Chinese police shut down hacker training business
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. Police in Hubei province arrested three people suspected of running the hacker site known as the Black Hawk Safety Net that disseminated Web site hacking techniques and Trojan software, the China Daily newspaper said. Trojans, which can allow outside access to a computer when implanted, are used by hackers to illegally control computers. This recent anti-hacker activity of Chiniese government however seems a bit suspicious as it only started after China has been accused of cyber attacks on a number of companies, including Google.