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nobody seems to be commenting on the attack part of that post. what was the "highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originati
by there 17y ago
nobody seems to be commenting on the attack part of that post. what was the "highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google"?
that doesn't sound like just a few end-user gmail accounts being compromised, but something that was much more serious that may have exposed more information than just what these chinese attackers were looking for.
- jmtulloss 17y agoMaybe it takes a highly sophisticated attach just to get that much out of gmail.
- pyre 17y ago> the theft of intellectual property from Google To me, that implies more than just customer information (i.e. private data in a gmail account).
- Xichekolas 17y agoTotal speculation, but source code and private keys would be especially useful if you wanted to crack gmail and track down dissidents or generally read people's email.
- techiferous 17y agoI think gmail's attach is pretty basic. Just like any other mail program.
- jjguy 17y ago10 bucks on 0day.
- DrJokepu 17y agoAs I commented elsewhere in this post, gossip is that the attack was launched from _within_ the Chinese offices of Google, not just from the Internet.
- jjguy 17y agooh! That's even more interesting. The security community spins lots of FUD talking about the "insider threat," but there's very little real data to back up the threat. "Credible data describing the scope and impact of unwelcome insider actions are hard to come by..." Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Salvatore J. Stolfo, "Addressing the Insider Threat," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 10-13, Nov./Dec. 2009, doi:10.1109/MSP.2009.146 http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MSP.2009.146 http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MSP.2009...
- est 17y agoRumors on twitter says it's Google Shanghai Office employees trying to crack Gmail from Google's internal network All Chinese Googler were suspended from Google's internal source code and network access for now.
- liuliu 17y agoFor some background information: GFW research team tried heavily to crack down the SSL certificate for gmail (thus, they can censor the gmail content through GFW).
- riobard 17y agoDoes it has anything to do with http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg03928.html http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg03928.ht... ?
- iamv 17y agofuck GFW
- FuckCPC 17y agoMay hackers do as their conscience! 愿黑客们按照良心做事!
- rms 17y agoI don't understand. Are you talking about some revenge hacking? Because the only hacking I've heard about is the attempted hack of Google.
- chenshaoju 17y agoTwitter观光团前来支持！ @chenshaoju
- IvanWong 17y agofuck Dang
- nshen121 17y ago给GFW干活的程序员生孩子还能有屁眼吗
- CPCgohell 17y agoFuck GFW, Fuck CPC. Fuck so-called China!
- damngfw 17y ago
- davidmurphy 17y agoWikileaks says: Gossip inside google China is gov hackers found infiltrating google source code repository; gmail attacks an old issue. http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/7688415363 http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/7688415363 EDIT: I see "est" mentioned this rumor, too. BTW, a CNN producer is tweeting that Google CN workers may have been sent home early. Conspiracy theorists would say that supports the idea of an attack from the inside. Or maybe Google just had mercy on its staff and knew they wouldn't get any work done today anyway. http://twitter.com/joCNN/status/7702905501 http://twitter.com/joCNN/status/7702905501
- vorg 17y ago"an attack from the inside" Of course it was. China is an insider's society.
- travisp 17y agoGoogle may have even sent the employees home to help protect them. If they seem uninvolved in Google's decision to uncensor, then it's less likely that the employees will face punishment from the Government.