October 10, 2005

Hackers - We Know Who They Are

The police should be talking more to the security companies who in the course of their operations gather vast amounts of data on the activities, impact and whereabouts of hackers and virus writers, according to one security expert.

Dr Peter Tippett, CTO at CyberTrust, claims information provided by his company lead to the successful arrests of the writers of the Melissa and Kournikova viruses, yet he says the police still rarely ask him for intelligence. Silicon.Com