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 Skiddy explains, anonymously, how he got started: "My way of getting into hacking was very different from the normal way, which is experiment with cheats and then getting into hacking. I was about 12 years old and basically what happened was that one day a friend online who I chatted with was like 'I found a really interesting little program and I want to try out'. 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. He was able to write messages to all of my friends, say all this stupid stuff. It's a technique where you’re able to completely take over and control an account that's not yours. I was like, How have you managed to do this? And he said, he couldn't tell me, that it had to do with software he's got. So from that day onwards, I started to get interested in hacking."
The Empathy Gap
The attraction of hacking is often simply a desire to have fun, says Dr Kelli Dunlap, Clinical Psychologist and Game Designer: "When kids are engaging in hacking behaviour. There is a little bit of an empathy gap here and wanting to be different, wanting to individuate themselves, wanting to entertain people, including themselves as well as their friends by doing something, you know, something naughty or unexpected."
Hacker Hunter Screen Grab
Ghost Exodus, Former black hat hacker turned humanitarian
activist Hacker Hunter Screen Grab
Ghost Exodus is a former black hat hacker turned humanitarian activist.
He shows us a ready-to-use programme for hacking are easily available: "This tool is fully autonomous. And what it is, it's basically a network /penetration testing framework. It can be thought of like a Swiss Army knife. It can brute force all open services. It doesn't require a whole lot of user input. So even if you don't know how to do these things on your own, you would use an autonomous script to run these things for you. And the end result, I mean, is what you would hope."
Easy money
Script Kiddies are being motivated by a growth in opportunities, says Christian Funk, Head of GReAT Germany, Kaspersky: "Script Kiddies have had a resurgence in the last like five or six years, and that is due to the increased sophistication in cybercrime that there is more ransomware. And this is an easy way for people to make easy money."
And the growing interconnectedness of our systems is increasing our vulnerability, says Security Researcher, Mike Jones: "The hacks now are more encompassing because we have more connected technology. You have refrigerators, fish tanks, heating systems. So back before the Internet, we didn't have HVACs connected to the Internet. Now you can shut down an entire hospital like we saw on the East Coast with ransomware. So the attacks are getting worse."
Vocabulary:
havoc /ˈhævək/ a situation in which things are seriously damaged, destroyed or very confused.
The floods caused havoc throughout the area.
Continuing strikes are beginning to play havoc with the national economy.
counterpart /ˈkaʊntəpɑːt/ a person or thing that has the same position or function as somebody/something else in a different place or situation.
The Foreign Minister held talks with his Chinese counterpart.
The women's shoe, like its male counterpart, is specifically designed for the serious tennis player.
cyber /saɪbə(r)/
Crowell
nurture /ˈnɜːtʃə(r)/ nurture somebody/something to care for and protect somebody/something while they are growing and developing
These delicate plants need careful nurturing.
children nurtured by loving parents
nourishing /ˈnʌrɪʃɪŋ/ helping a person, an animal or a plant to grow and be healthy Vegetarian food can be both nourishing and cheap.
a nourishing meal
onward /ˈɒnwəd/ continuing or moving forward
Ticket prices include your flight and onward rail journey.
the onward march of time
desire
empathy /ˈempəθi/ the ability to understand another person’s feelings, experience, etc. empathy (with somebody/something) the writer’s imaginative empathy with his subject empathy (for somebody/something) empathy for other people’s situations empathy (between A and B) The empathy between the two women was obvious.
gap /ɡæp/ a space where something is missing
Extra funding is needed to plug the gap.
gap in something Fill the gaps in these sentences.
There are huge gaps in their knowledge.
His death left an enormous gap in my life.
There were several gaps in my education.
We think we've identified a gap in the market (= a business opportunity to make or sell something that is not yet available).
entertain /ˌentəˈteɪn/ to interest somebody or make somebody laugh in order to please them
The aim of the series is both to entertain and inform.
entertain somebody/yourself Afterwards live bands will entertain the crowd.
Parents can relax while the kids entertain themselves in the outdoor playground.
entertain somebody/yourself with something He entertained us for hours with his stories and jokes.
