News item
By BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (45476)
St. Catharines, Ontario
February 8, 2010 8:36am CST
"Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software,"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_hacking
And we wonder where all this stuff comes from...
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5 responses
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
9 Feb 10
That is scary. It is not just one or two people doing this but it is an entire operation! We are not safe online by the looks…I guess I have always known that to a certain extent but to hear something of that magnitude it is quite off putting! It is so sad that they will even try to steal from your computer! These are the times...
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@kar295rocks (2116)
• India
8 Feb 10
I do wonder why people go crazy ! I really do not what the issue is all about! Maybe they wanted to spread a virus and create a global computer shutdown and cause a huge hype - just like the Y2K! And I wonder what the people did while they were being taught cyber attack, they had to complain about that to the cyber crime branch of police!
@minotaur87 (769)
• Singapore
11 Feb 10
Actually, a lot of game hackers come from China. They have a vast population with lots of talented people. So given sufficient training, they would be very good hackers. Another reason for such large number of hackers in China is due to job insufficiency and the lucrativeness of this industry.