We always hear about the big data breaches, the most devastating viruses, and the most denying of the denial-of-service attacks. But for every hacker with that level of deviousness, there are a thousand wannabes out there. Some get ridiculed, some get arrested.
Here are a few favorites, as reported by the Internet:
1. “Virus” targets Whac-A-Mole
There are so many things wrong with this headline. The first and most glaring is that it wasn’t a “virus” at all, though I have no doubt that’s what the police told the Orlando Sentinel. They allege that a programmer wrote code in the Whac-A-Mole software “to make them shut down after a pre-determined number of plays” so that he could charge the company to fix it. It’s not a virus, which would have the ability to travel from machine to machine; it’s just… well, sabotage.
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