Google cyber-attacks in China!
A few weeks ago when I was conducting a search at GOOGLE,one of my anti-virus program issued an alert about malicious viruses and trojans at the GOOGLE site.
I proceeded to pen a post to alert internet surfers.
Post: 12/12/09
http://ijulian.blogspot.com/2009/12/blogspotsecurity-alert-intruder-posts.html
Over the next few days, GOOGLE and media outlets failed to report the incidents, which I thought was a bit odd.
Meanwhile, on FACEBOOK - after the alert was posted on my home page - a hacker slipped into my site and began to post messages with my photograph and name without my knowledge or permission (in retaliation or was the intrusion just a coincidence?)
The unknown individuals used the FISH TANK game to gain access, so I immediately stopped participating in those kind of software programs being offered by FACEBOOK (or other members).
After I reported the incident to FACEBOOK the hacking at that portal stopped.
So, I expect that technical staff at the popular social hub took action.
Just this past week, though, GOOGLE admitted to having been under attack a few weeks ago during the time frame I mentioned the attacks originally occurred.
So, it appears in retrospect, that my report was correct.
For some inexplicable reason, GOOGLE and the team at their headquarters, kept silent for a couple of weeks.
On Friday, it was reported that GOOGLE and about twenty other companies, were sent e-mails or instant messages addressed to their senior technical managers in a sly effort by hackers to entice them into clicking on a web page links.
When a major anti-virus company got caught up in the ruse, they discovered a flaw in Internet Explorer's Web browser (the one I used to search at GOOGLE when I stumbled on the virus and trojan activity).
Attackers capitalized on the glitch to take control of PC's and began probng the network for intellectual property of high value that they could hijack surreptiously.
Microsoft is now working on a patch to alleviate the problem.
Meanwhile, internet users are being advised to not only use a firewall, but set the level on high.
Officials have underscored that the perpetrators were not naive young hackers tampering on the internet to bolster their egos.
In fact, they believe that sophisticated individuals which high-tech capabilities (who plotted their steps quite carefully) were involved.
It is speculated that their home base of operations was in China.
Google has considered pulling out of China, in fact, because of the security breaches.
James Lewis, a Program Director at the Center for Strateic and International studies, noted to the press recently that China has been actively pursuing a tech industry.
He has levelled an accusing finger at Chinese officials and alleged that they have sought to accomplish that end by engaging in illicit technological transfer of intellectual property (theft) without permission (and sometiimes even knowledge of the victims).
News at 11!
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