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Google attackers posed as 'friends'
Friday 29 January 2010
According to a report published earlier this week, the perpetrators of the recent cyber attacks that emanated from China had sent messages to key staff at Google, Adobe and other US firms on social networks, pretending to be friends.
Insiders at Google China may have helped with attacks
Wednesday 20 January 2010
According to reports from Reuters on Monday, Internet giant Google is investigating whether some employees in its China office were implicated in the attacks against it and other US companies in mid-December.
Microsoft admits IE was used in Google attacks
Tuesday 19 January 2010
US software giant Microsoft has admitted that its Internet Explorer browser was used in the recent attacks on Google's networks that originated in China. In a blog post on Thursday last week, Microsoft conceded that a vulnerability in IE was used to allow hackers to run programmes remotely on infected computers.
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