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Re: E-Mail Leak Has Google Threatening to Leave China
From: rick wesson <rick () support-intelligence com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:09:29 -0800
I'm hearing that its like 30 companies involved. What I'm wondering is how they attributed it to the Chinese. With so many compromised systems in china isn't that the perfect joe-job? If I was Chinese and working to penetrate a bunch of us companies why would i do the deed from my own countries network. Rarely does a cyber criminal use networks within their own country to control asses, why do the Chinese? If I was from another nation I would look at the Chinese systems as a easy proxy, and throw off my trail by attempted crompromise of "freedom fighter" accounts. One thing I have learned is that attribution is very hard to do. -rick Paul Ferguson wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Burian, Matthew J. <mjb () burianit com> wrote:Google has posted some more information regarding this topic to their own blog:http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.htmlIf you'll notice, I posted that link below. Here's another related to to the same issue: http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/01/adobe_investigates_corporate_n .html - fergOn Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com> wrote:Via SFGate.com (AP). [snip] Google Inc. said Tuesday it might end its operations in China after it discovered that the e-mail accounts of human rights activists had been breached. The company disclosed in a blog post [1] that it had detected a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China." Further investigation revealed that "a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists," Google said in the post written by Chief Legal Officer David Drummond. Google did not specifically accuse the Chinese government. But the company added that it is "no longer willing to continue censoring our results" on its Chinese search engine, as the government requires. Google says the decision could force it to shut down its Chinese site and its offices in the country. [snip] More: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/12/financial/f1 503 41S73.DTL - - ferg [1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
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- E-Mail Leak Has Google Threatening to Leave China Paul Ferguson (Jan 12)
- Re: E-Mail Leak Has Google Threatening to Leave China Burian, Matthew J. (Jan 12)
- Re: E-Mail Leak Has Google Threatening to Leave China Burian, Matthew J. (Jan 12)
- Re: E-Mail Leak Has Google Threatening to Leave China Paul Ferguson (Jan 12)
- Re: E-Mail Leak Has Google Threatening to Leave China rick wesson (Jan 12)
- Re: E-Mail Leak Has Google Threatening to Leave China Paul Ferguson (Jan 12)
- Re: E-Mail Leak Has Google Threatening to Leave China phester (Jan 13)
- Re: E-Mail Leak Has Google Threatening to Leave China Burian, Matthew J. (Jan 12)