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Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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Re: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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Google, congratulate you on your return to the embrace of mercy of the Lord. Yes, we are here to congratulate you, rather than mourning. When the sun finally shining in Jerusalem tomb of your Lengji, we will meet your resurrection. Huh?

Looks like the page is setup by a local Christian. It's observable phenomenon that all Christian Chinese favor Google more than any other search engines.

Isn't the Christian/Catholic Church in China run by the Party?

Re: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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Does anyone have a full list of the 34 companies?

Not yet, but you can probably make some educated guesses. What US companies have technologies that China might be interested in? -Google -Microsoft -Boeing -Intel -Cisco (imagine the value of their source code) -Apple -Any of the defense contractors etc.

The source for Cisco's IOS has been in rogue hands for quite some time. The Chinese network equipment manufacturer Huawei was caught selling routers in the running IOS with only cursory changes back in 2003. Identical CLI, identical features, identical bugs.

I think we must assume that the source code for most major products is available on the black market.

Re: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps is was custom encryption not previously seen? I would imagine that while using encryption doesn't imply massive resources, developing custom encryption does.

I don't know a lot about security -- certainly not as much as some here (although I can follow along with their banter easily enough) But I know enough not to feel comfortable commenting on this in a public forum. (Not trying to pass a value judgment on you, just suggesting a reason you guys might not be getting an answer to your question.)

>But I know enough not to feel comfortable commenting on this in a public forum.

why?

Re: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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In other news, I was just sent an Email by Bank of America... Said my card was compromised, I called in and they said their systems were hacked and he gave the name and location of the system... You might not know it, but sounds like BoA was compromised as well.

I think that's just a coincidence. I received a similar notification about a year ago. I think they just get hacked from time to time.

Confidence inspiring.

Re: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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Specifically, a 0-day exploit in the Adobe Reader software which Adobe knew about and refused to fix for months (since it would break their upgrade schedule).

They're denying it though, blaming it on IE only: http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/01/no_evidence_to_...

It's not just them denying it, but McAffee as well: http://siblog.mcafee.com/cto/operation-“aurora”-hit-google-o...

Re: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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I find the fact that the targets were source code repos very interesting. If you are a super-smart black-hat villain who wants to plan a mass global attack, what better place to start than with Google and Adobe's source code?

> what better place to start than with Google and Adobe's source code?

I wonder if Microsoft was targeted too.

Re: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

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My thought while reading this: "There's someone at Google running IE?"

I imagine most of the staff. Google makes sure all of their software works in most of the popular browsers.

Well, sure. But as I understand it, most people at Google are running Linux on their desktops. I'd expect most browser testing to be taking place in VMs or on separate boxes, and under test accounts -- which would have made the level of infiltration described in the article more difficult.
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