Last December Google detected \u00aban attack highly sophisticated and oriented\u00bb, from China, on its corporate infrastructure. This attack has led the company to consider quitting the Asian country. Because what first hand seemed only a security incident has become something quite different.<\/p>\n
Google’s official blog told about three different problems. The attack was not only addressed to Google, but to other companies belonging to a wide range of business, including the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemicals, Google is communicating the situation at the moment to them.<\/p>\n
In second place the search engine claims to have the evidence that a first goal of the hackers was the access to the Gmail accounts of human rights activists in China. The attak on this e-mail accounts seems to have failed. The hackers could only access two Gmail accounts and they just managed to obtain information such as the day in which the account was opened, the name of the holder rather than to get any content of the e-mails.<\/p>\n
Censorship, but lack of control of the ciber security situation by the Chinese Government<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Finally, Google said that he had discovered, as part of the investigation, but with independence of the attack on the company, that third parties have been systematically accessing the accounts of Gmail of dozens of users at the United States, China and Europe, who go for human rights defenders in the PRC.<\/p>\n Access to these accounts by strangers, has not been due to security failures on the part of Googlet, says the comapny, but due to the use of fraudulent procedures, via phishing or through spyware or virus installed in the computers ofthe users.<\/p>\n \u00abThese attacks\u00bb-said the US company- \u00aband the surveillance they have uncovered\u2013combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web\u2013have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China\u00bb.<\/p>\n David Drumon (responsible for corporate development in Google) expressed himself in such a clear way on behalf of the comany int the official blog of the US search engine.<\/p>\n Four years in China<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The american search engine launched its activity in the Chinese market four years ago, in January 2006. In accordance with iResearch Consulting Group, this market of on-line searches reached a value around Yuan7Bn ($1Bn) in 2009. Google had a share of a 32.8% during the third quarter, while the Chinese search engine Baidu held the 63.8%. The rest of the market is taken by Yahoo and the Chinese Bing.<\/p>\n Millions of Chinese Internet surfers are fans and loyal users of Google and its services, such as Gmail, Gtalk and Picasa. In contrast with PRC Government`s silence, Hilary Clinton openly supported the position of Google last week. Image over the headline.- \u00a9 Google<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe conflict bursted, but the Chinese Government does not say a word on it officially.<\/p>\n
\nLeaving aside the diplomatic tensions, the fact is that the approximately 700 employees of Google in the Asian country could lose their jobs.<\/p>\n