Google typically withdraw from the market despite the risk of censorship in China, he wants to give up the steps was the largest in the history of. The company's bold steps, China has a very great interest among foreign companies is rare. While others remain skeptical about some of these human rights advocates said the decision whether to Google Google motif or additional work. Chinese authorities and companies always have a problem, but the last one years has increased. Turning point, the coordination of large-scale attack from China's, the country's infrastructure, Google's Gmail service, the company's direction and target of the attack part of a broad range of large U.S. companies a total of 20 days. Other reports put the figure more than 30 years.

Gmail's attack

"In mid December, we are the intellectual property theft in China results from Google's corporate infrastructure, we discovered a very sophisticated targeted attacks. But it's about something that at first glance simply a security incident - though significant - surely kkwaedoeeotda also "David Drummond, Google's corporate development, a senior vice president and chief legal officer, said. "First of all, Google is also attacking. As part of our investigation, we have a large number of companies at least two other companies - internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors, etc. - have found the same goal," he said.

According to the mail service, Gmail, Google primarily for the purpose of attacking a strong focus. The company's attack on China's human rights activists investigating the possibility of access to e-mail account, the purpose was found. Your "Atack can read a detailed description of the security". Google's success in achieving its target of any violation could not have been there only two small accounts, and used to attack using multiple mechanisms in the fight said the new measures. Nevertheless, attacks in China created a relationship with Google to reconsider.

Thick

"These attacks show they are monitoring - one years and more efforts on the Internet, with limited freedom of expression - a conclusion we should consider doing business in China has brought us. We no longer want to keep finding Google.cn Google Results of the screening, "Drummond said.

Google does eunhaji explicitly that he would put an end to censor search results in China, simply voluntarily prevents the use of it. Companies have to find a solution to the deadlock has reached China.

"We are what we can work without the filter in consultation with the Chinese government's basis in the coming weeks will be [D] faith, the search engine law, according to all of you. We understand that this also could mean closure Google.cn, potential service when we went to China, "Drummond said.

Nevertheless, it is important that China has been a repeat of Google, a measure of the country to run a free search engine is likely to disagree. At the same time, national and government policies related to foreign companies in Google's experts publicly expressed intent to do this way, the English version of the blog, but only the possibility to remove all forms of negotiation, China.

Seriously considering the possibility of companies in China, no negotiation, Google, and the result was decided to stop the screening, the most probable results that Google will suspend all operations in the country. If you are experiencing this problem, a clear rebuke of China, these policies and the adoption of the final position will be the first major company.

Google China

Google 4 years ago, the highly controversial at the time to enter the Chinese market. To start a local version of the search engine, Google to censor some results based on Chinese laws and regulations, agreed. It certainly critics, "a story about his motto," Do not be evil, called the company to the principles of its own economic interests, not morals is to continue walking. Companies, and the censorship policy for China's reluctance to more information about the benefits in at least two crimes must select a response. However, at the time, Google added that they are not ready to compromise with China has been monitoring the situation.

As one of many Google.cn third of the search market in China, not far beyond the local search engine Baidu dudo, holding at least two times. Between them, almost all of them by other players, all of the search space is less than 1%. However, Google lost market share in recent years and the trend showed no sign of reversal. Most analysts and Google over Baidu positioning, who closely with the government or the state of the effect of increasing market share, I think we have a real chance. At the same time, Google's revenue in China is estimated to be smaller, Google shared some 22 billion U.S. dollars of profits each year. The income level of the billion dollars it does not matter, but nothing to be optimistic about Google is that they can not live without.

Protection of human rights, or a smart business move

The success of Google in China proper, however, the company's sudden decision to some people about the reasons for doubting. Some out of China, Google is very little to lose but a lot to say, at least short-term increase. 338 million people online in China in the world's largest Internet market is expected to grow significantly in the near future. Foreign companies, especially for Internet companies to create a very attractive market, with China's economic growth is sustainable. Google, of course, you know, the reason why I agree with censorship in the first place.

