Gmail Hacked, Us-china at The Threshold Cyber war
by Cyber attacks from China suspected to trap the occupant of the White House.
China Relations United States and return to heat up this week. Triggers, terendusnya experimental data theft Gmail account’s senior U.S. officials and hundreds of other important figures, last Thursday.
Action experiments were carried out by suspected Chinese hackers and directed to trap state officials and the U.S. military, bureaucrats Asia, as well as activists and journalists in China.Google is clearly pointed at the motives of the hackers is to monitor the vital information circulating through Gmail.
Of course, warned warns of Google it immediately received great attention from the U.S. government. Even President Barack Obama monitor and periodically gets updates on this matter. ”This accusation is very serious,” said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, as quoted from the site the Wall Street Journal .
The reason, one U.S. official said, one target of hackers are people who served in the White House. The Obama administration reiterated that no state information that has leaked from the effort to attack.
However, members of congress and many computer security experts say that in the past, many officials who sometimes use their personal email (not the official email) for business, although the regulations do not allow it.
In fact, told CBS News , a security expert said that U.S. government employees who work from home, often using Gmail for business. White House officials, for example, often communicate about when and where President Obama is on a business trip.
The information can be found in the system was safe, of course, can grow and spread to the serious security issues. ”Everyone who works in government, should not use personal email accounts like Gmail to discuss confidential information or information of government activity,” said Gen. (Ret.) Harry Raduege.
Gmail account information theft trial itself is conducted by the method of phishing is quite ingenious. Hackers send fake emails to the target, the subject contains the email about the recent joint statement from the U.S. government and China.
When clicked, instead of directly opening the contents of the email, it actually directs the target to a fake site that resembles the front page of Gmail. There, the target was asked to fill their Gmail account and password. When the target fooled, then the next hackers will be able to access the personal Gmail account targets.
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