How Did the Google Attack Happen?

I did it.

a long time ago,my grandfather told me that "you just can not keep prisoners from breaking out from time to time.they just have nothing better to do than think of ways to do it."so it is with the chinese.they have nothing better to do than try to steal our stuf.hell,their are not even any costs to try.a computer and internet is the key to stealing millions.better buy some gold,they can't steal that from over there!

my guess is there can be more stronger reason behind the attack,is In the name of hacking email accounts of human right activist,( which all of the universe already blame china for this, but no one can take action), chinese companies aka govertment, want advance technology or IPR, with which they can build there own businesses and reduce dependance on software from non chiese companies or many be want to build there own chinese companies which can compete with western companies. All this they might be doing it just because they don't have brain power.

I was under the impression that PDF documents were safer and not vulnerable to virus and malice software. Are we saying that they are as unsafe as a Word and Excel document to open?

The Chinese government is corrupt because it is full of politicians that want to retain their positions. Like all other countries, politicians don't want to lose their power. That is why Tawain is in conflict with China which is what the politicians want but not the citizens. The Tawainese politicians want to keep their power. Politicial conflicts also occur in the United States. Many U.S. politicians will do anything to stay in power like starting a war. China is having problems with Google because it has E-mails that communicate political views which the government want to censor just as the United States has censorships on television and radio. As always, Americans are all dumb hypocrites. China is helping the United States recovery by allowing U.S. companies to do business in China. It doesn't matter if U.S. companies do business in China or not because they are becoming a capitalist society where profits mean more than stupid opinions. Many Chinese engineers and scientists are smarter than Americans that is why U.S. companies and other countries want to set up Research and Development there. Also R&D is not as restricted in China and it is less expensive to do R&D in China.

You guys need to find a new font for these articles - it's such a pain to read.

How pathetic google is. I was attacked by Chinese hackers. I want going home. Mommy, Daddy help me! Nowadays, are there any major companies not being attacked by hackers. Grown up kid.

@ J P
Dear J P,
Long time ago, the majority of the world thought of the Chinese as a very wise and subtle population.
Your reaction here above as well as this last Chinese action as well as Chinese international behaviour in general proves that the rest of the world does not have any wisdom or subtlety to learn from you.

Google said it may consider leaving China due to censorship policy. Where is the link from the attackers to the Chinese government and its policy? Is Google implying the Chinese government initiated the attack? At the same time, some two dozens US companies were reported to be attacked likewise. So are we to believe the Chinese government started a systemic cyber attack on all these companies?

Whoever is the attacker(s), it is Google responsibility to secure its network and staff. Google has more money, more brain power, more Net knowhow than anything its attackers may have, including governments. Fix its own vulnerability before blaming others or crying to leave a country.

Please be more specific, we need proof to make sure there was an attack.

it a high time the west should rise up to the threat from china. this cyber threat alone can cripple America with a short space of time if nothing is done to stop it. China has so advance it cyber war techniques more that any nation of the world. They can attack pentagon and infiltrate the CIA network within hours, what then do you expect? Soon they will have the ability to disable any American satellite in space. US should do something about the China threat. Chine is not happy with America for selling arms to Taiwan. This is the reason for the attack. I suggest Ameican Companies should enhance the programming code of their webserver, or develope a new webserver technology that is not known to chines hackers. Yet still i suspect that behind any attack there must be a spy working for the chines government in some of this American companies. The FBI should investigate all staff activity by conducting a torough Computer Forensics. Emmanuel Akpan is a Cyber Security Expert from Nigeria