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Know Your Enemy: The Tools And Methodologies Of The Script Kiddie
White Papers This article, the first of a three part series, does just that, it discusses the tools and methodology used by one of the most common and universal threats, the Script Kiddie. The tools used are extremely simple in use.
[January 23, 2004, 2:51]
New Sasser Variant Indicates Copycat Script Kiddie
News Antivirus companies suspect that the new virus has been written by a copycat script kiddie. A new variant of the Sasser worm has appeared, even though the worm's author was arrested in Germany last week.
[May 11, 2004, 17:35]
Firms Keep Silent Over Child Pornography
Talkback I predict that "kiddie porn" will be a great tool for zapping unruly bosses and fast promotions. Just imagine, an unpopular boss walks in one day and leaves in handcuffs because an IT technician "discovers" illegal kiddie porn on the manager's PC...
[May 11, 2005, 23:53]
Cyber Threats, A Different View
White Papers This paper is concerned with discussing the term "cracker" or "script-kiddie" as a type of life forms that exists on the Internet. The paper will define the cracker or script-kiddie and describe their attitude.
[September 22, 2005, 0:00]
Virus Alert: How The Anna Virus Was Created
News She said the author of the Anna virus is probably a Dutch script kiddie who goes by the name "OnTheFly". The toolkit also allows a script kiddie to specify up to four payloads (in other words, what the virus/worm will do on an infected computer).
[February 13, 2001, 8:10]
Five Israelis Charged Over Goner
News Goner's pop-up displays look like a typical script-kiddie Web site defacement, complete with the typical script kiddie "greetz". Besides displaying a message taking credit for the worm -- "Pentagone coded by: suid tested by: ThE_SkuLL and Isatanl...
[August 6, 2002, 12:45]
Did MS Bug Alarm Go Off Too Early?
News The security community uses the term "script kiddie" to describe online vandals who are not that technically adept. If it's something that's out there and leaves normal users open to a 'script kiddie' attack, much more time is required before...
[February 15, 2002, 9:05]
Script Kiddies: The Net's Cybergangs
News Other script kids leave behind flashy graphics, explanations of how to fix the security hole in the defaced system, or messages written to others in 31337 (elite) speak, the lingua franca of the script kiddie subculture.
[July 13, 2000, 8:52]
Firms Keep Silent Over Child Pornography
Talkback The problem is, every IT administrator knows that as soon as an allegation of kiddie porn is made to the police, the police will remove for evidence every item of hardware that could have been involved.
[May 12, 2005, 11:36]
Virus Attacks - The Answer's In The Post
Talkback He's essentialy a script kiddie that got in over his head. Parson's is a scapegoat. His version of the worm supposedly only effected 7000 or so PCs. The fix was out there. If I get AIDS because I choose not to practice safe sex, is it my parnter's...
[September 5, 2003, 14:42]
Net Unprepared For Cyberterrorism - US Officials
Talkback the Net is unprepared for a 14 year old script kiddie, let alone an organized gang.is this what U.S.tax dollars are being spent on? Bush is an idiot - the next election cant come quick enough
[December 4, 2003, 10:34]
Online Cannabis Shop Goes Up In Smoke
Talkback Great to see thousands of man hours used up for something as important as shutting down a dealer of that evil marijuana stuff instead of say, a crack house or a kiddie fiddler ring. Seems like the priorities are all SPOT ON!
[December 23, 2003, 11:46]
Game Developers Should Embrace Randomness - But Not Too Much
Blog Comment Oh yes the link brought it all back, I had the more kiddie version on the 64.That kind of game would look incredible on todays hardware.http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/lightsynths.php How true You know, old Jeff has his neon light synth program embedded...
[July 21, 2008, 0:50]
Does Anybody Like Norton AntiVirus?
Talkback It is quite true that some "script kiddie" could figure out how mess with norton. I have to disagree. I've had no problems what-so ever with Norton. It's deteced all viruses, with the expection of one that I picked up with another software that was...
[November 18, 2004, 2:32]
Analysis: US Lawmakers In Web-regulating Frenzy
News Idaho recently legislated taxing the Internet and in Ohio, house lawmakers have passed an Internet bill so sweeping it tackles everything from kiddie porn to making ISPs liable for smut. Tennessee lawmakers are pushing a bill that would tag porn...
[March 31, 1998, 7:00]
Gates Takes A Side-swipe At Apple, Linux Security
Talkback First Off, Lets agree that no operating system nowadays is safe from hackers, viruses trojans, worms and the rest of 'em but Windows operating systems seem to be the worst affected, maybe the fact that ports are intentionally left-open doen't help...
[January 28, 2004, 10:30]
Trojan Horse Found Responsible For Child Porn
Talkback More than likely you were turned in by these so called "kiddie porn uploaders" I honestly don't believe a word that these guys are saying, no one is putting child pornography on your computers but you.
[March 7, 2006, 19:01]
When Data Is Not The Ultimate Hacker Target
Blog The consequences for the company were probably far worse, as it turns out, than a script kiddie viewing some of its data. The fact that a US water utility was hacked last week is far from headline news, but what struck a chord here in London was...
[November 2, 2006, 11:12]
Broadband Optimizer
Downloads By making certain tweaks to your network settings, you may be able to almost double your download speeds.Broadband Optimizer works by increasing the memory buffers used for TCP transfers, so that data comes in bigger chunks at at time - Man-sized...
[November 12, 2004, 7:38]
Bagle Author Releases 'dangerous' Assembler Code
News Mikko Hyppönen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure, said he believes the source code is genuine but, worryingly, he said, it is written in pure assembler, which indicates the author responsible is a serious programmer and not a script kiddie.
[July 5, 2004, 13:30]
