Technocracy: Exploits of ‘black hat’ cyber criminals

My WND Technocracy column today is about the arrest of “Paunch,” a notorious “black hat” hacker in Russia believed to be the major distributor of a suite of malware tools called “Blackhole.”

The true irony… is that the software development of cyber criminals like “Paunch” is not, in itself, illegal.

Russian hackers are notoriously difficult to bring to justice. It remains to be seen what will happen to “Paunch,” who as of yesterday had not been identified by his given name.

Read the full column here in WND News.