Google said in a blog post today that it will consider shutting down its site in China and closing its offices, following a large scale attack on its corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of Google’s intellectual property.
The company also issued a warning on its enterprise blog about keeping data safe and tried to squash any potential backlash on cloud computing by reminding users that these attacks were not an assault on cloud computing but rather an attack on “technology infrastructure.”
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=29453
It appears that the goal of the attackers was to gain access to the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists
Google said in a blog post today that it will consider shutting down its site in China and closing its offices, following a large scale attack on its corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of Google’s intellectual property.
The company also issued a warning on its enterprise blog about keeping data safe and tried to squash any potential backlash on cloud computing by reminding users that these attacks were not an assault on cloud computing but rather an attack on “technology infrastructure.”
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=29453
It appears that the goal of the attackers was to gain access to the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists