COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
TYPES OF THREATS AND ATTACKS
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Question
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Script Kiddies
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None of these
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Hackers who are part of a crime group that is well-funded and highlysophisticated
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Highly trained and funded groups of hackers (often by nation states) withcovert and open-source intelligence at their disposal
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Hackers with little to no skill who only use the tools and exploits written by others
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Script kiddies, also known as skiddies, are novice hackers. Rather than building sophisticated tools from scratch, they use premade scripts to launch attacks. Calling someone a “script kiddie” is an insult.
Detailed explanation-2: -Script kiddies, motivated by peer competition and oftentimes oblivious to the implications of their hacking, are capable of wreaking havoc using readily available resources such as password cracking tools, packet sniffers, denial of service (DOS) tools, port scanners, and integrated attack tools.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to the results, respondents mainly used the Shell and Python for hacking.
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