Script kiddie

Cybersecurity Principles
Vocabulary Term #3481
Noun (person)
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Script kiddie
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an amateur hacker who uses well-known cracks simply to gain the attention of their peers
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"Although script kiddies may only possess half the cracking knowledge of their elite peers, they can still do a lot of damage to unpatched servers."
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