Google-Hacking Goes To China


	Google-Hacking Goes To China

dewitte

5-1-2008 9:46 AM

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<B>Google</B> has yet to bring its U.S. success to China--only about one in five Chinese Web searches starts at the site. But lately, Google seems to have gained popularity with at least one group of Chinese Web users: some of the country's most successful cybercriminals.</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.forbes.com/2008/04/28/hackers-google-china-tech-security-cx_ag_0428hack.html?partner=technology_newsletter"><P>Over the past several weeks, researchers have tracked a hacker exploit that's infected more than half a million pages around the Web, invisibly redirecting visitors to those pages to servers that install malicious software on their PCs. The cybercriminals' exploit uses an increasingly common method to decide which pages to infect: Google <B></B>
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