The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
Google got its Chinese visa extended, but that doesn’t mean the company is having a good trip or that China’s censorship has gone away.
Google’s application to run Google.cn for another year looked like it was going to be denied by the Chinese government, who decided that simply redirecting all Google.cn users to an unfiltered search [...] Read more »
The Beijing government’s decision to renew Google’s license to do business in China could be a big step in a long process of negotiations between Google and China to find a way to coexist.
Google announced Friday that China had renewed the company’s Internet Content Provider (ICP) license, which enables the search giant to do business [...] Read more »
The FCC announcement on Friday comes one day after the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had opened a probe into a security breach of the iPad that exposed personal information of AT&T Inc customers, including several high-ranking government officials.
The breach, first reported by the website Gawker, occurred when a group calling itself Goatse Security [...] Read more »
The information stolen from Google in cyberattacks late last year included a password system that gives users access to multiple services after just one login, according to a news report.
Google in January said it had been hit by cyberattacks believed to be launched from China that caused the theft of Google intellectual property. The stolen [...] Read more »
Few events have crystallized U.S. fears over a cyber catastrophe, or brought on calls for a strategic response, more than the recent attacks against Google and more than 30 other tech firms.
The company’s disclosure in January that it was attacked by China-based hackers—and its subsequent decision to scale back operations there—have stoked long-standing fears over [...] Read more »
The techniques used by unloveable rogues who automate search engine manipulation attacks themed around breaking news to sling scareware have been unpicked by new research from Sophos.
A research paper published on Wednesday by Sophos researchers Fraser Howard and Onur Komili lifts the lid on the search engine optimisation techniques used by hackers to hook surfers [...] Read more »
Google issued a course correction for the stable version of Chrome on Wednesday. In addition to JavaScript sluggishness and Java plug-in issues introduced in the previous version, Google also made three critical security patches to its browser.
The last version of Google Chrome stable, version 4.1.249.1059, was using an incorrect path for version 6 update 20 [...] Read more »
The New York Times is reporting that computer hackers stole a program that controlled access to most of Google’s services when they attacked the Internet company late last year.
The report posted late Monday on the Times’ Web site provided more details about an intrusion that provoked a politically charged showdown between Google and China’s government [...] Read more »
For anyone thinking that the Google-China dynasty war would be resolved quickly — and that mutual economic concerns would ultimately force both armies to ratchet down this uniquely 21-century cyberduel — this was the week for the rudest of awakenings.
The hacking hits just keep on coming in China. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) announced that its Chinese [...] Read more »
Google has added geographic checking when you log into your Gmail account. So if a hacker from far away logs into your Gmail account, you’ll get a warning and a chance to change the password. The IP-checking feature is similar to security features used by banks. An analyst said the Gmail security isn’t foolproof, but [...] Read more »
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