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Experts Closing In On Google Attack Coders
ancientribe writes "The targeted attacks out of China that hit Google, Adobe, and other US organizations are still ongoing and have affected many more companies than the original 20 to 30 reported. Security experts now say they are getting closer to identifying the author or authors of the malware used to breach Google and other organizations."
Why on earth would I download and run the "inoculation" removal software from some unknown company? It might actually be installing more crap! Why not just give us a shell script if it's just wmi calls?
I failed to do enough research. Is there a way I can delete the parent post?
Join the Scientologists. Claim your post is part of their dogma. Threaten legal action.
http://slashdot.org/yro/01/03/16/1256226.shtml
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
For a long time it looked like William Gibson had the wrong view of the future with the Sprawl series. But now we have duelling Russian botnets which fight for exploited systems and AI captcha crackers. Major corporations base their income on the reduction and on-sale of found information. Infrastructure is increasingly dependent on information technology, and likely to be connected to the Internet.
Science fiction writers tend to over estimate short term progress and under estimate long term progress. I think Neuromancer is coming back.
The charge? Conspiracy to augment an artificial intelligence..
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In retaliation to the investigations and accusations, BAE Uk got a massive attack wave this weekend, much larger than anything Google saw. All the attacks came from proxys, but deeper probes showed all the traffic was from china.
BAE had all their systems crippled and apprently had shut the whole network down(we are talking about thousand upon thousands of machines), reset all passwords and wipe a lot of boxes. You wont hear this in the news though. It would be seriously bad for business if the US and Uk governments got wind of it.
China* wont go down without a fight.
*whoever is organising it.