Bad News For Diplomacy: Chinese Gov’t to Blame in Google Attacks

January 14th, 2010 admin
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As Chinese citizens continue to shower Google’s Beijing headquarters with flowers and “Thank You Google” cards, a group of researchers reportedly identified the source behind the cyber attacks that spurred Google’s recent decision to stand up to the People’s Republic. According to a report from VeriSign iDefense Labs , the Chinese government was indeed behind the December attack on Google and 30 other companies, and may have even orchestrated a remarkably similar attack on U…


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