Script kiddies are not hackers.
You can't purchase or download "hack". It comes from within.
See The Jargon File.
Or perhaps the laterday http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1392
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Certain underground hacking forums are acting as training academies and tech-support networks for cybercriminals as well as creating a marketplace for a vast array of cybercrime tools, say researchers. Database security firm Imperva has been keeping close tabs on an unnamed hacking message board with nearly 220,000 registered …
Very sensible of Imperva to keep an eye on hacking forums. What is surprising is the following quote :
"Hacker forums are still not well understood by many in the security community..."
Why not? Anyone who purports to be a security professional must know that it is important to understand the motivation and capability of the potential threat actors, and should be keeping an eye on such forums (and maybe subscribing to such periodicals as "2600").
Any who don't are little better than double-glazing salesmen.
Is no one upset at the inappropriate use of the term 'hacker' anymore? Not even by IT security firms and IT news sites?
To paraphrase a martial arts movie, talking about martial arts skill - "An astronomer can be a hacker with his relentless pursuit of knowledge, constantly peering at the stars. A unix guru can be a hacker with his thirst for knowing more about his system of choice, a student can be a hacker by constantly teaching himself new things at a level most people do not bother going to."
Persons with malicious intent or script kiddies et al. - hackers, they are not.
I had my first PC that connected to the internet with 56k modem 8Mb ATI card on a Pentium 133 in '96. I discovered it not long after I got on the internet. Maybe within a few hours?
Don't tell me those guys only found out recently. Lulz.
It used to be more rampant mind you with hackers freely distributing guides as well as hacking tools without the nasty trojans infested malware you get today.