Hackers are divided into several categories: among computer security experts (white hat or white hat) who use their skills within a legal framework, and scammers (black hat) that act to make illegal profits from their skills, it is an intermediate category (gray hat), the most numerous, whose goal is the achievement involving computer systems to enter the best kept.
Hackare zimegawanyika katika makundi kadhaa: wataalam wa usalama kati ya kompyuta (kofia nyeupe au kofia nyeupe) ambaye kutumia ujuzi wao katika mfumo wa kisheria, na scammers (kofia nyeusi) kwamba hatua ya kutengeneza faida haramu kutoka ujuzi wao, kuwa ni jamii kati (kijivu kofia), wengi zaidi, ambao lengo ni mafanikio yanayohusiana na mfumo wa kompyuta kuingia bora kizuizini.