Crackers Hackers. Hackers are the ethical professionals. While hackers work to help organizations and individuals secure their systems and networks crackers have a different objective in mind.
It s really easy and fun. Crackers do not make new tools but use someone else tools for there cause and harm the network. Hackers program or hacks to check the integrity and vulnerability strength of a network.
In mainstream press the word hacker is often used to refer to a malicious security cracker.
A cracker is like a black hat hacker but is specifically someone who is very skilled and tries via hacking to make profits or to benefit not just to vandalize. Generally people are of the opinion that there is almost no difference between the two. Crackers are also called black hats. A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network.