An old term for the type of "hacker" who has no real understanding of penetration testing, but knows how to browse darkweb hacker / troll forums and repurpose malicious scripts. The kind of person who can deface a very obsolete WordPress install with dozens of published CVEs and not much else.
it's a distinction below "hacker" hierarchically, the difference being that "script kiddies" don't necessarily have the knowledge, understanding, or skill to do things from scratch and just use pre-written tools made by real hackers to do malicious things.
Key question: Safe from who? State actors? No, it's Google. Script kiddies? Probably, yeah
what are script kiddies?
An old term for the type of "hacker" who has no real understanding of penetration testing, but knows how to browse darkweb hacker / troll forums and repurpose malicious scripts. The kind of person who can deface a very obsolete WordPress install with dozens of published CVEs and not much else.
it's a distinction below "hacker" hierarchically, the difference being that "script kiddies" don't necessarily have the knowledge, understanding, or skill to do things from scratch and just use pre-written tools made by real hackers to do malicious things.