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Alphabet's Security Start-Up Wants To Offer History Lessons (nytimes.com)
Chronicle, a security start-up owned by Google's parent company, Alphabet, plans on sharing what it learned from a cyberattack against Google nearly ten years ago. The hack was conducted by the Chinese military and was "one of the most starting cyberattacks on an American company by government-affiliated agents," reports The New York Times. The lessons it learned from that incident will be brought to other companies through a widely anticipated new product called Backstory. From the report: The idea, company executives said, is simple: Backstory will make Alphabet's vast storage, indexing and search abilities available to other companies, allowing them to search through giant volumes of data, going years back, to trace the back story of a malicious attack. Chronicle is hardly the only company doing this. Dozens of companies promise so-called big data threat intelligence and storage. But many of their customers can't afford to pay to search through huge amounts of information. Chronicle will charge customers by their number of employees.
The hack on Google, called Operation Aurora, was historic for an unusual reason: It was the first time a Chinese government hacking victim confronted its attacker. Inside the company, Sergey Brin, one of Google's co-founders, made it his personal mission to make sure something like Aurora never happened again. Google, known for its motto "Don't Be Evil," had a new motto about its cybersecurity: "Never again." Google poached cyberexperts from the National Security Agency and Silicon Valley. It built a threat analysis group on a par with those at the top intelligence agencies and designed a new security infrastructure. It also created a new team, called Google Project Zero, to hunt for critical security flaws in technology outside Google. Chronicle was founded by Mike Wiacek, who started Google's threat analysis group after studying threats at the N.S.A., and Stephen Gillett, the former chief information officer at Starbucks and chief operating officer at Symantec.
The hack on Google, called Operation Aurora, was historic for an unusual reason: It was the first time a Chinese government hacking victim confronted its attacker. Inside the company, Sergey Brin, one of Google's co-founders, made it his personal mission to make sure something like Aurora never happened again. Google, known for its motto "Don't Be Evil," had a new motto about its cybersecurity: "Never again." Google poached cyberexperts from the National Security Agency and Silicon Valley. It built a threat analysis group on a par with those at the top intelligence agencies and designed a new security infrastructure. It also created a new team, called Google Project Zero, to hunt for critical security flaws in technology outside Google. Chronicle was founded by Mike Wiacek, who started Google's threat analysis group after studying threats at the N.S.A., and Stephen Gillett, the former chief information officer at Starbucks and chief operating officer at Symantec.
It was the bets of hacks; it was the wurst of hacks.
Sure I will absolutely trust DIGITAL data coming out of Alphabet/Google as the truth, knowing full well, they could fabricate the entire, so called, evidence trail in a lazy afternoon.
Sorry either analogue or it is B$ and backed by what the NYT has become, it looks even worse.
So what, now that Russiagate has collapsed it's pick on the China, this after Alphabet/Google worked on creating a customised fully censored search engine for the government of China government, so what they don't want to pay for it any more and Alphabet/Google are bitching or some lame arse, please forget the evil shit we were doing, see we are attacking the government of China.
Prove it in court, else STFU with this nonsense.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
And grammar are on their last leg
China debunked this years ago. Bin Laden hacked Google from the Bat Cave in Torra Borra. LOL
*vomit*
And yet they still let Android TVs browse through other customer's private photo collections. How great their experts must be.
How the fuck is that claim even relevant in the computer age?
It's like China is the new enemy. Oh, wait, I forgot: we've always been at war with Eastasia. Why don't we just ask Steve Bannon what to do since we are all just pushing his agenda.
So more of the trump says "near 1/3" and the number is 31% so that is a lie. Or trump says women are being bond and gaged with tape and journalists ignore the actual reports of this happening say trump lied and make fun of the women.
So, the question still remains, who killed Seth Rich?
Dead man walking, he's guilty in plain sight of obstruction and we don't need you to understand that.
Riiight... And that's why you're on here constantly posting off-topic BS about Trump, right?
Long live President Trump! Build that border wall! Stop the flow the illegal drugs that are making people stupid.
You put up anti-Trump links but then push his agenda. Bet you think you're a critical thinker, too.
So we'd been spreading freedom 'round the world for a few decades, then 9/11 happened. We decided "never again", and now you have a microchip implanted in your head. Questions?
Google, knownat the time for its motto "Don't Be Evil,"...
"At this point, what does it matter?"
Wait didn't I just read an article about NSA shutting down its phone spying program?
In unrelated news, Google starts a security agency with NSA ties.
Seems legit. Glad Google doesn't use the motto "don't be evil" any more, it never suited them
"Never again" the story of unhinged revenge, a clear declaration of power, seems to be a more appropriate slogan
"At this point, what does it matter?"
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia likes your way of thinking and would like to hire you as a publicist.
Is this true? i shook my magic 8ball and it told me all signs point to yes.
I have no idea what you two faggots are arguing about but it's clear you're just here to stir shit.
Besides a critical thinker knows that you can approve of someone's agenda but not like them.
No idea what agenda that is since you have awful english. Really it barely makes sense, I don't know how the other guy knows what you're talking about but I suspect he's just a sockpuppet or buddy of yours.
Fuck off ivan
Art of war tactic or just plan old stupidity
I remember in art of war when it said
"And give your enemies false search with no ads. They will be pleased. Show them irrelevant searches so that they believe it is relevant when it is not. Show them scat when they have explicitly enabled safesearch and their men will be distracted and demoralized with images of goatse, tubgirl, and poopface.jpg. If you do these things then victory is yours before the first sword is drawn."
--Sun Tsu
It was in DC, so statistically speaking, 227:1 chance that it was a nlgger.
Google, previously known for its motto "Don't Be Evil,"
FTFY.
Google dropped the whole "don't be evil" facade a couple of years back when they saw there was no point in keeping up the charade.