They learned to entertain themselves with hobbies that required little or no money.
humanitarian /hjuːˌmænɪˈteəriən/ connected with helping people who are suffering and improving the conditions that they are living in
to provide humanitarian aid to the war zone
humanitarian issues
a humanitarian organization
They are calling for the release of the hostages on humanitarian grounds.
penetration /ˌpenəˈtreɪʃn/ the act or process of making a way into or through something The floor is sealed to prevent water penetration.
the company’s successful penetration of overseas markets
Our aim is to achieve greater market penetration.
The country has the highest smartphone penetration in Europe.
brute /bruːt/ a man who treats people in an unkind, cruel way
His father was a drunken brute.
You've forgotten my birthday again, you brute!
force
resurgence /rɪˈsɜːdʒəns/ the return and growth of an activity that had stopped
a resurgence of interest in the artist’s work
sophistication /səˌfɪstɪˈkeɪʃn/ experience of the world and knowledge of fashion, culture and other things that people think are socially important
Despite her scruffy clothes, there was an air of sophistication about her.
He felt people were contemptuous of his lack of sophistication.
vulnerability /ˌvʌlnərəˈbɪləti/ vulnerability (of somebody/something) (to something) the fact of being weak and easily hurt physically or emotionally
the vulnerability of newborn babies to disease financial vulnerability
refrigerators
Translate:
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.
Các tin tặc trẻ tuổi có thể gây ra sự tàn phá bằng cách sử dụng các tập lệnh có sẵn để tấn công các mạng CNTT. Và khi chúng ta trở nên kết nối nhiều hơn, thì những nguy hiểm cũng tăng lên.
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.
Script Kiddies - hay Skiddies - là thuật ngữ được các chuyên gia bảo mật internet sử dụng để mô tả những tin tặc trẻ sử dụng các chương trình chạy sẵn để tấn công mạng máy tính.
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.
Mặc dù họ không có kỹ năng như những đối tác giàu kinh nghiệm hơn, nhưng việc họ có thể khởi động các cuộc tấn công một cách dễ dàng khiến họ trở thành mối đe dọa thực sự đối với an ninh mạng.
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."
Alexander Urbelis, Luật sư An ninh mạng, Crowell & Moring LLP cho biết: “Những đứa trẻ này là tin tặc ngày nay, chúng thực sự làm theo đúng nghĩa nhất, có khả năng tạo ra hoặc phá vỡ thế giới của chúng ta”. "Và chúng ta phải chắc chắn rằng chúng ta vừa nuôi dưỡng chúng vừa nuôi dưỡng chúng đúng cách."
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.
Anh ấy đã nhập số điện thoại của tôi vào tài khoản này và anh ấy có thể chiếm toàn bộ WhatsApp của tôi, ý tôi là, chiếm hoàn toàn tài khoản WhatsApp của tôi.
Skiddy
One Skiddy explains, anonymously, how he got started: "My way of getting into hacking was very different from the normal way, which is experiment with cheats and then getting into hacking. I was about 12 years old and basically what happened was that one day a friend online who I chatted with was like 'I found a really interesting little program and I want to try out'.
Một Skiddy giải thích, giấu tên, cách anh ta bắt đầu: "Cách tôi bắt đầu hack rất khác với cách thông thường, đó là thử nghiệm với các trò gian lận và sau đó bắt đầu hack. Tôi khoảng 12 tuổi và về cơ bản những gì đã xảy ra là một một ngày nọ, một người bạn trực tuyến mà tôi đã trò chuyện giống như 'Tôi đã tìm thấy một chương trình nhỏ thực sự thú vị và tôi muốn thử'.
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. He was able to write messages to all of my friends, say all this stupid stuff. It's a technique where you’re able to completely take over and control an account that's not yours. I was like, How have you managed to do this? And he said, he couldn't tell me, that it had to do with software he's got. So from that day onwards, I started to get interested in hacking."
Anh ấy đã nhập số điện thoại của tôi vào tài khoản này và anh ấy có thể chiếm toàn bộ WhatsApp của tôi, ý tôi là, chiếm hoàn toàn tài khoản WhatsApp của tôi. Anh ấy đã có thể viết tin nhắn cho tất cả bạn bè của tôi, nói tất cả những điều ngu ngốc này. Đó là một kỹ thuật mà bạn có thể tiếp quản và kiểm soát hoàn toàn một tài khoản không phải của mình. Tôi giống như, Làm thế nào mà bạn quản lý để làm điều này? Và anh ấy nói, anh ấy không thể nói với tôi, rằng nó liên quan đến phần mềm mà anh ấy có. Vì vậy, kể từ ngày đó trở đi, tôi bắt đầu quan tâm đến việc hack."
