TOP STORIES OF 2010: SECURITY SNAFUS

摘要

In what cametobecalledthe "Aurora Attacks," Google in January acknowledges that valuable intellectual property had been stolen in a December network break-in - and it intimates that China was the origin of the cyber- attack. About a dozen other high-tech and industrial companies appear to have been struck in similar fashion. The Chinese government says it doesn't know what they're talking about. Outraged, Google, which had been adhering to Chinese dictates regarding search-engine censorship, says it will defy those rules, putting its search-engine license in China in jeopardy.