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Google Investigating Chinese Employees
BluePeppers writes "The Guardian is reporting that Google China is investigating its staff about The Incident. '"We're not commenting on rumor and speculation. This is an ongoing investigation and we simply cannot comment on the details," a Google spokeswoman said. Security analysts told Reuters the malicious software or malware used in the attack was a modification of a trojan called Hydraq. A trojan is a hidden program allowing unauthorized access to a computer. The analysts said the sophistication in the attack was in knowing whom to attack, not the malware itself.'"
I didn't know they could go back in time and undo the incident. Very impressive!
This is Slashdot. Every summary must have at least one grammatical error.
And "investigating it's staff" wasn't good enough?
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -- Albert Einstein
... is In Lieu, you insensitive clods!
Chinese companies copied part for part GM cars and as far as I know, nothing came of it. You could literally take the door off the Chevy and put a door from the Chinese car company on it. We don't impose any trade sanctions, we just keep buying their stuff.
I'd find the link but I don't have time.
Hopefully this google flap will get people to pay attention to how they are catching up.
..and showing them text advertisements for criminal defence lawyers.
Apparently something so significant happened that people can just call it "The Incident" and expect others to know about it. Yet I've never heard of anything happening to Google, or originating from Google significant enough and shocking enough to be titled "The Incident". (The worst I've heard is about their camera cars going up the occasional private road).
Seriously?! You've been posting regularly on /. for this last week yet you somehow managed to miss nine of the most commented on stories?! Well, here they are in chronological order:
Google Hacked, may pull out of China
Google.cn has already lifted censorship
Google.cn attack part of broad spying effort
China emphasizes law as Google defies censorship
Google attackers identified as Chinese government
IE 0-day flaw used in Chinese attack
Code used to attack Google now public
German government advises public to stop using IE
Another attack, on law firm suing China
This is also all over the mainstream and business news (although, like all other news stories, it's secondary to the Haiti coverage).
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.