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It was the second time in the last two weeks that Google hasdeployed security-related alerts to a small fraction of those whouse its services. But the company was coy about how it knows whether a specificindividual has been targeted by attacks paid for or designed bygovernments. "You might ask how we know this activity is state-sponsored," saidEric Grosse, Google's vice president of security engineering, in a Tuesday blog . "We can't go into the details without giving away informationthat would be helpful to these bad actors." The new warning states: "We believe state-sponsored attackers maybe attempting to compromise your account or computer." It willappear at the top of the Gmail page if the user has logged in withhis or her Google account. The message is not limited to those whouse Google's own Chrome, but will pop up in any browser. Grosse was equally vague about what might trigger the alert. "It does not necessarily mean that your account has been hijacked.It just means that we believe you may be a target, of phishing ormalware for example, and that you should take immediate steps tosecure your account," he said. But it seems Google knows, or thinks it knows, a state-sponsoredattack when it sees one. "Our detailed analysis -- as well as victim reports -- stronglysuggest the involvement of states or groups that arestate-sponsored," Grosse claimed. Google is in a better position than most to know. More than two years ago Google was one of several Western companies victimized by Chinese hackers -- a rumpus that led it to relocate its search servers to HongKong -- and the company has cleaned up several large-scale phishingand hacking campaigns directed against Gmail users, including onein 2011 that targeted senior U.S. government officials and another later that year that affected hundreds of thousands of Iranian users . Google has displayed similar warnings before today's. Two weeks ago, for example, Google began alerting users whoseWindows PCs or Macs remain infected with the DNSChanger malware . Those users face the loss of their link to the Internet on July9, when authorities switch off substitute DNS (domain name system)servers that took the place of criminal-controlled machines shutdown last year. In July 2011, Google also warned customers whose systems wereinfected with fake antivirus software, or "scareware." In thatinstance, Google became suspicious when it uncovered "unusualsearch traffic" while doing maintenance at one of its data centers. I am an expert from highfrequencyonlineups.com, while we provides the quality product, such as Hybrid Solar Systems , China Power Backup UPS, Hybrid Solar Systems,and more.
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