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Script kiddies: The Net's cybergangs
News They go by such names as Artech, Nemesystm, Team Holocaust and Doodoo Krew, but security experts refer to them as ankle-biters, packet monkeys and script kiddies -- denigrating them for their lack of skill.
[July 13, 2000, 8:52]
Script kiddies learn grown-up hacking techniques
News SQL injection hacking techniques are starting to be used by script kiddies -- inexperienced hackers with limited technical skills -- who are learning from a growing number of online help guides on database hacking.
[January 13, 2005, 14:10]
Script kiddies learn grown-up hacking techniques
Talkback SQL Injection is not a problem if the application developer has coded the application not to trust the queries it receives. Form/search string validation should take into account any possible hack and code in defenses to obviate them.
[January 17, 2005, 12:14]
Grey Hats, Black Hats, and Script Kiddies
News According to Mark Loveless, Senior Security Analyst for Bindview, the bulk of the hacking community is comprised of "grey hats" who, for the most part, respect the law. But) like other law-abiding citizens, we respect some laws more than others...
[April 5, 2000, 13:59]
Experts question US vs China 'cyberwar'
News Real cyberwar or just a slanging match between Chinese and US script-kiddies? These are script kiddies looking for attention. While hostilities between American and Chinese Web site crackers looks likely to hot up in coming days, some security...
[May 4, 2001, 16:32]
Can Microsoft's virus bounty fight organised crime?
News Microsoft's $5m Reward Program may help catch script kiddies, such as the German teenager suspected of authoring a variant of the Sasser worm, but it is unlikely to have any effect on virus writers working for organised crime syndicates, say...
[May 10, 2004, 17:30]
Security showdown: Black Hat vs. Def Con
News System administrators and hackers, chief information officers and script kiddies will all gather in the desert to trade information, swap stories and take each other's measure. The bulk are just script kiddies, but there is some small portion that...
[July 11, 2001, 14:49]
IM security: The worst is yet to come
News Alexander Gostev, senior virus analyst at Kaspersky Labs, said most of these worms were written in Visual Basic and contain similar source code - a sure sign that script kiddies were most likely responsible.
[April 19, 2005, 15:55]
Hackers: Uncle Sam wants you!
News Money was one of four US government officials that told hackers and script kiddies to be all they can be. While the noise from script kiddies causes much of the consternation, Money admitted that military and government systems have had -- and in...
[July 31, 2000, 10:28]
Why Microsoft code leak worries me
Talkback The second is fact that there are varying skill levels amongst the hacking community from the so called script kiddies to the 'digital terrorists' and while the script kiddies tend to prey on the people who don't patch or run anti-virus programs...
[February 18, 2004, 12:05]
Hacker speaks out on security basics
News You can run through all the security checklists you like but that still doesn't account for the weird and wacky stuff the script kiddies are coming out with. RFP's recipe for staying one step ahead of the script kiddies is surprisingly simple: "if...
[March 25, 2002, 10:10]
Roundup: The summer of hacking
News Script kiddies: The Net's cybergangs Thu, 27 Jul Well-meaning hackers are creating an army of "script kiddies" by making security holes public, says a speaker at the Black Hat Security Conference Hackers are going to cost the world over £1tn in...
[July 13, 2000, 14:26]
FBI missing the real hacking threat?
News The Posse's note prominently thanked the script kiddies, who use script-based programs to break into servers, for grabbing the attention of the FBI. There's a limit to what they (the script kiddies) could do," DeLong noted.
[June 3, 1999, 11:00]
Five Israelis charged over Goner
News At the time security experts suspected that it was the work of "script kiddies" -- inexperienced malicious programmers. If ICQ, a favourite program of script kiddies, is also present on the infected computer, Goner will attempt to spread copies of...
[August 6, 2002, 12:45]
Hackers turn to worms
News The script kiddies are being empowered by the automation," said Shipley. Worse, less-technical online vandals -- also called script kiddies -- could take the scripts, modify them and create a powerful malicious program, he said.
[April 2, 2001, 7:48]
Unpatched machines 'Net's biggest threat'
News But even script kiddies may be helping to power these attacks, he said. We believe the [professional hackers and script kiddies] are split even farther apart than before, but some of the really high-level people creating complicated malware code to...
[April 26, 2005, 10:10]
Hackers compete to deface Web sites
News The Web site for the contest has a fluent Portuguese section and a broken-English section, evidence, Nunez said, that points to Brazilian "script kiddies" as the source. Script kiddies are nontechnical vandals that use tools created by other, more...
[July 3, 2003, 7:35]
Mandrake Linux 9.2 'kills' some CD-ROM drives
Talkback Now that script kiddies know if this neat feature - can't wait for MS based virii to do a similar thing. LG were stupid to re-use the command to zap firware. The loser here will be LG. But Mandrake do get latest stuff out first (e.g.devfs) but...
[October 30, 2003, 11:47]
Silence the best security policy
News There are so many script kiddies attacking our networks that it's hard to find the real serious attackers" because of all the chaotic noise. Marcus Ranum, chief technology officer for intrusion detection software maker Network Flight Recorder, used...
[July 27, 2000, 9:06]
Nessus: An Automated Network-Based Security Scanner
White Papers The script kiddies download an automated tool from the Net and bang away at any network they can reach, breaking into machines just to claim bragging rights in the cracker community. Crackers constantly probe machines looking for both old and new...
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
