Toay, I'm reading: Meet the Script Kiddies: Teenage hackers who make or break our world.
Young hackers are able to cause havoc using off-the-shelf scripts to attack IT networks. And as we become more connected, so the dangers increase. Script Kiddies - or Skiddies - is the term used by internet security professionals to describe young hackers who use ready-to-run programmes to attack computer networks. Although they don't have the skills of their more experienced counterparts, the ease with which they can launch attacks makes them a real threat to internet security. Taking over WhatsApp "These kids that are hackers today, they really do in the truest sense, have the ability to make or break our world," says Alexander Urbelis, Cybersecurity Lawyer, Crowell & Moring LLP. "And we have to make absolutely sure that we are both nurturing them and nourishing them in the right way." He put my telephone number into this account and he was able to take over my whole WhatsApp, I mean, completely take over my WhatsApp account. Skiddy One Skid...