No, I’m not talking about a giant horse.
If you read sci-fi, or if you have any imagination whatsoever, then this news item should come as no surprise.
Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything the computer user saves on the hard disc, the Investigation Bureau said.
Read the rest of the article from the Taipei Times. One lesson from this article is that it never hurts to reformat a new hard drive before installing it. Of course, the next step will be to move these kinds of trojans into the firmware. And if not the hard drive, maybe some other device? A sound card or video card? Even your motherboard? I’m not sure where the madness ends, but expect to see more of these things pop up in the future.
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