Recently Google went tough with Chinese government saying that it will no longer censor its search results and, if necessary, they will pull out its business from the country. That was all because of what Google calls ’sophisticated and targeted attack into its corporate infrastructure’ originated from China. And now, Microsoft has admitted that its web browser, Internet Explorer, was used to break Google’s mail system.
The company said in a blog post that the vulnerability in its browser could allow hackers to remotely run programs on infected machines. The BBC reported that Microsoft is formally working to resolve this security flaw in Internet Browser which caused break in Gmail accounts of Chinese Human Rights Activists for what Google threatened that it may no longer run business in China.
Microsoft’s director of security response Mike Reavey said the following in the blog post published on the issue:
“Based upon our investigations, we have determined that Internet Explorer was one of the vectors used in targeted and sophisticated attacks against Google and possibly other corporate networks.”
“Unfortunately cyber crime and cyber attacks are daily occurrences in the online world. Obviously, it is unfortunate that our product is being used in the pursuit of criminal activity. We will continue to work with Google, industry leaders and the appropriate authorities to investigate this situation.”
Google was not the only target in recent attack originated from China. Allegedly, twenty to thirty more companies including Adobe were hit by the attack, made using Microsoft’s flawed browser, Internet Explorer.
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