Trilight Zone

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"Some [hackers] just find it to be an interesting topic ... they would never go out of their way to cause damage to anybody," Ed Moyle, president of SecurityCurve, said. "A number of security professionals, for example, first became interested in the topic by reading information about hacking, phreaking, reverse engineering or malware authoring."

There's a wealth of information out there for hackers, or "black hats," as they are also called. The arrest last Thursday of alleged Zotob writer Farid Essebar, 18, who went by the name Diabl0, has shed some light on the thriving underground culture, but much remains a mystery.

The hacker underworld in which Essebar participated comprises numerous informational and networking resources -- and not all come from the world of virus writing and malware design.

"In general, black hats learn their tricks the same way that everybody else does: through a network of informational Web sites, magazines, conventions and advice from peers. There's even hacker radio," Ed Moyle, president of SecurityCurve, told TechNewsWorld.

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