Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Amateur expertsare helping to spot potential loopholes, as Cao Yin reports.A very small office near the Sixth Ring Road in Beijing houses a very big dream, one that’sshared by thousands of Internet security enthusiasts across China. The office is the home of Wooyun, the country’s largest online community of “white-hat”hackers－private individuals who deliberately hack corporate and government computersystems to detect and expose security loopholes and help prevent cyber-attacks. Their dream is to build the ultimate, impregnable cyber-fortress. Fang Xiaodun, one of the community’s co-founders, said that unlike regular hackers, whodiscover security risks or potential sites of attack in the hope of financial gain, “our aim is touse the advantage our computing or online skills give us to do good deeds in cyberspace”. As far back as 2010, Fang frequently spent his weekends at a cafe with employees ofChinese Internet giants, such as Baidu, a Chinese search engine, discussing online securityproblems and how to solve them. “We shared the discoveries we had made at our own companies, and often found that someof the problems were similar. But lack of communication and the fact that we worked fordifferent businesses meant that all of us had solved them ourselves,” Fang, 28, said. At […]
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