Google attacks 'traced to Chinese schools'
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/19/google-attacks-chinese-schools
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A spate of internet attacks that hit Google and other companies have been traced to two schools in China, according to reports – but Chinese sources have responded by denying knowledge of the strikes.
According to the New York Times, security experts investigating a string of hacking attacks on American companies have linked them to origins in mainland China.
The story, which quoted anonymous sources close to the investigation, said that the so-called Project Aurora attacks appeared to originate from Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Lanxiang Vocational School in Shandong province.
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The paper also revealed that the companies' computers might have been infiltrated as early as last April. As Google only discovered the "highly sophisticated" cyber-attack -- designed to snatch corporate secrets and messages from human rights activists' e-mail accounts -- in December and went public about it a month later, hackers could have had access to the search giant's systems for up to eight months...
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/google-hack-traced-to-chinese-schools/19365... - 2 years ago
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corndog67
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Two words. Drone attack.
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bansheewail
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What is happening to America?? Can't we produce reliable, talented geeks anymore?? dang.
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tubagodd
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bansheewail:
They are to busy with Australia at the moment
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tubagodd
