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demoleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 10:39 AM
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Google investigates China staff over cyber attack
Source: the guardian/reuters

Google is investigating whether one or more of its employees in China helped launch the cyber attack against it last month, according to reports.

It is thought the line of inquiry is a routine part of its investigation into the attack, which Google says was sophisticated, originated in China and targeted intellectual property and the email accounts of human rights activists.

According to Reuters news agency, citing two unidentified sources, the attack, which targeted people with access to specific parts of Google networks, might have been helped by employees in the company's offices in China. It has several hundred staff on the mainland.
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Security analysts told Reuters the malicious software or malware used in the attack was a modification of a trojan called Hydraq. A trojan is a hidden program allowing unauthorised access to a computer. The analysts said the sophistication in the attack was in knowing whom to attack, not the malware itself.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/18/china-google-cyber-attack



we'll see.
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Frosty cupcake Donating Member (51 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-18-10 11:01 AM
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1. When you knowingly get into bed with a police state,
one that you deliberately censor searches on behalf of, you have to kind of expect this sort of thing.

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