NSA finds link between attacks on Google and two universities with ties to the Chinese military. The attacks took place through a newly-discovered Internet Explorer vulnerability. The Chinese government could be using this school as a front for its attacks. Or it could be the work of “patriotic hackers” in the school, one of the best computer programs in the world. Or the schools could have been used as a proxy by another country looking to put the blame on China. The attacks were carried out by a clever technique called man-in-the-mailbox.”]
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