The cache of more than 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables that WikiLeaks began releasing on Sunday includes a document linking China’s Politburo to the December 2009 hack of Google’s computer systems. Google Maps faces July 2011 deadline on China regulations The U.S. Embassy in Beijing was told by an unidentified Chinese contact that China’s [...]

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The first text message-based Trojan to infect smartphones running Google’s Android operating system has been detected in the wild. Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer-A poses as a harmless media player application and has already infected a number of mobile devices, Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab warns. Prospective marks are prompted to install a “media player file” of just over [...]

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China on Monday dismissed accusations of any official involvement in hacking attacks on Google and other U.S. companies, adding to tension between the two countries over the issue. A Chinese official also defended online censorship of political topics and said the country would not change how it regulates the Internet, according to the official Xinhua [...]

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Exploit code targeting the Internet Explorer vulnerability used against Google and other companies has gone public, increasing the chances that broader attacks will soon follow. Both the open-source Metasploit framework and the commercial Immunity Canvas software for penetration testers have working exploits that fully compromise computers running earlier versions of the browser. The attacks target [...]

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Google’s corporate network was hackedbecause its workers were running rival Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, a point that didn’t escape the notice of security researchers and Web users. “More interesting than the IE zero-day, is why wasn’t Google running Chrome?” asked Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security, shortly after Microsoft issued a [...]

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