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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]
Network Security Cyber Threats: 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.
[July 26, 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]
Script kiddies: The Net's cybergangs
News When I deface, I consider myself a script kiddie," he told ZDNet News during an IRC interview. 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...
[July 13, 2000, 8:52]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Grey Hats, Black Hats, and Script Kiddies
News Indeed, many argue that web defacements are always the sign of a "script kiddie" or "packet wanker", as they are called, because they require almost no technical sophistication. According to Mark Loveless, Senior Security Analyst for Bindview, the...
[April 5, 2000, 13:59]
Microsoft moves to integrate Windows with BIOS
Talkback Some script kiddie downloads the brand new "Windows Hacking Executable v57.1042beta" and scans for anybody using a Windows based system that supports Internal BIOS integration. Imagine that, they hacked your box with a script-kiddy prog and severly...
[February 5, 2004, 23:12]
Lowdown on latest MS security bulletin
News This isn't a script-kiddie attack and requires a detailed knowledge of the specific installation. This vulnerability can allow someone with physical access to a Windows 2000 system to increase his or her access to the highest level.Playback Script...
[August 6, 2002, 13:50]
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]
Egg admits another personal data blunder
News Even a script kiddie could put a sniffer outside a firewall to pick up all email traffic. The revelation comes a day after it was discovered that an Egg customer's bank account was illegally accessed by another Egg user.
[December 1, 1999, 16:55]
Kazaa & iMesh in 'serious' security alert
News I don't want some little script-kiddie to close down all of the [FastTrack] network or parts of it," he said. A security researcher who found a potentially critical vulnerability in the software that drives the FastTrack network, which powers p2p...
[May 27, 2003, 9:23]
Outrage at Symantec's OS X claims
Talkback If crackers are motivated by the possibility to acquire some herostratic fame, wouldn't it be more easily achieved by cracking the Mac, than Windows, something which any script kiddie seems to be able to?
[March 23, 2005, 17:58]
Hacker exploits make PC worms more deadly
News The Anna Kournikova virus, for example, was written with the help of an existing virus toolkit available on the Internet, but Chein argues that the script kiddie who unleashed the virus is the person ultimately responsible for any damage caused to...
[October 18, 2001, 12:20]
SIP flaw causes problems for Cisco
News HTTP-like ASCII presentations of the SIP messages may initially attract more script-kiddie level hostility (vulnerability assessment) than the rival protocols with complex encodings have attracted so far.
[March 10, 2003, 10:00]
News Schmooze: Bill Gates brings on the lurve machine
News Or just some bored script kiddie without anything to do on a dull January afternoon? One of the hallmarks of our modern age is our tendency to rely on technology to express our romantic overtures, and Brits are expected to rack up more impassioned...
[February 15, 2002, 17:06]
Trojan exploits Outlook Express
News This means that the exploit is likely to become a favorite script kiddie attack, as more of them learn about the tools needed to execute this one. The exploit has two features: A fake extension structure intended to get around filtering softwareA...
[February 20, 2003, 11:13]
