Navigation Home Research Marketing Communities Net Tools Security Seminars Our Services Search . Answer Young, unskilled computer hackers who use scripts or simple programs written by others.
People tend to assume all hackers are like the type that is most frequently reported in the news.
Today you don't have to know very much about computers at all to be a hacker. Dumbed-down hacking tools are readily available. At the other end of the scale, we have professional hackers. They tend to be older, more concerned with material gain, and because they know more and don't frequently make the idiotic mistakes of the other two types. The skript kiddies are dangerous just because there are so many of them, but the pros are the ones I worry most about, especially on e-mail interception.