<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3fa0a2bf-da68-4dcb-bc0c-f18ff92101d8/1A196F45-4F5F-421B-A34B-C783FF723C67/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/2925945/Hackers-cash-in-on-Samoa-tsunami" href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/2925945/Hackers-cash-in-on-Samoa-tsunami" style="font-size: 11px;">www.stuff.co.nz</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/2925945/Hackers-cash-in-on-Samoa-tsunami"><P>Some searches for news about the earthquake and tsunami yesterday directed people to a legitimate website owned by an ill-prepared US construction company.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/2925945/Hackers-cash-in-on-Samoa-tsunami"><P>From there, they were seamlessly hijacked to an infected site with a Chinese web address.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/2925945/Hackers-cash-in-on-Samoa-tsunami"><P>Ironically, the second site warned people their computer was at risk of a virus and offered to install software to protect them. The so-called security software was itself a virus.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/2925945/Hackers-cash-in-on-Samoa-tsunami"><P>A security expert at the anti-virus company F-Secure, Chia Wing Fei, said the scam took a circuitous path through several countries to avoid detection before it urged people to install the rogue software.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/2925945/Hackers-cash-in-on-Samoa-tsunami"><P>Once in place, the software opens a back door to a computer so hackers can steal information and deploy the computer as part of a cyber army for other malicious purposes.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/2925945/Hackers-cash-in-on-Samoa-tsunami"><P>Mr Chia said: ''They're no longer doing one specific purpose. They could be doing multiple stuff because they have a way of communicating back to a command and control centre.''</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1A196F45-4F5F-421B-A34B-C783FF723C67/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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