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 ...

I'm not sure if, in the darkest parts of the internet, there is a competitive hacking league, but if there is, I doubt it's anything like developer Austin Dixon's Script Kiddies. It's a server hacking ...

For decades, this type of no-skill hacker, known as a script kiddie, has wreaked havoc, running scripts they ripped from the internet or copied from exploit tool kits. They didn’t fully understand or ...

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 ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY--Young virus writers and script kiddies troll the Internet every day. Most are not malicious, just bored. Like street gangs, they have created a way to tag the Internet (viral code), have ...

While cyberattacks on the whole have grown more sophisticated, certain basic attacks are a concern for less-obvious reasons, says CISA cybersecurity advisor Brad Manuel. While cyberattacks on the ...

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 ...

The tools used by security researchers, penetration testers, and “red teams” often spark controversy because they package together, and automate, attacks to a degree that make some uncomfortable—and ...