Google password system involving cyber attack

According to the report issued April 19, 2010 in New York Times, IT attacker who broke into the computer network of search-engine giant Google, successfully won a password allowing access to Web services. This report provides new insights on the attack. Moreover, Google in a blog posted January 12 revealed that advanced, targeted cyber attack has its origin in China, and because of the attacks, has intellectual property seized from Google. However, still most of the details of this attack a mystery. An anonymous person who has direct information that the attack was quoted by The Times, where he said that the criminals behind the attack managed to steal the password for the Google system, with Gaia as the name of the code. This password controls access to millions of users all Google online services such as e-mail and various business applications. In addition, the sources also reported that this vicious attack began when an employee of Google in China reached a link in an instant message. This link goes to a malicious site with HIV. The attackers, who use this initial access, then broke into a computer system developers, the Google software specifically for Gaia. So, the intruders use various techniques for hacking difficult to penetrate and manage a repository of software. The source code for Gaia software stored in the archive. This code was then forwarded to Rackspace proprietary systems before they are sent to an unknown location. Rackspace is a managed and cloud hosting provider. The attackers, some time, had access to Moma, a national directory of Google. Moma site for information on “tasks” of the staff at Google. This information could have been used for certain employees of the company. It appears that the attackers had precise knowledge of the names of the Gaia software developers. “Fortunately, it seems that the password for Gmail users have been stolen. Google started quickly lead to changes in the security arrangements in their networks, according to sources. Experts say that this gap has raised privacy and security in the use of cloud- based systems. After all, the Google system only to the populations of the personal data of millions of businesses and individuals around the world.