Script Kiddies, Just Say No...

Cyberprog · 15th December 2008

BBC NEWS | Technology | Alarm raised on teenage hackers

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The teenagers' attempts to make money from their life of cyber crime usually came unstuck because of their poor technical skills.

"They do not even know enough to get a simple phishing or attack tool right," said Kevin Hogan, a senior manager Symantec Security Response.

"We have seen phishing sites that have broken images because the link, rather than reference the original webpage, is referencing a file on the C: drive that is not there," he said.

Symantec researchers have collected many examples of teenagers who have managed to cripple their own PCs by infecting them with viruses they have written.

Chris Boyd from FaceTime said many of the young criminal hackers were undermined by their desire to win recognition for their exploits.

Many teenage hackers publicise their exploits on YouTube

"They are obsessed with making videos of what they are doing," he said.

Many post videos of what they have done to sites such as YouTube and sign on with the same alias used to hack a site, run a phishing attack or write a web exploit.

Many share photos or other details of their life on other sites making it easy for computer security experts to track them down and get them shut down.

MH-Nick · 15th December 2008

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We have seen phishing sites that have broken images because the link, rather than reference the original webpage, is referencing a file on the C: drive that is not there," he said.

Symantec researchers have collected many examples of teenagers who have managed to cripple their own PCs by infecting them with viruses they have written.

Shame most of the them aren't like this.

AdamC · 15th December 2008

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Chris Boyd from FaceTime said many of the young criminal hackers were undermined by their desire to win recognition for their exploits.

Aaah, good old Paperghost - this brings back memories