The Wutz Up in the Philippines!

BEIJING—Police in central China have shut down a hacker training company that taught thousands of people how to launch cyberattacks and provided them with spy software, media reports said Monday.

The reports come amid growing accusations of organized computer hacking originating from China that has chilled ties with the United States, and follow Google’s threat last month to quit the Chinese market over cyberattacks.

Police in Hubei province shut down Black Hawk Safety Net and arrested three people, the state-run Xinhua news agency said, calling the operation China’s “biggest hacker training website.”

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MANILA, Philippines—Just as criminals are identified through clues left on the scene, computer forensic experts may trace infiltration into computer networks and sites through “digital fingerprints” hackers leave in a target’s hard drive.

Computer forensic experts from Camp Crame national police headquarters need only to look into the hard drive of a “compromised” computer of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to see whether hackers have indeed penetrated the system.

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