Thursday, February 17, 2011

7 Types of Hackers

Roger Grimes, Security Advisor at Infoworld.com, has an article about the 7 types of hackers.

  • Cyber Criminals
  • Spammers / Adware Spreaders
  • Advanced Persistent Threat Agents
  • Corporate spies
  • Hactivists
  • Cyber warriors
  • Rogue hackers
This is an interesting and quick read. I hope this helps explain to people there is more than one type of hacker, not always criminals with evil intent.

11 comments:

  1. Cyber warriors? Haha, what do they do, run around inside your pc hacking and slashing it to bits?

    It was a good read though, and it did enlighten me. Great stuff. Followed.

    Keep up the good fight! Looking forward to future posts.

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  2. Haha, I did think that some of his names were a bit...hollywood if you will.
    Thanks for the feedback!

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  3. Good thing we have the cyber police to deal justice to these evil doers

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  4. I guess what separates them is they all have different agendas, some more sinister than others.

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  5. I love how he makes up this much random names .
    Hackers are hackers . Not much not less thats all .

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  6. A lot of corporations are actually hiring hackers to help them with their IT security. It's a great pro to hackers worldwide.

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  7. Good post, I'm glad you're trying to educate people about the fact that not all hackers are criminals. It's so sad when people conflate good and bad hackers.

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