Sky News reports:
Hacking is ensnaring teenagers who would otherwise be unlikely to be involved in traditional crime, says a National Crime Agency [UK] report.
It aims to understand how teenagers become hackers and is based on interviews with eight young people cautioned or sentenced for hacking offences.
The average age of cybercrime suspects was 17 years old and that the availability of low-level hacking tools "encourages criminal behaviour", it said.
[...] The NCA report suggested that targeted interventions towards teenagers at the early stages of hacking can steer them away from criminal hacking.
"Just say no" to hacking tools.
Additional reporting: BBC
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday April 25 2017, @01:55PM (1 child)
Yes, the whiz-kid hacker archetype is now mostly only limited to action movies which, to their defense, also show heroes committing murder and avoiding police. I think the problem is now just limited to 'cultural gap'. Technology is moving so fast, that very literate journalists and geeky writers still can't imagine the depth and ease of availability of hacking tools.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:13AM
So they actually ever had a imagination connected to reality? :)
Hackers and programmers got cool once and only when people connected money to it. Gold-digger central..