I'm ashamed that I'm excited about the recent rash of hackers that have been cropping up in the news and word-of-mouth. Now, I don't condone what they do, but I have always been a fan of underdogs and in my mind that's what they are for the online world.
However, the most recent hacker news, that actually doesn't excite me in the least, I've heard has to do with poor ole USA Today's Twitter account.
They call themselves "The Script Kiddies" and they used USA Today's account to solicit requests for future targets and to also promote their own Facebook page. The FBI takes this group seriously though, due to its hacks earlier in the year involving terrorism claims it posted on NBC's Twitter. Unlike other, more notable hackers that do what they do to kind of say "F the man!" The Script Kiddies went a less valiant route and days before this year's 9/11 anniversary these Kiddies posted news that Ground Zero was attacked using #nbcnews.
Not cool little hackers, not cool.
Now Twitter and USA Today are back in control of Today's account, posting apologies for any confusion that was caused, but who knows when the Kiddies will pop up again. The group has also claimed it has hacked Fox News, Walmart and Pfizer.
Whatever they hack next, I just hope they have a little more class.
Yes, that's right people, I'm telling hackers to have more class!
Actually "Script Kiddies" is a term used by "real" hackers when referring to people who know just enough to be kind of dangerous. They download scripts and such and just run them. They're not digging into mainframes a la the movie "Hackers"-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2efhrCxI4J0
ReplyDeleteScrips Kiddies are just posers. Not very L33t at all.
Those crazy kiddies !!
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