A Taiwanese computer engineer was arrested for allegedly designing a virus and putting it on Web sites, where hackers from rival China found and used the worm to attack the island’s business and government systems, police said Thursday. Wang Ping-an, 30, designed the Trojan horse virus called “Peep,” which earlier this year allowed the attackers to steal information and retain control of infected computer systems, police said. “He placed his program on popular hackers’ Web sites and encouraged people to download it,” said Lin Chieh-lung, an official from an Internet crime investigation task force. Full Story
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