Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Planned Security attack on Google and other companies, May lead to cease Google's China operation

Yesterday, Google on its blog mentioned that it faced security attack in mid-December. And, some other organizations from different fields were targeted. Google tracked these attackers from China seeking gmail account information of some Human Right Activists of China. As blog mentioned These attacks were not as successful as it is intended to be. Google thinks that further restrict free speech on web for Chinese people. So, Now they will talk to Chinese officials to see how Google.cn can provide uncensored content to the people of China without violating Chinese laws. If there is no way out then Google may cease its Chinese operation Google.cn .

Some comments on Techcrunch says that Google is very far behind some Chinese search site Baidu.com. on Alexa's Top sites, Baidu.com comes 8th and Google.cn comes 15th in the list. Baidu.com comes above Twitter and Myspace and many more. So, that lead to one another conclusion that Google may be tricking readers to get some extra market in China.

Whatever, may be the cause now Google cannot take a back from what they had done. If they
not backed what they write then it will definitely tarnish its image of good boy. But, if they not backed out and stop china operations that will hurt because China is very large market to any of the company and specially for Google.

Only, time will tell what is the behind the scene story.

3 comments:

saurabh1403 said...

Let me tell you that the attackers attacked Adobe IP also. The attack was mainly done using security vulnerability in adobe reader.

http://tinyurl.com/yd3lko4

This makes me think that how difficult and challenging is it to provide a standard browser plugin feature which has a lot of chances to be used as a tool for hacking.

Gagandeep Singh said...

Thanks Saurabh, for sharing that info.
And that should be company responsibility in this case Adobe to provide patches before or immediately after announcing security vulnerability.

saurabh1403 said...

Company should post vacancies for these hackers so that they are able to release the patch at the time of shipping software :D