http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20002315-265.html By Tom Krazit Relevant Results CNet News April 12, 2010 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google learned some hard security lessons after it was attacked late last year by hackers, CEO Eric Schmidt said Monday. "Google is now particularly paranoid about that," Schmidt said during a question-and-answer session following Google's Atmosphere 2010 conference before about 400 CIOs. After the company learned that some of its intellectual property was stolen during an attack that originated from inside China, it began locking down its systems to a greater degree and accelerated plans to move to Web-based systems like Chrome OS netbooks. The attacks took advantage of a flaw in Internet Explorer 6 that was quickly patched, although the damage had been done. More than 30 U.S. companies were believed to be targeted by the attacks, but Google was one of the few that publicly identified itself as a victim because "we decided we had to tell people as a warning," Schmidt said. He declined to get into the specifics of how the attackers penetrated Google's security but said the attackers broke into a single system with the outdated browser and were then able to take "a series of steps" to wreak wider havoc. Google tightened its external defenses and moved quickly to update all the software within its walls following the deconstruction of the attack. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Mon Apr 12 2010 - 22:10:42 PDT
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