China is currently looking for good, clean-tracked and ethical hackers to be part of a team to protect Internet security in the country, Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Chief Executive Zhou Hongyi said Wednesday.

Dubbed as the "white-hat hackers," the Internet hacking experts will predict possible security breaches by "thinking out of the box" like a "real hacker."

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"The rapidly expanding Internet industry badly needs protection by security experts who can attack like real hackers. Experienced white-hat hackers who can think out of the box are required," Zhou told the Xinhua News Agency.

The white knights of Internet hacking will be testing whether the current security protocols are "hack-free" and will report possible vulnerabilities in the system for immediate troubleshooting to avoid having to deal with hackers meaning to use information they gather illegally.

According to the Qihoo 360 Technology Co. executive, the company will be holding a series of hacker competitions in Chinese universities to locate potential members of the "white-hat" hacker team.

As the Internet expands further, China's "white-hat" hacker lobby is slow at keeping pace with Internet criminals, making it a vulnerable sector.

"The talent supply is far weaker than demand in the industry. Most of the top-tier security personnel were recruited by overseas companies, leaving the domestic market even more talent-hungry," says National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Coordination Center Chief Engineer Yun Xiaochun

According to the coordination center, government-managed websites as well as corporate sites are the most common targets of hackers, garnering 85 percent of the total web breaches recorded by the organization.

These backdoor attacks commonly focused on servers are from hackers outside the country.

In the past, some Filipino hackers claimed to have breached over 200 Chinese websites in what was described as an act of retaliation over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

The hackers, who called themselves Anonymous Philippines have posted on a Facebook page about a successful hacking operation on some Chinese online retailers websites.

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