For his Master’s thesis project, Parsons The New School for Design graduate Samuel Snider-Held created “MY V3RY FIRST CYB3R W4R KIT,” an instruction booklet that can teach anyone the basics of ...

For decades, this type of no-skill hacker, known as a script kiddie, has wreaked havoc, running scripts they ripped from the ...

COMMENTARY--Last month I got an e-mail from a 19-year-old San Francisco Bay Area youth who objected to my frequent use of the term "script kiddie." He felt I was picking on young people as a group, ...

The two hackers--who go under the tags dryice and frixion--were both named by Caffrey during his defense at Southwark Crown Court in London earlier this month. They were put up as the possible ...

A group calling itself “The Script Kiddies” hacked USA Today’s Twitter account this weekend and used it to solicit requests for future targets and even to promote its own Facebook page. Although this ...

It's easy to set up a cybercriminal operation these days. But not all crooks are cut out for this game, some ending up not just infecting their own computers but also leaving identifying evidence on ...

Tension: Inexperienced hackers crave shortcuts to power, yet the very tools that promise a shortcut often flip and claim the hackers as victims. Noise: Forums and YouTube tutorials glamorize “plug-and ...

An apparent Russian script kiddie is converting widespread security gaps into a powerful botnet capable of launching global-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks. See Also: Airlines and Airports ...

Richard Bejtlich of TaoSecurity decried the tool on Twitter, saying, "There is no need to release this. The tie to Shodan puts it over the edge. There is no legitimate reason to put mass exploitation ...