Tuesday, January 19, 2010

A HEX ON GOOGLE




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BANZAI7 NEWS--By analyzing the software used in the break-ins against Google and dozens of other companies, Joe Fortune, a fortune telling specialist with SecureWorks, a computer security company based in Atlanta, said he determined the main program used in the attack contained a module based on an unusual algorithm from a Chinese technical paper that has been published exclusively on Chinese-language Web sites.

The malware at the heart of Google attack is described by researchers as a hexagram that is intended to open a back door to a computer on the Internet. The program, called I Ching by the computer security research community and intended to subvert computers that run different versions of the Windows operating system, was first noticed earlier this year.

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