Cyber threats are rapidly turning into a bigger and bigger issue as individuals and entities with malicious intents seek to exploit the even faster growing dependency of modern society on tech. Such ...

A group calling itself “The Script Kiddies” hacked USA Today’s Twitter account this weekend and used it to solicit requests for future targets and even to promote its own Facebook page. Although this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They’re out there. Be afraid. They could be anywhere, everywhere, anyone. They are shadowy, deadly, mysterious, guided by intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic. Security consultants and antivirus ...

Since its beta launch in November, AI chatbot ChatGPT has been used for a wide range of tasks, including writing poetry, technical papers, novels, and essays and planning parties and learning about ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...