Tag: CHILEEARTHQUAKE

As should be expected, the scammers and malware distributors have already latched onto the tragic earthquake in Chile. Security firm Sophos has found countless sites looking to exploit searches for information about the Chilean disaster. The company has identified several Google search results for "tsunami," "earthquake," and "Chile" that automatically redirect users to sites that are known to ...

A hemisphere still reeling from the tragedy in Haiti was struck again this weekend by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile. With the death toll now tallied at over 700, and over a million Chileans displaced or homeless, President Michelle Bachelet has called the quake "an emergency unparalleled in the history of Chile." While the infrastructure of the South American country is stronger than ...