Thursday, October 4, 2012

Google and Iran both warn of state-sponsored computer attacks


RT  

A Google employee works on a laptop before the start of a new conference about Google Maps.(AFP Photo / Justin Sullivan)


A Google employee works on a laptop before the start of a new conference about Google Maps.(AFP Photo / Justin Sullivan)



Google is warning thousands of Gmail customers this week that state-sponsored attackers may be trying to compromise their computers, an admonition that comes as authorities in Iran claim that their systems are coincidently being targeted as well.


Although neither Google nor Iran has explicitly singled-out a specific culprit or country as being behind the assaults, the Silicon Valley search engine says attacks on their servers are thought to be “state-sponsored.”

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