Chinese Hacker So The Security Guard Cyberspace

China, which has long accused the U.S. over cyberspace attacks often occur, perhaps identical with hacking lately, but it doesn't mean that all Chinese hackers want to steal and destroy. At a time when Chinese companies the trouble with cyberspace attacks surge, many hackers see lucrative opportunities to join the security industry is a new virtual world born in the country.

Zhang Tianqi, Beijing citizens aged 23 years, getting the expertise of infiltrating foreign pages while still in high school, avoiding domestic rules with investigating the vulnerability of network game abroad. Now, after working in a public Internet company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., he is head of the technology security company virtual worlds in Shanghai who owns Vulbox.com, a site that offers a reward for the discovery of vulnerabilities, and security FreeBuf.com Internet media sites.

President of China Xi Jinping has made security a national priority in the virtual world when the country began to feel the impact of rapid economic growth have occurred without followed the development of data protection. Last may, the technical team of the national computer network emergency response of China, a non-profit corporation, says it has recorded data leakage 9.068 2014, or triple the number of cases by 2013. This shows the "great challenge" of the Chinese virtual world security, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

To overcome this, dozens of cyberspace security company is now recruiting children younger that technology expert with their security expertise and working experience in companies such as Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent Holdings Ltd Inc. China hopes the security groups the domestic virtual worlds eventually provide most of its business with the Defense over the hacking, instead of being dependent on foreign companies such as Symantec, Kaspersky and EMC Corp's RSA.

The improvement of professionalism of amateur hackers in China are slowly following the country's resurgence in the economy and technology, and sometimes contradictory position in the data security of global competition.

The U.S. Government has blamed the attacks are sophisticated virtual worlds including large-scale data theft this month from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) – to the team-a team affiliated with the State of China. But the former hacker says the majority of them have now joined with industry to help Chinese companies against the large number of attacks of crime they face.

China has denied a relationship with OPM's attack and very little information is known about the identity-the identity of those involved in it. Chinese virtual world Administration told Reuters news agency that they were against "any form of network attack" and not "allow any groups or individuals to engage in activities of network attacks" within the borders of their country.