More sources are now claiming the Chinese government is behind the recent cyber attacks against Google and thirty-three other Silicon Valley companies, reports security firm Verisign iDefense. The attacks, revealed yesterday via a posting on Google's official blog, were hacking attempts on the technology infrastructure of Google and other major corporations in sectors that included finance, technology, media, and chemical, said Dave Girouard, President Google Enterprise.
Although Google's politely-worded blog post doesn't come out and directly blame the Chinese government for these attacks, many have suspected that is the case, including, apparently, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Now even more sources are coming out to confirm the Chinese government's involvement. According to Verisign, their sources within the defense contracting and intelligence consulting community also believe "agents of the Chinese state or proxies thereof" are to blame for these recent attacks.
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More sources are now claiming the Chinese government is behind the recent cyber attacks against Google and thirty-three other Silicon Valley companies, reports security firm Verisign iDefense. The attacks, revealed yesterday via a posting on Google's official blog, were hacking attempts on the technology infrastructure of Google and other major corporations in sectors that included finance, technology, media, and chemical, said Dave Girouard, President Google Enterprise.
Websense has just launched a new security suite for the web, a product called Defensio 2.0. The main selling point of this software is its ability to protect users from malicious content posted to their Facebook profiles. Using a combination of technologies which include a URL category blocker, a profanity filter, an executable file blocker, and a script blocker, users can configure what content can appear on their Facebook profiles or their public pages. In addition to offering Facebook security, Defensio offers blog protection, too, supporting a number of platforms including Wordpress and Drupal. 
m Twitter, Digg Trending Topics and much more. Make your Thursday Night a Social Blade Night, with your hosts, JD Rucker, Patrick Parise, Jason Urgo, Victor Barrera and Erin Ryan with our special guest Jason Peffley from Regretful Morning.
