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The hackers

What's a hacker ? In this class, you will learn to know the notions of hacker, white hat, grey hat, black hat, and lamer (no, it's not good to eat =)). A list of the hackers groups and of the most famous hackers will also be supplied to you at the end of the class. Are you ready ? Let's go !

The hackers

By definition, the word "Hacker" means "Expert in his field", a specialist who has a very wide expertise in the IT security control, and thus of the ways to evade it. Some of them use this expertise within the bounds of law (notably the white hats) whereas some others use it against the law (black hats and lamers).

The hackers are ranked into 5 different categories :

The cyber-terrorists

The cyber-terrorists are hackers who act against the law. Generally, the white hats are not view as being cyber-terrorists, but the black hats and the lamers usually are.

Various terms tell the cyber-terrorists categories apart. A cyber-terrorist could be :

Famous hackers groups

Here are some hackers groups which, since the end of the eighties, sometimes organize events :

Famous hackers

Some famous hackers :


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