The Empathy Gap
The attraction of hacking is often simply a desire to have fun, says Dr Kelli Dunlap, Clinical Psychologist and Game Designer: "When kids are engaging in hacking behaviour. There is a little bit of an empathy gap here and wanting to be different, wanting to individuate themselves, wanting to entertain people, including themselves as well as their friends by doing something, you know, something naughty or unexpected."
Tiến sĩ Kelli Dunlap, Nhà tâm lý học lâm sàng và Nhà thiết kế trò chơi cho biết: "Khi trẻ em tham gia vào hành vi hack. Có một chút khoảng cách về sự đồng cảm ở đây và muốn trở nên khác biệt, muốn để cá nhân hóa bản thân, muốn giải trí cho mọi người, bao gồm cả bản thân họ cũng như bạn bè của họ bằng cách làm điều gì đó, bạn biết đấy, điều gì đó nghịch ngợm hoặc bất ngờ."
Hacker Hunter Screen Grab
Ghost Exodus, Former black hat hacker turned humanitarian activist Hacker Hunter Screen Grab
Ghost Exodus is a former black hat hacker turned humanitarian activist.
He shows us a ready-to-use programme for hacking are easily available: "This tool is fully autonomous. And what it is, it's basically a network /penetration testing framework. It can be thought of like a Swiss Army knife. It can brute force all open services. It doesn't require a whole lot of user input. So even if you don't know how to do these things on your own, you would use an autonomous script to run these things for you. And the end result, I mean, is what you would hope."
Anh ấy cho chúng tôi xem một chương trình sẵn sàng sử dụng để hack có sẵn một cách dễ dàng: "Công cụ này hoàn toàn tự động. Và nó là gì, về cơ bản nó là một khung thử nghiệm thâm nhập/mạng. Có thể coi nó giống như một con dao của Quân đội Thụy Sĩ. Nó có thể brute force tất cả các dịch vụ mở. Nó không yêu cầu nhiều đầu vào của người dùng. Vì vậy, ngay cả khi bạn không biết cách tự làm những việc này, bạn sẽ sử dụng một tập lệnh tự trị để chạy những thứ này cho bạn. Và kết quả cuối cùng, ý tôi là, là những gì bạn hy vọng."
Easy money
Script Kiddies are being motivated by a growth in opportunities, says Christian Funk, Head of GReAT Germany, Kaspersky: "Script Kiddies have had a resurgence in the last like five or six years, and that is due to the increased sophistication in cybercrime that there is more ransomware. And this is an easy way for people to make easy money."
Christian Funk, Giám đốc GReAT Đức, Kaspersky cho biết: "Script Kiddies đã hồi sinh trong khoảng 5 hoặc 6 năm qua và đó là do tội phạm mạng ngày càng tinh vi. là nhiều ransomware hơn. Và đây là một cách dễ dàng để mọi người kiếm tiền dễ dàng."
And the growing interconnectedness of our systems is increasing our vulnerability, says Security Researcher, Mike Jones: "The hacks now are more encompassing because we have more connected technology. You have refrigerators, fish tanks, heating systems. So back before the Internet, we didn't have HVACs connected to the Internet. Now you can shut down an entire hospital like we saw on the East Coast with ransomware. So the attacks are getting worse."
Nhà nghiên cứu bảo mật Mike Jones cho biết: "Các cuộc tấn công hiện nay bao trùm hơn vì chúng ta có nhiều công nghệ kết nối hơn. Bạn có tủ lạnh, bể cá, hệ thống sưởi. Vì vậy, trước khi có Internet, chúng ta không có HVAC kết nối với Internet. Giờ đây, bạn có thể đóng cửa toàn bộ bệnh viện như chúng ta đã thấy ở Bờ Đông bằng mã độc tống tiền. Vì vậy, các cuộc tấn công ngày càng trở nên tồi tệ hơn."
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