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Hacker

A person who infiltrates a computer system, usually in order to gather information. A hacker finds a way past the system's protocols. Some hackers do this simply for the thrill, though many others hack for nefarious purposes. For example, a hacker may be hired by a company or government to conduct espionage on a competitor or enemy. Other hackers freelance in order to find things like credit card numbers to facilitate identity theft and other crimes. However, the word is not always used in a negative context.

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Fox News was selected because we figured their security would be just as much of a joke as their reporting," commented the Script Kiddies representative.

Hacked Fox News Obama assassination hoax done in the name of Anonymous' Operation Anti-Security

Script Kiddies: Unskilled crackers/hackers who use code and software--or scripts--downloaded from the Internet to wreak havoc upon others' computers and computer networks or sites.

Network Security in the Workplace

But for large organizations with lots of excess computing power and Net connections--the ones our script kiddies love to "zombify"--user authentication should be part of a total security package.

Hacked Off

Many old-school hackers and "hacktavists" (more on them later) see DoS attacks as the work of "script kiddies," newbies on the hacking scene who simply download and run pre-existing software.

Hack Work

Those who claimed responsibility could be script kiddies, hackers who get tools online and use them against any vulnerable computer they could find in the internet.

Oplan Cyber Tokhang a successful hack that never happened

A group calling itself "The Script Kiddies" claimed responsibility for the hack 6 their Twitter account was suspended right after the incident.

Hack Attack: Fake AP Tweet Recalls Similar NBC News Episode On 9-11 Anniversary

mostly with script kiddies and people who were just trying to make a name for

A byte out of cybercrime: Big data fights back

The Script Kiddies are loosely connected to hacker group Anonymous which has been linked to recent attacks on Sony.

HACKERS 'KILL' OBAMA; Cyber anarchists hijack Fox News Twitter page

Ascreenshot posted by the Huffington Post, showed the Fox News Politics feed carrying the subtitle: "H4CK3D BY TH3 5CR1PT K1DD3S." The channel's logo had been replaced with the capital letters SK, presumably also a reference to script kiddies, a term applied to youths who hack computers using simple, automated tools or scripts developed by others.

Fox Twitter account hacked

The principal message by a hacker going by the handle, HEX786 read: "This is just a warning to all script kiddies Indians hackers.

Pak cyber army hacks 270 Indian websites, including that of CBI

Matt Perkins, partner in charge of the financial services group at Deloitte in Birmingham, said: "The types of attack, the execution and exploitation require significant resources and coordination, which implies professional hackers and organised crime have taken over a domain once ruled by 'script kiddies' and one-off hackers."

Big firms under attack from security hackers

Only one story - of gullible teen 'script kiddies' being used by purported Middle-Eastern terrorists to break into US government systems - brings much reproach from Mitnick.