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  • Bureau warns on tainted discs (Chinese trojan on Taiwanese harddrives)

    11/12/2007 2:10:24 PM PST · by knighthawk · 15 replies · 159+ views
    Taipei Times ^ | November 11 2007 | Yang Kuo-wen, Lin Ching-chuan and Rich Chang
    FOCUSED ATTACK: Large-capacity hard disks often used by government agencies were found to contain Trojan horse viruses, Investigation Bureau officials warned 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. Around 1,800 of the portable Maxtor hard discs, produced in Thailand, carried two Trojan horse viruses: autorun.inf and ghost.pif, the bureau under the Ministry of Justice said. The tainted portable hard disc uploads any information saved on the...
  • Seagate to buy Maxtor for $1.9 bln in stock

    12/21/2005 10:43:52 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 45 replies · 728+ views
    Yahoo! News ^ | 21 December 2005 | Reuters
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX - news) on Wednesday said it would buy rival computer disk-drive maker Maxtor Corp. (NYSE:MXO - news) for $1.9 billion in stock, aiming to cut combined costs and drive development of new products. In the deal, expected to be completed in the second half of 2006, Maxtor shareholders will receive 0.37 shares of Seagate common stock for each Maxtor share they own.At current prices, the transaction is worth about $7.25 a share for Maxtor investors, a premium of more than 60 percent to its closing price on Tuesday. Maxtor's stock has not traded...