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[Nvyseal]

In the past week Google has been under fire from China in censorship.

Google has said it will end the controversial censorship of its search service in China and risk being thrown out of the world’s most populous internet market, following what it claimed were China-based attempts to hack into its systems and those of other international companies.

The dramatic gesture, which Google discussed with the US government beforehand, marks a new low in the deteriorating cyber-relations between China and the rest of the world, following a spate of online attacks and efforts to tighten web censorship.

Needless to say, China is kinda pissed and has been striking back at Google, Yahoo and Microsoft and 32 other larger Corporations like Adobe. A lot of these sites offer or use "Cloud Computing"

Based on investigations into these attacks, as well as the investigations of others, it seems that a vulnerability in Internet Explorer appears to be one of several attack mechanisms that were used in highly sophisticated and targeted attacks against several companies.

I probably would suggest everyone use Firefox or Safari and also update your Flash to the most recent version.

[hog]

Two articles I've written on the subject for work:

Major hacks in China could trigger the end of Google.cn

China's attacks used IE6 zero-day vulnerability



BTW, there's nothing wrong about Flash--at least not in this case.

[VROSA]

Good articles Hog !

[hog]

Hey guys, be VERY careful and stop using IE6 IMMEDIATELY!




But seriously, the exploit code is now publicly available with Metasploit, so hackers worldwide may very well take advantage of it. IE6 on XP is the only really vulnerable platform for now, but it might change and there's still no patch so you never know.