or uses a cook-book approach -- typically using other people's scripts and shellcodes -- without fully understanding the meaningof the steps they are performing.
HACKTIVIST (rare): A hacktivist is a hacker who utilizes technology to announce a political message. Web vandalism is not necessarily hacktivism.
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