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thewayneclick2005 notes a an article in The Register calling into question the one piece of hard evidence that has been put forward to pin the Google cyberattacks on China. It was claimed that a CRC algorithm found in the Aurora attack code was particular to Chinese-language developers. Now evidence emerges that this algorithm has been widely known for years and used in English-language books and websites. Wired has a post introducing the Pentagon's recently initiated effort to identify the "digital DNA" of hackers and/or their tools; this program is part of a wide-ranging effort by the US government to find useful means of deterring cyberattacks. This latter NY Times article notes that Google may have found the best deterrence so far — the threat to withdraw its services from the Chinese market.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01/26/1818231/Evidence-Weakens-That-China-Did-the-Recent-Cyberattacks?art_pos=20
This is the problem with internationally-coordinated attacks: hard to investigate, even harder to prosecute.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/01/26/1818231/Evidence-Weakens-That-China-Did-the-Recent-Cyberattacks?art_pos=20
This is the problem with internationally-coordinated attacks: hard to investigate, even harder to prosecute.
