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Elite US cyber-squad Vigilant recruits hackers from DefCon

Posted on August 2nd, 2010 at 9:42 by Paul Jay in category: News -- Write a comment

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An elite US cyber team that has stealthily tracked Internet villains for more that a decade pulled back its cloak of secrecy to recruit hackers at a notorious DefCon gathering in Las Vegas.

Vigilant was described by its chief Chet Uber as a sort of cyber “A-Team” taking on terrorists, drug cartels, mobsters and other enemies on the Internet.

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