A script kiddie added code that was intended to be malicious to three packages on the user repository for Arch Linux but the packages were detected and deleted.

News broke this week that a massive global raid had taken place over two days which comprised of 359 coordinated searches in 16 countries and there were apparently 80+ arrests as a result. Why? Well ...

In what seems like a new low for hackers, a hacker group that goes by the alias The Script Kiddies have hacked the twitter account of NBC News. The group Advisory Alert: It has come to our attention ...

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 ...

Since its beta launch in November, AI chatbot ChatGPT has been used for a wide range of tasks, including writing poetry, technical papers, novels, and essays and planning parties and learning about ...

This year’s Black Hat and Def Con Internet security conferences appeared more professional than in previous years, with more security professionals and government officials in attendance. But one ...

"These hackers exist in their own tier, sometimes called 'script kiddies', and are separate and distinct from hacktivists, organised crime, state-actors, and terrorist groups. They can be motivated by ...

The massive DDoS attack that disrupted the internet address-lookup service Dyn last week was perhaps pulled off by a script kiddie targeting PlayStation Network and using Mirai malware to assemble a ...

A hacker or cracker who uses existing programs or compiles prewritten scripts in order to find weaknesses on target systems. These users dont always understand the complexities of the scripts they are ...

Researchers at Flashpoint pointed a finger of blame at “script kiddies” for the huge IoT-based DDoS attack that made parts of the internet inaccessible last Friday. In fact, the primary target may ...