Okay, heres the story. My neighbor got bored last night so he decided to try some "1337 Hax0ring". Well he downloaded a skiddie program. It might have been sub7 or something like that. So he decided to use it. And of course I thought that it might be funny so I was talking to him on aim. (funny as he would just do something stupid) And I told him not to use 127.0.0.1 . Now, him not understanding this stuff decided that that must be my computers IP address so decided to attack it.

At this point I get a call from him. It went like:

"Dude, my computer's messed up."
"Well what did you do?"
"I used that program to hack a computer and entered the number 127.0.0.1 for that address thing because I thought that was your computer."
(At this point I was on the floor literally crying and chocking from laughing so hard)

As it turned out, he implanted like 4 Trojans on his computer that night.

My belief, we need more skiddies like this.

Post any stories of your own of skiddie stupidity you know of.

Sounds very similar to the one where a skiddie is taunting a number of people over IM and says something like "give me your IP address and I can just shut you down, fear me" and he is given 127.0.0.1 and drops off. Funnier still, he keeps reappearing and then dropping off.

Ahh...the script kiddies. To them every problem in life can be solved by DDoS'ing their foes.

If you want to read some funny stuff about some script kiddies that got caught by a honey net, check this page out:
http://old.honeynet.org/papers/motives/index.html

They setup an IRC server on the compromised box, not knowing they were being watched. Funny how they planed on taking over the world but didn't know how do something as simple as mount a cdrom drive...

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all I can say to that is WOW!!!

wait, was it D1ck or J4n3 or Sp07 that did all the cracking in the beginning of the story?

no wonder sub7 is banned by the UN. If you are trying to DDoS someone and you don't even know what a ping of death is or how to mount a hard drive, then you definitely don't deserve the software to open a disk drive.

How can someone really be this stupid. I mean, I always thought that it was stupid to use a tool like nmap to crack a computer as the logs would show too many ports being scanned too fast, but this is a whole new playing field.

Statistics show that the vast majority of crime is opportunistic; I think similar stats apply to hacking. One is more likely to encounter a script kiddie than a technically-advanced, well-funded attacker. That's why I get annoyed when people ask me why I care about using a firewall, antivirus, etc. I may not be smart enough to fight off a government hacker, for example, but I like my chances against someone who can't spell "ip" and thinks ports are where ships go.

Indeed. That page is really funny, to a certain extent. After I finished reading it for the first time and after the chuckles subsided, then the gravity of the situation dawned on me: these guys are wreckless morons with power.

We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. --Carl Sagan

You might also find the other sections of that Honey Net site interesting, in particular the botnet tracking section: http://www.honeynet.org/node/51

If you skip a bit further ahead to the "Lessons Learned" section, you find gems like this:

Its like having a private army of zombie super-soldiers turn on their skiddie master

Script Kiddie Leaves Photo ID Behind After Wreaking Havoc
http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2006/09/...reaking-havok/

I guess he thought he had to drive there?

http://www.frihost.com/forums/vt-51466.html
Okay, new favorite story. classic of a skiddie downloading a program and using it to attack a person on irc.

Of course, if you're a religious extremist like our Shrub, God will protect us. And if anything does blow up, it was God's will that heathen unbelievers like Sagan be punished.

Wow, that is absolutely incredible and hilarious at the same time. Can it be true, can someone be THAT stupid. I guess I just forget how stupid some people can be.

Anyway, many thanks for the links, I needed a good laugh