Christmas is one of the biggest days of the year for hackers

Re:Christmas is one of the biggest days of the year for hackers by vxNsr on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @09:23AM (#21878572)

This is less hacking and more script kiddies. Not really that interesting.

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Re:Christmas is one of the biggest days of the year for hackers by thosakwe on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @10:03AM (#21878731)

There must be some sort of Betteridge's Law about this. I swear, every time I see the word "hackers" in a headline, it's always about either script kiddies, phishing scams, simple passwords, or some other trivial breach.

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Re:Christmas is one of the biggest days of the year for hackers by JamesBarney on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:22PM (#21879753)

For most intents and purposes the world doesn't differentiate between hackers and script kiddies.

The world cares about individuals breaking into systems and stealing or breaking their stuff. They aren't particularly concerned about the technical sophistication of said individuals.

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Re:Christmas is one of the biggest days of the year for hackers by paulcole on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @11:19AM (#21879083)

All script kiddies are hackers but not all hackers are script kiddies.

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