Saturday, September 8, 2012

Hundreds of cyber attacks blamed on group that hacked Google in 2009 - The Globe and Mail

Hundreds of cyber attacks blamed on group that hacked Google in 2009 - The Globe and Mail: "Although the hackers were never publicly identified, the incident heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing over growing evidence that a significant number of cyber attacks against U.S. institutions originated from China.

“It was big news at the time, but what people don’t realize is that this is happening constantly,” said Eric Chien, a manager in Symantec’s research group. “They haven’t gone away, and we wouldn’t expect them to go away.”

Symantec said on Friday the hackers behind Operation Aurora have focused on stealing intellectual property, such as design documents from defense contractors and their suppliers, including shipping, aeronautics, arms, energy, manufacturing, engineering and electronics companies."

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