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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. i.e First you Hack the Systems and find out the loop holes and then try to correct those Loop Holes..These type of hackers protect the cyberworld from every possible threat and fixes 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.

The basic difference between cracker or black hat hackers and Hackers or ethical hackers or white hat hackers.

Black Hats : Individuals with extraordinary computing skills, resorting to malicious or destructive activities. Also known as Crackers.

Gray Hats : Individuals who work both offensively and defensively at various times.

White Hats: Individuals professing hacker skills and using them for defensive purposes. Also known as Security Analysts.

Suicide Hackers: Individuals who will aim to bring down critical infrastructure for a "cause" and not worry about facing 30 years in jail for their actions.