And the attacking code is now public, http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/187040/attack_code_used_to_hack_google_now_public.html
While the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology recommends that all Internet Explorer users switch to an alternative browser, http://mashable.com/2010/01/15/german-government-stop-using-internet-explorer/ Cyber warfare indeed! On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Kyle Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > It will be interesting to find out who's systems were breached and what was > stolen. On one hand, the loss could be relatively insignificant, or on the > other, it could turn out to have been an enormous theft of IP. > > Given how much of our economy is based on IP, I believe that any > particularly large theft could easily be considered a form of economic > warfare. > > Niles Collins wrote .. > > I don't know if this would be considered an act of war. Considering H > > Clinton's response then it has gotten the attention of Obama. I would > hate > > for my grand kids to study that WW3 started because Google got hacked! > Jokes > > aside though, the Chinese are taking hacking to a new level, this is far > > beyond the Eastern Bloc/Russian hackers would hack for Crime Syndicates. > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > > -- Dan +256-071-2-552035 "You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue. you will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb and all the dead will know; This is Hector: the fool who thought he killed Achilles."
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