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Attribution & Retribution in the age of Aurora and Stuxnet
This post is inspired by my attendance at the Sydney session of the McAfee Focus 2010 Security Seminar and recent discussions around the Stuxnet malware. At McAfee’s Focus 2010 Security Seminar, one of the more interesting sessions was an analysis of Operation Arurora presented by McAfee’s head of Threat Research, Dmitri Alperovitch. Outside of IT [...]
Can Google shareholders gain from the China confrontation?
It’s hard to see exit from the Chinese market as maximizing Google’s profits. China is, after all, very large (though Chinese growth in searching is slow). It may be that Google is being, at least in part, high-minded. After all, it’s motto is “Don’t be evil” & it is reported that Sergey Brin’s aversion to [...]