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Offline sam

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Security firm outlines how attack against Google was pulled off
« on: January 18, 2010, 00:37 »
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A Silicon Valley Internet security firm has described for the first time how hackers from China were able to crack Google's defenses, saying the attackers took advantage of a flaw in Microsoft's Web browser to probe deeply into the company's network.


http://www.physorg.com/news182959297.html
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Re: Security firm outlines how attack against Google was pulled off
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2010, 00:46 »
So, they're blaming IE?  :)x
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Re: Security firm outlines how attack against Google was pulled off
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2010, 01:44 »
yep!
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Re: Security firm outlines how attack against Google was pulled off
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2010, 08:53 »
Seems every story out of Silicon Valley is full of spin  ::)
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Re: Security firm outlines how attack against Google was pulled off
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2010, 09:27 »
Here's good old Gordon Kelly's advice on it...
trustedreviews.com/software/news

Notice the last bit  ;)

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