However, companies rarely compete in national and regional progress by clearly preferred out. Close Google.cn, the company did not lose too much now, but may ultimately regret the next few years. At the same time, it increases the company's image will require a lot of violations in the past, you can get. This is especially now, under the company may be important in controlling the spread of the Internet has increased.

Google's financial losses resulting from China's great opportunity out of traffic and can not be balanced. Yet it is purely humanitarian, but Google has made this decision easy and the weight is not clear if all the factors, motivations, but it is not purely a business move. It will be interesting to see how China will evolve and how to respond if Google will actually become easier when a conclusion will be out.

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Iran's army cyber attackers "successfully hijacked the DNS records Tweeter last night," as he describes. Twitter.com domain and the other sub-domains that point to Web pages display a political message to taunt the United States.

The night attack under the cover was spot on about 10:15. Time the user access to twitter.com, Flag of Iran's image and was welcomed with a black page. Iran, "the site was hacked cyber forces," with the title of the page will be displayed along with your Gmail address.

Meanwhile, bottom, left, hackers pose a threat to the United States, "the United States, they will control and manage access to the Internet, but they are, we do not control the Internet to manage our government and people's irritation is not so .... Currently, the state ban list? Iran? United States? "We push the ban list:) Take care of yourself."

When normal, co-founder Biz Stone of Twitter, the company officials at this point "DNS a Twitter account, announced the return on the blog today, angry, but now has recovered." He is also a platform for this API, is not affected by an investigation into the incident revealed more information, intellectual commitment, the company move forward.

Blogger, where during the attack, according to the report, Twitter.com 'entry point 74,217,128,160 and the phone company that owns the host IP TEL: Address. Twitter.com current 168.143.162.36 then, NTT's IP address to point to the United States.

DNS hijacking attacks that can lead to serious consequences. "If they like the tweeter below the phishing site has been nominated by the Imagine what would happen (the login name and password, steal) a political non-signal design," Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos said . However, some hackers are bad songs, such as access to the site you want to change this scenario.

There is information about how to attack tools, and any records in DNS are several ways you can capture. However, the most likely explanation for domain name registration management powers to steal your account login.

After that, it's the first time that hackers tweeter for the administrator account does not own sonedoeji. Twitter account name employees who crystals to obtain unauthorized access to the top in January, the age of 18 hackers. He managed to force password dictionary attacks.

5 years, who through social engineering on Twitter's own administrator account, "Kroll hackers hackers to call France. And the tweeter is similar to stealing the company's confidential documents using the tactic.

Update: the previous attack on the family identity had been stolen instruments, Tom Daly, CTO Dean stated is inc., Tweeter to support the provider's DNS. Mr. Daly is the security fix, "who through their own platform to recognize the legitimate user to log on to change the system is started. It is our system does not fail completely."

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With the Iran protests still going and social media platforms getting a lot of attention in the process Google has decided to add the Persian (Farsi) language to its Google Translate service. The company rushed the Persian language support because of the unfolding events in Iran so there may still be problems with the service.

“We feel that launching Persian is particularly important now, given ongoing events in Iran. Like YouTube and other services, Google Translate is one more tool that Persian speakers can use to communicate directly to the world, and vice versa — increasing everyone's access to information,” wrote Franz Och, principal scientist, on the Google blog. “As with all machine translation, it's not perfect yet. And we're launching this service quickly, so it may perform slowly at times. We'll keep a close watch and if it breaks, we'll restore service as quickly as we can.”

Social media tools, especially Twitter, have played a big role in the Iran protests by keeping the outside world informed or at least focused on the events. But with all the traditional and social media attention much of the reports have been conflicting and confusing so a tool like Google Translate may prove very useful in getting information in and out of the country. The Mountain View-based company warns that the translations are far from perfect and that currently the service is only optimized for English-Persian translations but it is working on adding support for all the 40 languages available in Google Translate.

“The web provides many new channels of communication that enable us to see events unfold in real-time around the world. We hope that Google Translate helps make all that information accessible to you — no matter what language you speak. So please visit Google Translate and try it out,” Och ended.

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