Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Google attackers posed as employees' friends | Security | News | PC Pro



The Chinese hackers who broke into companies such as Google and Adobe posed as friends of the companies' employees, according to a new report.

The highly sophisticated attack saw the hackers target specific employees within the companies who would have access to sensitive data.

The hackers then broke into the social-networking accounts of friends of the employees and used those accounts to send links to malicious sites, hoping that the employees would be more likely to trust links sent by known acquaintances...

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