» China Closes Hacker Training Site, Arrests Three Members

[MaXe]

Chinese police have shut down what they called the country's biggest hacker
training Web site and arrested three people linked to the site, local media said Saturday.



Police in the central province of Hubei began probing Black Hawk Safety Net
after finding some of its members used malicious programs provided by the
site to commit cybercrimes, according to newspapers including the People's
Daily, the official paper of the Communist Party.

The three arrests are the first made under revisions to China's criminal law
last year that banned the design and distribution of hacking tools, the
reports said. Those revisions, which marked China's first law protecting the
public from cyber data theft, were one of several measures China unveiled
against cybercrime in the last year, a time when reports of arrests for
crimes like malware attacks have also become more common in the country.

Black Hawk Safety Net and similar increasingly popular Web sites in China
offer chat forums and hacking training tools like videos to members, some of
whom pay fees for extra services. Black Hawk collected 7 million yuan
(US$1 million) in user fees paid by a portion of its 180,000 members, the
reports said. The Web site did not return a call requesting comment.

Google threw global attention on hacking in China last month, when it cited
cyberattacks from China as one reason it may stop censoring search results
on its China-based search engine, even if that means leaving the country
altogether. China has denied any government role in the attacks and said
the country's laws ban hacking crimes.



Reference:
China Closes Hacker Training Site, Arrests Three Members - PCWorld Business Center

[ne011]

Interesting to hear that lol

[Bengali]

Isn't it a warning for other hacking or security related website as per as international cyber crime law??

[MaXe]

@Bengali: No, this server isn't located in China so it isn't the same laws that applies.

If it comes down to laws I'll just move the server somewhere else in a matter of days.

InterN0T is not going down as long as we keep a more ethical approach.