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Germany and France Say Abandon Internet Explorer After China Hacks, Microsoft Agrees And Wants Your Money For It

If you’ve been following the Google Hack by China at all you’ll know that the zero-day vulnerability codenamed Aurora (watch it in action on Praetorian Prefect) in Microsoft’s popular Internet Explorer web browser was the cause of the security breaches. After that information was brought out first Germany and now France has advised its citizens [...]

Google Hacked By China

Google reported on its blog today that the company has been repeatedly attacked by Chinese hackers, possibly working for the government, over a span of what could be up to two years. The Mountain View company is using this as an opportunity to finally turn back to their “don’t be evil” philosophy and tell China [...]