Man jailed for teaching criminals how to use malware

Regular readers of Hot for Security will have read plenty of articles about cybercriminals who have created malware, or malicious hackers who have used malware to infect the systems of victims.

But the news this week is that a court in Singapore has jailed a man not for launching an attack himself, but instead for teaching others exactly how to do it.

As local media reports, a 49-year-old man has received a five-and-a-half year jail sentence, and fined S$3,608 (US $2,700), after admitting to c