104
GTA 6 Hacker Found To Be Teen With Amazon Fire Stick In Small Town Hotel Room (hackaday.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/tech@pawb.social
10 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

“we can’t help feeling sad that a teen with that level of talent evidently wasn’t given the support and encouragement by Oxfordshire’s education system necessary to put it to better use. ”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There isn't much talent in phishing. You can't make a career out of that.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    There are security firms that run periodic social engineering attacks against their clients, including phishing attacks. This is a service performed to both better educate employees at the client companies and keep them aware of new attacks, and to flag those who fail often. Someone has to come up with the phishing attacks, granted probably not an entire career right there.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    I mean you can, but it wouldn't be ethical or in some cases legal. Spying does still exist. Phishing is just a really low level attempt at gaining information from someone, and it works. I can't imagine it's not used by people who have good, albeit questionable, careers.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent