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FBI Needs Hackers to Fight Cybercrime

The cybercrime becomes lately more and more sophisticated and organized, the FBI is seriously thinking about working together with the private sector. Daniel Larkin, a unit chief in the FBI`s cybercrime division, said in his opening address at the annual Black Hat security conference: "We need your expertise and input as we develop strategies to battle cybercrime in the 21st century". And this is not the first one of the kind.

Larkin said that the hackers nowadays are not "script kiddies" anymore, but serious people who make a lot of money, and that`s why they are now very important to FBI, since the FBI is not equipped to fight the cybercryme by itself.

Some may have critical information on terrorism and cybercrimes way before this information reaches the FBI. So the FBI asks for help, promising to share information in return. The FBI has been criticized in the past for going completely silent after a report was filed. "We realize that we need to give back information," Larkin said.