14 DAY TRIAL // VX Heavens, a website where old-school virus programmers gathered to share opinions and exchange ideas, was terminated by Ukrainian police.
In a statement written on the site, the administrators reveal that on March 23 law enforcement officials seized their server because of a criminal investigation that began after someone tipped off the authorities.
“For many years we were tried hard to establish a reliable work of the site, which supplied you with a professional quality information on systems security and computer virology,” the site’s administrators wrote.
“We do always believed that a true research in any field (computer virology included) is only possible in the atmosphere of trust, openness and mutual assistance.”
Now they will have to prove in a court of law that they were not freely providing “malicious software designed for the unauthorized breaking into computers, automated systems, computer networks.”
Note. My Twitter account has been erroneously suspended. While this is sorted out, you can contact me via my author profile.