What Is A Gray Hat Hacker?

What Is A Gray Hat Hacker?

Just like Black Hat Hackers the Grey Hat Hackers are violating ethical laws and conduct crimes in the cyber world. They are professionals in computer security and they are experts in breaking network security/firewalls without permission. 

However, they don’t perform any big crime like Black Hat Hackers. Unlike White Hat Hackers they can attack any business network and break their security without any permissions from anyone. But they report the business owner about the flaws and charge them a small amount of fee to fix it. 

Grey Hat Hackers is a combination of 700% Black Hat and 30% White Hat Hackers but there are some differences between Grey Hat Hackers and Black Hat Hackers.

Grey Hat Black Hat
Grey Hat Hackers can break cyber laws but the workstyle is very defensive. Black Hat Hackers are completely illegal hackers.
Grey Hat Hackers search for security flaws without permission to report the owner for a change of a small fee to fix it. Black Hat Hackers violate the security and gain profit out of it. 
Grey Hat Hackers cannot do cyber kidnapping Black Hat Hackers do cyber kidnapping and ask for money to give back their data. 

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