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 ...

A so-called "script kiddie" is behind the recently discovered Satori botnet that has scared security researchers because of its rapid rise to a size of hundreds of thousands of compromised devices.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Just days after bitcoin (BTC) crossed the $17,000 price threshold for the first time in weeks, the largest cryptocurrency by market value has now breached the wall of $18K. The question now is whether ...

The world of information security and cyber security is often portrayed as deeply technical, focused on repelling the “hooded hacker”. This can do one of two things to an organisation’s user community ...