Government lawyers are seeing such a spike in adolescent cases that it reminds some of the late 1990s.

Gus Hunt is warning a disgruntled script kiddie could take down the World Wide Web. "That is a terrifying prospect ... That is what we are facing with the internet of things."

One of the most notorious hacking forums may be partly responsible for the big DDoS attack that brought down some of the world's most popular websites. We look at how the home of 'script kiddies' has evolved to this point.