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Sad Children Thinking They Are Hackers

A few days ago I installed the Bad Behavior plugin for Word Press just as an extra way of combatting spam comments etc. In 2 days it’s blocked 49 attempts by malicious scripts to access this blog. I just looked at the log and most of them are attempts to run a remote PHP script to see if I am running a vulnerable script. The remote scripts are all the same and simply contain

<?php /* Fx29ID */ echo("FeeL".CoMz"); die("FeeL"."CoMz"); /* Fx29ID */ ?>

Basically from what I can see there is a bunch of script kiddies who like to call themselves hackers but haven’t got the first clue about real hacking. All they can do is follow step by step instructions they have found on security web sites. A real hacker is a person who actually knows how things work and looks for ways to exploit them so that the makers can make the products more secure.

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