The Google-China Showdown
This has undoubtedly been the latest international concern of grave importance. More so, since it is not at all a secret today that the Communist China under the pretext of a people’s republic is clandestinely carrying out the execution of its dubious territorial and political interests.
It simply does not deserve a flowery introduction today as the country has been taking to peripheral cyber-strikes on the systems of almost all of its rival states and the business organizations in those states with indiscrimination. It sounds so atrocious with the latest victims to their sinister designs being the US-based corporate giants; Google and Adobe, beside around twenty other firms.
It was only recently a wave of Chinese guided strikes on the systems of Google and Adobe had prompted the search engine giant to consider closing is operations in China, including the censoring of search results there. The attacks had stated with the victim organisations’ end users getting duped by poison attached spear-fishing messages that were pretty convincing.
Internet security experts probing into the issue has confirmed the aim of the attacks as theft of intellectual property, which included source code from the firms victimized, alongside the lament by both Adobe and Google that they were seriously hit by the strikes.
As a matter of fact, Google had for the first time realized that it had been made the target for an all out cyber-attack from China in mid December 2009, in which it saw a few of its intellectual property stolen. According to the search giant, the predominant goal of the perpetrators was to access the Chinese human rights activists’ Gmail accounts.
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