NEW YORK, July 5 (UPI) -- Computer security specialists say they are watching some apparently escalating infighting among members of underground hacker rings.
The New York Times reported Tuesday rival groups have been sniping at each other and in some cases trying to hack one another's computers to publicly reveal their identities.
The squabbling, however, has been a boost to law enforcement agencies trying to track down the culprits in recent high-profile hacker intrusions against various corporate and government Web sites.
"This unfortunately represents one of few ways law enforcement gets good inroads into this community," Bill Woodcock of the Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit group in Berkeley, Calif., that tracks Internet traffic, told The Times.
Experts told the newspaper they expected any arrests that might be made in the hacker attacks allegedly made by the shadowy group LulzSec will likely be the result of information dug up by rival hackers.
