China says it shut down online academy for hackers

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Black Hawk Safety Net was shut down in November and its founders later arrested, state media report. The school took tuition from tens of thousands who wanted to learn 'successful attack tools.'

"Most of the members are really young, still students, and they are drawn by the mystique of being a hacker," said a well-known Chinese hacker who goes by the name Lyon.

"China's Internet security is still very weak, so it is a hothouse environment for nurturing these kinds of businesses."

Some hacker networks say they provide a service by hacking into websites and then selling their services to bolster security for those same sites.

Black Hawk is accused of collecting more than $1 million in tuition from 12,000 subscribers and 170,000 others who took its online courses, according to Chinese media.

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I really didn't know these kinda of sites actually taught what they said they would. I mostly thought it was scams to get you to pay for methods that wont even work.

With the current hacking going on in maple will this shut down help all? It seem the ones that pushed this forward was when Google was hacked and traces went back to china.

Is this a big blow to the hacking community?

It's a big blow for the security-community, as flaws will be left open instead of being fucked up early on.