An article in the Taipei Times says the Government of Taiwan is under some type of trojan horse based, Windoze targeted cyberattack. According to Taiwan government officials, hackers based in China's Hubei and Fujian provinces have successfully spread 23 different trojan horse programs to at least 10 private technology companies.

Whether this cyberattack is sponsored or sanctioned by the PRC (Peoples Republic of China) governement, the article does not say. But, with so much malicious activity originating from China, I think Lee Hsiang-chen's (captain of the National Police Administration's Criminal Investigation Bureau) advice may be worth remembering: "If there's any lesson from this experience, it is not to use software developed in China or hire Chinese computer programmers, because you're running the risk of having the software you use implanted with [a] Trojan-horse program."

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