11:57 The two Chinese schools and Ukrainian professor involved in the hacking google | |
| U.S. intelligence agencies are very close to disclosing loud case of hacking Google and other U.S. corporations in January 2010. Recall that as part of Operation Aurora unknown tried to steal corporate trade secrets, as well as gain access to the correspondence of Chinese human rights activists. As it turned out, traces lead to two educational institutions in China: Shanghai is an elite university, whose students have been prizewinners at international Computer and Mathematical Olympiads (in fact, the best university of the world on the results of competitions ICPC), as well as vocational-technical school Lansan ( Lanxiang Vocational School), which is located in Shandong Province in eastern China. Its graduates, computer scientists often find work in the military, and she MESFET is supported by the Chinese Ministry of Defense, according to NY Times and the FT. However, even now experts are not ready to make an unambiguous conclusion that the attack ordered the Chinese government or other customers is from China. First, it was revealed involvement in the case of one of the teachers in the school Lansane, professor of computer science from the Ukraine, under contract (30-40 years old, name withheld). Secondly, the computer network at school Lansan create a company with close ties to Baidu, the largest search engine in China. These are two not unrelated to each other threads that indicate that the customer can not attack the Chinese government, as someone else. Some American experts say that binds to the pro-government institutions of China could be used as a cover for hackers from other countries. Perhaps this is a global operation on industrial espionage, for which only a blind "hitched" attack on Chinese human rights activists to bring down the intelligence with this track. To reiterate, these versions have expressed even by some American experts. If so, then hide the ends in the Chinese pro-government institutions - it is really a very clever move, because China will never agree to cooperate with U.S. intelligence agencies and will have full access to investigation for obvious reasons (it is no secret that they are engaged or planning to engage in similar attacks, although this does not prove their involvement in specific operations to Aurora). Head of the Propaganda Department of Party Committee of Shanghai University Yuksyan Liu (Liu Yuxiang) has already commented that in case of confirmation of the involvement of their university to the attack will be launched an internal investigation. Unlikely to allow him the Americans. Dean of the Faculty of Informatics School Lansan denies involvement in the school to attack. He said that his students do not have enough skills to break into Google or other enterprise of American websites, they are after all just students. NSA Investigation also revealed that the activity as part of Operation Aurora started much earlier than expected, namely in April 2009. As previously reported, the hackers used the servers are in Taiwan, and used the original technique of breaking with the administration of mail on behalf of a friend of the victim (man-in-the-mailbox) and undocumented vulnerability in the browser Internet Explorer, which allegedly discovered and described above a computer professor from Ukraine . | |
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