yeah, but that doesn't tell me how the attack too place, from a technical
standpoint.  :)

J

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Paul Ferguson <[email protected]>wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Joel Esler <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Did anyone else think that there are two parts to that Google attack?
> >  Spearphishing, and it just seemed like there was another part, the part
> > involving other companies?
> >
>
> This is the most plausible explanation I have heard:
>
> "The US flaw-hunting specialist said that the attack was an attempt to
> steal source code on an industrial scale and was, in many cases, probably
> successful. If correct, this might explain why Google has by its own
> normally quite restrained standards gone ballistic to the extent of
> threatening to quit China."
>
> http://news.techworld.com/security/3210137/google-hack-hit-33-other-compani
> es/
>
> Having been in contact with the "US flaw-hunting specialist" mentioned
> above, this lines up pretty accurately.
>
> - - ferg
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>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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