p2pnet view Politics:- The Black Hawk Safety Net, said to be China’s largest hacker training website, has been shut down, and three of its members arrested.

The site “taught hacking techniques and provided malicious software downloads for its 12,000 members in exchange for a fee, says the Wuhan Evening News newspaper, quoted by Blogtactic.

Hacking from China is on the front burner, thanks to Google, which said it was pulling out of the country following hack attacks.

“The website was shut in late November and three of its members arrested on suspicion of criminal activity, the newspaper reported, without saying why the news was only released now,” says the story, going on >>>

Wuhan happens to be home to the Communication Command Academy, which trains hackers, according to U.S. congressional testimony by cyber expert James Mulvenon in 2008.

The popularity of hacking in China, and hackers’ use of multiple addresses and servers, in Taiwan and elsewhere, makes it hard to prove how or by whom they are coordinated.

Would-be hackers in China don’t have to look far to “figure out how to do it, thanks to a healthy hacking industry and sites such as Black Hawk Safety Net (www.3800hk.com), which was unavailable on Monday”, Blogtactic adds.

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Blogtactic – Black Hawk Safety Net Shutdown by China, February 7, 2010
hack attacks – Google’s China about-face, January 19, 2010

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