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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Late last year, an attacker known as "Matrix" orchestrated a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by exploiting vulnerabilities in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. By leveraging ...

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 ...

For the second time this year, script kiddies using old tactics are bolstering their egos in the name of their countries. While Israeli and Palestinian hackers continue to duke it out in cyberspace, a ...

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 ...

A surprising number of projects here are in some way influenced by the webcomic xkcd, but usually not as directly as this. Comic 350, “Network” is the tale of a very odd stickman who keeps multiple ...