hackers

online.wsj.com — Some of China's most prominent hackers plan to issue a call for their peers in the country to steer clear of commercial cybercrime, a move aimed at cutting down on Chinese cyberattacks that experts say often target foreign Internet users and companies.

news.yahoo.com — Hackers working in China broke into the computer systems of five multinational oil and gas companies to steal bidding plans and other critical proprietary information, the computer security firm McAfee Inc said in a new report.

www.chengduliving.com — A report released Monday called Shadows in the Cloud implicates a spy network called "GhostNet" based out of Chengdu, in a year-long cyber-espionage campaign. Security agencies across the world are now focused on this gang of hackers who operate out of the city we live in.

arstechnica.com — Chinese authorities are making a cursory effort to crack down on hackers as of late, and have shut down hacker training website Black Hawk Safety Net. The problem is that Black Hawk already has a contingency plan in place and may be back sooner than later.

shanghaiscrap.com — GhostNet, blah. A piece in PopSci and the meta account of it. Really, each link of the attached post should be a submission in itself, but I'll go with this interview as a good write-up of hacking in China. Noted highlight: "An intelligent exchange between well-informed people on an interesting topic widely misunderstood."