U.S. security firm traces Google attack to Chinese gov't

I wonder what the government in the U.S. is doing to protect Americans from the growing threat of Chinese hacking. Probably the same thing they did prior to 9-11...very little.

in reference to:

"A technical report compiled by U.S. security firm iDefense Labs has traced the source of the recent cyberattacks on more than 30 U.S. companies including Google Inc. to servers used by the Chinese government, news media reported Thursday. The report concluded the Chinese government was behind the attacks that search giant Google said were aimed at accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. The cyberattacks came to light Tuesday when Google said its Gmail web service was targeted in an organized attack in late December that originated in China. The report by iDefense, a Silicon Valley lab helping some of the firms investigate the attacks, said researchers identified the command-and- control servers that were used for the attacks. The servers were found to employ IP, or Internet protocol, addresses that matched those owned by persons related to the Chinese government, the report shows. Google has said it may pull out of China because of the incident. The Chinese government said Thursday that such cyberattacks are banned in China."
- U.S. security firm traces Google attack to Chinese gov't+ (view on Google Sidewiki)