A couple of weeks ago Chinese hackers tried to hack the servers of Google and other US top corporations and tried to steal important trade and strategic data. You can read the post here: Google China scuffle with Government over censorship

In a recent findings be various top computer security experts from National Security Agency and others, they have traced back the attacks from two top educational institutes in China.

They also said the attacks, aimed at stealing trade secrets and computer codes and capturing email of Chinese human rights activists, may have begun as early as April, months earlier than previously believed. Google announced on January 12 that it and other companies had been subjected to sophisticated attacks that probably came from China.

The Chinese schools involved are Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Lanxiang Vocational School, according to people with knowledge of the probe who asked for anonymity.

Jiaotong has one of China’s top computer science programs. Just a few weeks ago its students won an international computer programming competition organized by IBM beating out Stanford and other top-flight universities.

Lanxiang, in Shandong Province, is a huge vocational school that was established with military support and trains some computer scientists for the military. The school’s computer network is operated by a company with close ties to Baidu, the dominant search engine in China and a competitor of Google.

Let us see what happens in the future…

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Inspired by Twitter and Facebook, Google has finally launched its social media feature in Gmail called as Google Buzz.

Social media has been a prime factor in online world and no one can deny its importance, so the search giant has played its cards in social networking too.

There were rumors that Google is going to launch such features some times back and now it is reality.

Features of Google Buzz:

1. You can share updates, just like twitter and Facebook.
2. Share photos, videos and more with your network
3. No setup required; the system makes you automatically following the users with whom you email and chat frequently.
4. Within one interface of Gmail, you access everything in one place.

So go and try it today.

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Google issued a warning to a Chinese web portal Goojje, charging it with the infringement of trademarks rights. It asked the portal to stop using a logo which resembles the official logo of Google, failing to which the portal may face legal action. Google expressed its concern that the users could believe that the portal Goojje is linked to the company.

Goojje’s logo resembles the logo of Google Inc and also bears a paw print sign like that of Baidu Inc, the biggest Internet search engine in China and Google Inc’s arch rival in the country. The portal’s interface is also similar to those of Google and Baidu.

A cease and desist letter has been served to the owners and operators of Goojje by Google through a law firm based in Beijing. Google warned the website to stop using its logo by Monday or they will file a law suit against them.

In reply of these allegations the founder of the website Huang Jiongxuan said that they have invested around 30000 Yuan (US $ 4400) for the website to setup and their team has spent a considerable amount to time to make it happen. He further added that they have no plan to close it down despite any threat.

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China is notorious for its hackers, who always try to hack various sites of strategic and financial importance to various countries including Unites States, UK and India.

In recent news the police have shut down a training operation for hackers in central China. The site called Black Hawk Safety in Hubei province in central China openly recruited thousands of members online and trained them with cyber attacks lessons and malicious software.

Police also arrested 3 people suspected of running the site. The site recruited nearly 12000 paid members and collected revenue of $1 million in subscription fees.

China must learn a lesson that in this transition world of internet, these activities will defame them and cut their options in IT and ITES services.

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Google chrome browser is showing upward trend in popularity, according to NetMarketShare.com report. In its January data it shows some very interesting trend

These data is based on their own metrics and cannot deemed as reliable, but in a nutshell it shows that Google chrome is going deeper in the once exclusive territory of IE and Mozilla Firefox

You can read the full report here: Net Market Share Report

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