Thursday, June 2, 2011

Attack from China: Hacker attack on Gmail

Again, it seems an attack on Google in China to have been: are unknown, according to the Internet Group's accounts in hundreds of his e-mail service "Gmail" penetrated. The victim therefore includes high-ranking U.S. government officials, Chinese dissidents, journalists, military officers and officials from Asia, mainly from South Korea.

The attacker would have to surreptitiously with a trick of the passwords and then probably spying on the e-mail traffic. Google did not notice the attack and prevented. The injured have been informed and their accounts were backed up. In addition, Google has informed the authorities.

Google invites all users of the service to be more vigilant. You should check their accounts for any unusual settings such as in e-mail forwarding, and use secure passwords.

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